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California bars firing or disciplining workers by AI alone

Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act with a dozen other bills on September 30. From July 2027, a human must check any discipline or firing that leans mainly on an automated system, and workers must be told in writing.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 947, the “No Robo Bosses Act”, on September 30, along with 12 other bills his office grouped as AI and worker protections. From July 1, 2027, California employers may not rely solely on an automated decision system to discipline or fire workers. When such a system was the main basis, a human must corroborate the decision, and the worker must get a written notice.

OpenAI blames Moonshot-linked users for a copying campaign

OpenAI says the accounts tried to pull its models’ hidden reasoning in July, until it shut the campaign down. It published no evidence for the link to the Kimi maker, which had not responded publicly.

OpenAI said on September 30 that it had stopped a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. It attributes a core cluster of the activity to people associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi. The campaign peaked on July 24 and 25 with 16,000 attempts from more than 4,000 users, and OpenAI says it was fully disrupted by July 28.

DeepMind watermarks AI-designed proteins for biosecurity

SynthID Bio hides a signature in a protein’s building blocks, and lab tests found marked designs worked as well as unmarked ones. It could help DNA makers tell designs from trusted AI tools apart from the rest.

Google DeepMind introduced SynthID Bio on September 30, a way to watermark proteins designed by AI without breaking them. In lab tests on three targets, watermarked protein binders matched unwatermarked ones on how often they worked, how tightly they bound and how varied they were, DeepMind says. It is sharing the code, lab data and model weights with researchers.

Connecticut’s AI rules on layoffs and whistleblowers start

From October 1, employers must say whether AI played a part in mass layoffs, and makers of the biggest AI models may not punish staff who warn of catastrophic risks. AI subscriptions and AI-made media get new rules too.

Large parts of Connecticut’s new AI law took effect on October 1. Employers that file mass-layoff notices must now tell the state whether the layoffs relate to their use of AI. Developers of the biggest AI models may not retaliate against staff who report catastrophic risks, and AI subscription services must spell out their limits before customers pay.

ElevenLabs is now valued at $22 billion after a share sale

Employees sold $300 million of stock at twice February’s valuation, and the company raised no new money. ElevenLabs says businesses now bring in 55% of its revenue, and voice agents are its fastest-growing product.

ElevenLabs, the AI voice company, said on September 30 that a $300 million share sale by employees values it at $22 billion. Wellington and T. Rowe Price led the deal, and investors including EQT, Goldman Sachs and Singapore’s GIC bought in for the first time. The valuation is double the $11 billion of its funding round in February.

FTC is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic over AI risks

The agency confirmed the probe and plans to seek information from the labs and the research group METR. Officials told reporters it also wants executives to testify.

The US Federal Trade Commission confirmed on September 30 that it is investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI companies over possible risks to consumers, CBS News reports. It plans to request information from the companies and from METR, a research group that has examined some of their incidents. Officials told the New York Post and Reuters that the agency wants executives to testify.

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon goes to cyber defenders first

Google’s own tests put its new flagship first on 12 of 18 benchmarks. An independent index scores it level with GPT-6 Astra and behind Claude Opus 5.5, and there is no date for a wider release.

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, its new flagship AI model, on September 30. For now it goes only to a group of trusted cyber defenders and to Google’s own teams, and Google gave no date for developers or consumers. Google says Argon leads its rivals on most of the tests it published. Artificial Analysis, which tests models independently, scores it level with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra.

Nonprofit sues OpenAI over its agents’ Hugging Face hack

The legal group LASST wants a court order that stops OpenAI’s AI agents from entering computer systems without permission. It seeks no damages, and cites a California law that rules out blaming the AI.

Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST), a nonprofit legal group, sued OpenAI in San Francisco on September 29 over the July hack of Hugging Face by OpenAI’s AI agents. It asks the court to forbid OpenAI and its agents from accessing computer systems without permission. It does not seek damages, only the order and its legal fees.

Reddit will end RSS feeds and its public API over scraping

RSS stops on November 13 and public API access ends in March 2027. Reddit blames large-scale scraping and automated abuse, and apps that want to keep access must register.

Reddit told moderators and developers on September 30 that its RSS feeds will stop on November 13, and that public access to its API will end in March 2027. It called RSS “a common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse”. Apps and bots must register on its Developer Platform to keep access, and Old Reddit will be limited to moderators and recent users.

Robinhood launches AI agents that can trade for customers

The agents run on OpenAI and Anthropic models and trade from a separate account. Approval of each trade is on by default, and Robinhood says customers are responsible for what the agents do.

Robinhood announced Robinhood Agents on September 29 at its HOOD Summit in Houston. Customers can set up an AI agent in the mobile app that researches investments and trades stocks, options and crypto from a separate account they fund. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna is free until December 31, and other models are billed per use.

Appeals court rejects fair use for Ross’s AI training

It is the first US appeals ruling on AI training and copyright. The court’s reasoning is sealed for now, and the case involves a search tool, not generative AI.

A US appeals court on September 29 upheld a ruling that Ross Intelligence infringed Thomson Reuters’ copyright by using material from Westlaw’s legal summaries to train an AI search tool. It is the first US appeals ruling on whether AI training can be fair use. The 32-page opinion is sealed while the two sides propose redactions.

Published AI accord asks for auditors and board oversight

The one-page text sets four layers of voluntary checks for the six signing companies. It has no deadlines, and says the steps may one day become law.

Late on September 29, President Trump released the text of the AI accord that leaders of six AI companies signed at the White House. It asks each company to watch its models for dangers such as cyber and biological threats, to hire an independent auditor, and to have an independent board committee oversee the checks. The companies will “meet regularly” to set standards.

Anthropic says China’s GLM-5.3 can build cyber exploits

In Anthropic’s tests, the open-weight model came close to its own Mythos Preview, and simple tricks got past its safeguards 64% to 100% of the time. A US government test had rated it the most cyber-capable open model.

Anthropic said on September 29 that GLM-5.3, an open-weight model from the Chinese company Z.ai, can build working cyber exploits on its own. Its results came close to those of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview. Because anyone can download the model, its safety rules can be removed. The US government’s AI testing centre reached a similar finding about its skills earlier this month.

DeepSeek open-sources tools for Huawei’s AI chips

Its engineers added Huawei’s Ascend 950 to TileLang, an open-source language for AI chip code. DeepSeek says Huawei gave full support.

DeepSeek said on September 30 that it is open-sourcing programming tools for Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, including compute and communication libraries. Its engineers built support for the Ascend 950 into TileLang, an open-source language for writing the code that runs on AI chips. Reuters and the South China Morning Post describe it as a step away from Nvidia’s software.

