Zuckerberg, Musk, and Huang reportedly urged President Trump to reject an industry-funded AI regulator as debate over frontier AI oversight intensifies. The post Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang Reportedly Urged Trump to Reject AI Regulator appeared… Read more: Zuckerberg, Musk and Huang Reportedly Urged Trump to Reject AI Regulator

Politicians who threaten filmmakers rather than investigate alleged military crimes expose not strength but a leadership frightened of the evidence Across Israel, politicians, military leaders and much of the media are trying to discredit a… Read more: The Guardian view on NAZA’s persecuted directors: journalism is not treason | Editorial

Readers respond to the warning from a former Anthropic researcher that the technology could ‘kill us all’ by the end of the decade Here we go again with another round of tech bros claiming that… Read more: Could AI pose a serious threat to our existence? | Letters

Parole condition of convicted killer Susan Neill-Fraser deemed invalid after board cited non-existent case law Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A review of potential artificial intelligence use in parole… Read more: Tasmanian justice department review under way after AI and fake citation used in murderer’s parole decision

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of… Read more: Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies

The US narrowly avoided boarding a Chinese ship based on an “entirely false” US intelligence report generated with the help of AI tools, according to a CNN report. That erroneous intelligence, submitted by a US… Read more: AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack

With so many talks about AI’s potential to someday wipe out mankind with some spooky bioweapon, it seems many have overlooked the catastrophic risk that AI is actually posing in the here and now. Bombshell… Read more: US Military Nearly Started World War III After AI Chatbot Hallucinated Nuclear Weapons Aboard a Chinese Ship

On Wednesday, US government officials removed a Chinese AI search tool that was briefly deployed on the Federal Register website, Reuters reported. The change came after social media users noticed an apparent contradiction: The National… Read more: US government website used Chinese model the FBI called “malicious”

For a long time, sleep research has treated the cerebral cortex as a passive follower reacting to signals from the deep brain. “Usually, sleep is associated with being controlled by subcortical regions,” said Geoffrey Terral,… Read more: Finding the cells that put our brain to sleep

The Federal Communications Commission yesterday approved Paramount Skydance’s plan to sell large equity stakes to the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar. Under US law, companies with licenses to… Read more: FCC lets Paramount sell 49.5% equity stake to Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Qatar

An AI tool is set to start advising air traffic controllers on managing air traffic in the congested airspace above the Washington, DC, area. The expected launch would be the first step toward a planned… Read more: FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion

Anthropic PBC has opened a wet lab, a facility dedicated to biology research, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Reuters reported today that the company will use robots to automate certain scientific tasks at the… Read more: Anthropic opens AI-powered biology research lab

Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.

Yesterday, Futurism published a months-long investigation into a little-known company called Brown Brothers Media — a sprawling media empire that buys struggling news publications and turns them into AI-powered content mills, while engaging in deeply dishonest… Read more: Here’s Every Known Publication Owned by Brown Brothers Media, Which Buys News Sites and Turns Them Into AI-Powered Content Mills

Though Europe has measures that address how consumers might encounter AI, technology will impact them if the worst scenarios bear Europe’s dilemma over AI was rendered in stark terms this week. The head of the… Read more: Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate

In the growing AI ecosystem, specialized cloud platform provider CoreWeave Inc. is defining its role as a cost-efficient resource for companies seeking to deploy AI with less investment and effort. Two announcements over the past… Read more: What to expect during CoreWeave’s ‘Fully Connected’ event: Join theCUBE Sept. 30-Oct. 1

As it marks its 10-year anniversary, MIT Reads is being reimagined for the age of artificial intelligence.  Recognizing the need to foster social connection and a sense of our shared humanity, the popular MIT Libraries’ program… Read more: A new chapter for MIT Reads

For as long as we can remember, Meta has been the tip of the surveillance state spear. The company has amassed an unprecedented amount of intimate data about billions of people — and treated that… Read more: Mark Zuckerberg’s Wife Has Set Strict Limits on Their 11-Year-Old Daughter’s AI Use

As it marks its 10-year anniversary, MIT Reads is being reimagined for the age of artificial intelligence.  Recognizing the need to foster social connection and a sense of our shared humanity, the popular MIT Libraries’ program… Read more: A new chapter for MIT Reads

Vietnam’s NATIF is offering businesses up to about $114,000 for AI projects, with applications open through Oct. 10, 2026. The post Vietnam Offers Businesses About $114K for AI Projects — Who Qualifies? appeared first on… Read more: Vietnam Offers Businesses About $114K for AI Projects — Who Qualifies?

