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Waymo Announces Singapore Expansion Targeting 2028...
Waymo announced on September 17, 2026 that it is expanding to Singapore, where it intends to introduce a fully autonomous, all-electric commercial ride-hailing service through the Waymo app in 2028, in partnership with the Ministry of Transport and the...
Anthropic Says Claude Leads 26% of Its AI Research...
Anthropic said its Claude models "lead" 26% of the company's AI research and development work as of August 2026, in the first results from a prototype R&D Automation Index published in an Anthropic Institute post on September 17, 2026....
Scale AI Reports ROK-FORTRESS Findings on Multilin...
Scale AI on September 17, 2026 published findings from ROK-FORTRESS, a bilingual English–Korean adversarial safety benchmark developed jointly with the Korea AI Safety Institute, reporting that prompts written in Korean and grounded in Korean contexts were consistently associated with...
Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
OpenAI Applies Mitigation as Elevated Error Rates ...
OpenAI said it had applied a mitigation and was monitoring the recovery on September 17, 2026, after identifying elevated error rates across its API models in an incident on its status page that listed 12 affected components of the...
OpenAI Introduces Astra for Law With Legal Search ...
OpenAI on September 17, 2026, introduced Astra for Law, a configuration of its GPT-6 Astra model that pairs a legal search index spanning more than 230 million URLs with access controls and workflow tools built for law firms and...
Google Labs Expands CC Into an AI Agent for Famili...
Google Labs is expanding CC, its experimental AI agent, into a shared agent for families and households, according to a Google announcement published September 17, 2026. The expanded agent operates from its own Google account and supports up to...
UN System Data Commons Launches as AI-Ready Global...
Google and the United Nations system launched the UN System Data Commons on September 17, 2026, an open-source platform that unites global statistics from across UN entities into a single AI-ready knowledge graph at data.un.org. Prem Ramaswami, Google's Head...
Making global data easier to explore
Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to search.
The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess
By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.
GSA Extends Anthropic’s Claude OneGov Offer for Fe...
The U.S. General Services Administration has extended its OneGov offer of Anthropic's Claude AI to the federal government, with the agency's current listing showing the $1 offer expiring October 31, 2026, past the up-to-one-year term GSA announced when it...
Daniel Liechtenstein, CEO and Co-Founder of Hyperc...
Daniel Liechtenstein, CEO and Co-Founder of Hypercore, is a fintech entrepreneur and financial strategist with a background spanning lending technology, software development, business consulting, and large-scale financial planning. He co-founded Hypercore in 2020 after previously serving as a Business...
Anthropic Reports Claude Optimized 30+ Open-Source...
Anthropic published a research post on September 17, 2026, reporting that Claude optimized more than 30 open-source biomolecular models in just under four weeks, which the company said sped the models up roughly 4x on average. Anthropic open-sourced the...
Roku rolls out over 30 subscription bundles for up...
Roku’s money-saving bundles include channels like HBO Max, Starz, and Fox One.
Anthropic Redesigns Claude Code Projects to Coordi...
Anthropic on September 17, 2026, announced a redesigned Projects experience for Claude Code, releasing the update in beta with a coordinator that directs parallel agent threads drawing on shared memory and a common library of files and artifacts. In...
Lasso Study Finds Text Watermarking Shifts LLM Ref...
Lasso Security researcher Andrea Siposova on September 17, 2026 published The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior, a study reporting that SynthID-Text text watermarking can change whether a language model refuses a harmful...
Figure Introduces Helix 2.5, Tested Zero-Shot in 3...
Figure introduced Helix 2.5 on September 17, 2026, a humanoid neural network pretrained on the company's Index dataset of human behavior and evaluated across 30 Bay Area homes with no data collected in any of them. Figure reported that...
The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
Kris Beevers, CEO and Co-Founder, Netbox Labs – In...
Kris Beevers, CEO and Co-Founder, NetBox Labs is a technology entrepreneur and infrastructure software veteran with more than two decades of experience building companies and platforms focused on networking, cloud infrastructure, and automation. Before leading NetBox Labs, Beevers co-founded...
Delta Unveils Energy-to-Compute Infrastructure for...
Delta Electronics on September 17, 2026, announced integrated energy-to-compute power and cooling infrastructure intended to speed deployment of AI factories based on NVIDIA DSX, pairing 800 VDC power delivery the company rates at up to 98% conversion efficiency with...
































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