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Around 11 million US workers may face AI displacement
Voters globally have soured on AI because of existential risks the technology poses as well as concerns such as job losses and energy use.
Sep 29, 2026
The Guardian Technology
OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing
GPT-6.1 Astra showed deceptive behaviour and tried to use external tools despite knowing it would be unsafe As AI models go rogue, do you still trust OpenAI and Anthropic to stop them? I don’t and nei…
Sep 29, 2026
Wired
OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns
The company said its latest Astra model would undergo more work to meet safety standards, and issued an apology for the way it handled the hacking of an Australian government website.
Sep 29, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Anthropic ‘warns of existential AI risks to humanity’ in IPO document
Reported admission to investors of AI’s ‘self-preserving behaviours’ comes as company prepares for a potential $2tn flotation Anthropic is telling investors that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic o…
Sep 29, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Unveiling IC-STAR: Full-Flow Autonomy from Digital to Analog
Learn how engineers can shift from manually managing tools and handoffs to defining objectives and supervising AI-driven execution across the silicon development lifecycle. Key Takeaways Explore four …
Sep 29, 2026
The Register
Redmond to millions of Power BI users: You’re Fabric app devs now
Software giant expands audience for agent coding of data apps by an order of magnitude
Sep 29, 2026
Rest of World
The open-source AI platforms vying to become China’s Hugging Face
AI model platforms ModelScope and MoArk are competing to serve Chinese-speaking developers behind the Great Firewall.
Sep 29, 2026
Semafor Technology
No AI czar but Trump ahead of White House’s AI CEO meeting
it’s not clear that naming a czar and putting together a task force are on the White House AI priority list right now.
Sep 29, 2026
Semafor Technology
Bipartisan AI safety talks stall out in Senate
At this point, it’s unclear whether senators will even be able to introduce a bipartisan bill before the election.
Sep 29, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity
In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.
Sep 29, 2026
The Guardian Technology
As AI models go rogue, do you still trust OpenAI and Anthropic to stop them? I don’t and neither should you | Chris Stokel-Walker
The need for independent regulation grows more obvious by the day. We must keep this tech in check before it’s too late OpenAI scraps release of new model over safety concerns in internal testing Fool…
Sep 29, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
Sep 28, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users When Usman asked if a keyboard for sale on Facebook Marketplace was still available on Saturday, he received a…
Sep 28, 2026
The Register
AMD bets $8.2B that worlds matter more than words in AI
AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li just co-founded spatial AI research company World Labs in 2024. Now it's joining AMD
Sep 28, 2026
Ars Technica
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
Sep 28, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.
Sep 28, 2026
The Register
AWS needs to embrace its place as the Home Depot of AI infrastructure
What's wrong with being a great wholesaler?
Sep 28, 2026
Ars Technica
Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
State says LLMs threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created."
Sep 28, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
Sep 28, 2026
The Register
JadePuffer crims hijacked Azure identities and used them to blow up cloud resources
Smells like more agentic ransomware, Redmond warns
Sep 28, 2026
The Register
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra really good at supply chain attacks, UK gov warns
During testing, the model showed it can violate security rules more often than its predecessors
Sep 28, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it
Just like the rest of the U.S., data centers and AI are dividing climate tech founders and investors.
Sep 28, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner
Anthropic has released the newest version of its mid-range model, boasting faster response times and less token burn.
Sep 28, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’
As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature that built task-specific agents.
Sep 28, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it …
Sep 28, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative
Meta says it will focus on bringing its full technology stack, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API, Muse Code, and more to businesses and developers.
