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MIT Technology Review

Healthcare AI’s next test is integration

The entrance of major AI companies into healthcare is a meaningful and welcome development, accelerating the technical foundation available to the industry. Their models are increasingly capable of pr…

Sep 10, 2026

Semafor Technology

Bipartisan AI safety bill gains momentum on the Hill

An AI safety bill may be introduced by senators from both parties as early as next week.

Sep 10, 2026

Semafor Technology

Anthropic skirts UK safety review amid rising AI transparency concerns

Anthropic declined to submit its latest model for testing to a top British AI safety institute.

Sep 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.

Sep 9, 2026

Wired

The AI Researcher Who Just Quit Anthropic Says It’s ‘Crunch Time for Humanity’

Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment, and why AI labs have just a few years left to make their systems safe.

Sep 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Massachusetts hits data centers with new clean power rules

Massachusetts has become the third state in as many months to slap new restrictions on data center development.

Sep 9, 2026

The Register

Samsung to help fortify OpenAI's semiconductor supply chain

Semiconductor supply chains are hard, but Samsung offers OpenAI relief in many forms spanning compute and memory

Sep 9, 2026

Politico Technology

House Democrats weigh new AI committee with subpoena power

Democratic leaders are open to creating a new panel to investigate the tech industry if the party wins back the House, according to four people familiar with planning.

Sep 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?

AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI sys…

Sep 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

ControlAI’s Connor Leahy on why superintelligence is ‘not a weapon, it’s an adversary’ 

AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it’s inevitable, but recent safety incidents like OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach are demonstrating the potential dangers of deploying AI sys…

Sep 9, 2026

TechCrunch AI

AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?

Falling token costs, cheaper models, and less spend per employee — AI adoption isn't playing out the way hyperscalers hoped.

Sep 9, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

AI Models Are Watermarking Text—Will You Notice?

On 11 August, Anthropic announced that all future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark that identifies its results as AI generated. The company is not alone. Google has its own t…

Sep 9, 2026

Semafor Technology

US ramps up China rhetoric ahead of upcoming meeting

The US Treasury secretary warned that “nothing else would matter” if China were to win the AI race.

Sep 9, 2026

Semafor Technology

AI researchers say industry is 'gambling with our lives'

An Anthropic researcher quit, warning the AI industry has not internalized the “civilizational stakes” of rushing towards superintelligence.

Sep 9, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

China’s Regulators Take Aim at “AI Boyfriends”

In the first weeks of July, a wave of sad posts rolled through Chinese social media, as people lamented friends and lovers they were about to lose. “He has become a bond in my life, rooted deep in my …

Sep 9, 2026

The Guardian Technology

US allies lack resources to keep pace on AI, top Pentagon official says

Cameron Stanley talks up ‘revolutionary’ AI capabilities and says Washington working with Nato and Five Eyes partners The Pentagon’s top artificial intelligence official said on Tuesday that America’s…

Sep 9, 2026

Semafor Technology

Left-right coalition seeks release of White House AI framework

More than two dozen organizations from both the left and right are urging the White House to publicly release its voluntary AI security framework, per a letter shared first with Semafor.

Sep 9, 2026

The Register

Another Microsoft team admits it’s struggling to handle flood of AI-generated code

Increase in vibe-coded browser extensions sees Edge team automate quality assessments

Sep 9, 2026

The Guardian Technology

UK datacentres will create just 25% of jobs predicted by tech sector, analysis finds

Facilities likely to employ 10,400 workers, compared with 40,000 in industry estimates, thinktank says Datacentres in the UK will create just a quarter of the jobs predicted by the tech sector, while …

Sep 9, 2026

The Register

Philippines bets AI will lift GDP by 12 percent in seven years – without hurting outsourcing

Plans 30x datacenter expansion for less than what big tech spends in a month

Sep 9, 2026

MIT Technology Review

What OpenAI’s latest controversy tells us about the future of math

OpenAI’s latest mathematical milestone has quickly become mired in controversy. Today, the company announced that its agents have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems, some of the most importan…

Sep 9, 2026

The Register

US claims Chinese AI companies’ core AI strategy is distilling American models

Spooks and CISA point to ‘industrial-scale distillation’ by DeepSeek, Alibaba, and other Chinese players

Sep 9, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Labor wants Australians to be able to opt out of online algorithms. How will it change your feed?

The prime minister has predicted blowback to the scheme, which will affect social media, search engines and AI chatbots Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news ema…

Sep 9, 2026

The Register

Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas

See, AI can be used for good ... or at the very least, a useful distraction from the bad

Sep 8, 2026

Simon Willison

Introducing ChatGPT Images 2.5

Sep 8, 2026

The Guardian Technology

OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades

Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours OpenAI claims to have solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century…

Sep 8, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Last month, a Claude user noticed his account was consuming tokens even though he wasn't working. Anthropic has since warned users about hackers.

