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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.