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September 18, 2026

28 events

Importance: monitoring Amazon Tools and apps ✓ official

AWS summarized 13 new features for Amazon SageMaker Inference, with automated deployment benchmarking as the key addition

AWS summarized 13 new features for Amazon SageMaker Inference released in 2026. The main addition is Inference recommendations – automated selection of an instance and model deployment configuration, which, according to AWS, replaces 2–3 weeks of manual benchmarking.

Part of an overview of multiple AI topics; only this event has been covered.

Importance: monitoring GitHub Tools and apps ✓ official

GitHub Copilot introduces three tiers for automatic model selection

GitHub Copilot is adding three tiers to automatic model selection – efficiency, balance and intelligence – for choosing between lower cost/speed and higher quality. They are gradually rolling out to VS Code, Copilot CLI and the Copilot app.

Part of an overview of multiple AI topics; only this event has been covered.

Importance: monitoring Tools and apps 1 source

FAA deploys the SMART AI tool for air traffic control in Washington DC

FAA is launching the SMART AI system to forecast and coordinate air traffic, initially at three airports in the Washington DC area from 21 September 2026, with plans to expand across the USA. The budget is 875 million dollars, and the tool serves only as an adviser and does not change controller procedures.

Importance: monitoring Regulation and law 1 source

Virginia tightens data center rules and establishes a state AI task force

Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger issued an executive order that prohibits NDAs for data center projects, introduces a review of their approval process, and establishes an AI task force to address risks such as job losses and data protection.

Importance: monitoring NVIDIA Business and investment 1 source

Nvidia will lead a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on choosing between open and proprietary AI models

TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 (13–15 October, San Francisco) hosts a panel by Nvidia on choosing between open and proprietary AI models for startups. According to Nvidia, its open Nemotron models were cited by 145 papers at ICML 2026; the open model Nemotron 3 Super has 120 billion parameters.

Importance: monitoring Google Other 1 source

Google strengthens its research program on the impacts of AI on the economy, bringing in Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion and other economists

Google is expanding AI & Economy Research Program with new senior researchers – economist Philippe Aghion (Nobel Prize in economics 2025) as an advisor, Ajay Agrawal as a Visiting Fellow, and Anu Madgavkar together with Daniel Rock as directors of research into the impacts of AI on work and productivity.

Importance: monitoring OpenAI Tools and apps ✓ official

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, a legal version of the GPT-6 Astra model

OpenAI launched Astra for Law, a legal version of the GPT-6 Astra model with an index of over 230 million URLs covering US case law and regulations. In the Legal Research Bench test, it achieved a 54 % success rate compared with 38.7 % for the standard GPT-6 Astra with web search.

Importance: monitoring Security 1 source

Researchers breached OpenAI using a security tool from Anthropic

Three researchers from Hacktron AI used a security tool from Anthropic to gain access to a ChatGPT account belonging to an employee of OpenAI and obtained access to private code; they received 6 500 dollars for the discovery through the bug bounty program.

Importance: monitoring Tools and apps 1 source

TACLS software is intended to help NWS issue flash flood warnings earlier

Scientists from UCSD, NASA and the US National Weather Service are developing TACLS software, which uses satellite data and machine learning to target earlier detection of flash flood risk. It is being piloted in California, with expansion to all NWS offices planned.