Waymo Denver San Diego Tampa
Waymo began welcoming first public riders in Denver, San Diego, and Tampa on September 1, 2026, marking 14 cities with fully autonomous trips. Tens of thousands in each city have signed up.
What shipped in AI, week of August 31, 2026
16 deployments dated August 31 to September 6, 2026 are in The Deploy Log: 1 lead, 3 in Models and APIs, 11 in Tools and products and 1 in Funding and acquisitions, from 11 publishers. They include Waymo Denver San Diego Tampa from Waymo, ChatGPT Epic EHR integration from OpenAI, WeatherNext 3 from Google DeepMind, WebGPU kernels from Hugging Face, AWS PrivateLink from Vercel and 11 others. Every item sourced to the publisher's own page.
Leads
Models and APIs
ChatGPT Epic EHR integration
Healthcare organizations can now connect Epic environments to ChatGPT for Healthcare, and across 4,363 physician ratings, 99.1% of responses were rated safe across 27 clinical use cases.
WeatherNext 3
WeatherNext 3 generates hourly forecasts at 5-kilometer resolution, five times sharper than WeatherNext 2, and is integrated across Google Search, Gemini app, Google Maps, Google Maps Platform Weather API, and Google Earth Engine starting today.
WebGPU kernels
Hugging Face released @huggingface/kernels with 207 WebGPU kernels, 2.57x faster than ORT WebGPU by geometric mean across 809 matching test cases on an Apple M4 GPU.
Tools and products
AWS PrivateLink
AWS PrivateLink is now available for Pro and Enterprise teams as part of Advanced Networking, with the first connection included and each additional connection costing $30 per month plus $0.04 per GB data transfer.
Adaptive Intelligence
Cloudflare launched Adaptive Intelligence on August 31, 2026, a bot detection engine that makes getting through so slow and costly that attacks stop being worth running, analyzing more than a trillion requests a day.
Claude Code v2.1.261
Claude Code v2.1.261 adds bashOutputMaxChars and taskOutputMaxChars settings up to 128K characters, a /skill-doctor command to show unused skills, and fixes for Remote Control sessions and Bedrock setup.
Gemini custom instructions
Custom instructions for Gemini in Workspace now apply across Ask Gemini in Drive, Ask Gemini in Chat, and the Gemini side panel in Slides, Sheets, and Gmail, with rollout starting September 2, 2026.
Google Pics
Google Pics is generally available starting September 1, 2026, bringing AI image generation and object-based editing into Google Workspace with upscaling to 2K or 4K and editing from Google Docs or Slides.
Ollama v0.33.3
Ollama v0.33.3 adds image and audio support for Gemma 4 on the MLX engine, reports cached prompt tokens, and honors GGUF model defined default parameters.
Workspace Studio new steps
Workspace Studio Flows adds four automation steps: Move Drive file, Copy Drive file, Send a Chat reply, and Reply to email, with admin controls rolling out starting September 1, 2026.
Zed v1.18.0
Zed v1.18.0 adds support for GPT-5.6's 1M-token context window on Amazon Bedrock, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, Grok 4.5 and Grok 4.6, and inline debugger values for C and C++.
Cursor agents in Sandbox
Cursor Cloud Agents can now run in Vercel Sandbox, providing isolated Firecracker microVMs for each agent request.
Vulnerability Discovery
Cloudflare announces early access to Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, using OpenAI Daybreak models to detect and propose fixes for codebase vulnerabilities.
Google Vids summaries
Google Vids now turns Google Docs, PDFs, and Word files into AI-generated video summaries, available now on Rapid Release.
Funding and acquisitions
NVIDIA acquires Hugging Face
NVIDIA agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, keeping the platform open and multi-cloud.
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