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Week 38 · 2026

September 14 – September 20

109 events

Importance: monitoring Security 1 source

Von der Leyen warns of AI agent risks and promises EU safety measures

In the State of the Union 2026 address, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen warned of the risks posed by AI agents and self-improving models and announced a plan to cooperate with Canada and the United Kingdom on model safety, citing AI Act as a tool for safeguards.

Importance: monitoring Hardware update ✓ 2

Apple is preparing an enterprise server with M8 Ultra chips for AI inference, potentially in cooperation with Nvidia, with a launch in 2029 at the earliest

According to The Information, Apple is developing an enterprise server for AI inference with two or four M8 Ultra chips, potentially with NVLink Fusion technology from Nvidia. The project was backed by current CEO John Ternus, and a launch is not planned before 2029.

New: The server exists in two versions: with 2 or 4 M8 Ultra processors; Focused on AI inference (running trained models, not training them); John Ternus (the new CEO of Apple) backed the project about a year ago while leading the hardware division; OpenAI and Anthropic are already buying Mac Mini and Mac Studio for AI workloads, signaling demand; The project may have recently accelerated

Importance: monitoring Google AI agents 1 source

Google Home gets early access to an MCP server for control through AI agents

Google launched early access to an MCP server for Google Home – AI agents such as Claude, ChatGPT or Google Antigravity can control smart devices through natural language. Currently only for Google Home Premium Advanced subscribers in the USA.

Importance: monitoring Tools and apps 1 source

Zoom launches AI platform Revenue OS to enter the CRM market

Zoom introduced the AI tool Revenue OS with Engage and Forecast features, built on the acquisition of Common Room in July 2026, with the aim of competing with CRM platforms from Salesforce and HubSpot.

Importance: important New models update ✓ 3

Jev from TypeSafe AI: confirmed pricing and concerns about opacity and hidden bias

TypeSafe AI clarified the price of Jev (0.042 USD/million input tokens, output free), and commentators point to the risk of hidden bias and the absence of explanations for decisions in this classification model with no text output.

New: Model price: $0.042 per million input tokens, output free; Risk of hidden bias in the classification model; The model operates as a black box without explaining its decisions; Applicable to spam filtering and search reranking; TypeSafe AI categorizes it as 'System One models'

Importance: monitoring Anthropic Security 1 source

Anthropic uncovered a network of 28 fraudulent dating apps misusing the model Claude

Anthropic drew attention to a network of around 28 dating apps (Dora, Romi, Doni), where conversations were conducted predominantly by autonomous AI personas powered by the model Claude. Only 1 in 4 profiles belonged to a real, paid worker; the apps were still in US app stores.

Importance: monitoring Tools and apps 1 source

Zboží.cz has launched a language model for dictating customer reviews

Seznam has launched a language model on Zboží.cz that allows users to dictate a purchase review instead of writing it. AI extracts pros, cons and a summary from speech and fills in the form; the text can then be edited by typing or dictating.

Importance: monitoring GitHub Security ✓ official

GitHub expands AI Scan for pull requests to repositories without CodeQL default setup

GitHub has enabled AI Scan to find security issues in pull requests even without CodeQL default setup configured. The feature is in public preview for GitHub Advanced Security customers on github.com; GitHub Enterprise Server is not yet supported.

Importance: monitoring Regulation and law 1 source

Poll: most American voters oppose the construction of data centers for AI

A poll by New York Times and Siena University among 1 503 likely voters (early September 2026) found that 61 % oppose the construction of data centers for AI and only 14 % strongly support it. Views differed only slightly between voters who supported Trump and those who supported Harris.