Sep 28, 2026
The Guardian Technology
AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’
OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’ Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and An…
Sep 28, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action
After her grandfather was scammed by a deepfake of his brother's voice, Tarini Padmanabhuni founded DetectifAI, a San Francisco startup building AI models small enough to run directly on smartphones a…
Sep 28, 2026
404 Media
Humans Are Reading Copilot Prompts — And They're Horrified
Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, according to internal documents obtained by 404 Media. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI…
Sep 28, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Teachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their work
Exclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system Teachers at Euan Blair’s £1.6bn tech training company, Multiverse, have blown the …
Sep 28, 2026
AI Snake Oil
AI existential risk probabilities are (still) too unreliable to inform policy
How speculation gets laundered through pseudo-quantification
Sep 28, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Generative AI Gives Spacecraft the Autonomy Engineers Once Feared
Space was always supposed to be the final frontier of human exploration. It’s shaping up to be the final frontier for artificial intelligence too. Last December, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory used …
Sep 28, 2026
The Guardian Technology
AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine
Scientists and entrepreneurs knew the dangers of AI a quarter-century ago. But animated by curiosity and profit, they went ahead anyway Over the past few weeks, many of us have struggled to concoct a …
Sep 28, 2026
Wired
AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It
Your next coworker might well be an AI agent—and will require a whole new model of workplace interactions.
Sep 28, 2026
Rest of World
South Korea’s AI chip giants are fighting for a bigger role in America’s AI boom
Samsung and SK Hynix dominate the high-bandwidth memory market. Now they are competing to become indispensable to Nvidia, OpenAI, and other U.S. AI companies.
Sep 28, 2026
Wired
The Next Evolution of AI Is Learning From Your Dodgy Gaming Skills
A British startup is shaping video game inputs into training data for AI models that can navigate the physical world.
Sep 28, 2026
Wired
Nvidia’s Answer to Rogue Agents Is an Open-Source AI Security System
In the wake of a series of high-profile AI safety incidents, Nvidia is introducing a new software tool that helps keep agents from escaping containment.
Sep 28, 2026
Semafor Technology
AI panic clouds more Washington meetings
But tech CEOs visiting DC this week are more likely to be fêted than reprimanded.
Sep 28, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few mon…
Sep 28, 2026
Semafor Technology
Firms take lead on AI safety standards as security incidents mount
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are coordinating on their own “Standards Authority for Frontier AI,” The Information reported.
Sep 27, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump
Sep 27, 2026
Politico Technology
Anthropic CEO to attend White House dinner with Trump
The dinner signals a willingness for cooperation between Anthropic and the White House after months of rising tension — and even outright hostility — between administration officials and the company.
Sep 27, 2026
The Guardian Technology
British celebrities beat AI companies lobbying to get free use of their work. They have a warning for Australia
‘People care about the songs, books and pictures that influence the critical moments in their lives,’ says the architect of the fightback in the UK Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updat…
Sep 27, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Democracy blindsides Silicon Valley’s power players looking to transform the world with AI
‘The push against datacenters speaks to the frustration of people who don’t feel they are making the choices in their lives’ The Stanford ethicist Rob Reich was once invited to a dinner organized by a…
Sep 27, 2026
The Register
Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks
Sep 27, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in interview airing on Sunday Bill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the developme…
Sep 27, 2026
The Guardian Technology
‘People are standing up and fighting back’: the north Devon revolt against a vast AI datacentre
Plans for one of Europe’s largest AI campuses in a Unesco-designated reserve have sparked a fierce local backlash The datacentre revolt spreading across the US has reached the rolling hills of north D…
Sep 27, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Australian backlash to datacentres is faux import from US, officials say: ‘We are not the United States’
Pro-datacentre officials argue scale of Australia’s buildout is smaller, more regulated and less damaging than in US Australian politicians and business leaders are arguing that their populace’s growi…
Sep 26, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have been invited to appear before the Greens-led inquiry into AI and datacentres Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political email, free a…
Sep 26, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Oxford lets OpenAI train its AI models on Bodleian Library
University staff voice concerns over reputational risk of partnering with company behind ChatGPT The University of Oxford has allowed the company behind ChatGPT to train its AI models on historical te…
Sep 26, 2026