The Final Shift

Lead Story · The Guardian Technology

AI weapons systems are already here. Algorithms must not decide who lives and dies | Kenneth Roth

Israel’s conduct in Gaza shows the danger of using AI in warfare. Humans must remain at the center of wartime decisions As tech leaders warn about the threats of artificial intelligence, most conjure up images of AI agents running amok, such as hacking systems used to run our critical infrastructure, banks or even militaries. Yet one serious danger is mentioned less frequently – the threat posed by AI – empowered lethal weapons. Fully autonomous versions of these weapons are colloquially known a

Oct 2, 2026

Rest of World

Who gets to decide if AI is safe? Africa wants a say

African companies race to adopt American and Chinese AI, with little attention paid to safety.

Oct 2, 2026

Politico Technology

Hawley tests Trump’s hands-off approach to AI

The Missouri Republican is pushing Washington to act even as the prospects of legislation dim.

Oct 2, 2026

Semafor Technology

The AI industry balances Trump and a changing Washington

Despite the warm welcome at the White House, industry leaders are bracing for a Democrat-controlled Congress.

Oct 2, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five…

Oct 2, 2026

The Register

Pi coding agent pulls a 180 and adds MCP support

To maintain minimalism, a new harness layer has been folded into a separate component

Oct 2, 2026

The Register

Google launches first datacenter satellite and research that finds orbiting bit barns can work

If SpaceX can launch 1,800 Starships, and researchers nail gnarly networking, design and formation flying problems,

Oct 2, 2026

The Guardian Technology

We don’t need to panic about AI. We need to hold its creators accountable when things go wrong | John Quiggin

If a chatbot prompt like ‘find Australian medicine statistics’ results in a website breach, the responsibility does not lie with a piece of code The recent panic about a breach of Medicare computer se…

Oct 2, 2026

Semafor Technology

Broadcom to lend Anthropic $42 billion to lease chips: Report

Broadcom joins in on the trend of chipmakers financing the AI buildout that’s driving demand for their products.

Oct 1, 2026

Wired

Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This

Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.

Oct 1, 2026

The Register

AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org

Chained Zammad flaws enabled session hijacking, code execution, and root escalation in seconds

Oct 1, 2026

The Register

Cloudflare tries to outplay Jev with open-weight Clef models

Sure, it costs more, but it can handle images and video and it's available on Hugging Face if you have the hardware horsepower to run it locally

Oct 1, 2026

The Register

Stanford prof is beating the drum for a new protocol to replace TCP

Homa is a rethink of networks for the AI age

Oct 1, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground

Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.

Oct 1, 2026

The Guardian Technology

California issues investigative subpoena to OpenAI over rogue agents’ hacking

State attorney general issues subpoena to OpenAI as part of broader inquiry into potential security vulnerabilities California’s attorney general has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, start…

Oct 1, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports

OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.

Oct 1, 2026

Ars Technica

Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028

Prices for memory sold for 2027 "are much higher than 2026 prices."

Oct 1, 2026

The Register

EU’s hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank

RUSI wants procurement rethink that could put US suppliers under scrutiny too

Oct 1, 2026

AI Snake Oil

A big-tent or small-tent AI safety movement?

The unstated disagreement that underpins safety debates

Oct 1, 2026

Ars Technica

With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now

Adding in a second neural network that guesses the identity of hidden pieces was key.

Oct 1, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Brian Chesky interview: AI agents need their own operating system

Brian Chesky on making Airbnb agent-friendly, the state of consumer AI, and why the world needs an AI-native operating system.

Oct 1, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Anthropic pushes for opt-out model for Australian content as ABC warns of ‘cannibalisation’ of news

Maker of Claude claims AI could transform economy but ABC and SBS say the technology should be subject to media regulations Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our new political…

Oct 1, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Photon held a funeral for mobile apps. Now it has $4.5M to help replace them with agents.

The startup helps developers build AI agents that work over iMessage, SMS/RCS, email, and other messaging platforms. It's a bet that consumers will increasingly use agents instead of downloading apps.

Oct 1, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites

Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.

Oct 1, 2026

Semafor Technology

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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