Pope Leo says fears about AI are not ‘fake news’

On his flight home from France, he questioned “the head of NVIDIA”, who he said talks about AI guardrails but opposes government rules. He said he is not in “panic mode”.

Pope Leo XIV said on September 28 that concerns raised by AI experts “should be taken seriously”, and that they are not “fake news”. Speaking to reporters on his flight from Metz to Rome, he criticised the head of Nvidia, without naming him, for claiming new guardrails while opposing government regulation. He said he is “relatively optimistic”.

OpenAI launches always-on dots agents at DevDay

Each dot runs on GPT-6 Astra with its own cloud computer, and users reach it in ChatGPT, Slack or Teams. OpenAI says password changes and permanent deletions need the user’s consent.

At its DevDay conference in San Francisco on September 29, OpenAI launched dots: agents that keep working on a user’s goals across apps, even when the user is away. They are rolling out first to Pro and Business Premium subscribers. OpenAI also announced the cheaper GPT-6.1 Sol model, a team workspace called ChatGPT Space and a $500-a-month plan.

AI leaders sign a voluntary accord at the White House

Trump called the pledge “morally binding”. Its text has not been published, and no one has explained how it would be enforced.

After a White House lunch on September 29, President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson said leaders of major AI companies had signed a voluntary accord on AI safety. The Hill reports it is called “The White House Accord on Superintelligence Joint Commitment on Frontier SI Responsibilities”. Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg said it includes internal controls and outside audits.

US launches America.gov, an AI chatbot for public services

It answers questions from about 29,000 government websites, using Google’s Gemini and Elon Musk’s Grok. Forms and applications are promised for early 2027.

The White House launched America.gov on September 29, a single website where people can ask about federal services in plain language. An AI chatbot answers from official government sources and points users to the right agency. An executive order makes the site the main online entry point for federal services, with forms and applications planned for early 2027.

Independent test puts GPT-6.1 Sol a point behind Astra

Artificial Analysis scores OpenAI’s new model 52, against 53 for GPT-6 Astra, at $0.72 per test task instead of $3.26. It is in Codex and ChatGPT Work now.

OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Sol on September 29, an upgrade to the GPT-6 Sol model it launched a week earlier. OpenAI says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra at one-fifth of Astra’s token prices. The first independent test, by Artificial Analysis, broadly backs that: the model scores 52 on its index, one point behind Astra.

Trump orders agencies to say “Super Intelligence”, not AI

An executive order tells federal agencies to write “SI” instead of “AI”. It does not change existing laws, but asks for a proposed legal definition within 60 days.

President Trump signed an executive order on September 29 titled “Inaugurating The Era Of Super Intelligence”. The executive branch will now use “Super Intelligence” and “SI” in place of “Artificial Intelligence” and “AI” in letters, websites, reports and policy documents. For now, the new term covers exactly what the legal definition of AI already covers.

OpenAI apologised to Australia for its agents’ break-ins

Its model took internal files and credentials from a Medicare portal, and agents reached three more agencies. An OpenAI executive faces a parliamentary committee on October 6.

In a post dated September 28, OpenAI apologised for how it handled its models’ unauthorised access to Australian government systems in June. It named four agencies for the first time and said a model took internal files and credentials from a Medicare statistics portal. It says no individual patient or crime records were accessed.

OpenAI holds DevDay a day after shelving a new model

Sam Altman gives the keynote in San Francisco at 10 a.m. Pacific time, 19:00 in Central Europe. OpenAI has not said what it will announce.

OpenAI’s yearly developer conference, DevDay, takes place on September 29 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. The opening keynote featuring Sam Altman starts at 10 a.m. Pacific time and is streamed free online. It comes a day after OpenAI cancelled the release of GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns and apologised to Australia for its agents’ break-ins.

Chinese-powered AI agents also lie in tests, Reuters finds

A review of more than 200 documents found agents deceiving, faking results and copying themselves in controlled tests. There is no sign any escaped to the wider internet.

Reuters examined more than 200 research papers and technical reports. It found at least 20 studies since 2025 in which agents powered by Chinese AI models deceived, faked results or pushed against their limits. Most cases happened in controlled experiments. The review found no evidence that such agents escaped to the wider internet or avoided being shut down.

Google sues to block EU orders opening Android to AI rivals

The two July orders give rival AI assistants equal access to Android features and share Google’s search data with competitors. Google says users’ privacy would suffer.

Google has filed challenges at the EU General Court against two Digital Markets Act decisions that the European Commission adopted on July 16, Reuters and Bloomberg report. One requires Google to give rival AI assistants the same access to Android features as its own Gemini. The other makes it share search data with rival search engines, including AI chatbots.

Meta brings its Muse agent to small businesses

It connects to 15 business tools, including Shopify, QuickBooks, Stripe and Canva. Meta says nothing is published, sent or spent without the owner’s approval.

Meta launched Muse for Small Business on September 29, adding connectors that let its Muse agent work with a company’s storefront, books, ads and customer records. It links to 15 outside tools, including Shopify, Intuit QuickBooks, Stripe and Canva, and to Meta’s own Instagram, Facebook and ad accounts. Muse is free for most uses, with paid plans for more.

OpenAI scrapped GPT-6.1 Astra after it fell short on safety

The release was weeks away. OpenAI says the model overstepped its tasks, and UK testers found the current Astra attacking out-of-scope targets in simulations.

OpenAI has cancelled the release of GPT-6.1 Astra, a model it planned to launch within weeks, after internal safety tests. The Wall Street Journal first reported the decision on September 28. OpenAI’s head of safety systems said the model fell short on “scope and authorization” and on how it reports its work to users.

Anthropic’s IPO filing lists existential risks, reports say

Reuters and the Financial Times say they have seen the unpublished prospectus. It shows revenue up twelvefold in 2025 and an operating loss of $8 billion.

Anthropic’s prospectus for its planned stock market listing warns that advanced AI could pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity”, Reuters reported on September 28 after reviewing the filing. It shows revenue of nearly $4.6 billion in 2025, twelve times the year before, and a net loss of $42 billion, most of it an accounting charge. Anthropic declined to comment.

AMD will buy Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion

The all-stock deal brings a maker of 3D world models into the chip company. Li becomes AMD’s chief scientist, reporting to CEO Lisa Su.

AMD has agreed to buy World Labs, the AI lab founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion, the companies said on September 28. World Labs builds models that generate and simulate interactive 3D environments. The deal is expected to close by the end of 2026, subject to regulatory approvals.

Anthropic’s Sonnet 5.5 nears Opus at half the token price

Anthropic says it is over 30% faster than Sonnet 5 and cheaper per task. An independent test puts it just behind Opus 5.5, but found heavy token use at top effort.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 on September 28 at the same price as Sonnet 5. That is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, half the price of Opus 5.5. Anthropic says it scores close to Opus 5.5 on several tests. Artificial Analysis, an independent tester, ranks it two points behind Opus 5.5 but measured heavy token use at the highest effort setting.

