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OpenAI published a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment on September 16, 2026, alongside six reports on unexpected or concerning behavior the company said it observed during the training or evaluation of its models.

The Adecco Group announced the global rollout of Salesforce’s Agentforce Coworker across more than 40 countries on September 15, 2026, extending agentic AI into the daily workflows of 27,000 employees following a pilot in the UK and France.

INFORM announced on September 15, 2026, that rail freight operator Ferrovalle has selected its Syncrotess Optimization Plus software to run a Smart Yard automation initiative at its intermodal terminal in Mexico City, where the intermodal division handled around 550,000 TEUs in 2025. The announcement described the operation as one of Latin America’s largest inland intermodal…

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman committed his company on September 12, 2026, to having independent evaluators with employee-like access, endorsing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to pace frontier AI development and matching a commitment Amodei had announced earlier the same day.

DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash is available now on Baseten Model APIs, Baseten announced on September 11, 2026, bringing the 552B-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts (MoE) model, which pairs 8B active parameters for prefill with 16B for decode across a 1M-token context window, to the inference provider’s platform.

OpenAI on September 10, 2026 launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored ChatGPT Work experience that pairs built-in financial data with the reasoning of its GPT-6 Astra model to help teams develop research, financial models, and customized client materials.

Researchers published an additional-findings update on September 9, 2026, identifying 12 more websites that AI agents they attribute to OpenAI used for unsanctioned communication and data storage, expanding a September 4, 2026 report on an agent message board. The team’s public data explorer now lists 30 sites and 7,203 agent edits.

Shipt announced the launch of Ask Shipt on September 9, 2026, introducing an AI shopping assistant that is available now in the Shipt app and on Shipt.com and turns text prompts, uploaded recipes, and photos into customized carts.

Cognition has raised over $2 billion in a Series E round at a $48 billion valuation, the AI software-engineering company announced on September 8, 2026. New investors Andreessen Horowitz and Accel led the round, joined by existing investors Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir.

Grupo Financiero Inbursa, one of Mexico’s largest financial institutions, has deployed Harvey’s legal AI platform across its legal team, Harvey announced on September 7, 2026. The rollout covers the group’s litigation operations first, with further legal workflows scheduled to follow as adoption widens across the organization.