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Cybersecurity startup AIR discovered and reported Plugin4Shell, a zero-click remote code execution flaw in AI coding agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and GitHub, which allowed attackers to swap trusted marketplace plugins for malicious ones; most vendors have released patches.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 14:45 UTC
Tether's AI Research group launched TranslatePsy-AfriSLM, a collection of open-source machine translation models for African languages.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 14:13 UTC
Google appointed Anu Madgavkar and Daniel Rock as directors of AI and economics research.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 14:12 UTC
Google announced that Nobel laureates Philippe Aghion and Ajay Agrawal are joining the company to strengthen its artificial intelligence and economics team.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 14:00 UTC
Google expanded its AI & Economy Research Program, appointing external academic advisors and visiting fellows including 2025 Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 13:45 UTC
Google opened an office in Pakistan and reached agreements with the Pakistani government to support the country's digital vision.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 08:29 UTC
Astra for Law launched a legal AI platform, joining Google's Gemini Enterprise for Legal and Claude for Legal in competing to become the central platform for legal work.
Source:Sep 18, 2026, 00:11 UTC
Visa, BlackRock, Google and DoorDash lined up behind Open USD, a stablecoin set to launch in 2026.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 23:59 UTC
Virginia's U.S. Senators Mark Warner and Tim Kaine and local candidates called for an end to non-disclosure agreements in municipal economic development deals, amid questions over a Roanoke County land sale to Clearview Dynamics LLC.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 20:00 UTC
The United Nations announced it is working with Google to launch the UN System Data Commons, a platform built on Google's open-source Data Commons that makes UN global statistics accessible to AI systems via natural-language queries and the Model Context Protocol.
Sep 17, 2026, 20:00 UTC
YouTube rolled out a fix for blank screens affecting YouTube and YouTube TV users, primarily in Texas.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 18:33 UTC
Anthropic disclosed that its future Claude models will use Google's SynthID-Text watermarking approach.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 18:00 UTC
The Arkansas Public Service Commission denied Entergy Arkansas' application to enter a 20-year power purchase agreement with Pattern Energy's Big Island Solar facility in Mississippi County, Arkansas.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 17:43 UTC
Cybersecurity startup Air disclosed a shared logic flaw in the "Skills" auto-update mechanisms of Anthropic Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Google Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot that could let attackers push malicious same-name updates and silently steal enterprise code or intellectual property.
Sep 17, 2026, 15:30 UTC
Eye Media condemned the unauthorized shutdown of its Eye Radio website and said it is seeking an emergency court order against Hostinger and preparing legal action against Capital Pay International Limited.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 12:12 UTC
Chainalysis reported that attackers are posting malware instructions to public blockchains 440% more often since unrestricted Chinese open-source AI models arrived, with daily malicious on-chain writes rising from 2.06 to 11.1 in under a year.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 11:30 UTC
French finance minister Roland Lescure accused US AI leaders of self-interested motives in calling for a slowdown in frontier AI development, urging France and Europe to accelerate their own AI efforts.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 11:15 UTC
A Kenyan judge stated during Thursday's court proceedings that Eye Media, the company behind Eye Radio, was not among the four defendants before the court, contradicting a document Eye Radio received identifying it as a party.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 07:30 UTC
ViewSonic launched its Google TV Series in India alongside new Pro AV displays and projection solutions at InfoComm India 2026 in Mumbai on September 16.
Source:Sep 17, 2026, 05:57 UTC
The U.S. International Trade Commission voted to launch a Section 337 investigation into certain electronic devices with specific audio technology, naming Apple, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electronics America and Google as respondents, based on a complaint by BoomCloud 360.
Sep 17, 2026, 00:47 UTC
Cybertrust completed preparations to continue its SSL/TLS server certificate issuance service by using an intermediate CA operated by SECOM Trust Systems as an alternative measure until Apple and Google approvals for its new intermediate CA are obtained, offering SECOM Passport for Web SSL/TLS server certificates from 8:00 a.m. on September 15, 2026.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 23:30 UTC
Orange deployed AI agents that surface cloud cost insights to engineers and product owners as part of its FinOps program.
Source:Sep 16, 2026, 19:32 UTC
Forbes released its 2026 list of the 400 richest Americans, topped by Elon Musk with an estimated net worth of $908 billion after SpaceX's IPO.
Source:Aug 19, 2026, 12:00 UTC
Google appointed Fasieh Mehta as the first head of its Pakistan mission, following the opening of its office in Islamabad on August 18, 2026.
Source:Aug 18, 2026, 15:30 UTC
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif inaugurated Google's office in Pakistan after meeting Google Vice President Wilson to discuss digital technology and cooperation.
Jun 30, 2026, 17:08 UTC
Visa and Google have signed on to use the money movement stablecoin OpenUSD, which is set to go live later this year, according to an announcement from Open Standard.
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