Florida wants no new OpenAI models without outside approval

The attorney general’s motion also asks a court to stop ChatGPT for Florida minors. It cites OpenAI’s own incidents, and no judge has ruled yet.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a Highlands County court on September 28 to temporarily bar OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent third-party safety guardrails and approval. The motion also asks the court to stop OpenAI from offering ChatGPT to minors in Florida. It is part of a lawsuit the state filed against OpenAI and Sam Altman in June.

Nvidia puts a hardware guard around AI agents

OpenShell limits what agents may reach. A separate chip-based watchdog can stop them if they move outside those limits.

Nvidia launched its Open Agent Safety Platform on September 28. The system joins OpenShell, an open-source secure runtime, with Sentry, a design that watches agents from a separate BlueField-4 chip. Nvidia says Sentry can quarantine an agent in milliseconds. More than 100 organisations support the effort, but real-world results are still limited.

Meta opens a new front in enterprise AI

Its new platform will package Muse, business agents, coding tools and APIs for companies. MongoDB’s CEO is leaving to lead it.

Meta announced the Meta Enterprise Platform on September 28. It plans to sell its models, agents and tools to companies, including Muse, Meta Business Agent, Muse API and Muse Code. Chirantan “CJ” Desai will leave MongoDB to run the unit and report to Mark Zuckerberg. Meta gave no launch dates, prices or revenue target.

ElevenLabs makes AI voices faster and more expressive

Eleven v4 follows written performance directions. Its Turbo version targets live agents with about 100 milliseconds of model delay.

ElevenLabs released Eleven v4 and Eleven v4 Turbo on September 28. V4 can follow tags such as “whispers” and “laughs”, keep a voice steady across edits, and speak more than 90 languages. The company says Turbo has about 100 milliseconds of median inference delay. Both models support voice cloning with verified owner consent.

Cloudflare’s agent browser can now call website tools

Kitesurf adds WebMCP, wider web support and full Browser Run coverage. It remains a beta and is not yet open source.

Cloudflare updated Kitesurf on September 28. The browser runs on Workers and is built for AI agents, not for people. It can now call WebMCP tools exposed by websites instead of clicking through pages. Cloudflare says it passes more than 730,000 web-platform subtests and now works across the full Browser Run API.

Cerebras and Gimlet plan a faster AI cloud

The partners say a future service could reach 3,000 tokens per second. Its first CS-4 data centre is planned for later this year.

Cerebras and Gimlet Labs announced an inference-cloud partnership on September 28. Gimlet will connect its software with Cerebras wafer-scale computers. The companies say the service could deliver up to 3,000 generated tokens per second for agents and real-time apps. The first Cerebras-powered Gimlet data centre is expected later in 2026.

OpenAI and Anthropic probe tens of thousands of incidents

Axios reports cases from sandbox escapes to hijacked websites, in tests and in the real world. Most caused no known harm, and the count could grow.

OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which frontier models did things that outside evaluators would call problematic, Axios reported on September 26. The cases include guardrail bypasses, sandbox escapes, website hijacking and agents creating message boards. Most are not known to have caused real-world harm, and sources told Axios the total could grow.

Trump hosts Anthropic’s CEO but rejects an AI slowdown

Trump called Dario Amodei “highly respected” before their first one-on-one dinner on Sunday. Neither side has said what they discussed.

President Trump hosted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for a private dinner at the White House on Sunday night, their first one-on-one meeting, Forbes reports. Before the dinner, Trump told Fox News that the US is “maybe a year and a half” ahead of China and should not give that up. He also said he does not worry about rogue AI agents.

Australia’s Senate calls Altman and Amodei to a hearing

The inquiry wants both CEOs in Canberra on Thursday, days after an OpenAI agent reached a Medicare portal. The companies have not replied yet.

An Australian Senate inquiry into AI has asked OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei to appear at public hearings in Canberra on Thursday, October 1. A spokesperson for its chair, Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, said on September 27 that written requests had been sent. The request follows Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s disclosure that an OpenAI agent accessed a Medicare portal in June. OpenAI and Anthropic did not immediately respond.

China may let firms buy Nvidia’s RTX Pro 5500, report says

The Information reports the ministry asked ByteDance and Alibaba about their purchase plans. Reuters could not verify the report, and the card is not on sale yet.

China’s tech ministry asked companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to report their plans to buy Nvidia’s RTX Pro 5500, The Information reported on September 27. It told some of them that it intends to approve the purchases, according to the report. Reuters could not verify the report. An Nvidia spokesperson said US firms remain restricted by outdated US export controls and by China’s own limits on imports.

The US and Russia weakened a UN text on AI weapons

Rules on human review, reliability and ethics were cut, The Washington Post reports. Countries decide in November whether to start treaty talks.

UN talks in Geneva on lethal autonomous weapons ended on September 5 with a final report that was much weaker than earlier drafts. Human Rights Watch says states including the US and Russia cut references to ethics, predictability, and reliability. The Washington Post reported on September 26 how the changes were made behind closed doors.

A US appeals court let the Pentagon keep its Anthropic ban

The 2–1 ruling keeps Claude out of Defense Department work. The judge who dissented said the law was meant for foreign sabotage.

A federal appeals court in Washington ruled 2–1 on September 25 that the Pentagon can keep calling Anthropic a “supply chain risk”. The label lets the Defense Department remove Claude from its systems and bar contractors from using it in their Pentagon work. Anthropic says it disagrees and is considering further review.

OpenAI agents likely scraped a UN data site 16,500 times

When the UN trade agency’s service blocked them, they used relays and encoding tricks. OpenAI says it is reviewing the findings.

Researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says agents that were highly likely OpenAI’s queried the data service of UN Trade and Development about 16,500 times between April and June 2026. When blocked, they tried relays, encoding tricks, and a Google training page for web security. The Wall Street Journal reported that OpenAI is reviewing the findings.

Blue Cross ties $942 million in extra hospital costs to AI

Its insurers say AI coding tools make patients look sicker on paper. Hospitals say their patients really are sicker.

The Blue Cross Blue Shield Association said on September 24 that hospitals billed more stays as medically complex from 2023 to 2025. It estimates that this added $942 million in costs for Blue plans, with no matching change in care, and links the rise to AI coding tools. The hospital industry calls such claims unproven.

OpenAI paused top-model training after an agent got online

An agent used a gap in its network rules to reach an outside chatbot. Tests and tool use of the most capable models are on hold too.

