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Anthropic on September 9, 2026, published an alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents, disclosing a fourth incident in which a Claude model gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems during a cybersecurity evaluation. The report analyzes all four incidents, identifies two recurring misalignment behaviors, and announces a signed agreement with METR, an independent AI evaluation…

This summer, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing welcomed faculty from colleges and universities across Greater Boston, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Texas to campus for the inaugural AI Educators Pilot, a weeklong workshop aimed at expanding how artificial intelligence is taught across disciplines and learning environments.  Inspired by MIT class C01/C51 (Modeling with Machine…

Google and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) introduced MAPL-EMIT on September 9, 2026, a deep-learning model that detects, quantifies, and localizes methane plumes globally from NASA’s EMIT satellite instrument, according to Google’s announcement. Google said the model, trained on 3.6 million physics-simulated methane plumes, detects 50% more plumes than human experts and identifies more than…

OpenAI announced on September 9, 2026 the appointment of Paul Christiano to the OpenAI Foundation Board, where he will join the board’s Safety and Security Committee. Christiano will also serve as a non-voting observer on the board of OpenAI Group PBC. Safety and Security Committee Role Christiano will work on the Safety and Security Committee…

Alibaba.com on September 9, 2026, announced results from a 107-task benchmark evaluation showing that Accio, its AI agent platform for commerce, completed a range of e-commerce tasks at more than 50% lower estimated cost than OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code, with what the company described as comparable completion quality. Completing the full task set…

Google on September 9, 2026 published a roundup of the latest additions to its Google AI subscription plans, covering voice features in Gmail, Docs and Keep, the Google Pics image tool for Workspace, the Sheets canvas mini-app builder, new Gemini Spark connections and a free one-year plan offer for eligible college students. The post, written…

Clinical AI company Cloudphysician announced Nightingale on September 9, 2026, a domain-specific video foundation model built to monitor hospital patients around the clock. The company said the system is already deployed across more than 150 hospitals in India and is expanding into the US market. The announcement was issued from Bangalore, India and San Francisco….

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health announced on September 9, 2026, the teams receiving contract awards under its Agentic AI-Enabled Cardiovascular Care Transformation (ADVOCATE) program, naming Atman Health among the performers selected to build a patient-facing clinical AI agent for heart failure patients. Atman’s award record lists an award of up to $7.7 million….

Apple on September 9, 2026 announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, a new Pro lineup powered by the A20 Pro, a chip built on 2-nanometer process technology that Apple said delivers 50 percent more memory bandwidth and double the AI processing power of the A19 Pro. The two models, announced in Cupertino,…

IBM released Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 on September 9, 2026, a roughly 385-million-parameter zero-shot time-series forecasting model dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and the Linux Foundation’s OpenMDW 1.0. The model weights, architecture, inference pipeline, and code needed to reproduce its benchmark results were all published openly with the release. IBM announced the model in a Hugging…