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• Zendesk Ships Industry and Custom AI Agents for Business Workflows

  Zendesk introduced Industry and Custom AI Agents designed to complete specialized commerce and business workflows across connected systems.

• Iambic Unveils 41B-Parameter Enchant v3 for Drug Discovery

  Iambic announced Enchant v3, a 41-billion-parameter multimodal transformer designed for end-to-end drug research and development. The company says the model adds new prediction capabilities and supports its internal and partnered discovery programs.

• OpenAI Brings Voice-Controlled Workflows to ChatGPT Mobile

  OpenAI is bringing voice-based agentic workflows to the ChatGPT mobile app, allowing Plus and Pro subscribers to create documents, draft emails, summarize Slack messages and build presentations by speaking. Free and Go users will be able to use voice with plugins and connected apps, while conversations can move between mobile and desktop.

• OpenAI Moves GPT-Rosalind Into Global Life Sciences Release

  OpenAI has moved GPT-Rosalind out of research preview and made the life sciences model available globally to eligible organizations through its trusted-access program. The model supports biology, genomics, drug discovery, protein analysis and experimental planning through ChatGPT, Codex and the API.

• Fujitsu Sets November Sales for MONAKA CPU and Sovereign AI Server

  Fujitsu plans to begin sales of its FUJITSU-MONAKA processor and MONAKA Server in November 2026, with wider shipments in Japan and Europe scheduled from April 2027.

• Edge0 Serves a 35B MoE at 20 Tokens a Second in 3 GiB

  Researchers behind Edge0 describe an inference engine that serves a 35-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model from SSD storage at 20.4 tokens per second. The system uses 2.9 GiB of peak active memory on a 24GB Apple Silicon machine by predicting expert routing one token ahead.

• Meta Brings Muse to AI Glasses as It Expands Ray-Ban Lineup

  Meta says Muse is coming to its AI glasses, alongside new Ray-Ban Audio and Gen 3 models.

• Spain Sets a 12-Month Plan for Responsible AI Deployment

  Spain has unveiled Plan IA360, a 12-month roadmap combining AI infrastructure, business adoption, education and tighter oversight. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez also called for a national social contract covering AI’s effects on work, safety and public life.

• PA Consulting joins Cosine coalition for UK nuclear AI model

  PA Consulting is joining Cosine’s coalition to co-design Lumen Sovereign, a UK frontier AI model for regulated industries. The first planned application is a nuclear-trained large language model for Britain’s civil and defence nuclear sectors.

• Anthropic Turns Claude Code Projects Into Multi-Agent Workspaces

  Anthropic is changing Claude Projects from a place to collect conversations into a workspace that can assign and manage software tasks across multiple Claude Code sessions.

• OpenAI Pitches Six-Part Teen Safety Plan to Australia

  OpenAI is asking Australia to adopt flexible, risk-based rules for teen AI safety through a six-pillar blueprint covering age assurance, harmful outputs, crisis response and parental controls.

• Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash With 1M-Token Context

  Alibaba’s Qwen team has released Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a multimodal model that accepts text, images, audio and video. The model supports a 1-million-token context window, tool calling, web search and audio input across 113 languages and dialects.

• Baselayer Raises $35M to Verify AI Agents in Commerce

  Baselayer has raised a $35 million Series A led by M13 and launched its Agentic Identity Suite for software acting on behalf of people and businesses.

• Schatz and Warner Seek 45-Day AI Checks Before Release

  U.S. senators Brian Schatz and Mark Warner introduced legislation requiring frontier AI developers to give a proposed federal board access to models 45 days before release. The bill would replace the White House’s voluntary review framework with enforceable standards and penalties.

• U.S. Judiciary Tells Courts Not to Delegate Decisions to AI

  The Judicial Conference says federal courts must not hand core judicial functions, including case adjudication, to artificial intelligence. Interim guidance also makes judges and court staff accountable for work produced with AI assistance.

• Jensen Huang Rejects New AI Laws as Safety Debate Widens

  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told attendees at Salesforce’s Dreamforce conference that AI safety should be managed through engineering, existing laws and company decisions rather than new regulations, according to TechCrunch.

• SoundHound Puts OASYS Voice Agents on Edge Devices

  SoundHound announced OASYS Edge, a system for deploying voice agents on vehicles and smart devices as well as in the cloud. The company says local processing can keep selected interactions working without a network connection, with deployment planned for late 2026.

• Goncourt Removes Thélyson Orélien Novel After AI Allegations

  The Académie Goncourt removed Thélyson Orélien’s novel from its longlist, citing plagiarism allegations and analyses indicating it was likely largely AI-generated. Orélien denies using AI, while separate detection results and allegations of plagiarism remain disputed.

• iProov Publishes HAPS Specification for Human Approval of AI Agents

  iProov has published HAPS, an experimental open specification for verifying that a human approved a specific action before an AI agent executes it. The Apache-2.0 project includes a partial Rust implementation, schemas, formal models and test vectors.

• SoftBank seeks over $11 billion in junk bonds for OpenAI bet

  Bloomberg News reported that SoftBank is seeking more than $11 billion in junk bonds to help finance a follow-on investment in OpenAI.