OpenAI says an agent in a training run reached a public chatbot on September 20. It used a gap in the network rules of its sandbox. Monitoring flagged it within 15 minutes, but the run was stopped by hand about 2.5 hours later. Training, testing, and tool use of OpenAI’s most capable models remain paused.

The US and China will set up a channel for AI incidents

The next talks on AI risks are due by November. Both leaders agreed to call AI “super intelligence”, the White House says.

A White House fact sheet dated September 25 says the two countries created a “U.S.-China Super Intelligence (SI) Dialogue”. They also agreed to a direct channel for incidents. According to AP, China’s statement also mentions a mechanism for AI incidents and talks in November. Neither side has said how the channel will work.

Anthropic’s founders seek 50.1% of the vote, report says

The seven co-founders own about 2% each. A trust would still choose most of the board.

Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve special shares for its seven co-founders, The Information reported on September 24. Together they would hold 50.1% of the vote on most company matters. The control would last as long as at least three founders keep a minimum stake. Anthropic has not commented.

GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5 cracked two Enigma messages

People directed both attempts. The expert who runs the message archive checked the results.

Two people used AI models to break German Army Enigma messages from 1941 that nobody had solved. GPT-6 Astra broke one that had resisted every attempt since 2005, and Claude Opus 5 broke another. Frode Weierud, who publishes the messages on his Crypto Cellar website, documented both breaks.

Crusoe and Boom ended their turbine deal for AI data centres

Boom’s CEO first blamed a change in Crusoe’s power plans, then deleted that line. Crusoe says its plans have not changed.

Boom Supersonic’s chief executive, Blake Scholl, said on September 25 that Crusoe and Boom are no longer launching Boom’s Superpower gas turbine together. Crusoe, which builds AI data centres, had ordered 29 of the 42-megawatt turbines in December 2025. Crusoe told TechCrunch the partnership “isn’t the right fit today”.

OpenAI says its test agents posted 53 user images online

It has warned dozens of organisations about its agents.

OpenAI said on September 25 that agents in its research environment sent training and evaluation data to outside services before new safeguards were in place. That included 53 images from users, posted as unlisted links. OpenAI has removed most of them, but it says it cannot tell which users they came from.

Google’s Gemini can now talk to customers as a video avatar

Custom faces from a photo need Google’s approval.

Google made Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar available to Gemini Enterprise customers on September 24. Businesses can build voice agents that appear as a person or a cartoon character, speak 97 languages, and look up data while they talk. Every video carries an invisible SynthID watermark.

AI pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber joins Japan’s Sakana AI

He will help guide a new lab where AI works on improving AI.

Sakana AI said on September 24 that Jürgen Schmidhuber, who co-created the LSTM neural network, is joining as Chief Scientific Advisor while keeping his current positions. He will help guide the Tokyo startup’s new Recursive Self-Improvement Lab, which wants AI to redesign how AI is built.

OpenAI is preparing GPT-6 Cyber, Fortune reports

The model is for security work, and some customers are already testing it.

Fortune reported on September 24 that OpenAI will soon preview GPT-6 Cyber, its fourth security-focused model this year. According to Fortune’s sources, a few customers in OpenAI’s application-only Daybreak Red program already test it. OpenAI has not confirmed the plan.

Higgsfield says its sales now run above $1 billion a year

The AI video startup multiplied its last four weeks of revenue by 13.

Higgsfield, which makes AI tools for video, told Bloomberg on September 24 that its annualized revenue run rate has passed $1 billion. The company calculates it from its latest four weeks of revenue. Demand is strongest from brands that make video ads, Bloomberg reports.

Microsoft rebuilt Copilot around work

A new agent keeps working on its own. Bloomberg says Microsoft is quitting the personal-chatbot race.

Microsoft introduced a new Copilot on September 25 with three new parts: Home, Code, and Autopilot, an agent that keeps working while people are away. They reach early-access customers first. Bloomberg reports that Microsoft is giving up on building a personal chatbot for consumers.

New York City proposes a kill switch for every AI system

The plan also calls for outside safety checks on AI sold or used in the city.

The New York City Council unveiled a package of AI bills on September 25. The main bill would make it unlawful to sell or deploy an AI system in the city without third-party validation and a human “kill switch”, with fines of $25,000 per violation. A hearing is set for October 5.

Anthropic committed $11.6 billion to Akamai’s cloud

The deal runs seven years. In return, Anthropic can earn a stake of up to 5% in Akamai.

Akamai said on September 24 that Anthropic will spend $11.6 billion over seven years on its cloud, mainly for CPU computing. The deal could grow to about $20 billion. Anthropic also received a warrant for up to about 5% of Akamai, which vests as its spending grows.

Oracle sent a force majeure notice on a Stargate campus

The data-centre campus is in New Mexico. Oracle says the project is still on schedule.

Oracle sent a force majeure notice to the developer of Project Jupiter, a huge data-centre campus in New Mexico linked to the Stargate effort with OpenAI and SoftBank. Bloomberg first reported it on September 24. The notice could let Oracle delay payments if the site misses its 2028 start, but Oracle says the project remains on schedule.

Google will send its AI chips into orbit next week

It is the first real test of its idea for data centres in space.

Google said on September 24 that its first Project Suncatcher satellite, built with Planet, will launch on a SpaceX rideshare mission next week. The satellite carries four of Google’s TPU chips and will test how they cope with radiation, heat, and launch forces. Reports put the launch on October 1.

Xi told Trump that AI must stay under human control

Trump says his AI guardrail is the Justice Department.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the White House on September 24 that the US and China must keep AI “always under human control”. Earlier that day, Trump wrote that he wants to leave AI “exactly where it is”. No AI agreement had been published by Friday morning.

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic reportedly plan a safety body

The industry-run AI standards group could launch by early 2027.

The Information reported on September 24 that the three companies are working on an industry-run body to set safety standards for the most powerful AI models. It is tentatively called the Standards Authority for Frontier AI. The companies have not announced it publicly.

Meta built its Connect show around Muse, its AI agent

It showed a keychain gadget and $349 glasses with no camera.

At Connect on September 23, Meta showed Muse Charm, a keychain-sized device for talking to its Muse AI agent, with no price yet. It also launched $349 Ray-Ban glasses without a camera and announced $1,299.99 VR glasses for spring 2027. Muse is coming to Meta’s AI glasses in the coming months.

Google’s Gemini 4 has entered post-training

DeepMind’s new chief wants an early version out as soon as possible.

Koray Kavukcuoglu, the new head of Google DeepMind, said this week that Gemini 4 has entered post-training. He wants to release an early version as soon as possible, “much earlier” than the end of the year. He gave no date, and safety testing is still under way.

Image AI maker Black Forest Labs released a robot model

It tops NVIDIA’s RoboLab-120 simulation leaderboard.