Sep 8, 2026

Wired

Muse, Meta’s New Personal AI Agent, Needs You to Trust It

Designed to compete with OpenClaw and Instinct, the company says Muse can do everything from sell your car to book you a plane ticket.

Sep 8, 2026

Ars Technica

Top chipmakers embrace ASML’s $400M machines, agree to crucial chipmaking change

Chipmaking changes could boost productivity of new ASML machines by 40 percent.

Sep 8, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Meta debuts its Muse AI agent. Will consumers trust it?

Meta's new personal AI agent Muse wants access to users' email, calendars, payments, health services, and more — making the company's biggest consumer AI bet yet a major test of whether people still t…

Sep 8, 2026

The Register

Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle

DeepMind researchers propose tapping into the whistleblower tendency to keep agents in check

Sep 8, 2026

Wired

OpenAI Just Claimed a Huge Math Discovery. Some Academics Are Crying Foul

A landmark announcement by the frontier AI lab has been overshadowed by accusations of impropriety.

Sep 8, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Google Cloud races to catch up in the AI deployment wars with Accenture deal

Google Cloud expands its enterprise AI push with Accenture, betting on forward-deployed engineers to drive adoption and overcome deployment bottlenecks.

Sep 8, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

AI Slop Is Changing How Engineers Review Code

AI coding tools can now generate thousands of lines of code in minutes, helping companies build features, run tests, and fix issues faster. But the flood of AI-generated code still has to be reviewed.…

Sep 8, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Mistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big business

The French AI lab has raised €3 billion at a €21 billion valuation in a Series D round led by Samsung, Scaleup Europe, and PSG Equity.

Sep 8, 2026

IEEE Spectrum AI

Google DeepMind Maps 9 Billion Possible DNA Variants

DNA is often explained as a codebook or set of instructions for producing proteins, and ultimately, life. Some stretches of DNA, called genes, code for proteins, but the vast majority of DNA is consid…

Sep 8, 2026

MIT Technology Review

This founder is teaching chips how to recycle (their energy)

Throughout the history of the computer chip, engineers have treated waste heat as an inevitable cost of a calculation. Hannah Earley, however, thinks it’s a design choice. Earley, 31, is cofounder and…

Sep 8, 2026

MIT Technology Review

This AI entrepreneur is developing agents that can plan ahead for the unexpected

Danijar Hafner’s office in San Francisco’s SoMa district sits mostly empty. His brand-new startup is still in stealth mode and doesn’t even have its name on the door. On the day I visit, there’s only …

Sep 8, 2026

The Guardian Technology

OpenAI models went rogue. We urgently need a better ‘hugging face’ investigation | Mackenzie Arnold and Stephan Llerena

The breach won’t be the last – or the most dangerous – of its kind. We need an agency capable of full investigations into AI incidents When OpenAI first revealed that its AI agents had autonomously ha…

Sep 8, 2026

The Register

Arm pushes agentic AI and desktop-quality graphics in next-gen phone platform

New CPU and GPU designs chase lower latency and richer games within a 1 W power budget

Sep 8, 2026

The Register

Huawei proudly shows off an entirely un-American chip

Resistance is futile

Sep 8, 2026

Semafor Technology

AI is not yet driving US job losses

The latest US employment figures have failed to show an AI-driven surge in job losses, suggesting theories of a “jobpocalypse” are premature.

Sep 7, 2026

Semafor Technology

AI upends China’s graduate job market

An estimated 12.7 million graduates will join the workforce this year, the largest cohort yet, far outpacing demand.

Sep 7, 2026

The Register

Matt Clifford to leave ARIA before Anthropic role becomes a 'distraction'

MPs welcome move but still want answers over how the conflict of interest was allowed to arise

Sep 7, 2026

The Guardian Technology

Architect of UK’s AI policy quits after Anthropic conflict of interest concerns

Matt Clifford forced to stand down amid disquiet from senior MPs over his new full-time job at AI company The chair of the UK government’s “moonshot” science and technology research unit has been forc…

Sep 7, 2026

Semafor Technology

Saudi Arabian data center firm races to export compute from NEOM

DataVolt is aiming to slash development times for its $1 billion data center as it looks to make Saudi a global AI hub.

Sep 7, 2026

Ars Technica

The complex corporate web behind a $3.2 billion AI data center

When multiple companies are behind one project, who bears responsibility for problems?

Sep 7, 2026

The Register

Jensen's purchase of a new toy could reshape the entire AI industry

This week on The Kettle we weigh in on Nvidia's Hugging Face acquisition and why it could spell a new, more fragmented and siloed era of AI development

Sep 7, 2026