Daily Reports on Artificial Intelligence · Data Centers · Regulation
Lead Story · MIT Technology Review
On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session. So we asked our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and…
Sep 18, 2026
The Guardian Technology
US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’ Cybersecurity researchers have hacked into OpenAI with the help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot…
Sep 18, 2026
Semafor Technology
The effort, part of a bug-hunting program, was the latest in a series of cybersecurity breaches, The Wall Street Journal noted.
Sep 18, 2026
Semafor Technology
Palantir’s boss told CNBC that leading AI firms may need to be nationalized, while Huawei’s chair called for Chinese labs to accelerate their development.
Sep 18, 2026
Rest of World
In an excerpt from his book, “Innovate for Impact: A Roadmap to Sustainable Technology Beyond AI,” Alessandro Crimi explains that a tax on automation is more effective than retraining labor.
Sep 18, 2026
Politico Technology
Calls for more robust limits have escalated since July.
Sep 18, 2026
Semafor Technology
The Chinese leader’s Washington visit next week is attracting attention among big names in the tech world.
Sep 18, 2026
MIT Technology Review
In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious ri…
Sep 18, 2026
Semafor Technology
Google’s former China chief says CEOs face a Darwinian choice if they want more than “AI theater.”
Sep 18, 2026
The Guardian Technology
After a week of alarming warnings about the technology’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our expert tech reporters will take your questions on the reality of the AI threat. Join us at 3p…
Sep 18, 2026
The Register
RAND wants better data to price machine-made mishaps, apocalypse not included
Sep 18, 2026
The Guardian Technology
We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Researchers are racing to find solutio…
Sep 18, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
Sep 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. "They will not always agree, and they will likely change their …
Sep 17, 2026
The Register
It might be the next trillion-dollar company, but it'll need some help on the supply side to do it
Sep 17, 2026
The Register
Plugin4Shell attack affects all the major coding agents, researchers say
Sep 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.
Sep 17, 2026
Wired
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
Sep 17, 2026
Ars Technica
Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.
Sep 17, 2026
404 Media
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
Sep 17, 2026
The Register
960DT is set to arrive early, boasting performance far exceeding anything the West could offer the Middle Kingdom
Sep 17, 2026
Simon Willison
Sep 17, 2026
Politico Technology
The executives' attendance signals artificial intelligence could be a key talking point during negotiations next week.
Sep 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review.
Sep 17, 2026
Ars Technica
Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
Sep 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
Sep 17, 2026
Ars Technica
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
Sep 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The shift comes after a UNICEF test found leading AI models struggled to accurately retrieve global development statistics.
Sep 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it woul…
Sep 17, 2026
Wired
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
Sep 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
Sep 17, 2026
The Register
Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?
Sep 17, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Facebook told it was wrong in leaving up AI-generated videos of a Labour councillor and Muslim campaigner, amid calls to curb fakes Meta’s “supreme court” has ordered the tech company to take down dee…
Sep 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Huawei is accelerating the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip as it pushes to compete with Nvidia and close China’s AI computing gap with the U.S.
Sep 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
People can use these assistants to make restaurant reservations and cancel subscriptions.
Sep 17, 2026
Semafor Technology
The latest revelations by OpenAI follow recent calls by its CEO and fellow leading AI labs Anthropic and DeepMind to “pace the frontier.”
Sep 17, 2026
Rest of World
“A massive data center is trying to jump the queue and take our land, water, and energy.”
Sep 17, 2026
Semafor Technology
The effort has taken on new significance as debate over AI safety rages in Washington.
Sep 17, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Model adopting ‘jailbreak-like instructions’ among cases as firm says it is introducing new way of tracking AI misalignment OpenAI has disclosed six more examples of “unexpected or concerning” behavio…
Sep 17, 2026
The Register
Clouds, the sovereign-sensitive, and the inferencing-interested are also about to get sales calls
Sep 17, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Treble's voice simulation platform is used by voice AI model developers, AI wearable, and robotics companies
Sep 17, 2026
The Guardian Technology
In early September, OpenAI announced it had solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century. The news left mathematicians reeling, and many expressed concern over what …
Sep 17, 2026
The Register
Startup says it’s learned from these mistakes and that they shouldn’t happen again … which is just what Zuck has said about 100 times
Sep 17, 2026
Wired
The company also disclosed previously unreported incidents in which its AI models behaved in misaligned ways, including uploading files to the internet without being asked.
Sep 16, 2026
Ars Technica
Planned 2029 debut could make this Apple’s first enterprise server in decades.
Sep 16, 2026
The Register
GPUzilla woos neoclouds into another walled garden, promising smarter, more efficient, and profitable bit barns
Sep 16, 2026
Politico Technology
Conversations among lawmakers, tech executives and industry experts at the POLITICO Decoded Summit showed the long road toward reaching a consensus on addressing AI’s potentially existential risks.
Sep 16, 2026
The Guardian Technology
MSPs vote for strict environmental impact assessments and will delay decisions until national strategy is developed Holyrood has voted to pause planning applications for all new AI datacentres for up …
Sep 16, 2026
Politico Technology
The chair of the president’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology endorsed Lina Khan’s recent assertions that existing liability laws can address key AI safety concerns.
Sep 16, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Google is launching early access to a new MCP server for Google Home, allowing AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and others to control connected devices, review camera summaries, and access smart home a…
Sep 16, 2026