AI news of 13 September 2026 · Robots Versus Humans

GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own

GPT-6 Astra outperforms Claude on business agent tasks and drone control, surpassing human performance on the latter.

GPT-6 Astra earns nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs' Vending-Bench agent benchmark and refuses illegal price-fixing deals that Fable agrees to. On drone control, Astra is the first model to beat the human baseline on all five subtasks, including finding and following individual people.

The Decoder 1mo ago 5 min read

AI agents, language models

Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class

AllSpark released Iris-mini and Iris-pro open-source search agents that lead benchmarks.

The Decoder 1mo ago

autonomous vehicles, public safety

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun

Waymo robotaxi detected armed juveniles and called police, leading to arrests in San Francisco.

The Verge 1mo ago

AI regulation

Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

Trump and Johnson dismiss AI industry calls to slow development of frontier models.

The Verge 1mo ago

LLM capabilities

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Fable 5.1 language model solves a 370-year-old historical cipher.

Hacker News 1mo ago

GPU compute

CUDA for AMD on Windows Opens at the publisher in a new tab

CUDA software now runs on AMD hardware and Windows systems.

Hacker News 1mo ago

AI safety

What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom? Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Podcast discusses AI industry debate over existential risk from frontier models.

TechCrunch 1mo ago

generative AI, music

Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options Opens at the publisher in a new tab

ElevenLabs released Music v2.5, an AI music generator trained on licensed content.

The Decoder 1mo ago

AI in education

Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off

Two-year study shows students banned from AI tools perform worse than those with structured AI training or unguided access.

The Decoder 1mo ago

Large language models, robotics

GPT-6 Astra appears to show a "step change" in spatial reasoning based on early benchmarks

GPT-6 Astra shows major gains in spatial reasoning on robotics benchmark, outperforming competitors significantly.

The Decoder 1mo ago

GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own

Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class

Waymo pulls over, calls cops on riders with a ghost gun

Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher Opens at the publisher in a new tab

CUDA for AMD on Windows Opens at the publisher in a new tab

What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom? Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off

GPT-6 Astra appears to show a "step change" in spatial reasoning based on early benchmarks

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