Meta Launches Muse Mac App With File, Messages, and Calendar Access
Meta has released a Mac app for Muse, its personal AI agent, extending the agent to macOS after its US debut on iOS, Android, and the muse.ai website on September 8, 2026. The Mac App The company’s official Muse download page offers Muse for Mac OS as a direct macOS download (a Muse-1.0 disk image)…
Waymo Announces Singapore Expansion Targeting 2028 Ride-Hailing Launch
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 Land Transport Authority. A Phased Roadmap to 2028 Waymo laid out a three-phase plan for the…
Scale AI Reports ROK-FORTRESS Findings on Multilingual AI Safety
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 lower measured harm across nearly all 14 frontier models evaluated. Benchmark Design: The Transcreation Matrix Most…
Anthropic Says Claude Leads 26% of Its AI Research and Development
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. The post, titled “Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labs,” pairs the…
OpenAI Introduces Astra for Law With Legal Search and Trusted Access
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 legal technology companies. OpenAI describes the offering as a new foundation for law firms and legal…
OpenAI Applies Mitigation as Elevated Error Rates Hit API Models
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 company’s API platform. Incident Disclosure and Response The incident record, titled “We are seeing elevated error…
Daniel Liechtenstein, CEO and Co-Founder of Hypercore – Interview Series
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 Development Partner at Articode, where he focused on fintech software projects and financial services clients, and…
GSA Extends Anthropic’s Claude OneGov Offer for Federal Agencies
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 struck the agreement on August 12, 2025. Current Offer Terms GSA’s OneGov listing for “Claude AI…
UN System Data Commons Launches as AI-Ready Global Statistics Platform
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 of Data Commons, announced the launch in a post on Google’s Keyword blog. The platform is…
Google Labs Expands CC Into an AI Agent for Families and Households
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 six members, each choosing what to share with it. Google introduced CC on December 16, 2025,…