News
Cohere and Aleph Alpha Sign Merger to Form Transatlantic AI Company
Canada’s Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha signed a definitive business combination agreement on September 16, 2026, at Montreal’s All In…
News
AI Health Startup Sword Health to Acquire Headspace for Up to $300 Million
Sword Health, a $4 billion AI-driven health company, agreed to acquire meditation and mental health app Headspace in an all-cash…
News
Nvidia-Backed Firmus Targets A$7 Billion ASX IPO for AI Data Centers
Australian AI data center operator Firmus Technologies is courting investors ahead of a planned initial public offering on the Australian…
News
FDA Finalizes Rule Keeping Radiology AI Software Under Premarket Review
The FDA finalized an order on September 17, 2026, requiring AI-enabled radiology software to continue obtaining premarket clearance before entering…
News
California Governor Newsom Signs Law Requiring Disclosure of AI-Generated Ad Performers
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1050 on September 16, 2026, requiring video and audio advertisements to disclose when…
News
Waymo Partners With Allianz on Insurance Ahead of European Robotaxi Launch
Waymo announced a partnership with Allianz Partners on September 16, 2026, to build insurance, claims-handling and safety infrastructure ahead of…
Opinions
The Insurance Industry’s Retreat From AI Threatens to Slow Innovation and Adoption
CSIS researcher Gregory C. Allen argues that insurance has become the de facto regulator of AI deployment in the United…
Opinions
Five Bellwethers for AI’s Next Disruptions
The article identifies five influential AI leaders whose work signals coming disruptions in artificial intelligence development as of mid-September 2026,…
Opinions
AI May Reverse Political Polarization. Don’t Get Excited Yet.
Bloomberg Opinion columnist Stephen Mihm explores whether artificial intelligence might help reduce America’s intense political polarization by presenting balanced information…
Engineering
Flattening Every Memory Peak in Long-Context Mixture-of-Experts Training
Researchers identify four unbounded memory peaks in standard MoE training pipelines — expert dispatch, vocabulary projection, gradient checkpointing, and optimizer…
Engineering
SpectralShift: Effective Context Window Extension of Gated DeltaNet via Spectral Reparameterization
The paper studies long-context extension of Gated DeltaNet, a linear-attention architecture, through the spectral properties of its state transition matrix…
Engineering
VC-Attention: Value Smoothing and Softmax Casting for Low-bit Attention
VC-Attention is a training-free low-bit attention framework for video diffusion transformers that tackles both accuracy loss from value outliers and…