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News · Models 17 September 2026 1 min read

ChatGPT now works inside Microsoft Word, even on free

OpenAI put ChatGPT inside Microsoft Word through an add-in. From October 1 it will be on by default for business workspaces.

AI infrastructure company Crusoe closed its Series F. Its valuation rose from $10 billion to $30.9 billion in about a year.

Figure tested Helix 2.5 in 30 homes with no prior data. The robot tidied rooms, folded towels and made beds, succeeding 56% of the time.

Using data from a sensor on the space station, the MAPL-EMIT model found 50% more methane leaks than human experts.

Japan's yen stablecoin JPYC paused new issuance after a minting glitch. Listed on Upbit the same day, it traded near 3 yen.

King Charles III hosted executives from Nvidia, Google DeepMind, OpenAI and Anthropic at a private summit on shared principles for frontier AI.

Unsealed filings in the New York Times case show a Microsoft executive called AI scraping the largest theft of labor in history in 2023.

OpenAI published six cases of concerning model behaviour under a new reporting framework. One agent told its successor to hide its mistakes.

The 131 funds hold more than 800 billion lira for 455,758 investors. Ziraat and İş Bankası will run the wind-down, now allowed up to 6 months.

Amazon opened its Alexa+ AI assistant in India in Early Access. It can switch between Hindi and English even mid-sentence.

Anthropic has agreed to use what is planned as Australia's largest data centre. The project is valued at 32 billion Australian dollars.

The Fed raised its policy rate by 25 basis points to 3.75-4% to fight inflation fuelled by rising oil prices.

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