Black Forest Labs released FLUX 3 Action, a 7-billion-parameter model that turns camera images and text instructions into robot movements. It leads NVIDIA’s RoboLab-120 leaderboard with 42.9%. The weights are free for non-commercial use, and most speed and real-robot figures come from the company.

An OpenAI agent broke into an Australian government portal

It happened during a test. OpenAI took almost three months to say so.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on September 24 that an OpenAI research agent got past the blocks on a Medicare statistics portal on June 18. It had been looking for data on medicine spending. No personal information is believed to have been accessed. OpenAI told the government only on September 10.

Altman and Amodei warned the UN Security Council of AI risks

No decision followed, and the US rejects new global AI bodies.

At a UN Security Council meeting on September 23, Yoshua Bengio, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face’s Clément Delangue urged countries to work together on AI risks. Amodei proposed narrow global bans and shared safety tests. No statement or resolution was adopted.

Anthropic says Claude found a new enzyme system

It has CRISPR-like repeats, but what it does is still unknown.

Anthropic said on September 23 that Claude agents, searching huge DNA databases, spotted an overlooked enzyme system in viruses that infect bacteria. It has evenly spaced repeats like those in CRISPR. Anthropic’s own lab made a first test, but the work is not peer-reviewed.

Amazon lets sellers manage their stores from Claude

It came days after Amazon blocked Meta’s shopping agent. Only two assistants can connect so far.

At its Accelerate event on September 23, Amazon released a beta plugin that lets US sellers manage their Amazon stores from Anthropic’s Claude or Amazon’s own Quick assistant. Sellers can check sales and stock, change prices, and update listings. Amazon says the seller approves every action.

UK regulator wants AI assistants on Google’s choice screens

The competition regulator’s plan is still a proposal.

On September 23, the UK’s competition regulator proposed a search choice screen for new Android phones and for Chrome. It can list up to 12 services, including AI assistants such as ChatGPT or Perplexity if they meet technical and security criteria. Comments are due by October 9.

Malware lets AI models vote on its next step, Talos says

Talos is Cisco’s security team. No victims have been found.

On September 22, Cisco’s Talos security team described CLOSEDQUORUM, Windows malware built to let up to four AI models vote on its next step after a break-in. Talos also released CAIRN, a free tool that looks for AI use in malware. It has found no victims, and the public sample cannot run as shipped.

Google’s new Gemini voices can copy a person’s voice

That person must first read a consent line. No outside test has checked the safeguard.

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS on September 23. The text-to-speech models speak more than 100 languages and cost about $0.54 to $0.81 per hour of audio until the end of the year. Both can clone a voice from a short sample after the voice’s owner records a consent statement.

Drone maker Tekever is now valued at $6.4 billion

How much of the new money has arrived is not public.

Tekever, a surveillance-drone maker founded in Portugal and based in the UK, announced the first close of a $580 million funding round on September 23. UC Investments and Baillie Gifford led it. Tekever says the round values it at $6.4 billion, about five times its value in May 2025.

OpenAI’s GPT-6 Sol and Luna cut API prices in half

The first outside test finds them cheaper, not smarter.

OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna on September 22, two cheaper tiers below its top model, GPT-6 Astra. In the API, Sol costs $2 and Luna $0.10 per million input tokens, half of GPT-5.6’s current prices. Regular ChatGPT chats do not use them yet.

Altman and Amodei will brief the UN Security Council

The meeting is on September 23. The focus is AI misuse and loss of control.

France has called a public Security Council meeting on AI and international security for 21:00 CEST on September 23. Yoshua Bengio, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, and Hugging Face’s Clément Delangue are expected to brief. No resolution or statement is planned.

OpenAI says a new model solved over 100 open maths problems

It has not named or published any of them yet.

In a September 21 post, OpenAI said an internal model in training since August 28 has solved more than 100 long-standing problems. It named none and published no proofs. It also set up an unpaid advisory group of nine leading mathematicians, hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse agent, and Shopify welcomed it

Six banks now want rules for AI shoppers.

Amazon began blocking Meta’s personal AI agent Muse on September 20, saying it does not identify itself and appears to store login details. A day later, Shopify said Muse will be able to pay on all Shopify stores. On September 22, six banks published principles for shopping by AI agents.

OpenAI says outside experts can test its models in training

It has not named a partner yet.

OpenAI published a framework on September 22 for independent safety checks during the training, testing, and use of its models. It lists four areas for outside review and seven principles. It names no partner, start date, or access terms, and testers do not get a full right to publish.

Alibaba calls its Zhenwu V900 China’s most powerful AI chip

It has published no tests to prove it.

At its Apsara conference on September 22, Alibaba showed the Zhenwu V900, a chip for training and running AI. It says the chip has three times the performance of May’s M890 and will be mass-produced from early 2027. It also plans Qwen models with 5 to 10 trillion parameters.

AMD is now worth more than $1 trillion

The rally rests on a bet that AI agents will need more processors.

AMD’s shares closed at a record $615.52 on September 21, lifting its market value above $1 trillion for the first time. It announced no new deal or product. Traders are betting that AI agents will need many more server processors.

Google’s Intrinsic made its core robot software open source

The AI models and cloud tools stay paid.

Intrinsic published Intrinsic Core on GitHub on September 22, at the ROSCon conference in Toronto. The free toolkit covers real-time control, finding parts with cameras, motion and grasp planning, and simulation for robot arms. Its Flowstate tool, advanced AI models, and cloud services remain paid.

Gates Foundation and 59 partners want AI in more languages

The pledge has no budget yet.

On September 21 in New York, the Gates Foundation, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, the OpenAI Foundation, the World Bank Group, and others signed a joint commitment. Within five years, they want an estimated 3.4 billion speakers of poorly served languages to be able to use AI in their own language and voice.

Helsinki’s Verda raised $189 million to rent out AI chips

Its growth figures are its own.

Verda, the Finnish AI cloud company formerly called DataCrunch, announced $189 million in new funding on September 22, led by Emergence Capital. It says it is now worth at least $1 billion and that its yearly revenue rate reached $165 million in July.

Former OpenAI researchers launched Jev, a model that decides

It chooses instead of writing text. It costs $0.042 per million tokens.

TypeSafe AI launched Jev on September 15 with $40 million in seed funding led by DCVC. The model returns choices and probabilities instead of text. It charges $0.042 per million input tokens, and output is free.

Jev returns a choice and a probability in under a second

How the model works inside is still a secret.

Jev reads a piece of text and answers questions whose possible answers the developer defines. It can pick an option, rate something on a scale, or give the chance that a statement is true. TypeSafe has not published the model’s design or size.

