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September 2026

264 events 17 days with news

Importance: monitoring Business and investment 1 source

The McDonald's chain in the US uses AI to recommend prices to individual restaurants

The McDonald's chain in the US uses a machine learning system that recommends prices based on transactions, local willingness to pay, and competitors' prices. According to the company, franchisees decide; the algorithm's influence on specific price differences has not been proven.

Importance: monitoring Regulation and law 1 source

U.S. states regulate AI-generated political deepfakes, but the laws have major gaps

The analysis shows that 31 U.S. states have laws against election deepfakes, but 28 of them only require a warning label about AI – which says nothing about the truthfulness of the content. Only three states (Maryland, Minnesota, Texas) ban them even with a warning.

Importance: monitoring Productivity 1 source

Heureka Group deployed AI to automate product catalogs, cut loss by a fifth

Heureka Group has deployed artificial intelligence to automate product data – it processes 5 mln. product matches, 4 mln. parameters, and 300 thousand descriptions every month. The company also cut its annual loss by a fifth to CZK 321 mln.

Importance: monitoring Business and investment 1 source

The Everbot platform launches its expansion into Poland as the start of European growth

The Czech platform Everbot, which aggregates over 80 AI models, is launching a Polish version and preparing customer support as well as a branch in Katowice. Poland is meant to be the first step of a European expansion, with Slovakia to follow in the autumn.

Importance: monitoring Tools and apps 1 source

Airbnb rolls out AI property search in its app

The company Airbnb has launched AI property search in its app with text and voice queries, dynamic filters, and AI comparison of features. According to CEO Brian Chesky, the main challenge is maintaining the conversion rate, not creating the feature itself.

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Importance: monitoring Robotics 1 source

Investors fund startup Embodied AI developing adaptive manufacturing robots

The Swiss startup Embodied AI has secured an investment round for robots that adaptively learn to work on the production line. The round was led by Faber VC, with participation from the Prague-based fund Look AI Ventures, the American Plug and Play San Francisco, and the Italian Techschop Capital.

Importance: monitoring Regulation and law 1 source

UNESCO and experts warn universities against technological lock-in with AI systems

At Digital Learning Week 2026, UNESCO called for auditability of AI in education, data portability, and open systems. Example: UNSW Sydney deployed ChatGPT Edu for over 80 000 students and staff, while also building a multi-model environment so as not to become dependent on a single vendor.

Importance: monitoring OpenAI Security ✓ official

ChatGPT Space Pages feature operation restored after increased error rate

According to OpenAI's status page, all services affected by increased error rates in the ChatGPT Space Pages feature have fully recovered. The incident is marked as resolved and the Space component as operational.

Importance: monitoring Anthropic Regulation and law 1 source

Anthropic pushes for mandatory AI system safety audits in the US

Anthropic supports federal and state legislation requiring independent safety audits of AI systems, including the Massachusetts bill with a $561 million package. President Trump, by contrast, is betting on industry self-governance without strict regulation.

Importance: monitoring Tools and apps 1 source

Hugging Face launches Open TTS Leaderboard with objective metrics for TTS models

Hugging Face has launched the Open TTS Leaderboard, evaluating text-to-speech models with objective metrics (WER, CER, RTFx, TTFA, speaker similarity) instead of community voting. According to the company, evaluation now takes hours instead of weeks and better accounts for open-source models.

Importance: monitoring OpenAI Business and investment ✓ official

OpenAI simplifies API usage tiers from five to three

Starting October 5, OpenAI is introducing three API usage tiers instead of the previous five: Build, Launch, and Grow. Organizations are moved to a higher tier automatically based on the total volume of credits purchased.