The U.S. House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on September 16, 2026, voting 417 to 3 to require state utility regulators to consider standards that make large data center customers pay the full cost of the grid upgrades built to serve them. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, Subcommittee on Energy Chairman…
OpenAI published a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment on September 16, 2026, alongside six reports on unexpected or concerning behavior the company said it observed during the training or evaluation of its models. OpenAI said its past misalignment disclosures were ad hoc: it often waited to collate several instances into…
xAI on September 16, 2026 announced cross-session memory for Grok Build, its terminal coding agent, a feature that records conventions, decisions, and project facts as markdown notes in the background and reads them back in later sessions. Memory is available in Grok Build now and applies to new sessions. xAI says the agent keeps notes…
Sarah Heck, Anthropic’s head of public policy, said at POLITICO’s Decoded Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 2026, that AI companies cannot be left to police themselves on an honor code, pressing for government rules addressing existential AI risk while arguing that the United States must keep its AI lead over China. Heck rejected…
Chemistry has become another frontier in the effort to connect artificial intelligence with the physical world. Glasgow-based Chemify is now preparing to expand the infrastructure needed to do exactly that, securing £22 million ($29.7 million) in grants to scale a platform that combines AI-driven molecular design with automated robotic synthesis. The funding includes £16 million…
Endra, the AI platform company for mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) engineering, announced Endra Power Studio on September 16, 2026, describing it as the first agentic platform purpose-built for electrical engineering. In the same announcement, the company said it has acquired Planlabs, a Swiss AI lab building an AI for mechanical engineering. The release frames…
Andrew Johnson, CEO of Yardstik, is an experienced technology executive with a background in scaling high-growth software companies, building go-to-market organizations, and driving enterprise revenue. He joined Yardstik as Chief Operating Officer in 2022 before being promoted to CEO in October 2024. Previously, Johnson served as Chief Revenue Officer at Branch, where he helped guide…
Google opened early access to Home MCP on September 16, 2026, a Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents monitor devices, review event history, and execute control actions across the Google Home ecosystem. Access is rolling out in English to Google Home Premium Advanced users in the US. The announcement on the Google Home…
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and OpenEvidence announced a partnership on September 16, 2026, that pairs the integration of OpenEvidence’s medical AI platform into MSK’s Epic electronic health record workflow with the integration of OncoKB, MSK’s precision oncology knowledge base, directly into OpenEvidence for broader use by providers outside MSK. How the Integration Works at…
Rune has raised $40 million in Series A funding as the energy infrastructure startup looks to address one of artificial intelligence’s increasingly significant constraints: finding enough electricity to power rapidly expanding compute infrastructure. The round was led by Spark Capital, with participation from Union Square Ventures, Lowercarbon Capital, Activate Capital, Committed Capital, Timeless Partners, and…