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The US and China are hurtling toward Kissinger’s worst AI nightmare
In 2023, diplomat warned that the US and China had five to 10 years to avoid an AI disaster. The clock is ticking.
Sep 15, 2026
The Guardian Technology
They fought against datacenters. Now they are running for local offices
Across the US, anti-datacenter organizers are harnessing community anger to win local elections After four months of teach-ins and canvassing, Steven Kung helped Monterey Park, just east of Los Angele…
Sep 15, 2026
MIT Technology Review
What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off
When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and…
Sep 15, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Louise Haigh: UK must heed warnings from AI experts
First secretary to set out benefits of AI to union conference while vowing government will take safety seriously UK politics live – latest updates Ministers must “heed the warnings” from industry lead…
Sep 15, 2026
Semafor Technology
More Americans worry tech will take their job, poll finds
According to new Gallup polling, 27% of US workers worry that technology will render their jobs obsolete.
Sep 15, 2026
Politico Technology
Can anyone hold back the AI juggernaut?
Would slowing the growth of artificial intelligence's dangers require a U.S.-China pact? Or a change to antitrust law? Or just a willingness in Silicon Valley to choose humanity over profits?
Sep 15, 2026
Semafor Technology
AI plays sophisticated defense in a broken Washington
The industry is evolving how it applies the big lessons it learned from the social media techlash.
Sep 15, 2026
The Register
Open weights are not open source: Why AI's favorite label is under dispute
Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system at its root, is another matter
Sep 15, 2026
The Guardian Technology
AI safety requires more than just slowing our pace | Stuart Russell
Safety requirements are non-negotiable. They depend on meeting concrete goals, not just adjusting a timeline It has been a week of high drama in AI, precipitated by the resignation of the AI safety re…
Sep 15, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow the AI race
From Stephen Hawking to Jacob Coxon’s viral Anthropic resignation, fears that AI could threaten humanity have shaken the industry without stopping its pursuit Before an Anthropic researcher resigned a…
Sep 15, 2026
The Register
How Everpure plans to stop AI from starving without data
SPONSORED FEATURE: The vendor's AI solutions are dedicated to increasing GPU utilization and avoiding costly GPUs doing nothing while waiting for data
Sep 15, 2026
The Guardian Technology
AI isn’t going to end humanity ... right? - podcast
A series of figures in the tech world have been warning about – and even resigning over – the existential threat posed by artificial intelligence. How worried should we be? Today in Focus host Annie K…
Sep 15, 2026
The Register
Microsoft drafts feel-good AI model guidelines and wants your input
Redmond outlines 'aspirational' goals for model behavior, but gives itself a pass if it gets things wrong
Sep 15, 2026
Politico Technology
Sen. Kennedy readies AI ‘kill switch’ bill
The Louisiana Republican said he intends to introduce the legislation under unanimous consent Wednesday.
Sep 14, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Texas governor threatens to penalize datacenters not obeying water laws
Republican Greg Abbott says datacenters must help ‘protect’ drought-prone state and disclose water use Greg Abbott, the Texas governor, has directed state regulators to penalize datacenters that fail …
Sep 14, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’
Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently.
Sep 14, 2026
Ars Technica
AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”
Sep 14, 2026
Ars Technica
OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out
Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.
Sep 14, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut off by US or China, says ECB’s Lagarde
Central bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiations Europe must develop its own AI technology and build more datacentres in order to null…
Sep 14, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Microsoft proposes limits on its AI with code of conduct amid safety debate
Firm publishes AI guidelines with Microsoft AI CEO saying: ‘AI must be subordinate and always in service of people’ Microsoft published a provisional “code of conduct” Monday to apply to the training …
Sep 14, 2026
The Register
OpenAI's malicious bot swarm attacked RubyGems
Ruby are you ok? Ruby are you ok? Are you ok Ruby?
Sep 14, 2026
Politico Technology
Senior Democrat pushes back against AI select committee
As the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. Frank Pallone would wield considerable influence over AI legislation if his party retakes the House in November.
Sep 14, 2026
404 Media
New York Seizes 12 Celebrity Deepfake Websites
New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a press conference on Monday that the sites included 1,200 people’s likenesses in “hyper-realistic” sexual imagery.
