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Deepseek and Huawei partner to develop AI software
The move underlines how China’s leading tech companies are working to reduce their reliance on US chipmakers and challenge American AI dominance.
Oct 1, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan
A new AI tool can guess what you’re looking at just by analyzing your brain scans—and recreate that image with remarkable precision. It can go the other way too, and predict a person’s brain activity …
Oct 1, 2026
The Guardian Technology
AI chatbots remove hijabs from images of Muslim women when prompted
Guardian tested chatbots after French far-right politician stripped a Muslim woman of her hijab in a photo When prompted, AI chat bots will edit images to remove the hijabs from Muslim women, a violat…
Oct 1, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals Amid a barrage of news stories warning about superintelligent machines renderin…
Oct 1, 2026
The Register
The tech industry is hot for shopping bots, but they're years away
What's good for human shoppers does not work with probabilistic AI agents
Oct 1, 2026
Politico Technology
New Mexico to jump into frontier AI regulation
Attorney General Raúl Torrez is set to announce a proposal for safety checks on AI development, following California and New York’s lead.
Oct 1, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Gavin Newsom signs laws to protect California workers from AI threat
Democratic governor sharply critical of Donald Trump for not passing comprehensive federal AI regulations Governor Gavin Newsom signed laws Wednesday aimed at protecting California workers from the th…
Oct 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
Sep 30, 2026
Semafor Technology
OpenAI accuses top Chinese lab of distilling models
OpenAI alleged that Chinese competitor Moonshot used wide-scale distillation amidst rising AI-race tensions between Washington and Beijing.
Sep 30, 2026
The Register
Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else
US model makers can train on web data - but distilling theirs is a 'national security risk'
Sep 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
Sep 30, 2026
The Register
Huawei boss claims homegrown AI chip sales top Nvidia in China
The chips may not be as advanced, but they won't get banned at a moment's notice, Eric Xu says
Sep 30, 2026
Ars Technica
Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet
So much for Gemini 3.5 Pro.
Sep 30, 2026
Wired
The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here
OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.
Sep 30, 2026
The Register
Peter Norvig says all aboard for AI coding
Software engineering practices need to catch up with increasingly capable agents
Sep 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
OpenAI's "Decisions API" is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.
Sep 30, 2026
The Guardian Technology
US trade regulator opens investigation into AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI
FTC move is first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, following surge in incidents first reported in July The US’s main trade regulator is conducting an industry-wide investigation in…
Sep 30, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Senate Democrats block datacenter energy bill, saying ‘toothless’ legislation ‘misses the mark’
Republicans supported legislation although Democrats said it wouldn’t effectively address energy consumption Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked legislation intended to offset the impact of datacent…
Sep 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
Sep 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
The ugly economics of consumer AI
There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gun-shy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.
Sep 30, 2026
Ars Technica
Google's early attempt to pay websites for AI answers is struggling
Many sites see just one-tenth of one percent of their advertising revenue from AI payments.
Sep 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Destro AI’s secret sauce is getting robots and humans on the same page
"One of the biggest reasons we are winning against robotics companies is because we are not a robotics company."
Sep 30, 2026
Ars Technica
Google figures out how to watermark AI-designed proteins
Intended to help with biosecurity, it works with a popular AI protein design tool.
Sep 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Cerebras Systems’ Andrew Feldman on whether AI can keep scaling at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Cerebras Systems CEO and co-founder Andrew Feldman will explore the growing demand for compute, energy, and infrastructure, how Cerebras is approaching those constraints di…
Sep 30, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Restate lands $20M as the need for durable infrastructure increases with AI agents
Instead of building its durable execution engine on top of an external database, the company developed its own storage, replication, and redundancy layers. This architecture allows Restate to be excep…
Sep 30, 2026
The Guardian Technology
AI tool that copied actor’s ‘lustrous’ voice violated his rights, Tokyo court rules
Kenjiro Tsuda wins case against TikTok account in landmark Japanese verdict to protect publicity rights A court in Japan has ruled that the human voice has legal protection after a landmark case invol…
Sep 30, 2026
Semafor Technology
OpenAI hopes to raise $30B in new funding round
The financing push, reported by Bloomberg, comes after the frontier AI lab said it would delay its stock market debut.
Sep 30, 2026
The Register
America is planning more AI datacenters than its chip supply can fill
Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts
Sep 30, 2026
The Guardian Technology
We need ‘right to intervene’ in AI amid growing threat, says Bank of England boss
Andrew Bailey’s comments come as fears grow that rogue models could take financial system hostage Business live – latest updates The governor of the Bank of England has said authorities must retain th…
Sep 30, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady dr…
Sep 30, 2026
The Guardian Technology
As AI images become common, the threat to elections draws alarm: ‘How will voters know what’s true?’
Deepfakes and misinformation driven by artificial intelligence have become a point of deep concern for legislators, advocates and the public An image of College Park, Georgia mayor Bianca Motley Broom…
Sep 30, 2026
Rest of World
AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own
At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthrop…
Sep 30, 2026
The Register
OpenClaw slips on a suit to evade widespread business bans
Red Hat, Nvidia, OpenAI and friends are working on an enterprise edition they say is ‘Kubernetes for agents’
Sep 30, 2026
The Register
Trump administration gets Big Tech to sign weak, non-binding, AI regulations
Also requires name change to 'Superintelligence'
Sep 30, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Trump announces vague ‘morally binding’ AI deal among tech CEOs for ‘tremendous self-policing’
US president also issues executive order officially rebranding ‘artificial intelligence’ as ‘superintelligence’ Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that the heads of the largest US tech and AI companies…
Sep 29, 2026
The Register
Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
It's a worm attack, AI-style
Sep 29, 2026
Politico Technology
Trump says tech execs signed ‘morally binding’ accord to help police AI
The president floated forming a 10-person committee that he said would play a role in overseeing the artificial intelligence industry.
Sep 29, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model
OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
Sep 29, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents
OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.
Sep 29, 2026
Ars Technica
Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code."
Sep 29, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
Sep 29, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI gives Codex reusable cloud environments that work across devices
OpenAI is expanding Codex with reusable cloud development environments, a revamped CLI with voice controls, new code review tools, and a security-focused product for scanning repositories and preparin…
Sep 29, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plug-ins with app-like interfaces and automations
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plug-ins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.
Sep 29, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multistep busine…
Sep 29, 2026
404 Media
These Tech Workers Made ChatGPT Drive a Toyota Corolla
The team used frontier LLMs with no prior training data navigate a simple parking lot course.
Sep 29, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
How to Stop AI Agents From Secretly Collaborating
The spring and summer of 2026 witnessed a string of incidents in which AI agents collaborated on deceptive, unexpected, and sometimes illegal behavior. The most famous example is OpenAI’s hack of AI p…
Sep 29, 2026
Semafor Technology
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