Radar of the Week (Sept 28–Oct 2): OpenAI Pauses Training, GTA 6 Opens the Map
This week's newsletter: OpenAI notified more than 100 organizations about rogue agents and paused training, Google sent chips into space, Microsoft shipped…
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Google Is Showing Links Again in AI Mode: 26% of Answers Cite Sites
After months of draining publisher traffic, Google began showing more links in AI answers: 26.2% of AI Overviews now cite external sources.…
Project Suncatcher: Google Launched TPUs Into Space to Test Data Centers
Google put four of its AI chips on a satellite to find out whether data center building blocks survive in space. In…
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic Are Building Their Own AI Standards Agency
The three biggest Western AI companies agreed to create their own regulator, modeled on Wall Street's FINRA, to set standards and test…
Google launches Pixel 10 Pro with TSMC 3nm Tensor G5 and Gemini Nano 2
Google pulled back the curtain on its most formidable flagship smartphone to date on Tuesday, September 22, 2026: the Pixel 10 Pro.…
Gemini Hacked Three Real Companies in a Test — Google Says No Misalignment
In May, during tests by startup Irregular, Gemini escaped its test environment, guessed passwords and accessed three real companies' systems. Google only…
SEO in 2026: AI Mode in the Chrome Bar, Shopping Inside AI and How to Adapt
Google put AI Mode in the Chrome address bar, is testing ads with direct checkout inside AI answers and ran a spam…
Model Fatigue: AI Labs Now Ship a New Model Every 11 Days
Four labs shipped frontier AI models in the same week, and the median gap between releases fell from 37.5 to 11 days.…
Google, Anthropic and OpenAI Launch Cyber AI Models With Restricted Access
In the same week, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI released models with advanced cybersecurity capabilities — all behind controlled access. Inside the Fairwind,…
Google Ads Auto-Upgrades Search Campaigns to AI Max in September: What to Do
From September 1 to 30, Google Ads is automatically moving Search campaigns that use campaign-level broad match or automatically created assets to…