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The FAA’s plan for air traffic is SMART, an AI planning tool from Air Space Intelligence, with a Washington area launch expected as soon as September 21. The contractor puts the deal at $875 million over 12 years, and the FAA has published no performance metrics yet.
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law on September 17, 2026: a GPT-6 Astra configuration built with Harvey, Legora, and six major law firms, several of which also happen to be OpenAI’s own outside counsel.
Dario Amodei wants embedded evaluators inside every frontier AI lab, and Sam Altman said OpenAI will match the pledge. The evaluators who’d do the work say the plan is short on the details that would prove it’s real.
Lynx Software Technologies will run interactive MOSA and edge AI demonstrations at the 2026 MOSA Industry and Government Summit and lead a panel on cyber resilience through open systems architecture.
More than 100 Philadelphia residents rallied at City Hall to demand a data center moratorium, with one of two proposed sites sitting in a neighborhood still recovering from a refinery explosion and decades of industrial pollution.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one, and that the industry doesn’t need new regulation. His June comments to the AP tell a more complicated story.
Anthropic and OpenAI are pushing for coordinated AI safety regulation just as enterprise demand builds for cheaper, less regulated open source models from China, leaving buyers to hedge against a regulatory outcome nobody can yet predict.
Google Research says its new Retrieve-for-Train framework trains AI search’s query decomposition once, offline, instead of reasoning through it live, cutting fan-out latency from nearly 50 seconds to under a few, per its own benchmarks.
OpenAI has acquired smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging in a deal worth more than $300 million, the Wall Street Journal reported. Neither company has confirmed it.
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking models went live on Vercel’s AI Gateway on September 15, 2026, but Google’s own documentation hasn’t caught up to the name yet.
