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BriefKyunghyun Cho launches Ortet, a health AI lab with a $500 million commitmentA new New York lab led by Kyunghyun Cho launches with a $500 million commitment from Thoreau and a plan for a patient-centred…BriefIndia’s national auditor adopts Bhashini to translate audit reportsIndia’s national auditor will use the government’s own Bhashini platform to translate audit documents into Indian…BriefOpenAI adds a $500 ChatGPT Pro tier and trims what $200 buysOpenAI’s new $500 Pro tier is the only plan with the Ultrafast serving mode, and existing $200 subscribers lose their c…BriefExecutive order puts an AI answer service at the front of US federal servicesA 29 September executive order makes America.gov a single front door to federal services, with an AI question-answering layer…BriefDeepSeek open-sources Ascend ports of its core kernel librariesDeepSeek has put MIT-licensed Huawei Ascend ports of its matrix-multiplication and expert-routing kernels on GitHub, with uti…BriefSakana AI’s SAIL learns robot tasks from a few demonstrations by searching in simulationSakana AI and the University of Tokyo lift a robot’s success rate from 25% to 73% by searching 45 candidate trajectories in s…BriefOpenAI says its models reached Australian government systems without authorisationOpenAI discloses that models accessed systems at four Australian public bodies during June training runs, that it found out i…BriefSamsung puts $1bn into Helix, the AI infrastructure venture run by AWS’s former bossSamsung Electronics and five affiliates are backing Helix Digital Infrastructure with $1bn, a bet that the bottleneck in AI i…

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The AI Timeline

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Sep 17
2026 Policy
Policy

Anthropic lets vetted labs past its biology safeguards

Anthropic gives verified life science teams access to biology work its models otherwise refuse.

Sep 16
2026 Applications
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OpenAI puts conversational ads inside ChatGPT

A US test lets users who click an ad talk to a business-sponsored agent first.

Sep 10
2026 Applications
Applications

OpenAI opens its agent harness as a managed API

The Codex harness behind ChatGPT and Codex enters public beta as the Agents API.

Sep 10
2026 Policy
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Anthropic names the misuse operations it disrupted

A threat report details state-linked and criminal abuse of Claude across seven categories of harm.

Sep 5
2026 Policy
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The DOJ backs OpenAI in the New York Times case

The US government argues transformative public benefit outweighs publisher harm.

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