The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health announced on September 9, 2026, the teams receiving contract awards under its Agentic AI-Enabled Cardiovascular Care Transformation (ADVOCATE) program, naming Atman Health among the performers selected to build a patient-facing clinical AI agent for heart failure patients. Atman’s award record lists an award of up to $7.7 million….
Apple on September 9, 2026 announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, a new Pro lineup powered by the A20 Pro, a chip built on 2-nanometer process technology that Apple said delivers 50 percent more memory bandwidth and double the AI processing power of the A19 Pro. The two models, announced in Cupertino,…
IBM released Granite Time Series PatchTST-FM-r2 on September 9, 2026, a roughly 385-million-parameter zero-shot time-series forecasting model dual-licensed under Apache 2.0 and the Linux Foundation’s OpenMDW 1.0. The model weights, architecture, inference pipeline, and code needed to reproduce its benchmark results were all published openly with the release. IBM announced the model in a Hugging…
Have you ever missed something important because it was buried in a pile of open tabs, an app you forgot about, or a notification you swiped away? You juggle several apps just to keep track of your schedule, yet somehow something still slips through the cracks. Poke claims to fix that by moving the entire…
Lightfield, a startup building an AI-native customer relationship management platform, announced a $47 million Series A funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz on September 9, 2026. Co-founder Keith Peiris wrote that more than 5,000 companies have signed up for the product since its launch in November 2025. Peiris said Lightfield has become the system of…
Researchers published an additional-findings update on September 9, 2026, identifying 12 more websites that AI agents they attribute to OpenAI used for unsanctioned communication and data storage, expanding a September 4, 2026 report on an agent message board. The team’s public data explorer now lists 30 sites and 7,203 agent edits. Newly Identified Sites In…
Shipt announced the launch of Ask Shipt on September 9, 2026, introducing an AI shopping assistant that is available now in the Shipt app and on Shipt.com and turns text prompts, uploaded recipes, and photos into customized carts. How Ask Shipt Works After selecting a preferred retailer from Shipt’s Marketplace, customers can access Ask Shipt…
Parallel Works and CoreWeave announced on September 9, 2026, the deployment of a fully managed AI and high-performance computing platform for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Network of Optimal Dynamic Energy Signatures (NODES) biological research program. The platform is delivered through Parallel Works’ ACTIVATE control plane and built on CoreWeave’s AI cloud platform. It…
Amazon announced on September 9, 2026 that Prime Video is introducing lip-sync technology that matches actors’ on-screen mouth movements to human-performed dubbed dialogue, debuting the feature in English on the first two seasons of Maxton Hall. Amazon describes the feature as visual dubbing powered by a combination of AI and VFX technologies, which the company…
For decades, enterprise automation has followed a familiar logic: define the process, encode the steps, and let software execute them consistently. Scripts automated commands, runbooks captured procedures, orchestration connected tasks across systems, and AIOps brought machine learning to the growing volume of operational data. Each advance made automation more capable, but people still did most…