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Anthropic on September 17, 2026 announced the Life Sciences Verification Program (LSVP), a beta program giving verified life science organizations access to its Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet models under a refined set of safeguards the company described as more permissive for biology-related work. Anthropic said it has already onboarded dozens of organizations through an early…

Amazon Web Services launched Amazon Connect Talent on September 17, 2026, an AI hiring product for talent acquisition leaders managing scaled hiring, delivering AI-led interviews, data-driven assessments, and consistent evaluation. How the Hiring Workflow Runs AWS built the product for scaled hiring in industries such as retail, logistics, and hospitality, where, in the company’s description,…

Magentic has raised $18 million in Series A funding to expand its AI agents across procurement and supply chain operations, targeting some of the most complex workflows inside large industrial companies. The round was led by Felicis, with existing investors Sequoia Capital and The Westly Group also participating. It comes roughly a year after the…

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 liquid-cooling systems scaling to 3 MW. In its announcement from Fremont, California, the company described its…

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 NS1 in 2013 and served as its CEO for nearly a decade, building the company into…

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 Index pretraining raised zero-shot success from 9% to 56% in a controlled comparison against an otherwise…

An afternoon with an AI agent can turn one business idea into a marketing plan, a product outline, and a pile of unfinished work. Every new direction is easy to explore. Keeping track of what was decided takes more discipline. The agent is ready to help with the next request. The business needs somewhere useful…

Crusoe on September 17, 2026, announced the initial closing of its anticipated $3.9 billion Series F funding round at a $30.9 billion post-money valuation, an oversubscribed financing co-led by Atreides Management, Mubadala Capital, and Valor Equity Partners. Investor Syndicate and Use of Proceeds Beyond the three co-leads, the company named significant new and existing backers…

Black Kite’s 2026 Manufacturing & Distribution Ransomware Report: Still the #1 Target, but the Victim Profile Moved Downmarket and Overseas finds that ransomware pressure on manufacturers is not only increasing, but changing shape. The Black Kite Research Group analyzed thousands of publicly disclosed ransomware incidents from 2023 through July 2026, alongside current external exposure data…

Sierra announced on September 17, 2026, that its AI agent platform has achieved AIUC-1 certification following an independent audit by Schellman and extensive testing by the Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC). AIUC-1 is a standard designed specifically for AI agents that tests how agents actually behave, including what happens when someone tries to manipulate them,…