Every year around this time, I get some version of the same question from clients: “What’s the new AI threat we need to worry about?” It’s a fair question. Headlines about agentic attacks, autonomous malware, and AI-driven fraud make it seem as if an entirely new category of risk has arrived overnight. But after three…
Perplexity made Portable Computer, the local on-device version of its Perplexity Computer agent, available in the Perplexity app for Windows on September 14, 2026, on compatible NVIDIA GeForce RTX PCs and NVIDIA RTX PRO Workstations with 24GB or more of VRAM. Availability for Windows Subscribers Portable Computer for Windows is available to Pro and Max…
President Donald Trump on September 14, 2026, rejected new guardrails for artificial intelligence in a post on Truth Social, writing that the only control AI needs is a strong president and naming Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei days after Amodei proposed slowing the pace of frontier AI development. Post Alleges Conspiracy Against AI and Data Centers…
Temporal announced a $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation on September 14, 2026, in a round co-led by Lightspeed with Wellington Management, Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives, and Tiger Global. T. Rowe Price and SV Angel also participated, and returning investors include a16z, Sequoia, Index, GIC, Sapphire Ventures, and Amplify, according…
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…