OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health is being integrated with Epic’s EHR to let clinicians import and access read-only patient data (e.g., appointment notes, lab results, medications) and use AI to ask questions or summarize records inside or alongside EHR workflows.
Sep 1, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Nearly half of Generation X employees (born 1965–1980) have a positive view of AI, versus about one-third of Generation Z employees (born 1997–2012).
Sep 1, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Whale Alert flagged Ripple releasing 1 billion XRP from its escrow on Sept 1 via three transactions of 500 million, 400 million, and 100 million XRP.
Sep 1, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Waymo said that after more than 200 million real-world miles it has “data” showing safe, fully autonomous operations at scale require combining cameras with lidar and radar rather than “pure end-to-end” systems that take raw pixels and output steering commands.
Sep 1, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Empirik, the Sequoia-incubated observability startup, launched as an independent company after raising $21M in seed funding to predict tech outages by tracking system changes and inferring their ripple effects across infrastructure.
Sep 1, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Oracle CEO Mike Sicilia said the company expects AI-assisted engineering to deliver a “Star Wars” level productivity jump for software engineering, arguing it will disrupt the software industry “in a positive way.”
Sep 1, 2026 ·
The Register
John Deere is testing an AI assistant (“JD”) in its John Deere Operations Center that answers farmers’ questions using their field, machine, and operational data, including best practices, historical trends, equipment settings, fuel usage, and harvest timing.
Sep 1, 2026 ·
The Verge
Google is rolling out its Pics AI image editor to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers, and also to Business Standard, Business Plus, Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus plan customers, with AI Pro for Education users getting access starting today.
Sep 1, 2026 ·
Engadget
Google is launching Google Pics, a Gemini- and “Nano Banana”-powered suite of Workspace creative design tools that lets users generate and precisely edit AI images by selecting specific objects or text and using descriptive prompts—plus upscale to 2K or 4K, crop to multiple formats, and translate/reformat text.
Sep 1, 2026 ·The Verge
Amazon launched “Update Me When” in its Alexa for Shopping assistant, which can send personalized notifications when new or relevant items might prompt a purchase.
Sep 1, 2026 ·TechCrunch
AIR raised $50 million across two seed rounds ($10 million first, $40 million second) to build a platform that discovers agents inside companies, continuously vets the skills/plugins/MCP servers/add-ons they use, and blocks agent actions and internet access that don’t meet its security criteria.
Sep 1, 2026 ·TechCrunch
GoPro will merge with Starman Optical in a deal valued at $285 million, with GoPro shareholders receiving $285 million at closing, retaining around 10% ownership, and having GoPro’s ~$92 million debt repaid.
Sep 1, 2026 ·Engadget
OpenAI said its advertising business reached a $1 billion annualized run rate in well under a year as ads were rolled out inside ChatGPT’s responses and expanded to India, Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa.
Sep 1, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Fambot, an “AI chief of staff” for parents, connects to families’ email, calendar, and WhatsApp groups to generate a daily checklist and look-ahead schedule, with the goal of cutting the mental load of kids’ activities and school logistics.
Sep 1, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Amazon Web Services will deploy 2 million additional Nvidia GPUs across its global network over the next two years, extending a 16-year partnership and signaling ongoing AI-chip demand.
Sep 1, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Perplexity’s new Hybrid Compute lets users split a task between a cloud “frontier” model (like Opus 5 or GPT-5.6 Sol) and a local LLM on the Mac so sensitive information stays on the user’s machine, with cloud uploads automatically screened by a new privacy classifier in the Mac app.
Sep 1, 2026 ·Engadget
Sonos 27 lets users connect “any outside AI assistant or agent” (including ChatGPT) to control their Sonos system via a public MCP model context protocol server, enabling actions like playing specific songs and moving audio between speakers or groups.
Sep 1, 2026 ·Engadget
Sonos announced the Beam Ultra soundbar and Ace Ultra headphones plus its Sonos 27 AI-focused audio OS, with headphone linking early access launching September 29 and broad app and Sonos 27 features rolling out in September (and some in 2027).
Sep 1, 2026 ·The Verge
Fed Governor Michael Barr said the Fed should raise interest rates “decisively” if inflation does not moderate sufficiently, but could wait longer if data provide confidence that inflation is moderating on a path to 2%.
Sep 1, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
DLSS 5 will launch on September 3 alongside NBA 2K27, but the article argues the feature is largely non-essential and most gamers won’t miss it.
Sep 1, 2026 ·Engadget
