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Anthropic has unified Claude's memory across its chat and Cowork products, so context built in one carries over to the other automatically. Users can view all saved memories organized by topic, and edit or delete any entry. Claude now updates memory in real time during conversations rather than summarizing afterward. Sensitive topics like health, religion, and politics are excluded by default but can be enabled in settings. The feature is on by default for Free, Pro, and Max plan users across web, desktop, and mobile.

OpenAI has launched an Admin plugin for ChatGPT Work and Codex, letting workspace administrators manage members, permissions, usage limits, and spending requests through a single conversation. Admins can ask questions, explore data, and take authorized actions without switching between tools or writing complex prompts. The plugin also supports automating recurring workflows, such as routing approval requests to Slack or Microsoft Teams. OpenAI's own IT team uses it to resolve roughly 45% of support tickets automatically, according to Head of Global IT Kunal Malik.

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar detailed the company's full-stack compute strategy, highlighting benchmark results from Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom inference chip. On the InferenceX benchmark using GPT-OSS 120B, Jalapeño delivered 53.7x more peak throughput per kilowatt than existing accelerators, with similar gains on DeepSeek R1 and Kimi K2. OpenAI's broader hardware portfolio includes Microsoft, NVIDIA, AWS, AMD, Broadcom, Cerebras, and SoftBank. GPT-5.6 Sol also set a new coding benchmark high while using 54% fewer output tokens than rival models.

Anthropic is launching a $5 million grant program to fund independent research into how AI affects user wellbeing. Grantees will receive direct funding, model access, and technical support to build open-source evaluations measuring AI's impact on users. Research must involve clinical experts, test both overcompliance and overrefusal, and reflect real multi-turn conversations. Applications close September 21, with full proposal invitations sent by October 5. Anthropic hopes to attract clinicians, psychologists, and methodologists to this emerging field.

NVIDIA has launched DLSS 4.5 Ray Reconstruction, now available for 30 games including Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake 2, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle via the NVIDIA app. The updated second-generation transformer model delivers 35% more compute capability and processes 20% more parameters, improving lighting accuracy and temporal stability. NVIDIA also debuted RTX Mega Geometry in Gears of War: E-Day, launching October 6th, which enables full-detail Nanite geometry ray tracing after six years of R&D, a technique set to be adopted into Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing 2.0 standard.

Stability AI has raised a $76M Series B, bringing total funding to $232M under CEO Prem Akkaraju, who took the helm in June 2024. The round is backed by Electronic Arts, Sony Music Group, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, AMD Ventures, and Pacific Alliance Ventures, alongside returning investors Coatue and Greycroft. Funds will expand its creative AI product suite, applied research, and professional services. Coatue co-founder Thomas Laffont also joined the board. The raise coincides with the launch of Stable Audio 3.0, open-weight music models trained on licensed data.

OpenAI has published benchmark results for Jalapeño, its first custom AI inference chip, showing 1.5 to 1.9 times more AI work per watt and 1.7 to 3.6 times lower latency than competing systems. Tested on GPT-OSS 120B, DeepSeek R1 670B, and Kimi K2.5 1T using the InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño outperformed NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 systems. The watt chip went from design to tapeout in nine months with AI assistance and is planned for deployment within OpenAI's infrastructure by end of 2026.

Perplexity has launched a local-first AI agent called Computer for the Perplexity Portable Computer, designed to run entirely on-device by default for private, cost-effective knowledge work. The model and harness are co-designed together, with the harness tailored to compact local models like Qwen 3.8 27B running on an NVIDIA DGX Spark. On Perplexity's internal benchmark of 53 knowledge-work tasks, Computer scored 82.6%, beating open-source harnesses Pi and Hermes. Perplexity's post-trained PPLX 27B model raised the score further to 85.4%.

Google has partnered with Delaware's Department of Labor and Delaware Libraries to offer residents free access to Google Career Certificates and Google AI courses, including the Google AI Professional Certificate. The self-paced programs cover cybersecurity, data analytics, IT support, project management, UX design, and AI tools like prompt writing and vibe coding. No degree or prior experience is required. Graduates connect with over 150 employers including Deloitte and Wells Fargo, and more than 70% report positive career outcomes within six months.

Apple debuted the M6 and M5 Ultra chips on August 25, 2026. M6 is Apple's first 2nm chip, featuring a core CPU, core GPU, Dual core Neural Engine, and up to 170GB/s unified memory bandwidth, delivering up to 2.4x faster CPU performance than M1. M5 Ultra uses a new quad-die UltraFusion architecture with up to 80 GPU cores, 512GB unified memory, and 1.2TB/s bandwidth — 50 percent more than M3 Ultra — enabling on-device frontier AI models. M6 launches in Mac mini; M5 Ultra in Mac Studio.