September 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
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Anthropic opens Claude watermark checks to regulators and the press
Anthropic is giving outside organisations access to an API that checks whether text carries the invisible watermark its Claude models embed. TNW reports that the Claude watermark detection API has shipped in private preview for regulators, media, fact-checkers and other eligible groups. That is narrower than the free public detection API TNW had reported in August. Anthropic says it plans to expand access over time without giving a date. The announcement came with Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1.
Blue Origin takes NASA's Mars communications orbiter for about 700 million dollars
NASA has selected Blue Origin to design, develop, integrate, launch and operate a Mars telecommunications spacecraft. The firm-fixed-price award has a maximum value of about 700 million dollars. NASA requires delivery no later than 31 December 2028, with the orbiter working at Mars in 2030. The craft is to relay science data, imagery, navigation and mission communications for spacecraft on and around the planet. NASA links the network to Artemis and to commercial communications beyond Earth and the Moon.
ChatGPT Health connects to Epic records so clinicians can read charts in chat
OpenAI said healthcare organisations can now connect an electronic health record and extra industry data to ChatGPT, so clinicians can reach patient context and medical research securely. TechCrunch reports ChatGPT Health is wired to Epic's system, which covers more than 325 million patients. Clinicians at organisations with a business associate agreement can pull appointment notes, laboratory results, medications and specialist documentation into the chat; access is read-only and the model writes nothing back. OpenAI also released a public healthcare-data plug-in.
Chevron takes new Orinoco acreage and plans to lift Venezuela output to 600,000 barrels a day
Chevron said on Wednesday that it has been assigned additional acreage in Venezuela's Orinoco Belt. Its joint ventures plan to invest more than 7 billion dollars over the coming five years and to lift output to about 600,000 barrels a day, twice today's capacity. The agreements set new fiscal, commercial and legal terms for Petroindependencia, Petropiar and Petroboscan, and the company received rights to develop Carabobo 1 and Carabobo-2-South-A. The announcement follows the Venezuela deal President Donald Trump set out on 28 August.
China alone dissented from a G20 cheap-exports statement the other 19 accepted
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said at the Asheville close that 19 of the G20 members had agreed cheap exports from non-market economies are not sustainable, with China the sole dissenter. Finance ministers issued a chair's statement that all but China backed in full. Bessent had hoped for a unanimous joint communiqué and urged tariffs against trade imbalances, while saying Russia's presence had not disrupted the talks.
Chris Wright arrived in Caracas with Chevron, Eni and ONGC deals to sign this week
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright arrived in Venezuela on Tuesday for a one-day visit, his second since US forces seized Nicolás Maduro in January. Reuters reported that agreements to be signed in Caracas this week involve Chevron, Italy's Eni, India's ONGC, Colombia's GeoPark and GE Vernova. Wright said they would more than double Venezuelan crude output in the coming years. Venezuela's National Assembly the same day backed a 100-year lease on 17 fields holding about 65 billion barrels; opposition lawmakers protested that the terms were not disclosed.
De Nederlandsche Bank shifts 86 tonnes of gold out of New York and Ottawa into London
The Dutch central bank said on Wednesday that it had moved about 86 tonnes of gold from New York and Ottawa to London between March and August. London now holds the largest share of Dutch gold at 32.1 per cent, while New York and Ottawa hold 18.5 per cent each. The bank tied the step to increasing geopolitical unrest and to its wish to deploy the gold quickly in a crisis.
Dell lifts its full-year outlook to 192 billion dollars of revenue
Dell Technologies lifted its full-year revenue outlook to 192 billion dollars after second-quarter revenue of 47.0 billion dollars, up 58 per cent, and record non-GAAP diluted earnings of 7.04 dollars a share. The company booked 60.9 billion dollars of AI server orders, recognised 16.4 billion dollars of AI server revenue and closed the quarter with a 95 billion dollars backlog. Shares rose more than 6 per cent in late trading after the results beat sales and earnings forecasts.
EMBL Barcelona's bovine stem cells grow into 0.6 millimetre muscle, nerve and vessel tissue in 15 days
A team at EMBL Barcelona has grown bovine embryonic stem cells into three-dimensional aggregates 0.6 millimetres across in 15 days, each holding skeletal muscle fibres, spinal neurons and the endothelial cells that form primitive blood vessel networks. The cells arranged themselves without the assembly steps cultivated-meat work usually needs. Miki Ebisuya's group calls the result an early proof of concept: the tissue stays tiny, the vessel networks immature and the culture media expensive.
ESA's first lunar rover MAGPIE goes to ispace-EUROPE for a 2029 landing at the south pole
ESA has picked ispace-EUROPE as prime contractor for MAGPIE, the agency's first lunar rover, in a signing at the Space for Inspiration event in Copenhagen. Carrying a drill, a volatile analyser, a ground-penetrating radar and a neutron detector, the rover is designed to work for roughly 10 Earth days at the Moon's south pole. It rides down in 2029 on ispace's Mission 4 lander, under a partnership between ESA and Japan's space agency JAXA.