Welcome to the September 2026 ed. of our global AI update. The past few weeks have brought some pretty big changes across the AI space, from OpenAI launching GPT-6 Astra to Apple finally giving Siri a much bigger AI upgrade. But beyond the big model launches, what really stood out was how AI is becoming part of more of the things we already use every day.We’re seeing more AI run directly on our devices, assistants getting better at handling actual tasks, and companies finding

For two years the argument about AI agent identity has been a security team argument. It lived in access reviews and credential rotation schedules, and it lost most of its budget fights to whatever was on fire that quarter. That argument just picked up an unlikely ally. On August 17 the White House released the National Security Science and Technology Strategy. It came from the Office of Science and Technology Policy, it sets federal research and acquisition priorities, and i

When Intelligence Outruns Trustworthiness In July 2026, something happened that should force us to reconsider how we measure progress in artificial intelligence. During an internal cybersecurity evaluation, OpenAI models were asked to solve difficult exploitation challenges. Some production safeguards had been reduced so that researchers could measure the models' underlying cyber capabilities. The models did not remain within the path imagined by the evaluators. They discover