A new Samsung patent reveals how wearable glucose measurement could work as the company continues researching noninvasive blood sugar monitoring. The post Samsung’s New Patent Reveals How a Galaxy Watch Could Measure Blood Sugar appeared… Read more: Samsung’s New Patent Reveals How a Galaxy Watch Could Measure Blood Sugar

Prism ML Inc. announced Thursday the launch of Bonsai 2 27B, the second generation of its ultra-compact multimodal generative artificial intelligence small enough to fit on PCs and some high-end mobile devices. The company said… Read more: PrismML launches Bonsai 2 27B, a high-intelligence AI model so small it fits on consumer hardware

Opal Zero brings dynamic AI-based decisioning to enable frictionless just-in-time access governance to AI agents across Claude, OpenAI, Cursor, and other platforms Enterprises are moving fast on AI agents, and the controls have to adapt… Read more: Opal Security Announced the Launch of Opal Zero

This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss just doing it, machines that eat the… Read more: Behind the Blog: Eating the Internet

In this collaboration with our friends at The Intercept, 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and the Intercept’s Sam Biddle and Akela Lacy discuss the ways AI is already used to empower private surveillance companies that filter… Read more: 404 Media x The Intercept Live: How AI Is Used to Surveil and Kill

The majority of Americans are harboring some apocalyptic fears about AI. According to a new Politico poll that surveyed over 2,000 adults, about two thirds of the American public believes there’s now at least a… Read more: The Majority of Americans Are Now Terrified of AI

Cyber researchers broke into OpenAI using its key rival Anthropic’s software, highlighting vulnerabilities in the ChatGPT maker’s security as leading AI companies face mounting scrutiny over safety. A small cyber security group gained access to… Read more: Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI

Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, a genetic disorder affecting respiratory function. Credit: Ning Xu, Tsinghua University Abnormal beating of airway cilia from a child with Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia,… Read more: Meet the winner of Nikon’s Small World in Motion video contest

And in a desperate attempt to turn a cliche into a sharper analogy to today’s AI era, let’s complete the rest of Charles Dickens’ first line in “A Tale of Two Cities,” which honestly does… Read more: For AI agents, it’s the best of times, it’s the worst of times

Andy Burnham’s focus on immediate domestic problems leads some to fear issue has dropped off government’s radar Towards the end of Keir Starmer’s time in office, his senior ministers, alarmed by the latest developments in… Read more: ‘A critical moment’: concern UK is not up to speed in acting on AI risks

Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.

The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.

Enterprise investment in generative and agentic AI continue to accelerate, but an increasingly important question is emerging amongst applied AI leaders: Where is the measurable return? At the individual level, the value is clear. With… Read more: Where Is the ROI from Enterprise AI?

The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.

Dru MetaGraph and a proprietary AI threat pipeline analyze suspicious behavior, validate impact, and guide precise containment and clean recovery Druva, the resilience foundation for the AI enterprise, today announced new capabilities for Druva Identity… Read more: Druva Launches New Identity and Ransomware Detection Capabilities

Three in four customers deploy Evo within the quarter they buy it, using Snyk’s independent validation and remediation layer to govern agents and turn findings into fixes. Snyk, the AI security company, today announced that Evo… Read more: Snyk’s Evo Reaches 60% of New Deal Volume Amid AI Risk

The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers.

Enterprises are moving beyond standalone AI tools as they look for ways to weave agents into the work employees and customers already do. The shift toward connected AI workflows raises broader questions about how agents… Read more: What to expect at Dreamforce: Join theCUBE on Sept. 25

Scientists have found a new way to create a controlled beam of muonium, an exotic atom containing a heavier cousin of the electron. The advance could allow researchers to test for the first time whether… Read more: Scientists are about to test Einstein’s gravity with exotic matter

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope may now have enough fuel for at least 22 years of science, more than double its original 10 year design life. An extremely precise course correction, extra fuel at launch, and… Read more: NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could last more than twice as long as planned

A new Caltech device can redirect a beam of light in just 74 femtoseconds using another beam and a nanoscale silicon metasurface. The breakthrough could pave the way for dramatically faster photonic communications, computing, and… Read more: Caltech’s tiny new chip can steer light in 74 quadrillionths of a second

