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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

The Register

Thailand pauses all datacenter builds and approvals

PLUS: Fujitsu not yet budgeting Horizon compensation; DeepSeek's vast Huawei GPU buy; Korea plans sovereign security model; And more!

Sep 7, 2026

Simon Willison

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

Sep 6, 2026

TechCrunch AI

Seattle Times and Newsday are the latest publications to sue OpenAI and Microsoft

Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

Sep 5, 2026

The Guardian Technology

‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?

A spate of serious safety incidents have increased fears about the power and impenetrability of the most advanced models Picture humanity in a boat being swept down a raging river, praying there is no…

Sep 5, 2026

TechCrunch AI

OpenAI’s rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them

OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.

Sep 4, 2026

Ars Technica

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.

Sep 4, 2026

TechCrunch AI

AI compute provider Nscale is looking for $3.5B in pre-IPO financing

Nscale, which recently struck a $45 billion deal with Anthropic, is in talks to raise additional funds in anticipation of an upcoming IPO.

Sep 4, 2026

The Register

Anthropic lays groundwork for bots that shop for you

Now comes the harder sell: Convincing customers and merchants to trust AI with purchases

Sep 4, 2026

The Register

AMD's Threadripper Halo is a local-AI workstation for researchers with deep pockets

AI workstation promises to put up to 576 GB of HBM3e and 16 TB/s of memory bandwidth on your desk

Sep 4, 2026

Semafor Technology

US needs nimble approach to technological governance

The new law comes as the feasibility of AI oversight is in question for being impossible and too expensive.

Sep 4, 2026

MIT Technology Review

Architecting memory and storage in the AI era

The era of AI inference has arrived. Imagine a healthcare system analyzing millions of data points in real time to accelerate life-saving medical research, or an intelligent assistant instantly resolv…

Sep 4, 2026

Simon Willison

OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis

Sep 4, 2026

Ars Technica

Second complete map of a fruit fly brain completed

Every neuron and connection in the brain of a fly has been mapped—twice.

Sep 4, 2026

Ars Technica

Anthropic’s $2 trillion IPO puts powerful external trustees in spotlight

Public-market scrutiny will intensify pressure on the Claude maker’s unusual attempt to balance profit and purpose.

Sep 4, 2026