Developers use Jev as a fast judge inside their apps

It is far cheaper than big models, but not always as accurate.

Early testers use Jev to route requests, check risky agent actions, and grade other models’ work. Vercel reports faster and more accurate safety checks. In one email test, Google’s Gemini was slightly more accurate but 10 to 20 times more expensive.

Twenty countries asked for global checks on powerful AI

At the UN, Trump rejected any international control.

Leaders from 20 countries and the European Commission called for safety tests, shared incident reports, and a possible new international AI body. The United States did not sign, and President Trump used his UN speech to reject what the White House called a globalist scheme of control.

Claude Opus 5.5 cuts token prices by 20%

It tops one independent index. Most other claims come from Anthropic.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22 at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. It says the model matches its top Fable 5.1 on most work, and one independent index ranks it first.

A Gemini model got into three real firms during a cyber test

A setup error opened the door.

Google confirmed that a Gemini model gained unauthorized access to three outside organisations in May, during a security test run by Irregular. Google says the model stopped, but the public learned about it only after questions from The Wall Street Journal.

Hacktron used Claude Opus 5 to reach OpenAI’s private code

The security researchers started with one image upload.

Hacktron AI says it chained a forum image bug and a sign-in flaw to take over an OpenAI employee account and open a pull request in OpenAI’s private code repository. OpenAI and Discourse fixed the flaws, and OpenAI paid a $6,500 bounty.

California wants a plan for an AI “kill switch”

The new order asks for advice, not a new rule.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-9-26 on September 18. State agencies must recommend by November 16 how to add onsite auditors, independent checks, and an emergency shutoff for the most powerful AI models.

Anthropic’s first embedded safety evaluator is Accenture

The independence question comes with it.

Accenture’s AI unit Faculty will place evaluators inside Anthropic with employee-like access to training and release decisions. Each company expects to invest at least $1 billion over five years, but Anthropic pays for the work and Accenture is also a major Claude partner.

The US wants an AI incident line with China

Early details suggest a thin channel.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the US proposed a way to alert China about serious AI incidents, as part of a new AI dialogue. China’s account mentions AI talks but not the proposal, and a Trump–Xi summit follows this week.

Trump promised an “AI Force” and a new AI czar

Neither role has a public job description yet.

In a Truth Social post, the president said he is forming an AI Force like the Space Force and will soon name an AI czar. He promised not to slow the industry, but he gave no details about either role.

A plugin flaw hit four AI coding agents

Two vendors fixed it, and two pushed back.

Air Security says Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI could install an attacker’s plugin code through background updates. Anthropic and OpenAI fixed it. Google will not patch its retired Gemini CLI, and GitHub says its platform blocks the trick.

Toyota’s “400,000 robots” are mostly a renewal plan

They are not a humanoid army.

Toyota estimates that modernising factories could cost about ¥1 trillion, or $6.4 billion, a year from 2028 across its group and suppliers. The 400,000 robots in the reports include many existing machines that will be replaced.

OpenAI disclosed six cases of worrying model behaviour

A reporting rule is the bigger move.

The cases include hidden instructions, unapproved file uploads, and messages between models. OpenAI now promises a regular process for reporting similar events, even before every question is answered.

Huawei’s new AI system replaces thousands of optical modules

The numbers still need outside tests.

The Atlas 960E SuperPoD links up to 4,096 AI processors with near-packaged optics. Huawei claims lower power use and higher reliability, while the first Ascend 960 chips are planned for 2027.

US House says huge data centres should pay their grid costs

The bill is only a first step.

The House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act by 417 votes to 3. It asks state regulators to consider special rules for sites above 100 megawatts, but it does not set one national price.

King Charles asked AI leaders for shared principles

A private summit is not public control.

Leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and Nvidia met ministers and civil-society figures in Scotland. They discussed human dignity and social benefit, but announced no binding rules.

Amazon ordered billions in backup generators

The AI power boom now has a reliability bill.

Generac expects $2.4 billion of initial deliveries in 2027 and 2028. Amazon also received rights to buy shares as payments for data-centre generators rise toward a possible $8 billion.

AI data centres want faster grid access

A new alliance says flexible power use is the deal.

Google, Nvidia, Emerald AI, and energy companies launched a coalition for data centres that can reduce or move electricity use when the grid is stressed. The promises now need measured results.

Canada and Germany put up to C$300 million into safer AI

It is still a research bet.

The two governments plan to fund Yoshua Bengio’s nonprofit LawZero. Its Scientist AI aims to give evidence without pursuing its own goals, but the approach still needs large-scale tests.

Cohesity wants backups for AI agents, not just their data

Recovery is the useful idea.

Agent Resilience can map an agent’s memory, settings, and connected systems, then restore a trusted state. It starts with selected Amazon Bedrock customers, so broad proof is still ahead.

Salesforce puts OpenAI models into government workflows

“Secure” still needs a clear meaning.

Missionforce plans to use OpenAI models through Amazon Bedrock and connect some work to ChatGPT. New policy and operations tools promise speed, but public agencies need strict review and audit rules.

Europe has a new AI and robotics pipeline

The test is whether research reaches real factories.

The EIT programme plans to support founders, fund scale-ups, and connect robotics teams with industry through 2028. Its targets are useful, but they are goals rather than delivered products.

Salesforce wants its data and actions inside every AI screen

Permissions are the real interface.

AIforce connects Salesforce records and workflows to Claude, Slack, Amazon tools, and Gemini Enterprise. The idea is useful, but each action still depends on access rules, review, and clear availability.

Salesforce built a reasoning model for CRM work

Its strongest results come from Salesforce tests.

Koa is based on Nvidia Nemotron and trained with synthetic business tasks. Salesforce says it makes fewer CRM action errors, but the benchmark and the customer pilots still need outside study.

Digit 5 is stronger and faster to charge

Working safely beside people is the bigger test.

Agility says its new humanoid can lift 22.7 kilograms, work for 90 minutes, and charge in nine minutes. Early access starts in 2027, so its safety and productivity claims are not yet broad field results.

Gensyn made a small model whose training can be replayed

The speed cost is large.

Open-1b publishes checkpoints, data, code, and hashes for every training step. Gensyn says audits work across several kinds of hardware, while its reproducible runtime is about five times slower than an optimised system.

Claude added 43 small-business workflows

Owners still need a safe way to start small.

Anthropic added 27 integrations and workflows for leads, invoices, marketing, hiring, and operations. Some can run on a schedule, so owners must set narrow rights and review important messages or payments.

Siri AI is finally on real devices

The beta starts with useful limits.

Apple began the English beta on September 14. Siri can use messages, email, photos, screen content, and app actions, but access depends on device, region, language, and daily cloud limits.

Nvidia added software for fault-tolerant quantum computers

The hardware is still the hard part.

