Anthropic said on September 18, 2026 that it is partnering with Accenture on independent evaluation of frontier AI, with each company expecting to invest at least $1 billion in building capacity in the area over the next five years. The partnership will be led by Faculty, Accenture’s specialist AI business, and will include evaluating and…
Ben Bernstein, Manager of Cybersecurity Advisors at Huntress, is a cybersecurity professional with more than a decade of experience spanning technical support, systems administration, client success, technical account management, and security advisory leadership. He began his career in hands-on IT roles, progressing from helpdesk work to systems administration before moving into account management and client…
xAI released Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0, its latest speech-to-text model, on September 18, 2026, holding batch pricing at $0.10 per hour of audio while describing the model as twice as accurate as Grok Voice Transcribe 1.0. Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 is built on the audio foundation model behind Grok Voice. According to xAI, Grok Voice…
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger on September 18, 2026 unveiled Virginia’s Data Center Accountability Framework and signed Executive Order 22, a package of immediate state directives on data center transparency, environmental review, and energy costs that also establishes a rapid-response task force on artificial intelligence. In its announcement, the governor’s office described the framework as the…
Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, an open-weight model its developer describes as the first open model to reach 2.8 trillion parameters, became available on Amazon Bedrock on September 18, 2026, adding a new option for coding and knowledge work. Amazon Web Services announced the launch on the AWS Machine Learning Blog. According to Moonshot AI, Kimi…
California Governor Gavin Newsom issued Executive Order N-9-26 on September 18, 2026, directing state agencies to accelerate implementation of California’s new independent AI oversight laws and ordering the development of recommendations that include requiring a “kill switch” for frontier AI models. The order states that it is effective immediately. Under the order, the Government Operations…
The Walt Disney Company announced on September 18, 2026 that Karandeep Anand, most recently the chief executive of Character.AI, will join the company as Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, a newly created position, effective October 2, 2026. Anand will report directly to Disney Chief Executive Officer Josh D’Amaro. As Chief Technology Officer,…
As it marks its 10-year anniversary, MIT Reads is being reimagined for the age of artificial intelligence. Recognizing the need to foster social connection and a sense of our shared humanity, the popular MIT Libraries’ program will turn its focus to fiction and memoir, and to the particular power of stories to help us understand ourselves…
Amazon Web Services announced the new AgentCore runtime on September 18, 2026, a reworked version of the managed compute layer in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore that the company says reclaims memory as agent sessions release it and delivers consistent cold start times regardless of container image size or concurrency. AgentCore runtime is the managed compute layer…
Amazon Web Services announced Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway on September 18, 2026, a Kubernetes-native, GPU-aware routing system for large language model inference that deploys as a single managed add-on for Amazon EKS on existing HyperPod infrastructure. AWS said the gateway can reduce first-token latency by up to 82%. The Routing Problem Behind the Gateway…