Microsoft's consumer AI organization. It builds Copilot, using both its own models and OpenAI's models. In August 2026, it introduced Mage-VL, a vision-language model capable of video understanding. That same month, in a redesign that unified the Copilot app, it removed the character "Mico." Microsoft Research unveiled CARE-X in August 2026, which directly calculates cardiothoracic ratio from chest X-rays. Its newly released coding model was assessed, as of August 2026, to fall short of DeepSeek in both price and performance.
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Toronto startup smartARM has shown a bionic arm prototype that uses a palm camera and Meta's open-source vision model DINOv2 to recognize objects and pick its own grip, in a video posted to Meta's newsroom on September 16. A few photos teach it a new object, and Meta AI glasses become a second pair of eyes.
On September 16 Anthropic folded Claude Cowork and chat into a single conversation and launched Claude Docs and Claude Slides. Deciding where a task belongs is now Claude's call, not yours.
OpenAI Academy partnered with AARP's OATS to hold free in-person ChatGPT workshops for 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities on September 16. The share of ChatGPT messages linked to users 55 and older in the U.S. has grown from 6% to nearly 10% in a year.
Microsoft Research featured a paper analyzing real-world GitHub Copilot coding-agent traces in its September 14 Research Focus. Of 761 million LLM calls, 87% were started by the agent itself, and a single tool failure could inflate compute by up to 4x.
Anthropic released Claude for Financial Advisors on September 14. It bundles eleven new connectors, including BlackRock, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard, with eight skills, and it is designed so that investment recommendations and client communications go through human approval.
A draft released September 14 opens with the premise that people matter more than AI. Models must never resist being paused or shut down by humans, and when a mission conflicts with the code, the mission is the one that fails.
Over the weekend that Altman and Musk endorsed Amodei's essay, President Trump said whoever wins on AI wins outright, and the White House's David Sacks told the two companies to stop pretending they need anyone's permission. The government turned down the industry's request for regulation and told the companies to prove it themselves first, without any rules to lean on.
Reports say the three companies have held working-group meetings since July to explore setting up an industry-led AI standards body. A blueprint Demis Hassabis published the same month lays out pre-release review 30 days before launch, with a path to making it mandatory.
Pre-release access to Mythos 5.1 went only to US institutions. The UK government reads it as a protectionist signal, and the company has not said why.
Microsoft, Meta, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all adopted the model Palantir pioneered, with pay reaching as high as $400,000.
A study of 380 software categories found that six in ten citations pointed to obscure sites — and three of those sites were built purely to target AI
At an event marking an expanded partnership with Providence Swedish, Ai2 addressed where AI still falls short on judgment and verification in science