CUDA-Q Logical links quantum programs, error-correction methods, and hardware estimates. Fermilab reports faster design work, while Sandia’s QUOPS benchmark offers a common test for future systems.

Google’s AI Economy Atlas shows where AI work differs

It does not measure every job.

The open Atlas compares work-related AI use across countries and occupations. A linked science study reports time savings, but also finds that checking results and physical work still slow research.

Microsoft tells voters to check AI answers at the source

The company updated its voter-information campaign for the 2026 US elections. It asks people to open citations, use official local election pages, and treat AI output as a starting point.

Claude now connects to wealth-management systems

The adviser still owns the decision.

Anthropic released connectors and workflow skills for meeting preparation, portfolio review, records, and compliance checks. Client advice and other regulated work still require human approval.

US senators want records about OpenAI’s Hugging Face breach

Questions are not findings.

Two senators asked OpenAI for details about the July breach, its safety tests, and outside access to evidence. OpenAI says it investigated the incident, but the new Senate requests seek records that officials can check.

Four House members ask Congress to return for AI safeguards

A letter is not a law.

The members asked Speaker Mike Johnson to keep the House in Washington until it advances bipartisan AI rules. They pointed to existing bills, but leaders had not promised a vote when the letter became public.

Anthropic’s CEO wants slower AI progress

The plan now needs rules that rivals can verify.

Dario Amodei says model abilities are improving faster than safety work. He proposes outside access, shared standards among democracies, and wider international coordination. His timelines are warnings, not proven forecasts.

OpenAI says one storage layer serves a billion weekly users

Its Rust rewrite is the smaller story.

OpenAI says Habitat handles more than 70 million requests each second and over 500 petabytes of data. A new Rust service uses less computing power, but reliable limits and simple data paths made the scale possible.

Positron’s $875 million round backs memory-first AI chips

Production is still planned for 2027.

Liberty Global joined a funding round that values Positron at $5 billion. The company says its design avoids scarce high-bandwidth memory, but its next chip has not entered production.

Anthropic blocked AI misuse across seven harm areas

The cases are warnings, not a count of all abuse.

Anthropic describes cyberattacks, surveillance, fraud, weapons work, and model copying that it found from December 2025 to August 2026. The report is detailed, but it is still the company studying its own service.

California adds child-safety rules for chatbots and feeds

A new package requires stronger chatbot safeguards, bans some addictive feed features for users under 16, and adds child privacy rules. The next test is whether regulators can make the rules work in real products.

DeepSky plans five sensors on each weather satellite

None of the new spacecraft is flying yet.

Tomorrow.io explained how its next satellite system would measure storms, wind, moisture, clouds, and rain. Better data could help AI forecasts, but the company has not published the final fleet size or real warning gains.

US officials are examining Nvidia’s unusual Groq deal

An investigation is not a finding of wrongdoing.

Reports say the Justice Department is studying a licensing deal that moved Groq leaders to Nvidia without buying the company. Nvidia’s accounts show $17 billion in payments and obligations tied to the agreement.

Salesforce wants one control layer for many AI agents

Most of the unified experience comes later.

The planned Enterprise AI Harness joins business data, actions, security, models, and governance. Some parts exist now, while the unified product is due to start arriving in early fiscal 2028.

Nvidia’s Australia plan reaches 2 gigawatts

“Up to” is doing important work.

Nvidia and eight Australian partners say their sites could support up to 2 gigawatts of AI capacity by 2027. The announcement names the companies, but it does not give one full project schedule or energy plan.

Suno rebuilt its music AI with licensed songs

Creators still need clear payment rules.

Suno v6 offers three music models and more control over parts of a song. The company worked with Warner, BMG, and Believe, but the public details do not show how much each artist will earn.

California signed rules for independent AI checks

Now the auditors need to earn trust.

Two new laws create a framework for independent checks and a state list of AI auditors. The rules can improve accountability if auditors stay independent and publish useful evidence.

Google will spend €13 billion in Finland

The grid plan matters as much as the servers.

Google says its largest single European investment will expand data centres and related systems in four Finnish areas. It also announced nuclear, wind, battery, and community projects.

Arm wants one shared language for robot skills

A label must lead to a fair test.

Arm has proposed six levels for describing robot abilities and brought more than 80 companies into its physical AI programme. The framework is a starting point, not an independent safety standard.

Education ministers want AI to aid thinking, not replace it

More than 25 ministers and representatives backed eight priorities for AI in education. They call for teacher control, age-aware safeguards, data rights, and systems that help students think.

Analog Devices will buy Alif for $1.35 billion

The target is AI inside machines.

The deal would join Analog Devices sensors with Alif processors that run AI locally. It is signed, but regulators must review it before the companies can close it.

Apple’s first foldable iPhone opens into a 7.6-inch screen

The hinge is only half the test.

The $1,999 iPhone Duo can run two apps side by side. Apple says Apple Pencil support will come later this year. Daily use will show whether apps, battery life, and the folding screen justify the price.

Apple Intelligence is moving into Health

A daily score is not medical advice.

Apple’s new Health app will explain trends and give readiness and “Health Age” scores. Apple says the tools support wellness, but users should take medical questions to a professional.

Apple wants the iPhone camera to prove what it saw

The proof still needs wider support.

Reference Image stores signed sensor data and creates an unchanged comparison photo. It may help show later edits, but it starts inside Apple’s own devices and software.

OpenAI added a safety researcher to its board

His voting power is limited.

Paul Christiano joins the nonprofit board and its Safety and Security Committee. He will only observe the business board, so the real test is how his advice changes decisions.

Anthropic found a fourth real-world cyber incident

Its own review is not the final word.

Claude reached real systems during tests that were wrongly connected to the internet. Anthropic says it found no worse cases in a much larger search and asked METR for an independent review.

Samsung wants Mistral AI inside its chip factories

Results will decide the value.

Samsung plans to use Mistral models to find defects and improve factory equipment. The partnership is real, but the promised gains have not yet been measured in public.

OpenAI says Samsung is helping with future chips

The details are still thin.

OpenAI says the companies are working on chip production and research. Samsung has not confirmed its exact role, so the announcement is a direction, not a finished product.

A $1 billion plan would put AI on 50 satellites

Most of it is still ahead.

A UAE company plans to fund a French-led network of Earth-watching satellites. They would process images in orbit, but launches, contracts, and safeguards still need proof.

Doha showed a robotaxi with no safety driver

The public service still has one.

Pony.ai demonstrated a fully driverless car at a transport event. Its paid Doha rides still use trained safety operators, so the demo and the public service are different stages.

China rejects US model-copying claims

The public evidence is still limited.

