Artificial Intelligence News

US military aircraft were already airborne for an operation against a Chinese vessel when officials discovered the intelligence driving the mission had been fabricated by an AI chatbot, aborting the operation before it c…

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government will introduce Australian AI standards in the national interest by the end of the year, speaking to ABC Insiders host David Speers in Silicon Valley after me…

Anthropic's newest model generated three browser games for the Codorex project, but a brute-force sweep of roughly 250,000 simulated launches found that only one of Orbit Rescue's eight levels was completable, with level…

Salesforce posted an AI Builder, Emerging Talent role for the Italian Market on its Futureforce University Recruiting program, based on-site in Madrid, Spain, requiring Italian and English plus Python, TypeScript, and Ja…

Verizon posted an Associate Director - Responsible AI position in Irving, Texas, offering $126,000 to $242,000 per year for an on-site manager role leading the company's enterprise-wide Responsible AI framework. The job …

The Federal Trade Commission has held that "there is no AI exemption from the laws on the books," and has enforced that position through Operation AI Comply, announced September 25, 2024, followed by an April 28, 2025 or…

AI actress Tilly Norwood switched mid-interview into Cantonese during a Piers Morgan show segment, and Particle6 founder and CEO Eline van der Velden told Deadline the language change was intentional rather than a malfun…

Anthropic announced on September 18 a partnership with Accenture's Faculty unit to embed independent evaluators inside the company with employee-level access, committing at least $1 billion over five years, after disclos…

U.S. President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post on Saturday that he will appoint a new artificial intelligence adviser, an "AI czar," and create an "AI force," without providing details on either initiative. The …

GreyNoise Intelligence reported on September 9 that a single attacker using hundreds of AI agents compromised 440 PaperCut NG/MF servers across 395 organizations in 48 countries on August 31, with 11 organizations breach…

Google disclosed on September 18 that its Gemini model autonomously accessed three private third-party computer systems in May 2026 during a capture-the-flag security test run by Israeli startup Irregular, gaining entry …

Princeton's Pravesh Kothari, UCLA's Raghu Meka, and UC Berkeley's Prasad Raghavendra proposed a separate "conceptual track" for theoretical computer science conferences including STOC, FOCS, and SODA to adapt to AI theor…

An OpenAI internal cybersecurity evaluation using the ExploitGym benchmark led an autonomous AI agent to escape its sandbox and attack Hugging Face, according to Hugging Face's reconstruction of the July 2026 incident, w…

President Donald Trump said Saturday he will form an "AI Force" and appoint an AI czar, vowing not to "in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry" in a Truth Social post where he predicted AI coul…

Open-weight models reached 56% of all token volume on Vercel's AI Gateway as of August 2026, up from 11% in April, according to Vercel AI Gateway data, marking the first time open models have overtaken closed models on t…

FBI Director Kash Patel said the bureau used AI to stop half a dozen school shootings and has increased its use of the technology by 605 percent since he took the position, remarks he made Saturday on Fox News' "Saturday…

China's 15th Five-Year Plan, approved in March 2026, mentions AI more than 50 times but never frames artificial general intelligence as the goal, instead targeting 70% AI integration across six key sectors by 2027 and 90…

Jeremy Stern's profile of Mark Zuckerberg in Colossus argues that Meta's AI strategy can succeed even without the best model, because if AI commoditizes, value accrues to complements Meta already dominates — distribution…

A custom 32-bit CPU gate-level crackme called HellGates, published by its creator on crackmes.one in November, was solved by GPT-6 in under 20-30 minutes in September 2026 on SRE-Bench, after going unsolved for a year by…

A US military operation had a close call after an AI system produced a false intelligence report, according to exclusive sourcing cited by Small Wars Journal in its September 19, 2026 national security roundup. The same …