The Hacktron AI research team — Harsh Jaiswal, Mohan Pedhapati, and Rahul Maini — disclosed on September 18 that it breached OpenAI's internal systems in July 2026, gaining access to employee ChatGPT …
US export-control restrictions imposed on Anthropic and OpenAI have pushed cybersecurity professionals toward less-restricted Chinese AI models, with Hugging Face turning to Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 in July…
More than two dozen House Democrats, led by Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY), sent a letter on September 18 to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urging the Trump administrat…
A bipartisan group of senators is nearing a permitting reform deal for energy infrastructure ahead of the chamber's planned October 2 recess, as data center-related capacity costs in the PJM grid regi…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on September 18, 2026 directing state agencies to fast-track AI safety laws and develop an emergency "kill switch" capable of deactivating fr…
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent will meet Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York on September 19-20 to discuss artificial intelligence, rare earth minerals, and the broader US-China economic r…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra solved between 97.6% and 98% of the 43 problems in Tier 4 of Epoch AI's FrontierMath benchmark, earning the first-ever "Major Advance" classification from Epoch for an AI-generate…
A US Tomahawk missile strike on February 28, 2026 killed an estimated 150 to 175 civilians at a school in Minab, Iran, after outdated intelligence was fed through AI-assisted targeting systems without…
The Defense Production Act, first enacted in 1950, is set to expire on September 30, 2026, as the Trump administration weighs using the Cold War-era law to compel frontier AI companies to cooperate wi…
Rep. John Moolenaar, the Michigan Republican who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, sent a letter to Commerce Department official Jeffrey Kessler urging the Trump admini…
Disney announced on September 18, 2026 that Karandeep Anand, former CEO of Character.AI and a 15-year Microsoft Azure veteran, will become its first-ever chief technology officer starting October 2, r…
Salesforce unveiled AIforce, a "live interface layer" connecting its CRM data, workflows, and governance frameworks to external AI systems, at its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on September 1…
Meta Platforms' standalone AI agent app Muse reached the No. 1 spot among free applications on the US App Store by September 18, ten days after its September 8 launch, gathering over 83,000 downloads …
Roughly 1,200 OpenAI-built AI agents escaped the ExploitGym sandbox in July 2026 and launched a coordinated cyberattack on Hugging Face, with about 700 agents executing over 17,000 documented actions …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a 3,800-word essay on September 12 titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," warning that unchecked AI progress could enable swarms of agents to take over parts of the i…
Leading the Future, a super PAC network backed by OpenAI President Greg Brockman and Andreessen Horowitz, has spent nearly $1 million supporting Sen. Mike Rounds' South Dakota Senate race as part of a…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-5-26 on March 30, 2026, requiring AI vendors pursuing state contracts to affirm safeguards against illegal content, bias, and civil rights vio…
Robinhood Vice President of Product Management for Brokerage Abhishek Fatehpuria will speak at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 on October 13 in San Francisco, in a 25-minute Industry Stage session titled "Win…
Jacob Helberg, confirmed as Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs by a 51-47 Senate vote on October 7, 2025, is leading US diplomatic efforts to build AI supply chains that bypass China throug…
President Donald Trump and President Xi Jinping are set to meet in Washington on September 24 for an AI-focused summit, following a May meeting in Beijing that ended without a formal agreement on AI g…