AI News for September 4, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, declares 'the AGI era' has begun: OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model, headlined by a computer-use capability that navigates spreadsheets, forms, and web pages at what president Greg Brockman called superhuman speed.
[NEWS] Nvidia confirms $12.93B Hugging Face acquisition: Nvidia agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, Jensen Huang announced in a blog post, confirming the acquisition after weeks of reports the price had climbed toward $14 billion.
[RESEARCH] DeepMind's WeatherNext 3 goes hourly and five times sharper: Google DeepMind released WeatherNext 3, a global weather model that ingests real-time satellite data instead of relying on physics simulations.
[RESEARCH] GPT-6 Astra hits 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, beating humans on action efficiency: ARC Prize measured GPT-6 Astra at 62.7% for $26K on ARC-AGI-3 Semi-Private using its standard harness, and 99.9% for $19K with a Provider Adapter harness that preserves opaque reasoning state between requests.
[NEWS] OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google all go down within hours of each other: Four major AI providers suffered overlapping service interruptions Thursday morning.
[NEWS] Anthropic expands credit facility to $15B ahead of IPO filing: Anthropic is finalizing an expansion of its revolving credit facility to $15 billion ahead of publicly filing for an IPO.
[NEWS] Zuckerberg told Trump a national AI regulator is a flawed idea: Mark Zuckerberg opposed a proposed national AI regulator in a previously unreported phone call with President Trump the week of August 17.
[NEWS] Crusoe raises over $3B at a $30B valuation: Data center developer Crusoe closed more than $3 billion at roughly a $30 billion valuation, co-led by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners with participation from Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital.
[NEWS] Jane Street signs a $13B AI cloud contract with Crusoe: Trading firm Jane Street committed roughly $13 billion over five years to Crusoe for GPUs and AI infrastructure, one of the largest AI cloud contracts ever signed by a company outside the tech sector.
[RESEARCH] Google Research maps the complete male fruit fly brain: Google Research published a connectomics milestone: a complete map of the male fruit fly brain, extending the lab's long-running effort to reconstruct entire nervous systems at synaptic resolution.

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