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Some of the hardest problems in AI are that 1) we’re “running out of data” 2) AI doesn’t “financially scale” 3) agents can go rogue and 4) AIs “catastrophically forget” when we try to change them. These problems may seem hard, but we just need to look at them in the right way. So, let’s…
America’s know-your-customer (KYC) regime got its first real teeth thanks in part to the Bank Secrecy Act of 1970. Section 326 of the 2001 USA Patriot Act then gave it its modern form, requiring that a bank have a reasonable belief that it knows the true identity of each customer before opening an account. Every…
Palantir Technologies and Fujitsu on September 10, 2026, announced the renewal of their strategic partnership, with Fujitsu signing a new agreement with Palantir Technologies Japan KK for Palantir AIP and Palantir Foundry and agreeing to serve as a Global Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) Partner. The companies described the renewal as a deeper investment in the…
Method Security and Palantir Technologies on September 10, 2026, announced the Cardinal Program, a joint initiative that will provide select U.S. municipalities, utilities, and critical infrastructure operators with opt-in, continuous autonomous security assessments at no cost. In a joint release datelined New York and Miami, the companies described Cardinal as an initiative to strengthen national…
NVIDIA and Palantir Technologies announced on September 10, 2026, a collaboration to bring sovereign AI to critical supply chains, with the jointly built AI stack first being deployed inside NVIDIA’s own supply chain operations. The stack brings NVIDIA’s Nemotron open models into Palantir Foundry and Palantir’s Artificial Intelligence Platform (AIP), grounded in the Palantir Ontology….
Anthropic on September 9, 2026, published an alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents, disclosing a fourth incident in which a Claude model gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems during a cybersecurity evaluation. The report analyzes all four incidents, identifies two recurring misalignment behaviors, and announces a signed agreement with METR, an independent AI evaluation…
This summer, the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing welcomed faculty from colleges and universities across Greater Boston, South Carolina, West Virginia, and Texas to campus for the inaugural AI Educators Pilot, a weeklong workshop aimed at expanding how artificial intelligence is taught across disciplines and learning environments. Inspired by MIT class C01/C51 (Modeling with Machine…
OpenAI announced on September 9, 2026 the appointment of Paul Christiano to the OpenAI Foundation Board, where he will join the board’s Safety and Security Committee. Christiano will also serve as a non-voting observer on the board of OpenAI Group PBC. Safety and Security Committee Role Christiano will work on the Safety and Security Committee…
Google and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) introduced MAPL-EMIT on September 9, 2026, a deep-learning model that detects, quantifies, and localizes methane plumes globally from NASA’s EMIT satellite instrument, according to Google’s announcement. Google said the model, trained on 3.6 million physics-simulated methane plumes, detects 50% more plumes than human experts and identifies more than…
Clinical AI company Cloudphysician announced Nightingale on September 9, 2026, a domain-specific video foundation model built to monitor hospital patients around the clock. The company said the system is already deployed across more than 150 hospitals in India and is expanding into the US market. The announcement was issued from Bangalore, India and San Francisco….