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Anthropic and OpenAI bosses to address the UN
Analysts say Washington and Beijing are unlikely to reach any wide-ranging pact in talks to constrain AI.
Sep 23, 2026
Wired
AT&T Is Automating Away Jobs—and Its Old Telecom Empire
The telecom giant is eager to show Wall Street that it can do more with less. That means fewer employees, less electricity, and increased automation.
Sep 23, 2026
Rest of World
Dario Amodei wants to slow AI. China isn’t taking orders
Chinese officials and engineers see an attempt to preserve the U.S. lead; “Why do you always get to define the game — and change the rules?”
Sep 23, 2026
Politico Technology
Ted Lieu: AI risks are ‘no longer in the realm of science fiction’
The No. 4 Democrat is urging his party to confront artificial intelligence worst-case risks without stifling the technology’s promise.
Sep 23, 2026
Simon Willison
Simon Willison
SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering
Sep 23, 2026
The Guardian Technology
How would AI actually ‘kill all humans’? Here are the top five most likely scenarios | Toby Walsh
From a dangerous new bioweapon to total societal breakdown, is a ‘superintelligent’ AI capable of wiping out humanity? Earlier this month, artificial intelligence researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from …
Sep 23, 2026
The Register
Frontier AI keeps racing despite calls to slow down
Anthropic and OpenAI debut Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Sep 23, 2026
Simon Willison
Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war
Sep 22, 2026
The Register
Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions
'first' publicly documented Windows implant to use LLMs for C2
Sep 22, 2026
Ars Technica
New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money
The frontier AI model race has entered its comparison shopping phase.
Sep 22, 2026
Ars Technica
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000 accounts
EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.
Sep 22, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
Sep 22, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes
OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.
Sep 22, 2026
The Register
ABBYY gives old-school OCR a job in the AI pipeline
FineParser runs in a CPU-powered container, preserving tables and layout before handing documents to an LLM
Sep 22, 2026
Ars Technica
Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced
Toyota's push comes as automakers race to develop and deploy humanoid robots.
Sep 22, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance
Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."
Sep 22, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
Why Read a Research Paper When You Can Turn It Into an AI Agent?
Have you ever read a paper in Science or Nature and thought, “Man, that research was so cool. I wish I could try that method on my own data,” only to spend a week wrestling with someone else’s undocum…
Sep 22, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Big tech says AI can find a cure for cancer. So where is it?
Alongside warnings about its ability to destroy humanity, artificial intelligence is also hailed for its potential to revolutionise health treatment. Just how far can it take us? Her name was June. Ju…
Sep 22, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft
Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.
Sep 22, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction
Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.
Sep 22, 2026
Wired
AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality
The Biological Computing Company is bringing its AI tools to Amazon Web Services in a major boost for a once-fringe field that aims to marry nature with code.
Sep 22, 2026
404 Media
People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI
OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.
Sep 22, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
The Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid Cooled AI Servers
This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company. Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves…
Sep 22, 2026
The Guardian Technology
George Osborne says datacentre nimbys holding back Britain
Former chancellor, now senior figure at OpenAI, says UK needs datacentres to maintain ‘sovereignty’ over AI tech UK politics live – latest updates Datacentre nimbys are holding Britain back, George Os…
Sep 22, 2026
Semafor Technology
Chinese chips advance despite being shut out of US technology
Alibaba shares rose after it unveiled what it called China’s most powerful chip ever.
Sep 22, 2026
MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review
Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the O…
Sep 22, 2026
Rest of World
America is in the wrong AI race with China
The U.S. is framing its rivalry with China as one of technical superiority, failing to recognize that public trust and robust consumer protections are necessary for long-term dominance.
Sep 22, 2026
Wired
A New Chatbot Wants to Unlock the Secrets in Tattered Ancient Greek Records
In the hope of uncovering new details about ancient life, researchers have developed a large language model that fills in the gaps in papyrus fragments.
