Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Top AI stories for September 16

01News

Anthropic merges Claude Chat, Cowork, and more into a single product

Anthropic is merging Claude Chat and Cowork into a single product. Instead of users picking between interfaces, Claude now decides on its own whether a task needs a quick answer or a bigger workflow. The update also adds Claude Docs and Claude Slides for creating documents and presentations directly in the chat.

The Decoder

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03Lab & research

Introducing Astra for Law

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.

OpenAI

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09Lab & research

Canadian Start-up smartARM Uses AI to Create Intuitive Bionic Prosthetics

People and companies are using AI hardware and software to make life easier and more accessible for everyone. That’s the case with smartARM, a Toronto-based startup developing a vision-first bionic arm prototype that uses open-source software, with Meta AI glasses as an optional add-on, to explore more intuitive…

Meta Newsroom

14News

Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI

This article is brought to you by VicOne . Robot safety has traditionally asked: Can a machine remain safe when something goes wrong? Physical AI raises a harder question: Can a machine remain safe when an attacker changes what it sees, decides, or does even when nothing appears to have failed?

IEEE Spectrum