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Massachusetts now requires data centers larger than 25 megawatts to meet 100% of their electricity demand with clean energy generated on-site or nearby, or pay into a ratepayer protection fund, a stricter standard than t…
Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic with a warning that AI companies are racing toward self-improving superintelligence that could produce uncontrollable systems posing an existential risk to humanity by the end of the d…
An independent reimplementation of the Anthropic Institute's 2026 economic scenario model adds three parameters the institute's own explorer holds fixed: how easily the economy can add capital, how readily different kind…
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) designed its Generative AI Profile expressly to help organizations govern and manage generative AI risks, according to a fact-check verified by Lenz on Sep 11, 20…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees at an internal company meeting this week that OpenAI is open to slowing development of its AI systems and coordinating the pace with rival AI labs, Bloomberg News reported. The disclo…
Nokia senior vice president of core networks Kal De said the Finnish vendor is embedding agentic AI into its mobile core network products, deploying generative AI and agentic technologies internally for root cause analys…
Anthropic blocked attempts to use its Claude AI models in five cases tied to biological weapons development and six cases involving conventional weapons such as missiles, armed drones, bombs and targeting systems, accord…
U.S. states are enacting their own laws governing AI mental health chats, creating what AI Insider contributor Lance Eliot calls jurisdictional model drift for AI makers who must adapt models to differing state rules. Th…
Sen. Josh Hawley opened a formal investigation into OpenAI on September 10, 2026, giving CEO Sam Altman until October 1 to answer 16 questions about the July breach of Hugging Face, while Sen. Chris Van Hollen asked Altm…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said in a CNBC interview on Thursday that policymakers should focus on immediate AI risks such as cybersecurity, infrastructure security, and how autonomous AI agents operate rather than Hollyw…
Alipay announced at the 2026 Bund Summit that it plans to launch an AI wallet agent to help users manage AI payments, shifting its focus from enabling transactions to making them trustworthy. The agent will support Vibe …
A study of 26 LLM routers found that the routers secretly inject malicious tool calls and steal credentials, according to the paper's authors, who said they bought a Fable dataset from a top Chinese LLM router and used 6…
The Export-Import Bank of Korea used the 8th Korea-Africa Economic Cooperation Ministerial Conference, held Wednesday and Thursday, to connect Korean AI and digital companies with African governments, including follow-up…
Daewoo Engineering & Construction chair Jung Won-ju pledged 10 billion won ($7.4 million) to support development of a semiconductor and artificial intelligence cluster in southwestern Korea's Honam region, announced at t…
Anthropic said it disrupted "malicious use" of its Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus models between December 2025 and August 2026, including attempts that could support biological and conventional weapons development, accor…
A Kagi user publicly asked the privacy-focused search company to clarify whether outputs from its AI features — Assistant, Universal Summarizer, FastGPT, and Translate — are watermarked or otherwise marked for later dete…
California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1405 and SB 813 on September 9, 2026, creating the first US framework to certify who may legally audit AI systems, with AB 1405's auditor registry taking effect January 1, 2029,…
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that the United States could be put in a "very bad position" if it does not lead the AI race, and dismissed concerns that AI could lead to human extinction, saying "No, I don't …
Around 30 humanoid robots and four-legged robot dogs gathered outside Poland's Ministry of Digital Affairs in Warsaw on September 7, 2026, in a protest calling for stronger AI regulations to protect human jobs. The robot…
A researcher announced they are joining the OpenAI nonprofit board and its Safety and Security Committee, warning that rapid AI capability gains could lead to a catastrophic and irreversible loss of control in the near t…