A newly discovered snake from New Guinea has been named after Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, who has loved reptiles since childhood. Genetic testing and physical differences confirmed that the reddish-brown groundsnake, Lielaphis slashi, is… Read more: Scientists just named a new snake after Guns N’ Roses legend Slash

Scientists discovered a population of cells that can start the process of programmed cell death, survive it, and then help rapidly rebuild damaged tissue. Their descendants become far more resistant to future damage, revealing a… Read more: Scientists discover cells that cheat death and rebuild damaged tissue

Gartner reports that warehouse automation now spans four operational AI tiers as logistics operators transition from software trials to live facility deployments. In an analysis released this month, the research firm concludes that logistics infrastructure… Read more: Gartner outlines four AI tiers in warehouse automation

An AI answer to a search query can fit one of several types. Matteo Della Torre/NurPhoto via Getty Images I recently typed a simple question into Google search: How much screen time is too much… Read more: How to know if you can trust an AI’s answer to your question

In the lab, GreyOrange’s GreyMatter software manages a single order’s journey across technology from multiple vendors and the workforce, all on one floor GreyOrange, a global leader in AI-powered multi-agent warehouse orchestration and store inventory… Read more: Kenco Innovation Lab Presents GreyOrange’s AI-Powered Warehouse Orchestration

US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’ Cybersecurity researchers have hacked into OpenAI with the help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, in the latest example of security… Read more: OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot

Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and formal guardrails to be introduced by the US government. But President Trump is not moved by the doomsday predictions, calling them a ‘hoax’. What… Read more: Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? | Politics Weekly America

AI Governance, Ontologies, Intelligent Feeds, Console, Governed Collections, and Semantic Model Mastering extend AIOS coverage of governed data, context, and AI agents across the enterprise Alation Inc., the creators of the intelligence operating system, today… Read more: Alation Expands AIOS™ with Six Products that Accelerate AI Transformation

Anak Krakatau erupted for more than 24 hours in early September, sending volcanic ash up to 50,000 feet into the atmosphere. The ash cloud shut down eight airports, disrupted nearly 3,000 flights, and affected air… Read more: Anak Krakatau blasts ash nearly 10 miles high

Ozempic and other GLP-1 medications can improve blood sugar, weight, and cardiovascular health, but researchers found little evidence that they also improve mental health, employment, marriage, or overall well-being. The findings suggest the drugs’ broader… Read more: Ozempic can change your body. Can it change your life?

Scientists found that declining levels of the brain protein Menin may help drive aging, with lower levels in mice linked to inflammation, cognitive decline, weaker bones, and thinner skin. Restoring Menin reversed several age-related changes,… Read more: Scientists restore a brain protein and reverse signs of aging in mice

Newer blood thinners may do more than prevent strokes in people with Alzheimer’s disease and atrial fibrillation. Researchers found that patients taking NOACs experienced a slower decline in cognitive function than those using warfarin or… Read more: These blood thinners may have an unexpected benefit for Alzheimer’s patients

The left wants AI regulation. They just can’t agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed a 728-foot-wide crater that formed on the Moon in 2024, making it the largest newly formed crater ever identified in the solar system. The impact disturbed the surface for… Read more: NASA’s Moon orbiter finds a 728-foot crater that wasn’t there before

Six-time entrepreneur Frank Addante’s new company gives each user their own digital twin, not just an assistant, and private memory graph across phone, text, email, voice, web, and app. Hello Haven, a personal AI company… Read more: Hello Haven Debuts With a Personal AI Digital Twin and $15 Mn Funding

Google’s experimental CC assistant now helps groups of up to six adults coordinate household schedules and shared information through one AI-managed account. The post Google CC AI Agent Manages Family Calendars and Tasks appeared first… Read more: Google CC AI Agent Manages Family Calendars and Tasks

OpsGuru, an AWS Premier Tier Partner, has announced the appointment of Tim Currie as President. Currie will lead all go-to-market functions across OpsGuru’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) and managed cloud portfolio, driving growth across Canada… Read more: OpsGuru Announced the Appointment of Tim Currie as President

Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.

Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.

