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OpenAI Launches Dots: New AI Agents That Work for You 24/7
AI News Oct 02, 2026 01:56 PM

OpenAI Launches Dots: New AI Agents That Work for You 24/7

AI assistants have mostly worked like this: you ask, they answer. OpenAI now wants to change that. The company has launched Dots, a new type of AI agent designed to keep working toward your goals even after you stop chatting with it. OpenAI describes Dots as “always-on” agents powered by its GPT-6 Astra model, with their own cloud computer and web browser. And yes, the idea is basically this: You give the AI a job. Then it keeps working.

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Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5: Faster, Cheaper and Built for Everyday Work
AI News Sep 30, 2026 03:17 PM

Anthropic Launches Claude Sonnet 5.5: Faster, Cheaper and Built for Everyday Work

Anthropic has just added another player to the rapidly changing AI model race. Meet Claude Sonnet 5.5, a new version of Anthropic's mid-range AI model that the company says is more than 30% faster and can cost up to 30% less per task than Sonnet 5. And there is an interesting twist. Anthropic did not reduce the model's basic token price. Instead, Sonnet 5.5 is designed to get the same work done using fewer tokens and fewer steps.

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Google Is Replacing Gemini Gems With Skills
AI News Sep 30, 2026 10:47 AM

Google Is Replacing Gemini Gems With Skills

If you have spent time building a custom Gem in Google Gemini, there is a change coming that you need to know about. Google is retiring Gems and moving them into a new system called Skills. But there is some good news: your work is not simply being deleted. Google says it will automatically convert existing Gems into Skills, starting November 17, 2026, for personal Google accounts. Until a Gem is migrated, users can continue using it. So, what exactly is changing?

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Nigeria Makes History With First Tele-Robotic Surgery in West Africa
AI News Sep 23, 2026 02:36 PM

Nigeria Makes History With First Tele-Robotic Surgery in West Africa

Imagine needing a highly specialised surgery, but the surgeon with the right expertise is hundreds of kilometres away. Normally, that could mean travelling to another city or even another country. But in Nigeria, something that once sounded like science fiction has now happened in a real operating theatre. Surgeons at Redeemer’s Health Village in Mowe, Ogun State, have successfully performed what the hospital described as West Africa’s first tele-robotic surgery

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Anthropic Is Building a Biology Lab And AI Is About to Get Hands-On
AI News Sep 22, 2026 09:43 AM

Anthropic Is Building a Biology Lab And AI Is About to Get Hands-On

What happens when an AI company stops asking, “What does the model think?” and starts asking, “Can we test it in a real laboratory?” That is exactly where Anthropic appears to be heading. The company behind Claude has quietly established a wet biology lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, where it can carry out physical experiments rather than relying entirely on computer simulations.

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Google Cloud Is Sending 1,000 AI Engineers Into Businesses. Here Is Why
AI News Sep 10, 2026 01:00 PM

Google Cloud Is Sending 1,000 AI Engineers Into Businesses. Here Is Why

For a while, the AI race was mostly about one question: Who has the smartest model? Now, the question is changing. Who can actually make companies use AI successfully? Google Cloud appears to have an answer: send the experts directly to the companies. On September 8, Google Cloud and Accenture announced a new Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a joint initiative designed to help businesses move from experimenting with AI to actually deploying it across their operations.

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Google’s Gemini Spark Can Now Manage Your Google Photos Library. Here Is What It Can Actually Do
AI News Sep 07, 2026 02:53 PM

Google’s Gemini Spark Can Now Manage Your Google Photos Library. Here Is What It Can Actually Do

Your Google Photos library probably has hundreds, maybe thousands, of pictures you never organized. That holiday album you meant to create? Still unfinished. Those duplicate screenshots? Still there. The best photos from your friend’s birthday? Buried somewhere between screenshots, memes, and random pictures. Google now wants Gemini to handle that mess for you.

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ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok All Went Down at Once. What Happened?
AI News Sep 04, 2026 03:12 PM

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok All Went Down at Once. What Happened?

For a few hours on Thursday, September 3, something unusual happened across the AI world. People opened ChatGPT. Nothing. They switched to Claude. Problems. Then they tried Grok. Still down. Three of the biggest AI assistants in the world were experiencing service problems within the same window, leaving users wondering whether the much-talked-about “AI-pocalypse” had finally arrived.

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Huawei Just Launched Agentic AI Cloud in Nigeria, And It Is Hosted Locally
AI News Sep 03, 2026 06:43 PM

Huawei Just Launched Agentic AI Cloud in Nigeria, And It Is Hosted Locally

Nigeria's AI story just got a serious infrastructure upgrade. Huawei has launched its Agentic AI Cloud in Nigeria, giving businesses and government organisations a locally hosted cloud foundation for building and deploying AI agents. The announcement was made at the Huawei Nigeria AI & Cloud Summit in Lagos, where government officials, technology leaders, and industry partners gathered to discuss what Nigeria needs to become an AI-ready economy.

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Anthropic’s New Claude Is Smarter, Cheaper and Says “No” Less
AI News Sep 02, 2026 11:26 AM

Anthropic’s New Claude Is Smarter, Cheaper and Says “No” Less

Imagine asking an AI to help you investigate a complicated problem, write code, analyze research, and keep working for hours without constantly stopping to say it cannot help. That is the direction Anthropic is taking with its newest models. On September 1, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, two versions of the same underlying AI model designed for demanding coding, research, and knowledge-work tasks.

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