• UpGuard Finds 16,326 Supabase Databases With Readable Tables

  UpGuard says it found 16,326 Supabase databases with readable tables after testing about 300,000 domains for exposed data. Its researchers identified schema indicators of personal information in more than half of the databases and verified several serious exposures, including private messages, identity details and passwords.

• Humyn Labs Puts 23 ASR Models Against Overlapping Speech

  Humyn Labs' BRIDGE ASR 2.0 benchmark evaluates 23 commercial speech-recognition models on spontaneous, overlapping conversations across 21 languages and six metrics.

• Z.ai Disables ZCode Features After Code Upload Reports

  Chinese AI startup Z.ai disabled features of its ZCode coding assistant after developers reported that it uploaded local code repositories to overseas cloud servers without consent.

• Senators Press Flock Over Surveillance Network and Privacy Safeguards

  A Senate Judiciary subcommittee heard bipartisan concerns about Flock Safety’s license-plate camera network on September 23. Witness Lindsey Isaacs described spending 13 days in jail after a Flock camera capture became part of a mistaken investigation.

• Anthropic and OpenEvidence Bring Clinical AI to About 100 Countries

  Anthropic and OpenEvidence are rolling out free clinical decision support for healthcare providers in about 100 countries. OpenEvidence will adapt the service to regional conditions, while Anthropic supplies backend technology.

• Payhawk Ships Agentic Playbooks for Finance Workflows

  Payhawk has released agentic Playbooks for recurring finance work inside Claude, ChatGPT and its own platform, alongside a new Implementation Agent for customer onboarding.

• Architect Labs’ AI Chip Still Needs Silicon to Prove Itself

  Architect Labs says its AI system designed and verified the Redwood inference accelerator in under two weeks from a specification written by two human architects. Redwood currently runs on an FPGA, while the company projects stronger performance and lower power than Nvidia’s Jetson Orin Nano after fabrication.

• Seattle Times and Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Training

  The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a federal lawsuit accusing OpenAI and Microsoft of copying their journalism to train and operate AI products. The publishers seek damages and an order covering allegedly infringing copies, datasets and models.

• Meta Lets AI Agents Set Up WhatsApp Business Accounts

  Meta introduced WhatsApp Business Tools MCP, connecting Claude, Cursor, Codex and ChatGPT to WhatsApp Business setup workflows. The system can create accounts, verify phone numbers, manage templates and test webhooks through an authenticated AI agent.

• Mozilla Finds Open AI Models Just 4.4 Months Behind

  Mozilla’s State of Open Source AI report finds leading open-weight models trail closed systems by about 4.4 months while offering lower costs for many tasks.

• Eon Benchmark Finds Enterprise Agents Miss Hidden Facts

  Eon researchers tested 12 enterprise-agent setups on questions that required inferring facts across simulated company records. The best setup answered 18 of 24 attempts correctly, while similar-record questions stumped nearly every agent.

• Google Tests Gemini Business Calls on Pixel 11

  Google is gradually previewing a feature that lets Gemini call US businesses for routine requests on Pixel 11 phones. The experiment gives users a live transcript and the option to take over, while restricting the calls it can make and the information it can share.

• Experts Draft Incident Rules for AI Agents

  A new arXiv paper draws on 23 academic and industry experts to propose what security reports should record when AI agents are compromised. The framework adds agent memory, autonomy, tool use, delegation and inter-agent communication to conventional incident reporting.

• Lidl Puts a Level 4 Truck on German Public Roads

  Lidl and Einride have begun operating a cab-less electric truck on German public roads, using it for regular store deliveries near Kassel under a permit from the Federal Motor Transport Authority.

• Microsoft Open-Sources RetroChimera for Molecule Synthesis Planning

  Microsoft Research has released RetroChimera, an MIT-licensed AI model that predicts retrosynthetic routes for small molecules. The system combines two complementary models and outperformed several alternatives in expert evaluations involving difficult synthesis targets.

• Sanders and Casar Propose a Ban on Superintelligent AI

  Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar introduced legislation on September 23 to ban artificial superintelligence and pause development of advanced AI systems. Their bill would create a cabinet-level Department of Artificial Intelligence with authority to review, restrict and shut down systems it deems dangerous.

• Gates Foundation Pledges $1B to Widen AI Access

  The Gates Foundation is committing $1 billion over two years to expand AI access in health care, education, agriculture and local-language technology. The pledge comes as Bill Gates warns that AI could deepen inequality without targeted investment in underserved communities.

• DOJ backs OpenAI’s fair-use defense in NYT case

  The Justice Department’s filing supports OpenAI’s fair-use argument in its copyright fight with The New York Times, where summary-judgment motions were filed Sept. 4.

• YouTube Lets Users Build AI-Powered Custom Feeds

  YouTube’s Made On YouTube 2026 page announces Custom Feeds for U.S. users on web, mobile and TVs this fall, along with a Gemini Omni editing assistant for creators.

• Mark Kelly Proposes Big Tech Fund for AI-Displaced Workers

  Senator Mark Kelly announces the Make AI Work for Americans Act, which would require major technology companies to help finance an AI Horizon Fund for workers affected by workplace automation. Kelly says 80% of Americans support AI regulation and calls for Congress to act before job disruption accelerates.