Rundown · Thursday, September 3, 2026
AI news on September 3, 2026
On Thursday, September 3, 2026 the AI desk recorded 5 news events, 1 of them carried by 5 or more outlets. The earliest report came from globenewswire.com at 12:05 UTC. One more event was reported; it is listed at the end.
- news events5
- outlet reports13
- carried by 5+ outlets1
- first report (UTC)12:05
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Coverage recordeurope.chinadaily.com.cn: “Nvidia to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93b”
Reports ran from 12:10 UTC on Sep 3 to 11:30 UTC on Sep 5.
The outlets that reported this event are listed with links to their reports; no summary of ours passed our automated checks for it, which says nothing about the event (how they work).
Reported by blogs.nvidia.com, nytimes.com, techcrunch.com, Seeking Alpha, europe.chinadaily.com.cn, global.chinadaily.com.cn, tennesseedaily.com (Big News Network), coloradostar.com (Big News Network) and myanmarnews.net (Big News Network).
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ChatGPT, Grok, Claude went down at the same time; 5 model families affected
Machine summary OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI had overlapping outages that affected multiple model tiers, including Opus 5, Opus 4.8, Mythos/Fable, and Codex.
- The ChatGPT outage affected core conversation, image generation, deep research, search, voice mode, file uploads, and logins.
- Anthropic's Claude, Claude Code, and Claude API were impacted starting around 10:30AM ET; initially Mythos/Fable 5.1, 5, Opus 5, 4.8, and 4.6 were affected, later narrowed to Opus 4.8 and Opus 5.
- Anthropic technical staff member CJ Avilla called it an 'infrastructure issue' causing a partial outage and said there was no ETA.
- Grok's outage began at 9:30AM ET on Android, iOS, and web, with the X chatbot returning 'This model is overloaded right now.'
Reported by macrumors.com and The Verge.
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Coverage recordnasdaq.com: “Hock Tan Just Put a $230 Billion Number on Broadcom's 2028 AI Revenue. That Is 4 Times This Year's.”
Reports ran between 22:52 and 23:12 UTC on Sep 3.
The outlets that reported this event are listed with links to their reports; no summary of ours passed our automated checks for it, which says nothing about the event (how they work).
Reported by fool.com and nasdaq.com.
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Checkmarx joins Anthropic's Project Glasswing
Machine summary Eagletribune reports that Checkmarx said it is joining Anthropic's Project Glasswing, a program providing selected security organizations with Mythos for defensive cybersecurity. Checkmarx said it will use Claude Mythos 5 to improve its vulnerability detection and share findings to advance detection and remediation across the industry. The company also said it would share what it learns with the wider security community.
- Checkmarx announced its participation in Anthropic's Project Glasswing, according to the company.
Reported by globenewswire.com and eagletribune.com.
- Anthropic
- Claude Mythos 5
- Checkmarx
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Azure revenue reaches $29.4B, up 42%
Machine summary Microsoft disclosed Azure revenue of $29.4 billion, up 42% year-over-year. Microsoft has partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic.
- AWS reported revenue of $42.2 billion, up 37% year over year, for the quarter ended June 30.
Reported by nasdaq.com.
More events reported
No summary of ours and no outlet headline passed our automated checks for these, which says nothing about the events (how they work); the outlets and their reports are linked.
- · 3 outletsargentinastar.com (Big News Network), trinidadtimes.com (Big News Network), neworleanssun.com (Big News Network)Named in the reports: Uber
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