On September 2, 2026, astronomers unveiled a moving, ten-sided atmospheric wave at Saturn’s south pole, giving the planet a less stable counterpart to its northern hexagon.
Before sharing personal details with an AI character, check model training, deletion, other data uses, age rules and safety review—because no single setting makes a chat private.
On September 1, 2026, Google launched agentic video understanding for Gemini Flash models. It targets long or moment-specific analysis; static remains the better fit for short clips and full-timeline precision.
On September 2, GitHub made content exclusions generally available in Copilot CLI and the Copilot app, but symlinks and remote filesystems remain outside the protection.
On September 1, 2026, GitHub made Enterprise Live Migrations generally available for supported GHES-to-GHE.com repositories, using continuous synchronization to reduce final cutover to minutes.
GitHub will apply Actions retention settings to checks, workflow runs and statuses from October 1, 2026. Teams needing longer audit history should archive linked evidence before cleanup begins.
GitHub Classroom closed on August 28, 2026, but its repositories remain. Recover separate course records from saved exports and institutional systems before migrating coursework.
GitHub plans to enable a unified Copilot experience no earlier than September 28, with account-lifetime chat retention. Separate seat-billing changes start October 1 for affected customers.
GitHub put Copilot pull-request approvals into public preview on September 1, 2026. Once enabled, an approval can satisfy a repository’s required-approvals rule.
Evaluate the complete LLM application on representative inputs and explicit launch gates. A benchmark winner can become the configuration you reject before rollout.
Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon installed and activated a spare ISS antenna on August 25, restoring the station’s second high-speed communications path after a 6½-hour spacewalk.
NASA marked DSS-23’s completion on August 25, 2026. The new 34-meter Goldstone antenna is operational and has communicated with Chandra, Voyager 1 and several planetary missions.
On August 26, AWS documented how AgentCore Evaluations scores agents across frameworks when compatible telemetry provides a reconstructable session.
Stripe and Advent ended their reported $53 billion pursuit of PayPal by August 28, 2026. No acquisition closed, and none of the three companies has commented publicly.
On August 27, OpenAI and Bocconi published results from a 1,053-student trial: ChatGPT improved evaluated answers, while causal training produced more distinctive ideas.
