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 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 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 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 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, 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…
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…
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 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,…
Lasso Security researcher Andrea Siposova on September 17, 2026 published The Provenance Tax: Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior, a study reporting that SynthID-Text text watermarking can change whether a language model refuses a harmful request and which tool calls an AI agent generates. The study names the behavioral effect “sampling…