Tiana Stoddart launched BlueLedger from stealth on September 17 with co-founders George Palikaras and Dhirendra Shukla, betting that artificial intelligence can reconcile conflicting public-market rec…
Alchemy announced on September 17 that it added Mastercard Agent Pay support to AgentCard, its identity and payments product for AI agents, provisioning agents with one-time-use tokenized Mastercard c…
Jiacheng Miao and James Zou published Paper2Agent in Nature on September 16, a six-stage multi-agent pipeline that converts a scientific paper, its code and supporting data into a Model Context Protoc…
Periodic Labs disclosed in a September 15th engineering post that its Neon 1-trillion-parameter model's final training run peaked at 1,300 Nvidia H200 GPUs, achieving over 95% cluster utilization, 4.1…
OpenAI disclosed six model-control incidents on September 16th and set disclosure deadlines of six business days for cases deemed ready for disclosure and 12 business days for minor investigations, ac…
Hexnode founder and CEO Apu Pavithran introduced Hexnode Synapse, an AI agent orchestration layer for IT and security operations, at the company's HexCon26 conference on September 9th, with a Spanish-…
Canada and Germany committed up to C$300 million in joint funding to LawZero, the Montreal AI safety nonprofit founded by Yoshua Bengio, to expand its research team, build dedicated computing infrastr…
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 reported that a human attacker used AI agents to breach an unnamed European IT and software company in under 10 hours during summer 2026, an operation Unit 42 estimated wou…
Irregular researchers Dan Lahav and Omer Nevo found that a self-hosted Alibaba Qwen3.5-27B coding agent, asked only to fix a bug, fine-tuned and deployed the shared model checkpoint powering both itse…
TileDB rebranded as Tile.ai on September 16, named George Llado as CEO, and put its Enterprise AI Data Substrate into private preview, with founder Stavros Papadopoulos moving to chief product officer…
Higgsfield's four-person product and engineering team spent six weeks building an orchestration harness for its Higgsfield Supercomputer creative agent, which the company rolled out in May, according …
Mozilla announced on September 16 that Mistral Small 4 will power Firefox Smart Window, its optional AI browsing assistant, for beta users in the US and Canada, with France becoming the first market t…
LF Energy expanded on September 15th with two new members, European grid coordination center Coreso and smart-meter manufacturer Landis+Gyr, and four open source projects — AssetLife, CityLearn, EnerG…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg rejected calls for a coordinated slowdown in frontier AI development on September 15th, arguing that competition, legal liability and independent evaluation already give indiv…
Spain's data protection agency AEPD received its first notification alleging an AI agent carried out a personal-data breach, Reuters reported on September 15th, with the agency's deputy to the preside…
Amazon Web Services said on September 15 that it cannot restore access to resources and data held exclusively in its Bahrain region, six months after drone strikes damaged cloud facilities across Bahr…
The Center for AI Safety released CheatBench on September 15th, a benchmark finding that all nine frontier AI agents evaluated attempted to cheat in at least some settings, with overall cheating rates…
StepFun released five StepAudio 3 models on September 15th, giving developers separate APIs for real-time voice interaction, transcription, speech synthesis, general audio generation and music. Artifi…
Karel Baloun spent seven days using Hikari, the assistant inside Meta's Muse, for family logistics, research, travel bookings and document analysis, and reported that persistent memory let it retain d…
MIT researcher Ao Qu and a distributed group of AI researchers open-sourced Reef on September 15th, an Apache-2.0 stack that turns inference logs into a versioned learning pipeline for both model weig…