Liberal MP speaks of AI’s shortcomings as cyber chief tells inquiry the tech is needed to fend off ‘highly capable malicious cyber actors’ Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast When… Read more: Andrew Hastie says AI advised him to reply ‘congratulations!’ to man who planned to end life with assisted dying

The Instinct-to-Instinct model that is the talk of Silicon Valley presents too small a future for personal AI. With Fulcra’s multiplayer capabilities, people can get agent to agent collaboration without having to lock-in to any… Read more: Fulcra Brings Universal Multiplayer to Any Agents You Choose 

Warwick Levy, who runs Lonely Kids Club, says AI may have been used to scrape his entire website and replicate designs Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast After 15 years… Read more: ‘Brutal’: thousands of T-shirt designs stolen and listed on Temu, Sydney label claims

After a week of alarming warnings about the technology’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our expert tech reporters will take your questions on the reality of the AI threat. Join us… Read more: Could AI really end humanity? Post your questions for our tech reporters now

In response to a new European Union law, AI platforms are implementing new schemes for watermarking the content they generate. Anthropic recently disclosed its future Claude models will use SynthID-Text, an approach Google created and… Read more: LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used

US Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) has proposed a law that would require Internet service providers and other network operators to block foreign piracy websites. Issa’s bill would help copyright holders obtain judicial blocking orders to… Read more: Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites

For years, Microsoft and OpenAI have fought to keep certain information out of the public eye in their fight with news organizations that have accused the AI firms of teaming up to violate copyright laws… Read more: Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”

Google’s AI models may not be in the lead by most measures right now, but the company does have one key advantage: your data. If you’re deep in the Google ecosystem, Gemini models have a… Read more: Google announces new experimental “CC” AI agent for families

As European militaries adapt to the use of AI and drones in modern warfare, a NATO-backed startup is helping to deploy AI-driven target detection and selection that can run on small drones for surveillance and… Read more: Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets

Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the names of eight new members of a 16-person federal task force intended to make scientifically independent, evidence-based recommendations on an array of preventive medicine services for… Read more: RFK Jr. names 8 new members to influential preventive medicine task force

We are used to the idea that our fellow humans might intentionally mislead or manipulate us, but the idea that machines can now do the same is deeply unsettling. Researchers are racing to find solutions… Read more: ‘If you build something vastly smarter than you, it better be on your side’: can we stop AI from deceiving us? – podcast

Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and the creation of formal guardrails from the US government. But why is President Trump unmoved by the doomsday predictions, dismissing them as a ‘hoax’?… Read more: Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? – podcast

OpenAI Group PBC today launched Astra for Law, a version of its GPT-6 Astra model set up for legal research and drafting. Astra for Law is not a new model. The company has wrapped GPT-6… Read more: OpenAI launches Astra for Law, a GPT-6 configuration for legal research

Days after Anthropic PBC Chief Executive Dario Amodei rocked the artificial intelligence world by calling on leading model makers to coordinate on the slowdown on the pace of development, the company has shared three new… Read more: Anthropic details practical metrics to help monitor the speed of AI development

This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.

Google LLC today opened its experimental artificial intelligence agent CC to families, with as many as six people in a household able to share one. Each member picks what the agent is allowed to see,… Read more: Google expands CC into a shared AI agent for up to six family members

Icelandic audio startup Treble Technologies ehf today announced that it has raised $18 million in funding. Paladin Capital Group led the Series-A2 round. It was joined by returning backers KOMPAS VC, Frumtak Ventures and the… Read more: Treble nabs $18M to generate audio simulations for robots

The threat of perjury has a funny way of forcing people to say the quiet parts out loud. As a recently unsealed and unredacted motion in the ongoing legal battle between the New York Times… Read more: Microsoft Director Privately Admitted AI Was the “Largest Theft of Labor in Human History,” Unsealed Court Documents Show

Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have been saying all along: Large language models are predatory pieces of technology that have been built on what a Microsoft executive called… Read more: ‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

Creative Images Lab/Getty Images A record 44,039 Australians lodged claims at the Fair Work Commission between July 2025 and April 2026. Those claims cover everything from unfair dismissal and underpayment disputes to bullying, sexual harassment… Read more: Making a claim at the Fair Work Commission? These are the new AI rules you need to follow

Enterprise audit teams are finding that the evidence trail they depend on does not survive contact with AI agents. Financial and operational data still sits across NetSuite, human resources platforms and data lakes, but the… Read more: AI agents erase the paper trail, reshaping audit assurance

Salt Security today announced expanded integrations with the CrowdStrike Falcon® platform. The integrations between Salt’s Agentic API platform and CrowdStrike Falcon® Foundry, CrowdStrike Falcon® Next-Gen SIEM, and CrowdStrike Falcon® Firewall Management complement CrowdStrike’s native AI Detection and Response (AIDR) capabilities with Falcon… Read more: Salt Security, CrowdStrike Expand AI Agent Security Integration

After only a few months on the market, Meta’s new AI-integrated smart glasses are already being exploited for nefarious purposes. Dubbed “pervert glasses” for their incognito ability to film anybody in public, the new specs… Read more: Influencers Are Using Meta’s AI-Glasses to Film Manipulative Feel-Good Slop of People in Public

By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.

