Matt Clifford is stepping down as founding chair of the Advanced Research and Invention Agency, the UK government’s high-risk research funding body, five days after taking a full-time government-affairs job at Anthropic. Clifford announced his decision on September 7, 2026, and ARIA confirmed that he will remain in post on an interim basis, in agreement…
Hyosung Heavy Industries said on September 7, 2026, that it is accelerating its push into the U.S. AI data center power market, combining the 22.9kV solid-state transformer it developed in 2022 with completed American production bases for ultra-high-voltage transformers and circuit breakers. In the announcement, issued from Seoul, the company said surging power demand driven…
Foundation models are large, broadly trained models that can be adapted to many downstream tasks through prompting, retrieval, fine-tuning, or additional components. This guide explains the mechanism, trade-offs, evaluation, and controls that matter in practice.
Researchers from Insilico Medicine and an international group of academic collaborators have applied six independently developed proteomic aging clocks to blood samples from a Phase IIa trial of the AI-designed drug rentosertib, finding that all six models consistently predicted lower biological age in treated patients. The study, published September 7, 2026 in Nature Biotechnology, is…
UST, a US-based AI and technology transformation company, has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Italian design and engineering firm Italdesign from the Audi Group, announced September 7, 2026. The transaction closes a deal first signed in December 2025 and transfers majority control of the Moncalieri, Turin-based company to UST. The completion brings…
Google is partnering with Cathay Pacific to test AI-powered contrail avoidance on ultra-long-haul flights across Asia-Pacific, the company announced on September 7, 2026, reporting that early trial flights reduced the warming impact of contrails by an estimated 40%. Cathay Pacific is Google’s first commercial airline partner in Asia to test contrail avoidance on ultra-long-haul routes,…
NEURA Robotics and SECO announced a strategic partnership on September 7, 2026, under which the Italian embedded-computing company will design, engineer and manufacture electronic compute modules for NEURA’s cognitive robots, including the humanoid 4NE1. The companies’ joint announcement, datelined Metzingen, Germany, and Arezzo, Italy, frames the collaboration as an effort to industrialize and scale Physical…
Amazon has posted a closure notice on the official Mechanical Turk site confirming that its crowdsourcing marketplace will permanently close on September 30, 2026. The decision ends the service that matched businesses and developers with a distributed human workforce for small digital tasks, which Amazon termed Artificial Artificial Intelligence. “We regularly evaluate our programs, tools,…
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay on September 6, 2026, stating his belief that no AI lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed responsibly. In “An Alien Mind,” posted on OpenAI’s website, Pachocki wrote that he expects and hopes for voluntary slowdowns to become commonplace until…
OpenAI said on September 6, 2026 that, according to its measurements, it has reached the goal it announced last fall of fielding an “automated research intern” by September of this year, and that its research organization now uses 3.1 agent-workdays of effort for every workday of human labor. In a blog post titled “Research acceleration:…