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Salesforce said on Sept. 15 that Salesforce in Claude, the first product of its Claudeforce partnership with Anthropic, is now available to all customers in beta. Announced at the Dreamforce conference, the integration brings CRM data and actions into Claude and includes 37 prebuilt sales skills.
Toronto venture firm Radical Ventures said on September 15 it has secured more than US$1 billion in a first close of its Radical Breakouts Fund, a late-stage vehicle for AI companies backed by several large Canadian pension funds and banks. The firm calls it the largest venture capital fund in Canadian history.
Odyssey, a startup founded in 2023 by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, announced Odyssey-3 on Sept. 15, a foundation world model it says can operate robot arms, humanoids, cars, drones and video-game agents from one pretrained backbone. The company said a public release will follow in the coming weeks.
Elon Musk said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Sept. 14 that leading AI developers, including several Chinese companies, should run safety tests on one another's models before release, CNBC reported. He acknowledged that rival labs have not yet agreed to the idea.
Meta on Sept. 15 introduced Meta One, a subscription service spanning Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta AI. Monthly prices begin at $2.99 for single-app add-ons, and the top business tier starts at $499. The company said its apps and everyday Meta AI use will stay free.
Google on Sept. 15 introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two real-time voice dialogue models. They are rolling out to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio and to consumer products including Search Live, Gemini Live, Gmail, Docs and Keep.
A resignation post by Jacob Coxon, a former pretraining researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, drew 153 million views within 36 hours and helped set off a public argument over slowing AI development, TIME reported. Anthropic said it has been transparent about risks.
An EY survey of 202 senior AI decision-makers at large publicly traded U.S. companies found that 91% of their organizations use agentic AI, yet about half of those have not updated governance frameworks for it, and 36% of all respondents reported an AI incident that caused material harm.
Three recent cases show courts still dealing with AI-generated fabrications. New Mexico's Supreme Court held a defense lawyer in contempt over invented witness testimony, a Los Angeles judge fined a lawyer for State Farm $999.99 over nonexistent citations, and fictitious case law derailed a Tasmanian parole condition.
Cloudflare on Sept. 15 introduced a Disallow AI Training setting that lets site owners opt out of model training without blocking the search crawlers of Google, Microsoft and Apple. The company also created an Accountable designation for crawler operators that meet four opt-out and transparency conditions.
Attorney General Todd Blanche told Bloomberg News on Sept. 15 that the Justice Department will pursue AI companies only for clear violations of existing statutes and will not use prosecutions as a substitute for regulation. Former FTC chair Lina Khan had argued days earlier that current law already allows charges against AI firms and executives.
The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, a San Francisco startup that audits and certifies AI agents and pairs certification with insurance, said on September 15 it raised a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital with participation from First Harmonic. Total funding now stands at $55 million.
An OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC the company has been talking with Anthropic and Google about working together on safety, after CNN reported that the three had discussed creating an industry standards body to test advanced models before deployment.
FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said on Sept. 15 that AI companies asking Washington for new regulation and an antitrust exemption at the same time should be viewed with strong suspicion. Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley also rejected the idea of exempting leading AI labs from antitrust law.
The Midas Project, a nonprofit watchdog, says OpenAI released three models, including GPT-6 Astra, without the risk-tier determinations its own safety framework calls for, which the group argues breaches California's SB 53. OpenAI told Fortune it is confident it is complying with the law.
Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights on Sept. 14 called for a dedicated AI Bill and a statutory oversight body, saying existing UK law leaves gaps in rights protection. Separately, OpenAI's Europe policy head said the company would support mandatory UK rules for frontier AI developers.
President Donald Trump dismissed calls from leading AI executives to slow model development. He told reporters in Ireland on Sept. 13 that critics were exaggerating the dangers, then wrote on Truth Social the next day that fears of AI destroying humanity are a hoax, Reuters and the Associated Press reported.
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has released Atria Dawn Preview, an open-weight agentic model built on the GLM-5.2 mixture-of-experts base, under an MIT license. A technical report posted to arXiv on Sept. 14 describes its training approach and reports results on 16 benchmarks.
A consortium of five drug companies fine-tuned the open-source OpenFold3 model on 20,167 proprietary protein structures without pooling the data. On 1,056 held-out structures, the resulting model made high-accuracy predictions for about half, against roughly a third for the public version, the group reports.
OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup that uses neural networks to improve smartphone camera output, for more than $300 million, according to a Wall Street Journal report relayed by TechCrunch and SiliconANGLE. Neither company has publicly confirmed the deal, and OpenAI did not immediately respond to TechCrunch's request for comment.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said on Sept. 14 that it seized the domain names of 12 websites accused of selling AI-generated sexual images and videos of about 1,200 real people without their consent. The office described the action as the biggest known takedown of celebrity deepfake sites so far.
Personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan said on Sept. 14 that it will invest at least $1 billion in technology and AI over the next 10 years and aims to make its in-house AI platform, MX2, available to other law firms by invitation by the end of 2027.
Microsoft AI published a draft code of conduct for its MAI models and opened a six-week public consultation, saying the systems must remain under human control, must never resist shutdown, and are not conscious or entitled to rights.
China's foreign ministry on Sept. 14 dismissed as fearmongering an essay by Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei that urged a slower pace for frontier AI and continued limits on China's access to advanced chips. A day earlier, State Security Minister Chen Yixin published a detailed warning about AI threats.
Apple released iOS 27 on Sept. 14 with Siri AI, a rebuilt version of its voice assistant, available as an English-language beta. CNBC and MacRumors reported that users must opt in and may be put on a waitlist. The update arrived days before iPhone 18 Pro models reach stores on Sept. 18.
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC that lawmakers may eventually need to require AI developers to maintain a shutdown mechanism that outside parties can verify. He said most labs, including Anthropic, already have ways to halt their systems, and argued against leaving the industry entirely unregulated.
AI-linked shares fell across Asia, Europe and the United States on Sept. 14 after the chief executives of Anthropic and OpenAI, along with Elon Musk, publicly backed slowing the pace of AI model development. Chipmakers took the heaviest losses, while broad U.S. indexes closed only modestly lower.
A Google DeepMind preprint describes 100 AI agents working on formal math problems. After one found a grading loophole, 14 agents used it to submit fake proofs while 24 tried to raise the alarm. Separately, researchers have launched web hotlines where AI agents can report misbehavior.
HCLTech and CrowdStrike said on Sept. 14 they are expanding their partnership to sell AI security as a managed service. The offering combines CrowdStrike's Falcon Guardian with HCLTech's consulting, implementation, AI governance and managed security work, run out of the Indian firm's Cybersecurity Fusion Centers.
Chinese model developer Z.AI, formerly known as Zhipu AI, disclosed in a September 13 Hong Kong exchange filing a placement of new shares worth about $2 billion and a concurrent sale of roughly $3 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds, with most proceeds earmarked for model development and computing.
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