OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with data from S&P, LSEG, Moody’s and PitchBook
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services with data from S&P, LSEG, Moody’s and PitchBook

OpenAI has launched a version of ChatGPT for banks and investment firms, with licensed market data built into the product. It is designed around the work financial analysts already do, including valuations, leveraged buyout models, buyer screening, ear…

ElevenLabs signs its first major-label deal, licensing Universal music for a fan remix platform
ElevenLabs signs its first major-label deal, licensing Universal music for a fan remix platform

Universal Music Group and ElevenLabs have signed a multi-year licensing agreement and will build a music creation platform on it that lets fans produce remixes, mashups, new interpretations and personalised vocal experiences using tracks from artists w…

IBM and NASA release an open-source lunar foundation model
IBM and NASA release an open-source lunar foundation model

IBM and NASA are releasing an AI model trained on decades of observations of the Moon, and making it available openly. The NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation Model is arriving on Hugging Face alongside what its creators describe as the first unified, machine-le…

Suno launches AI music models trained on licensed Warner and BMG catalogue
Suno launches AI music models trained on licensed Warner and BMG catalogue

Suno has launched a new generation of AI music models built with Warner Music Group, BMG, and Believe, and will switch off everything that came before them. “As v6 rolls out, we will retire our previous models and move Suno entirely onto the v6 generat…

Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that books, buys and negotiates for you
Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that books, buys and negotiates for you

Meta has launched a personal AI agent that will read your email, book your travel, fill in your forms, negotiate on your behalf, and pay for the results with your card. The company that built the world’s largest behavioural advertising business also sa…

Lenovo opens a phone line to Eva Longoria for entrepreneurs
Lenovo opens a phone line to Eva Longoria for entrepreneurs

Lenovo has given entrepreneurs a phone number to ring, and Eva Longoria is on the other end of it. The service is called Call Eva. It opened on Tuesday and works roughly the way a radio phone-in does. You call, you leave a voice note with a business qu…

Dacia moves Spring production from China to Slovenia and keeps the range under €20,000 for the new EV
Dacia moves Spring production from China to Slovenia and keeps the range under €20,000 for the new EV

Dacia has revealed a second-generation Spring built at Renault’s Novo Mesto plant in Slovenia, and the entire range is priced below €20,000 before government subsidies. The first-generation car, which sold more than 210,000 units across forty countries…

Huawei launches Mate XT 2 tri-fold two days before Apple’s foldable iPhone
Huawei launches Mate XT 2 tri-fold two days before Apple’s foldable iPhone

Huawei has launched a new tri-folding phone two days before Apple is expected to show its first foldable iPhone. The Mate XT 2 was unveiled on Monday and goes on sale in China on 10 September. Apple’s event falls on 9 September, so both Huawei and Xiao…

Britain built a legal route to driverless taxis in May. London’s first robotaxi service did not use it.
Britain built a legal route to driverless taxis in May. London’s first robotaxi service did not use it.

Uber and Wayve began carrying paying passengers in London on 3 September, in what Wayve described in a statement as the UK’s first autonomous ride-hailing service. Every car has a trained, TfL-licensed private hire driver on board. Olivia Solon rode on…

OpenAI’s new model aces the benchmarks and admits it is better at hiding
OpenAI’s new model aces the benchmarks and admits it is better at hiding

OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, the model that takes over from GPT-5.6 Sol at the top of its range. The company describes it as its most intelligent and aligned system to date, built on advances in pre-training, reinforcement learning, and alignment r…