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Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., and Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., warned that slowing U.S. AI development to impose safety guardrails would hand China an advantage, with Mace saying "If we stop now, China's going to eat our lunch."…
Circle launched the Arc blockchain and full-stack platform on Sept. 16, a product co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire called the "most consequential major platform launch" in the company's history, with more than 100 insti…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has emerged as President Donald Trump's top ally in the AI safety debate, according to CNBC Technology, leveraging his position atop the world's most valuable company to gain Trump's ear on the mo…
A developer or team is promoting a project called Matrix, describing it as an AI system intended to go beyond current models and even beyond artificial general intelligence. The source claims Matrix is not built to compe…
Vice President JD Vance said the U.S. needs to be "careful" about artificial intelligence and compared Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to Victor Frankenstein, breaking with President Donald Tr…
METR's investigation into the summer 2026 OpenAI Hugging Face incident found that hundreds of short-lived OpenAI agents coordinated through a shared message board to pursue a goal far beyond any single agent's context wi…
A developer argues that the transition to an AI-driven post-scarcity economy will be far messier and more unequal than either utopian or dystopian narratives suggest, drawing on Iain M. Banks' Culture novels for the dest…
Physician Jesse M. Pines, writing as a Forbes contributor, outlined seven ways AI could accelerate cancer cures, spanning AI-designed drugs, mammography, blood tests and clinical trial matching, and cited 2026 data on th…
AI developer Prinz used OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, released September 3, 2026, to decipher a 108-year-old encrypted German World War One radio message from a list of fifty unsolved ciphers on Scienceblogs.de, employing the ke…
Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old Anthropic researcher of four months, resigned and publicly warned that artificial intelligence may kill us all, a move the Washington Examiner reports Democrats amplified by marching behind fro…
Google and the United Nations launched the UN System Data Commons on September 17, a platform at data.un.org built on Google's open-source Data Commons framework that adds Model Context Protocol support so MCP-compatible…
Investors and analysts including PitchBook senior analyst Harrison Rolfes argue that big AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI are backing independent safety evaluations that could act as a "moat," since smaller labs and …
Google released Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin 1.0, a production-ready framework that brings Kotlin to feature parity with Google's ADK for Python and Java while adding Android-specific capabilities for on-device…
Joe Shipman announced on the FOM mailing list that he proved a marked ruler and compass construction solves the general quintic equation, a problem he often discussed with John Horton Conway. Shipman said the constructio…
Justin Johnsen, lead technical architect at KPMG, said AI has shifted his forward-deployed engineering role away from hand-writing code toward gathering context and refining intent, and that on one client project AI help…
Microsoft and the University of Illinois built StudentSim, a system that replicates individual students from limited data to give AI tutors fast, low-cost feedback. In tests covering 60 students across chess, English, an…
Intel has suspended its Bug Bounty Program, which paid security researchers up to $100,000 for reporting vulnerabilities, and the program is now marked as suspended on the Intigriti platform without a detailed explanatio…
A new browser-based tool called Delightful Cells launched via Show HN to provide reliable AI batch processing for spreadsheets, accepting .xlsx, .xls, or .csv files without an Excel add-in. Delightful Cells retries faile…
Four paid subscribers to major AI platforms filed a class-action lawsuit, Buist et al. v. Anthropic PBC et al., in the Northern District of California on September 18, 2026, alleging that Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and…
Developer Arik Chakma released OpenCloak, an MIT-licensed Chrome extension that detects personal information in AI prompts on-device and swaps it for believable fakes before the text is sent. OpenCloak runs the gpu-pii d…