House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie has signaled that the Great American AI Act, a bipartisan bill covering catastrophic-risk disclosure and cybersecurity standards for advanced AI…
More than 70 UK MPs and peers signed a letter dated 11 September 2026 backing Labour MP Alex Sobel's Artificial Superintelligence Bill, which calls for a national ban on superintelligent AI developmen…
Anthropic Head of Policy Sarah Heck is positioning AI safety as a voter priority ahead of the 2026 US midterms, backed by more than $40 million the company pledged to the bipartisan organization Publi…
Google launched a Home MCP integration that lets third-party AI agents, including Anthropic's Claude, Open Claw, and Hermes, control and analyze devices in the Google Home ecosystem via the Model Cont…
Anthropic appointed Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar as its first-ever chief global affairs officer on August 4, 2026, tasking him with turning the company's competitive-safety thesis into government relati…
Novo Nordisk is partnering with Anthropic to apply Claude Science and other AI models to drug discovery, the companies said in a Sept. 16 statement. Novo Nordisk will test Claude Science on selected R…
Circle's x402 Facilitator Service went live on September 16, 2026, processing USDC payments across Circle's Arc blockchain, Coinbase's Base, and Polygon PoS, the same day Arc's mainnet launched with B…
AWS senior vice president Peter DeSantis said the next Trainium chip will be "very differentiated," as the company's Trainium3 accelerator is already sold out and Trainium4 is targeting six times the …
Wayve, a UK-based AI startup valued at $8.6 billion, launched London's first public robotaxi service around September 2-3, offering supervised autonomous rides through the Uber app with an initial fle…
Anthropic launched Claude Docs and Claude Slides in beta for Pro and Max paid plans, merging its Claude Cowork mode and standard chat into a single unified experience it calls "one Claude." The new to…
Anthropic's Claude is expanding its suite of document and presentation tools with new Docs and Slides features, directly challenging Google's Gemini in the office productivity space. The release build…
UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned on September 16 that rapidly advancing artificial intelligence requires stronger global oversight, two days after US President Donald Trump dismissed AI sa…
Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue said on CBS News' "Face the Nation" on August 2, 2026 that existing US cybersecurity laws are likely sufficient for AI regulation, arguing mandatory breach disclosure…
Elastic N.V. launched the Elasticsearch Vector Database on September 11, a serverless product on Elastic Cloud Serverless built for retrieval-augmented generation and AI agent workloads at a scale of …
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has endorsed a temporary halt on advanced artificial intelligence development, aligning with the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act introduced by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. G…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reversed his 2023 congressional testimony calling for a nuclear-style licensing regime for high-capability AI models, now lobbying against mandatory pre-release approvals and…
Salesforce AI Research published DarwinX, a framework that evolves AI agent harnesses without modifying model weights, raising pass@1 on the 1,260-task WebArena-Infinity benchmark from 43.5% to 93.0% …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 13, 2026 calling for frontier AI development to slow down so safety measures can catch up, drawing endorsements within hours from O…
Google DeepMind opened its first dedicated research hub outside its existing offices, an AI Campus in Seoul built with South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT, as part of a year that also included a…
Microsoft published a 37-page "Humanist AI Code of Conduct" on September 14 that rejects legal personhood, rights, and welfare status for AI models and pledges to sacrifice capability and autonomy to …