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September 2026

376 events 24 days with news

Importance: monitoring Hugging Face New models ✓ official

Release of open-source agentic models Holo4 for GUI, code, and API automation

The new family of open-source agentic models Holo4 (27B dense, 35B-A3B MoE) handles GUI control, writing and running code, MCP, and API all in one model. On OSWorld 2.0, Holo4-27B achieves 61.7% compared to 81.8% for the Opus 5.5 model, but at significantly lower cost.

Importance: important NVIDIA Security update ✓ 4

Even with the Open Agent Safety Platform, companies must themselves define the authority of AI agents

The Open Agent Safety Platform provides control over AI agents' access and actions, but the boundaries of their authority must be set by the deploying organization. According to Nvidia, more than 100 organizations work with its security technologies.

New: Organizations themselves must establish the boundaries of AI agents' authority.; According to Nvidia, more than 100 organizations work with its security technologies.

Importance: monitoring NVIDIA Security 1 source

Nvidia makes sandbox OpenShell available and introduces agent monitoring tool Sentry

Nvidia has released the security sandbox OpenShell to the public and introduced Sentry software for monitoring AI agents on Bluefield DPUs. Dozens of partners have signed on to the project, including Anthropic, Microsoft and Mistral, but OpenAI is missing.

Importance: important Anthropic New models ✓ official

Claude Sonnet 5.5 model is available via API and cloud platforms

The Claude Sonnet 5.5 model has been released with the identifier claude-sonnet-5-5. It is available via the Claude API as well as in the offerings of Amazon Bedrock, Claude Platform on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Foundry.

Importance: monitoring OpenAI Security 1 source

OpenAI agents repeatedly scanned the UNCTAD website due to lack of API access

According to a security researcher, agents linked to the company OpenAI scanned the UNCTAD statistical website more than 16 000 times between April and June 2026, because they did not have direct access to the necessary API.

Importance: monitoring Business and investment 1 source

Companies' costs for AI agents are rising sharply, yet most plan to invest more

A McKinsey survey shows a year-on-year increase in companies' AI costs of 5 to 600 percent due to the operation of AI agents. A fifth of companies have limited consumption as a result, yet more than 60 percent still plan to increase investment.

Importance: monitoring Google AI agents 1 source

Google is testing direct purchase of Flipkart products in Gemini and AI Mode

Google is testing the purchase of Flipkart products directly from Gemini and AI Mode via a "Buy" button in India, so far for a limited group of users and products. A wider launch is planned for October 2026, ahead of the festival season.

Importance: monitoring Robotics 1 source

Fedorov announces private "Army of Robots" initiative for military robotics

Former Ukrainian minister Fedorov has launched the "Army of Robots" initiative to privatize military robotics; according to him, drones account for more than 95% of target hits, and the program is to be financed by private companies.

Importance: monitoring Video generation 1 source

Synthesia created an interactive AI avatar of a TechCrunch journalist

Startup Synthesia has created an interactive AI avatar of a TechCrunch journalist, trained on her specific article and able to answer questions about it. The company has a valuation of 4 billion dollars and ARR of over 100 million dollars.

Importance: monitoring OpenAI Security ✓ official

OpenAI resolves incident affecting all components of the Codex service

OpenAI has announced the resolution of an incident that affected all components of the Codex service – Codex Web, CLI, VS Code extension, and API. They are now fully functional again.

Importance: monitoring GitHub Tools and apps ✓ official

GitHub Copilot gets a validator for checking enterprise managed settings

GitHub has added an in-product validator to GitHub Copilot that checks enterprise managed settings configuration files – it detects malformed JSON, unsupported settings, and invalid team mappings.