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Lead Story · Semafor Technology
Existing frontier AI models use “chain of thought” reasoning: They write ideas down, in English, in a “scratchpad” to keep track. CoT boosts “interpretability”.
Sep 4, 2026
TechCrunch AI
The round came together after the data center developer reportedly secured a $13 billion contract with Jane Street.
Sep 4, 2026
The Register
Daybreak program brings subsidized models, training, and support to under-resourced teams
Sep 3, 2026
Politico Technology
The Vermont senator's proposal to ban artificial "superintelligence" comes on the heels of his push for a nationwide data center moratorium — and a series of troubling AI cyberattacks.
Sep 3, 2026
The Register
OpenAI slow-walks debut of delayed GPT-6, with Trusted Access Program participants getting first shot
Sep 3, 2026
The Register
$12.9 billion deal will inevitably cement Nvidia's market dominance and harm competition in the process. Regulators should take note
Sep 3, 2026
TechCrunch AI
Abliteration.AI is making powerful AI models without guardrails easier to access, arguing that giving defenders the same tools as bad actors could ultimately improve cybersecurity.
Sep 3, 2026
The Register
All three are recovering from overlapping availability issues
Sep 3, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Astra’s arrival comes days after Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, described AGI as an ‘irrelevant marketing term’ The president of OpenAI, Greg Brockman, has claimed the world has entered a new e…
Sep 3, 2026
Ars Technica
Service interruptions hit ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini practically simultaneously.
Sep 3, 2026
Wired
OpenAI leaders think the company’s next generation model, which excels at computer use and coding, may mark a major milestone in AI development.
Sep 3, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."
Sep 3, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Semi-conductor giant bets that support for open AI models could offset potential slowdown in demand for chips Nvidia will buy the popular developer platform Hugging Face for nearly $13bn, betting that…
Sep 3, 2026
Wired
OpenAI recently estimated its Cursor partnership would make more than $1 billion in revenue a year, WIRED has learned. It still walked away after Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired the AI coding startup.
Sep 3, 2026
Ars Technica
Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
Sep 3, 2026
Wired
The long-rumored deal will give the chip giant access to—and help it promote—a huge repository of open-source AI models and data sets.
Sep 3, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Across the world, hundreds of people have come to believe they have made extraordinary scientific discoveries with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Others say their AI has ‘awakened’, o…
Sep 3, 2026
Semafor Technology
The kingdom’s AI champion is also “hardening” data center defenses as the Iran war threatens infrastructure.
Sep 3, 2026
Semafor Technology
Information used by AI to make a vaccine can also “create a bioweapon,” one Google DeepMind researcher told the FT.
Sep 3, 2026
Rest of World
AI companies are paying highly educated workers to teach machines the judgment they spent years developing — even when those systems could eventually replace them.
Sep 3, 2026
MIT Technology Review
As agentic AI moves from experimentation toward enterprise deployment, the challenge is figuring out how agents can work together, connect to the systems and data they need, and operate safely across …
Sep 3, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’ A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures o…
Sep 3, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Free AI models that are as good as the investment-hungry US versions will disrupt global markets, and offer Britain a lesson Almost from the moment it began, the end of the Chinese economic miracle ha…
Sep 3, 2026
The Register
Sandboxes, permissions, and VMs aren't enough to keep frontier models at bay. "Data diodes" might do the job
Sep 3, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Wayve robotaxis added to Uber app and will have human in front ready to take over if needed – but only 15 cars licensed Londoners are now able to hire self-driving taxis for the first time, after ride…
Sep 3, 2026
Wired
The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.
Sep 3, 2026
Semafor Technology
Pangram has recently been credited with helping implode a lucrative book deal and unmasking AI use at The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
Sep 2, 2026
Semafor Technology
Asian governments’ urge to cash in on the AI boom is clashing with constituents’ environmental and health concerns.
Sep 2, 2026
The Register
While you wait, Meta says it’s taught the model to stop wasting tokens and ask for help a bit more often
Sep 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
The Times and many companies are accusing OpenAI of misusing their material to train AI systems without compensation The Trump administration is supporting OpenAI in a lawsuit against the New York Ti…
Sep 2, 2026
The Register
AI model scores well, runs fast, and doesn't cost too much (yet)
Sep 2, 2026
Wired
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others' intellectual property is fair use.
Sep 2, 2026
The Register
Adding insult to injury
Sep 2, 2026
Wired
A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.
Sep 2, 2026
Ars Technica
Google's Pro model updates are seemingly paused, but there's yet another Gemini Flash today.
Sep 2, 2026
Ars Technica
Trump’s secret reviews of frontier AI models may hide corruption, lawsuit says.
Sep 2, 2026
TechCrunch AI
"The United States has a strong interest in continuing to develop a robust and competitive artificial intelligence industry that sets the standard for the practice and procedure of AI use globally," t…
Sep 2, 2026
Wired
Christopher was sick of being ghosted by AI recruiters. So he unleashed ChatGPT on his robot interviewer.
Sep 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Landmark lawsuit claims tech company’s pay-setting system has breached privacy laws and pushed down earnings Uber drivers have launched a landmark legal action against the ride-hailing company claimin…
Sep 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Lack of information raises fears over environmental impact of the AI boom The UK government does not know what the country’s datacentres are being used for despite fears over the growing environmental…
Sep 2, 2026
IEEE Spectrum AI
A little over a decade ago, I led the controls design for a first-of-its-kind full digital-control system for a U.S. nuclear plant. It was, on paper, a beautiful machine—engineered to run itself the w…
Sep 2, 2026
404 Media
A follow up to the Amazon destroying books for AI story, why a bunch of names keep appearing in AI-generated papers, and ICE's latest spending spree.
Sep 2, 2026
The Register
Startups invited to tackle NHS, defense, compute, and agent security challenges while Whitehall's own adoption remains patchy
Sep 2, 2026
Rest of World
Previously unpublished government data reveals the scale of Taiwan’s crackdown on Chinese companies accused of hiding their ties while recruiting chip talent and pursuing sensitive technology.
Sep 2, 2026
The Register
Ministers reject proposed red lines and emergency shutdown powers, pointing instead to voluntary safeguards
Sep 2, 2026
Politico Technology
State legislators are emboldened by rising public outrage, ineffective pushback from Washington and a surge of pro-regulation dollars — and tech lobbyists are throwing in the towel.
Sep 2, 2026
The Guardian Technology
Matt Clifford will stay as chair of government funding body for tech projects alongside his senior role at US firm The architect of the UK government’s AI strategy has joined the US startup Anthropic …
Sep 2, 2026
The Register
More compliance-friendly stance could boost appeal of Fable
Sep 1, 2026
TechCrunch AI
OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.
Sep 1, 2026
Wired
The company will give select partners early access to its Astra AI model—so they have time to shore up their defenses.
Sep 1, 2026