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Anthropic confirms Bay Area biology lab uses Claude with human scientists
Anthropic's Bay Area molecular biology lab uses Claude to analyze data and generate hypotheses, while human scientists perform all physical experiments.
Sep 24, 2026
Heidi raises $340 million at $900 million valuation for healthcare AI
Healthcare AI startup Heidi has raised $340 million, combining a $100 million Blackbird-led Series C with $240 million in non-dilutive General Catalyst financing, valuing the company at $900 million.
Sep 23, 2026
Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5 at lower cost than Opus 5
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens, while saying typical workloads cost about 40 percent less than Opus 5 and performance matches or exceeds Claude Fable 5.1 on most benchmarks it tested.
Sep 23, 2026
Sam Altman expected to attend Trump-Xi state dinner
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is expected at Donald Trump’s Sept. 24 state dinner for Xi Jinping, putting a leading AI executive at the diplomatic gathering.
Sep 22, 2026
Anthropic says Claude leads 26% of measured AI R&D work
Anthropic says Claude led 26% of measured AI research and development work in August. Its internal index still found human supervision across every measured subset.
Sep 22, 2026
Anthropic lays out Claude workflows and controls for financial advisors
Claude for Financial Advisors connects with firms’ existing systems to prepare meetings, draft follow-ups and support compliance review, while regulated actions stay subject to human approval.
Sep 22, 2026
Claims open in Apple’s proposed $250 million Siri AI settlement
Eligible U.S. buyers of certain iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 16 models have until December 21 to file claims, though final court approval is still pending.
Sep 22, 2026
NVIDIA releases Isaac ROS 5.0 with agent skills and ROS 2 migration changes
NVIDIA’s Isaac ROS 5.0 moves the robotics stack to ROS 2 Lyrical, rebuilds core NITROS internals, and adds open-format agent skills and GPU compute partitioning. Custom NITROS users face source-level migration work.
Sep 22, 2026
Gates Foundation commits at least $1 billion to global AI access
The Gates Foundation plans to spend at least $1 billion over two years to widen global AI access across education, health care, agriculture and underrepresented-language data.
Sep 22, 2026
SoftBank launches more than $11 billion bond offering tied to OpenAI
SoftBank launched $10 billion and €1 billion of senior unsecured notes, with pricing and settlement still pending under the reported timetable.
Sep 22, 2026
UN panel ties AI agent incident to possible loss of human control
The UN’s independent scientific panel on AI says the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident shows one possible route to losing control of capable agents, without estimating the risk or making formal policy recommendations.
Sep 22, 2026
Google Research opens generative-UI library and school pilot
Google Research released more than 30 teacher-reviewed STEM interactives and opened a school pilot with approval gates for AI-generated simulations.
Sep 22, 2026