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Google on Sept. 15, 2026, released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, native speech-to-speech models for the Live API, Search Live, Gemini Live, and Workspace Live surfaces.
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published We Must Pace the Frontier on Sept. 12, 2026, with a three-step pacing plan and a unilateral commit to embedded third-party evaluators. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Google DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis publicly backed the direction the same day, and Elon Musk posted "Dario is right."
Former Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon said on Sept. 9, 2026, that he resigned because Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward self-improving superintelligence. Anthropic Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger publicly agreed that staff earnestly believe AI could kill all humans, and an Anthropic spokesperson told Wired the industry should adopt a lawful way to pace powerful model releases.
Microsoft is previewing xAI Grok models inside Copilot for Word, Excel and PowerPoint through the Frontier Program. Access is off by default, Microsoft lists SpaceXAI as a subprocessor, and EU, EFTA and UK Frontier customers are excluded during the preview.
Mistral AI said it raised €3 billion in a Series D led by Samsung Electronics at a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion. The company called it Europe's largest tech equity raise; Samsung separately said it will put Mistral models into its chip operations.
NVIDIA and Perplexity on Sept. 14, 2026, made Portable Computer available in the Perplexity Windows app on GeForce RTX and RTX PRO PCs with at least 24GB of VRAM.
TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth on Sept. 15, 2026, with $40 million in DCVC-led seed funding and early access to Jev, a System One model that returns typed decisions for software rather than chat text.
