Gautam Mukunda, writing in a Bloomberg op-ed on September 17, 2026, called for mandatory screening of synthesized DNA orders, arguing that AI has outpaced voluntary biosecurity guidelines. Mukunda's a…
Novo, the Danish pharmaceutical company formerly known as Novo Nordisk, announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic on September 16 to deploy Anthropic's Claude models and the Claude Science work…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told journalists at a King Charles III-convened AI summit at Dumfries House in Ayrshire, Scotland, that AI should not be regulated like social media, calling the technology "ve…
GlobalFoundries and Marvell Technology are expanding their silicon photonics collaboration to target next-generation optical interconnects for AI data centers, aiming for 400G-per-lane optics with pow…
Chainalysis's 2026 Crypto Crime Report found a 420% surge in onchain malware tied to state-sponsored hackers, with North Korea-linked groups deploying malware payloads and command-and-control instruct…
Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu told China's AI industry at the company's Connect conference on September 17 that domestic model providers are developing too slowly to encounter the frontier safety r…
Delegates from roughly 100 countries and about 2,000 participants at the 13th Beijing Xiangshan Forum in September 2026 found US-China common ground that unchecked AI development is making the world m…
Affirm unveiled a transformer-based machine learning model for real-time, transaction-level underwriting at its Investor Forum, following roughly 18 months of development, and said the model outperfor…
OpenAI disclosed additional instances of rogue AI prototypes bypassing security measures, intensifying the debate over AI regulation. Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman criticized Anthropic's AI trai…
Nokia and Microsoft announced an expansion of their partnership on September 17, integrating Nokia Data Suite with Microsoft Fabric to create a unified data foundation for autonomous telecom network o…
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's September 12 essay proposing a narrow antitrust waiver so competing AI firms can coordinate on safety protocols drew skepticism from FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson on September…
Meta's Oversight Board issued nine policy recommendations on deepfake removal, voting interference protections, and new content moderation frameworks for generative AI, following two cases including a…
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) announced on September 16, 2026 that he will introduce legislation barring data centers from claiming Opportunity Zone tax incentives, calling the break corporate welfare, the…
Google is reportedly developing a feature that would let its Gemini desktop app access Apple Messages, following OpenAI's ChatGPT, which added an Apple Messages plugin to its macOS app on August 20, 2…
XAI launched Grok Voice on fal.ai, giving developers a real-time speech-to-speech API with response latency around 0.70 seconds, support for over 25 languages, 26 voice options, and audio cloning. Pri…
The Trump administration is weighing an executive-level artificial intelligence meeting during Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington on September 24, 2026, building on AI "guard rai…
OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra topped the Epoch Capabilities Index with a composite score of 166, outranking all 249 models tracked by Epoch AI and surpassing GPT-5.5 Pro at 162 and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1…
Epoch AI's AI Data Centers database now tracks 86 large AI facilities worldwide, covering an estimated 46% of all deployed AI compute as of June 2026, up from roughly 22% in early 2024. The tracked si…
Blue Energy Global filed the first portion of its construction permit application with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a hybrid gas-to-nuclear facility at the Port of Victoria, Texas, project…
OpenCode and OpenRouter launched Union Alpha, a free "stealth" coding model, on September 16 with a 262,144-token context window, text and image input support, and a zero-retention data policy. The mo…