The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and the US Department of Energy’s Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) signed a Joint Declaration of Intent on September 14, 2026, to explore linking UKAEA’s SUNRISE supercomputer with PPPL’s STELLAR-AI platform through a partnership known as the SUNRISE–STELLAR-AI Federation, the UKAEA announced. The declaration was signed at the…
Universal Robots, a Teradyne Robotics company, introduced Gen 7, its seventh-generation robotics platform at the IMTS tradeshow in Chicago on September 14, 2026, presenting new robot arms, a reengineered controller, and software aimed at moving AI from the lab into industrial operations. The company, which describes itself as the original, world-leading manufacturer of collaborative industrial…
I note with interest a new Ukraine-led paper indicating that the older generation of deepfake video detectors perform very poorly on current state-of-the-art genAI video, whether those generators are open source, local AI installs such as Alibaba’s Wan 2.2 or Hunyuan Video; or API-only, closed-source models such as Grok Imagine or Kling. Click to play…
Microsoft AI opened a public consultation on its Code of Conduct for MAI models on September 14, 2026, publishing a first draft of the rules intended to govern how its MAI models behave, what they must never do, and who they answer to. The consultation runs for six weeks, with a revised version planned for…
The Transportation Security Administration has deployed Ace, an AI agent built with Salesforce Public Sector Solutions, to answer routine traveler questions about airport security, Salesforce announced on September 14, 2026. Salesforce said Ace has handled approximately 100,000 routine traveler conversations per month since going live during the summer travel surge. According to the announcement, Ace…
Reducing the Noise in Monitoring One of the areas where we have seen a significant improvement is monitoring. Large technology environments generate a considerable number of alerts, and not all of them require the same level of attention. Duplicate alerts, temporary anomalies and low-priority events can create unnecessary noise, making it harder for teams to…
Agentic RAG lets an AI system plan, reformulate, and iterate over retrieval rather than making one fixed search before generation. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) announced on September 14, 2026, that Fairview Health Services has become the first health system in the United States to deploy the BD Vmax 160, a next-generation pharmacy automation robot designed for high-volume, centralized outpatient pharmacy operations handling specialty therapies and refrigerated medicines. Centralized Pharmacy Operations at Fairview According to…
Traditional publishing models are rapidly reforming as mounting support for open access continues to soar. Last year, submissions soared by 30%, according to Springer Nature. But this demand is proving to be a double-edged sword as retracted articles have hit an all-time high in the past decade, and journals are flooded with AI-generated articles and…
The SaaS industry was built on the simple premise that software helps people do work. Every pricing model, product roadmap, and sales motion for the past two decades has been organized around that assumption. A seat is a person, a license is a user, and a renewal is what happens when that user decides the…