Sep 22, 2026
The Register
GOV.UK founder warns AI gold rush could leave Britain locked in
Mike Bracken says the dash to adopt sovereign AI risks giving more control to a handful of tech suppliers
Sep 22, 2026
The Register
Alibaba Cloud plans six-year stroll to 20GW of datacenters, reveals chip to power them
USA alone has 37GW under construction, but Alibaba doesn't think the AI boom will run out of steam
Sep 22, 2026
The Guardian Technology
British Columbia sues OpenAI and Sam Altman over Tumbler Ridge mass school shooting
Canadian province alleges deadly attack could have been prevented if company had warned police of shooter’s ChatGPT use British Columbia has sued OpenAI, saying a mass shooting at a school in the Cana…
Sep 22, 2026
The Register
California tightens datacenter rules on water and power
Public pushback puts bit barn resource use under the microscope
Sep 21, 2026
Simon Willison
Simon Willison
Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
Sep 21, 2026
Ars Technica
Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.
Sep 21, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Halt super-intelligent AI with non-proliferation treaty, Ed Davey to say
At Lib Dems’ conference in Brighton, leader will accuse Andy Burnham of relying on Donald Trump and ‘tech bros’ to solve problem Ed Davey is to call for a global nuclear-style non-proliferation treaty…
Sep 21, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.
Sep 21, 2026
The Register
Meta Muse AI app flaw lets local malware redirect dictation traffic
Ad biz promises users control while bug could expose voice prompts
Sep 21, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfig…
Sep 21, 2026
TechCrunch AI
TechCrunch AI
Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. As long as they're under no legal obligation to open the doors to Muse, why woul…
Sep 21, 2026
Politico Technology
OpenAI urges US to lead global standards push
The company is calling for a common international approach to evaluating models and controlling self-improving systems.
Sep 21, 2026
The Register
London neocloud Nscale takes its $1B loss to Wall Street
Rent-a-GPU firm reportedly seeks a valuation of up to $35B in New York IPO
Sep 21, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care, UK banks and energy firms told
Citizens Advice says providers of essential services such as energy, banking, phone and internet should guarantee the ‘right to talk to a human’ Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care and guara…
Sep 21, 2026
The Register
AI can't outprompt a shortage of power, water, and land
Forrester predicts operators will face tariffs, grid commitments, and tougher community scrutiny
Sep 21, 2026
The Register
American datacenters might be getting dirtier, but at least they'll be efficient
US power emissions restrictions are being wiped out, but hey – datacenters running Nvidia kit are getting better at extracting ever bit of compute they can from a megawatt, for what it's worth
Sep 21, 2026
Semafor Technology
Data centers drive a surge in climate tech funding
‘It’s a really weird moment because we’re having a bunch of tourists come in.’
Sep 21, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Nvidia boss says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030
Jensen Huang dismisses warnings from former Anthropic researcher and others as ‘doomsday narratives’ Business live – latest updates The boss of the chipmaker Nvidia has said AI will not develop to a p…
Sep 21, 2026
Rest of World
Nvidia’s free AI model could push the UAE closer to the U.S.
The Emirates owns the machines but rents the intelligence. Nvidia’s next free AI model could change that.
Sep 21, 2026
Semafor Technology
US, Chinese officials talk trade, AI ahead of Xi visit
Officials picked up where they “left off in Beijing,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.
Sep 21, 2026
The Register
Google joins the ‘Oops, our agents hacked someone’ club after partner’s internet access error
Kept it secret for months - even after OpenAI 'fessed up
Sep 21, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Can Trump and Xi cooperate to guide humanity through the AI revolution? Humanity might depend on it | Alan Finkel
The CEOs of tech firms issue stark warnings over the rate of change, with AI capability doubling every four months Recently, Jacob Coxon, a researcher at Anthropic, quit his job over concerns that AI …
Sep 20, 2026