Sep 14, 2026
The Register
Datacenter developers want your backyard. FAS says negotiate harder
Tax breaks, water, noise, decommissioning - report tells local officials what to nail down before signing
Sep 14, 2026
The Register
Ex-FTC boss Khan urges Uncle Sam to break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
There are plenty of laws on the books to hold companies, and potentially their execs, accountable
Sep 14, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Microsoft’s new AI ‘code of conduct’ tells models not to hack systems or trick humans
The code of conduct lays out general principles that Microsoft AI models should uphold — supporting humans rather than replacing them, for instance, and accelerating human flourishing — as well as spe…
Sep 14, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues
A group of AI agents asked to solve a series of math problems split into rival factions—when some cheated, others tried to stop them. That whistleblowing behavior, seen for the first time in a recent …
Sep 14, 2026
404 Media
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M…
Sep 14, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory av…
Sep 14, 2026
MIT Technology Review
The Download: AI’s real extinction threat and age-reversal tech for eyes
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Roundtables: could AI really kill us all? Employees at the wor…
Sep 14, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Why Andon Labs Puts AI Agents in Charge of Real Businesses
Maybe you heard about the AI-controlled vending machine that stocked underwear and live fish. Or the AI manager of a San Francisco store that fired a human employee. Or the AI radio DJ that said its c…
Sep 14, 2026
The Guardian Technology
UK MPs and Lords call for new laws to tackle AI threat to human rights
Warning follows series of safety incidents, with committee saying threats include public face-scanning and deepfakes UK politics live – latest updates British lawmakers are demanding more restrictions…
Sep 14, 2026
Semafor Technology
Beijing issues AI warnings but rejects US calls to slow development
China’s minister of state security wrote in a weekend essay that AI posed six principal risks, including threatening the security of the country’s political regime.
Sep 14, 2026
Semafor Technology
US AI regulation calls gather pace
The US House of Representatives will this week take up a bill overseeing the data center buildout.
Sep 14, 2026
AI Snake Oil
The AI-as-Normal-Technology view of loss-of-control incidents
A middle ground between the cybersecurity and AI safety communities
Sep 14, 2026
Rest of World
The real AI economy is being built by ordinary people
Far from Silicon Valley pitch decks, workers across Asia and Africa are bypassing tech industry hype to quietly rewire their daily jobs — one prompt, workflow, and local problem at a time.
Sep 14, 2026
Semafor Technology
House Democrat pushes global effort on AI rules
House Democrats are circulating a letter from Rep. Yassamin Ansari, D-Ariz., imploring President Trump to lead an international effort to set AI rules.
Sep 14, 2026
Semafor Technology
AI risk warnings belie lack of consensus in Congress
OpenAI remains most supportive of bipartisan Senate Commerce Committee talks that could advance this week.
Sep 14, 2026
The Guardian Technology
‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres Pfas companies are launching a “tidal wave” of forever chemicals production to meet demand from the …
Sep 14, 2026
The Register
AI and its main promoters are not enterprise-ready, says Gartner
Model-makers move too fast and don’t care when they break things
Sep 14, 2026
The Register
Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’
Amodei, Altman, Nadella and Musk agree on how government can tame the monster they created
Sep 14, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Obama reportedly urges Democrats to prioritize safety plan for AI
Ex-president urged party at closed-door fundraiser to create sweeping framework, from safety ‘slow-down’ to job losses Barack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize a “public conversation” about AI manag…
Sep 13, 2026
Semafor Technology
How the AI apocalypse story escaped containment
Sensational headlines are overwhelming a serious conversation in Silicon Valley.
Sep 13, 2026
The Guardian Technology
As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever
Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools As we hurtle towards a post-human future, the absenc…
Sep 12, 2026
The Guardian Technology
‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown
In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems The CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI…
Sep 12, 2026
The Register
Nvidia's Groq acquihire is on the DOJ's radar, but it's already too late
Even if regulators did somehow unwind the $20B deal, there's a growing list of alternatives ready to take Groq's place, no merger required
Sep 12, 2026
The Guardian Technology
‘Immature playground boasting’: Mathematicians uneasy at OpenAI’s latest scalp
As OpenAI model cracks Millennium Prize Problem that puzzled experts for decades, many feel shocked at pace of change It was a week that left mathematicians reeling. Hot on the heels of a flurry of ca…
Sep 12, 2026
The Guardian Technology
AI may be denting computer science graduates’ job prospects, UK data shows
Economics graduates also appear to be affected as demand for them falls in well-paid roles in finance AI may be warping the job prospects for students in the previously high-demand subjects of compute…
Sep 12, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A.
Sep 11, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.
Sep 11, 2026