Artificial Intelligence

Pittsburgh – September 22, 2026 -- Viam will debut BoxBot, a robot arm that opens taped cardboard boxes, at IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh, running September 27 through October 3. The system was trained on just 125 teleoperated demonstrations collected in roughly five hours over four days, using a fine-tuned open-source vision-language-action model with no custom architecture required.

BoxBot combines visual servoing with a fine-tuned SmolVLA model on one data path

The robot uses image-based visual servoing to guide a cutting tip along tape seams typically 1 to 2mm wide, since no two sealed boxes present identical geometry. A fine-tuned SmolVLA model then handles the contact-rich task of peeling open and adjusting four box flaps. Both systems run as native services on the same machine, with the VLA policy inferring locally on an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano through Viam's ML model service.

Santa Clara, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- Palo Alto Networks has launched Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense, a new agentic offensive security service built on Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber models, aimed at helping enterprises find and fix exposures before attackers exploit them at machine speed.

The service responds to a shift in attacker capability: threat actors using AI have compressed breach cycles by nearly 97% in some cases, cutting the time from vulnerability discovery to exploitation from weeks to hours, according to Palo Alto Networks.

Boston – September 21, 2026 -- Cellular Intelligence, a Boston-based AI company building a universal foundation model of cell signaling, has appointed Turing Award laureate Yann LeCun, Moderna co-founder Robert "Bob" Langer, BioInnovation Institute CEO Jens Nielsen and Helmholtz Munich computational health director Fabian Theis to its Scientific Advisory Board. Langer also joins the company's Board of Directors as an observer.

Paris – September 21, 2026 -- A newly published book, "Dialogue Between a Thinker and AI," has become the test object for a comparative experiment feeding identical text to five major artificial intelligence systems: OpenAI/Astra, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Google Gemini and xAI/Grok. The French and English print editions are now available, but the project's core output is a public meta-reading exercise designed to expose how differently large language models interpret the same source material.

Five AI systems receive an identical corpus for independent analysis

Seoul – September 20, 2026 -- NAVER D2SF, the in-house corporate venture arm of NAVER, has joined a $10 million Series A2 bridge round for Silicon Valley-based precision medicine company ImpriMed, backing its push toward U.S. regulatory clearance and Asian market expansion.

ImpriMed targets FDA clearance and CLIA certification by Q1 2027 for its blood cancer platform

The company is preparing to commercialize diagnostic products for blood cancers and blood infection in the United States, having already established business partnerships with major U.S. hospitals. ImpriMed's xCellSense platform keeps patient-derived cancer cells viable outside the body for extended periods, allowing evaluation of drug sensitivity alongside genomic, immunophenotypic and clinical data. The company's AI models are trained on more than 3.5 million data points combining real-world data with functional cell analysis.

San Antonio – September 20, 2026 -- Frost & Sullivan has named Lenovo a 2026 Global Technology Innovation Leader in AI-powered sports event technology, citing the company's role as FIFA's unified technology partner for the FIFA World Cup 2026TM.

Frost & Sullivan cites FIFA AI Pro's reach across all 48 World Cup teams

The analytics platform, co-developed by Lenovo and FIFA, gave all 48 teams competing at the tournament the ability to query petabytes of competition data in plain language and receive insights within seconds. Alaa Saayed, VP of Digital Content Services at Frost & Sullivan, said the tool changes the competitive logic of the sport by democratizing access to advanced data analysis.

Miami – September 19, 2026 -- CEO Coaching International has named GreenBanana SEO, a three-time Inc. 5000 digital growth agency, as its newest Platinum Strategic Partner, giving its global CEO client base direct access to AI search visibility services.

Partnership targets the shift from Google rankings to AI-driven answer engines

Founded in 2009, GreenBanana SEO specializes in Search Engine Optimization, Answer Engine Optimization, Generative Engine Optimization, and AI search visibility across platforms including ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. Under the Platinum Partnership, GreenBanana will provide CEO Coaching International's client network with diagnostics on how companies appear across Google Search, Google Maps, AI Overviews, and emerging AI discovery tools.

San Francisco – September 19, 2026 -- Aristotle, a voice-first AI tutoring platform, has closed $5 million in seed funding led by True Ventures, with participation from Wicklow Capital and angel investors from Anthropic, OpenAI, Sierra, Ramp, and Cognition.

Closed beta logs 1,500 tutoring hours before nationwide launch

The startup is launching nationwide after a closed beta in which more than 1,000 students completed over 1,500 hours of one-on-one tutoring sessions. The platform targets students ages 13-18 across STEM subjects, standardized testing, and language learning.

San Francisco – – September 19, 2026 -- The Globee Awards has opened nominations for its 23rd Annual Globee Awards for Cybersecurity, calling on organizations and professionals worldwide to submit artificial intelligence security achievements for evaluation.

Program targets both AI-driven defense and AI system protection

The awards accept entries covering two distinct fronts: the use of AI to strengthen cybersecurity operations, and the protection of AI systems, models, data, and infrastructure themselves. Eligible categories span AI-powered threat detection, fraud detection, identity security, automated incident response, vulnerability management, cloud security, security analytics, AI governance, model security, and agentic AI security.

Sunnyvale, Calif. – September 19, 2026 -- DentScribe, an AI platform for dental documentation, released Dental AI SOAP Note Benchmark 1.0 and a companion white paper titled "Beyond Transcription" to expose how AI-generated clinical notes can misrepresent patient care despite reading smoothly.

Benchmark tests whether AI scribes preserve clinical accuracy across ten focused cases

The benchmark includes ten focused test cases plus two source-based cases built from de-identified clinical excerpts that retain the original scattered order of a real chairside conversation, including interruptions, corrections, and unrelated asides. Test instructions require each AI product to process the same encounter with one standard request, with the first output compared against expected clinical content. A passing note must include every essential fact, contain no invented or conflicting clinical detail, and be organized for direct clinical use.