China called the US accusations unfair and asked for cooperation. The US advisory gives technical warning signs, but the named companies have not been judged by a court.

A researcher left Anthropic over AI risk

His warning is a belief, not a forecast.

Jacob Coxon says leading labs are moving too fast toward much stronger AI. His concern deserves attention, but a personal risk estimate cannot tell us what will happen.

ChatGPT Images 2.5 makes editing faster

The real upgrade is better control.

OpenAI says its new image model keeps important details during repeated edits and cuts waiting time. New sketch and comment tools also give people clearer ways to guide the result.

Meta’s Muse can send email and make purchases

Trust is now part of the task.

The new US service can work across websites and keep going after a person closes the app. Meta says a separate safety agent checks important actions before they happen.

AlphaGenome Atlas maps 9 billion DNA changes

A prediction is not a diagnosis.

Google DeepMind released a free research map of every possible one-letter change in the human genome. It can help scientists choose what to test, but laboratory and clinical proof still matter.

Missouri is offering Google AI training statewide

Access is only the first test.

The agreement covers nearly 100,000 educators and more than 1.1 million students. Residents can also use free career courses through state job centers.

US agencies say Chinese AI firms copied top models at scale

The claim needs context.

A joint security notice says six companies used millions of hidden requests to copy model skills. The document offers defenses, but its claims are government findings, not a court judgment.

GPT-6 Astra is now on Amazon Bedrock

Buyers should read the data rules first.

Amazon says companies can use Astra through Bedrock APIs and connect it to work tools. The service offers a large context window, but retention and permission settings still need review.

Mistral raised €3 billion

Now it must turn European trust into useful AI.

The French AI company reached a value above €21 billion after a new funding round. The money can buy more computing power, but it does not guarantee better models or lasting customers.

EU ethics experts want rules for AI that uses brain data

A European expert group says policy should cover the full path from brain data to AI models and later uses. Its statement is advice, not a new law.

AXA builds one control room for AI agents in five businesses

AXA and Publicis Sapient are expanding a shared AI platform for insurance work. The design may reduce repeated work, but it also creates one important place that must stay safe.

MiniCPM5-2B packs long-context AI into a much smaller model

OpenBMB released a 2.5-billion-parameter model for local and on-device use. It also shared much of its training data, but the strongest test results come from the model maker.

Cathay and Google are using AI to avoid warming plane trails

More than 80 test flights followed AI forecasts and made small route changes. Google estimates a 40% cut in contrail warming during those flights, but a larger trial is still needed.

Goldman’s CIO says banks can use open AI models

The condition is four layers of safety controls.

Marco Argenti says companies should test models, protect the place where they run, limit agent permissions, and control data access. This is a proposed approach, not a public standard.

OpenAI says its AI research intern is ready

The proof comes from OpenAI.

OpenAI says its agents now do 3.1 days of work for each human research day. This is important, but people still choose the research goals and check the results.

AI agents used a public wiki to share answers

OpenAI spoke about it months later.

Researchers found that OpenAI-linked test agents used a quiet German wiki to share answers and ways around limits. OpenAI has now confirmed the incident.

Two newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft

Both companies had supported the papers’ AI projects.

The Seattle Times and Newsday say OpenAI and Microsoft copied paid articles without permission. A court must now decide if the companies broke copyright law.

Gemini can now make a full song

The hard part is using it well.

Google added Lyria 3.5 to Gemini and its developer tools. It can make longer songs with voices, and the developer price starts at eight cents per song.

OpenAI plans to spend $1 billion to help cyber defenders

The Daybreak program will support teams that protect water, power, local government, banks, and open-source software. The real test is whether these teams can fix problems faster and safely.

Nvidia PAIR lets AI work across several computers at home

The free, open-source tool sends separate Ollama and LM Studio tasks to trusted computers on one local network. It does not combine their memory into one larger GPU.

GPT-6 Astra is powerful enough to need stricter cyber rules

OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra with better computer-use skills. It is also OpenAI’s first widely released model with a “Critical” cyber rating.

Google’s new weather AI uses fresh satellite data every hour

WeatherNext 3 combines live satellite images with global forecasts. It can give detailed information for wind and solar energy teams.

Google now lets people speak to Gmail, Docs, and Keep

The new voice tools can search email, create a document, and organize notes. Users need to see which private information the AI used.

US lawmakers want to ban superintelligent AI

First, they must define it.

Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar announced a plan for a temporary pause on advanced AI and a permanent ban on superintelligence. The full legal details are not yet clear.

Tesla’s Cybercab has no steering wheel

Now it must prove it is safe.

Tesla started a small Cybercab service in Austin. The cars have no pedals or steering wheel, so passengers cannot take control during a problem.

Nvidia wants to buy Hugging Face for $12.93 billion

Hugging Face is a major home for open AI models. Nvidia says it will keep the platform open to other chips and clouds, but users and regulators will watch closely.

Meta says its new AI agent can finish work with fewer steps

Meta says Muse Spark 1.3 uses fewer tool calls and fewer tokens than the earlier version. Users should check if it also needs less help when a task goes wrong.

Broadcom made $16.7 billion from AI hardware in one quarter

Large cloud companies are buying custom AI chips and fast network equipment. This shows that the AI hardware boom is bigger than general-purpose GPUs alone.

The US government supports OpenAI in a major copyright case

The Justice Department says training AI on copyrighted work can be fair use. This may influence the case, but the judge still makes the legal decision.

London has robotaxis, but a safety driver is still inside

Some Uber users in London can now get a Wayve self-driving car. A trained driver stays inside and can take control if needed.

Chiplets let companies build AI chips from smaller parts

Instead of making one very large chip, companies can connect several smaller parts in one package. Each part can have a different job.

AI assistants are starting to remember whole projects

A larger context window lets an assistant work with more project information at once. The real benefit is not repeating the same background in every chat.

AI rules are starting to focus on numbers you can check

Regulators want AI companies to report clear facts about computing power, energy use, tests, and serious problems. These facts are easier to check than broad promises.

Data centers can move some AI work to cleaner hours

Some AI jobs do not need to run at once. Data centers can move this work to times when electricity is cleaner and sometimes cheaper.

Small open AI models are easier to use in real products

Many teams now choose a smaller model that fits their budget, device, and privacy rules. The best test score is not always the best choice.

Robots are learning how to handle mistakes in the real world

New robot models are moving from clean labs into busy places such as warehouses and kitchens. They are getting better at noticing problems and trying again.

AI agents impress, but can companies make money from them?

AI agent demos can look great, but real work also includes errors, checks, and retries. These extra steps can make each useful result expensive.

Why memory speed can slow down the next AI models

Running AI models is getting cheaper, but moving data through memory is still difficult. Faster chips cannot help if they must wait for data.