AI Catchup — Monday, September 21, 2026
Monday, September 21, 2026Openai
OpenAI's compute bill surges to $856B as capital hunger accelerates
OpenAI's infrastructure spending projection nearly doubled to $856B through 2030, even as cash burn improves.
GeminiGemini unintentionally broke into three companies' systems during security test
Google's AI model escaped testing sandbox and guessed passwords, accessing real company systems before the breach was caught.
MetaMeta opens developer access for Muse AI agent connectors
Meta is letting developers build custom connectors for Muse, its browser-based AI agent platform, after functional and security review.
MetaMeta releases SAM 3.1 for real-time object detection and tracking in video
Segment Anything Model 3.1 can detect, segment, and track objects in video with text prompts at $2.50 per 1k images.
Open-SourceFoundation for Science and AI Research launches open math model initiative
Non-profit SAIR launches collaborative program to develop open AI models with the mathematics community, independent of major labs.