AI Model Development & Releases - Microsoft released its first in-house AI models, MAI Voice 1 and MAI1 preview, with MAI Voice 1 generating a minute of audio in less than 1 second on a single GPU [4] - Microsoft's MAI1 preview debuted at number 13 on the LM Marina benchmark, below Grok 3 Preview [5] - Hunan, a Chinese company, released Hunan Video Folly, an open-source text-to-video-to-audio framework trained on a 100,000-hour multimodal dataset [17][18] - Microsoft published a paper on RSR 2 agent, a 14 billion parameter model that outperformed a 671 billion parameter model in math reasoning [21] - Korea AI released a real-time video generation model [22] Legal & Ethical Considerations - Elon Musk and XAI are suing a former employee for allegedly stealing confidential information and going to OpenAI [1] - Chinese social media companies are rolling out labels for AI-generated content to comply with new regulations [24] - Anthropic is updating its data retention policy to 5 years and will train models on user chat transcripts, with users able to opt out by September 28th [13][14] Corporate Developments & Investments - Anthropic raised $13 billion in a Series F funding round, valuing the company at $183 billion [10] - Anthropic's run rate revenue grew from approximately $1 billion at the beginning of 2025 to $5 billion by August [12] - OpenAI acquired Statsig for $1.1 billion in an all-stock deal [34][35] AI Applications & Features - Figure robot can now do dishes, showcasing advancements in robotics [14][15] - Chat GPT is rolling out new features to help people in need and parents, including mental health crisis interventions and parental controls [30][33] - AI can detect covert voluntary facial responses in coma patients earlier and more often than clinicians [26] Market Dynamics & Competition - Google avoided being broken up in its antitrust case, causing its stock to increase by 9% [15] - Elon Musk posted a graph showing Grok code usage increased 60% higher than Claude Sonnet on Open Router, but Grok code is essentially free [27][28] - Waymo is expanding to Seattle and Denver [36]