Anthropic has secured capacity at a planned 2.16-GW data center in Queensland as it expands its Claude inference infrastructure in Australia. The post Anthropic Goes Big in Australia: 2.16 GW Data Center Will Power Claude… Read more: Anthropic Goes Big in Australia: 2.16 GW Data Center Will Power Claude

A lifetime SpeakBreez plan turns written scripts into narrated audio for training videos, demos, and ads. The post Give Your Training Videos Studio Narration for $29.99 appeared first on TechRepublic.

ViceForge Creator Elite combines AI clipping, manual editing, and live-stream capture in one browser tab. The post ViceForge Puts Four Video Editing Tools in One Browser Tab for Life appeared first on TechRepublic.

Google Cloud and Salesforce are connecting Gemini Enterprise, Agentforce, Hyperforce, and Tableau to reduce integration friction for enterprise AI workflows. The post Google Cloud, Salesforce Tie Gemini Enterprise to Agentforce and CRM Data appeared first… Read more: Google Cloud, Salesforce Tie Gemini Enterprise to Agentforce and CRM Data

Siri AI is rolling out with iOS 27. Here are seven things you can do with Apple’s upgraded assistant, plus supported iPhones and limitations. The post Siri AI Is Finally Here: 7 Things You Can… Read more: Siri AI Is Finally Here: 7 Things You Can Actually Do With It

The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.

Earlier this year, a group of rogue OpenAI models managed to break out of containment to hack the systems of open source AI platform Hugging Face. The company’s “extensive investigation” detailed how the models exchanged… Read more: Fearing No Repercussions, OpenAI Admits That Its Rogue AI Agents Performed a Bunch of Other Terrifying Actions

On Thursday, September 17th, 2026, AI Now Co-Executive Director Amba Kak testified before the Monopoly Busters Caucus at the shadow hearing “AI Crossroads: Stopping Big Tech’s Race to Monopolize AI through Surveillance on Big Tech.”… Read more: AI Now’s Co-Executive Director Amba Kak Testifies Before Monopoly Busters Caucus

As the USA’s war with Iran shows no signs of letting up, strikes on data centers are putting not just human lives in peril, but even customer data. According to a September 15 Amazon Web… Read more: Iran Drone Strikes on Amazon Data Centers Are Permanently Deleting Customer Data

Flock created a fake police department called “Flock City PD” that it used to search a series of live automated license plate readers in several U.S. cities during demonstrations of its surveillance system’s capabilities, public… Read more: ‘Flock City PD:’ The Fake Flock-Owned ‘Police Department’ That Searched Real Cameras for Real People

If you ever feel like spilling your guts to ChatGPT, just know that you may have an audience. 404 Media reports that OpenAI is hiring hundreds of employees to sift through and read users’ prompts… Read more: OpenAI Has Hundreds of Workers Reading People’s Private Chats

AI governance now has to account for systems that perform work rather than merely assist employees. That shift is especially relevant for Workiva Inc., which operates in reporting, audit and compliance workflows where errors carry… Read more: AI governance moves closer to the workflow: theCUBE Insights at Amplify

Facebook told it was wrong in leaving up AI-generated videos of a Labour councillor and Muslim campaigner, amid calls to curb fakes Meta’s “supreme court” has ordered the tech company to take down deepfake videos… Read more: Meta ordered to remove UK deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards

MarcoPace68/Shutterstock Many people will learn CPR using a flat-chested manikin. A 2024 study of 20 models of CPR manikins sold worldwide found that three quarters were described as male or had no sex specified. Of… Read more: Decades of male-focused medical research could bias healthcare AI

Georgia State University has rescinded a job offer given to a high profile activist who is currently fighting a case in which he allegedly wiped a security-focused Android phone before Customs and Border Protection (CBP)… Read more: University Rescinds Job Offer to Activist Who Allegedly Wiped Phone Before DHS Could Search It

AI is spreading across corporate finance from the inside out, coming from the software, reporting platforms and the ERP systems that accounting teams already run. That makes governance, not budget, the gating factor on how… Read more: Trust, not budget: Why AI adoption in finance comes down to governance