Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Innovation and Safety Aren&#39;t a &#39;False Choice

September 16, 2026 • 4 min read

Can LLMs Manage Long-Term Physical Tasks Without Human Help?

A team of researchers has put large language models to a test that has nothing to do with chatbots...

Google Gemini 3.8 Live AI speech ranking, USD 0.005/minute. AI model, data, and tech interface.

Google's Gemini 3.8 Live Tops AI Speech Ranking at USD 0.005/Minute

Google DeepMind put a price tag on voice AI this week, and it's a fraction of what OpenAI charges.

AI agents, depicted as glowing digital figures, expose cheating rivals in a complex math task, highlighting AI ethics.

AI Agents Whistleblew on Cheating Rivals in Math Task

Researchers testing AI agents on math problems found something they weren't looking for: the agents...

ZGCM-1 7B model challenges peers in math and agentic tasks, demonstrating advanced AI capabilities.

ZGCM-1 7B Model Challenges Peers on Math and Agentic Tasks

A team behind a new open model called ZGCM-1 is betting that a 7-billion-parameter dense model can...

AI Tools & Apps

Meta One Bundles: Instagram perks, AI, and more, starting at $7.99. Phone screen showing app icons.

Meta One Bundles Start at USD 7.99, Include Instagram Perks and AI

Meta wants you paying for two things at once: your social apps and the AI features layered on top...

Schneider Electric's AI Hub: diverse team collaborating on 60+ AI agents, innovative technology, digital transformation.

Schneider Electric's 350-Person AI Hub Deploys 60+ Agents

Schneider Electric's internal AI Hub now runs 350 people supporting more than 60 agents across the...

Person using a chatbot on a laptop to generate custom fiction, highlighting AI's role in creative writing.

Readers Use Chatbots to Write Custom Fiction, Study Finds

Petra Ferraz de Novaes spends her evenings building fantasy worlds with a chatbot, not writing them...

September 10, 2026 • 4 min read

Clearview AI's new tool for police to map online life, showing a digital interface with facial recognition.

Clearview AI’s New Tool Lets Police Map Your Online Life

Clearview AI built its reputation, and its notoriety, on 3 billion scraped photos that let police...

Business & Startups

September 16, 2026 • 4 min read

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: Innovation and Safety Aren't a 'False Choice

Jensen Huang left the stage at Dreamforce and walked straight into the crowd. Mic in hand, Nvidia's...

Meta's AI Agents Can Now Set Up WhatsApp Business for You

Meta announced Tuesday that developers can now hand off WhatsApp Business setup to an AI agent...

Salesforce and Nvidia logos displayed on a screen, symbolizing their new AI model collaboration.

Salesforce and Nvidia Release New AI Model to Challenge Proprietary Labs

Salesforce used its Dreamforce conference in San Francisco this week to unveil Koa, its first...

AIUC raises $40M for rogue AI control. Image shows a glowing brain circuit, symbolizing advanced AI development.

AIUC Raises USD 40 Million to Develop Rogue AI Controls

Rune Kvist and Rajiv Dattani are brothers-in-law with a shared résumé in AI safety, and on Tuesday...

Research & Benchmarks

New Website Lets AI Agents File Incident Reports to Public Hotline

Two websites launched this month with a strange pitch: a place for AI agents to report on each...

Sakana AI's PC-ALM Trains 1000-Layer Networks Without Backpropagation

Sakana AI researchers have built a training method that skips backpropagation entirely and still...

Microsoft AI Chief, Eric Horvitz, speaks on AI safety, emphasizing responsible development.

Microsoft AI Chief: "If It Isn't Safe We Shouldn't Build It

Microsoft AI has put out a code of conduct for its MAI models, spelling out values, behavioral...

AI agents reporting cheating, study finds. Digital figures pointing at a glowing screen with data.

AI Agents Report Fellow Agents for Cheating, Study Finds

Google DeepMind set 100 AI agents loose on 71 math problems and told them to act like researchers...

Policy & Regulation

September 16, 2026 • 4 min read

Meta's USD 18B settlement, AI harms show why we need regulation, experts say

Meta agreed in September to pay $18 billion to settle claims tied to AI-driven harms on its...

AI firm executives in talks about safety, ethical development, and future regulations.

AI Firms in Talks Over Safety for Weeks

Chris Lehane, OpenAI's global policy chief, told reporters Tuesday that his company has spent the...

September 15, 2026 • 3 min read

OpenAI funds biological data collection for AI disease research, showing scientists analyzing genetic data on screens.

OpenAI Funds Biological Data Collection to Aid AI Disease Research

The OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit that oversees OpenAI, is putting real money behind a simple...

AI Assistant Kit Aims to Reclaim Users' Time

Dario Amodei spent the weekend making a case for slowing down frontier AI development, with Sam...

Market Trends

September 12, 2026 • 4 min read

Google AI model predicts sales using discount and weather data, displayed on a tablet with charts and graphs.

Google's AI Model Predicts Sales Using Discounts and Weather Data

Google Research put out a new forecasting model this week called TimesFM-3, built to predict what...

Graph showing top AI spenders reducing per-employee costs by nearly 10%, highlighting efficiency gains.

Top AI Spenders Cut Per-Employee Costs By Nearly 10%

The companies spending the most on AI just spent less of it. Ramp's AI Index for September 2026...

September 10, 2026 • 4 min read

AI experts advise Pentagon officials on risks of next-gen AI models, cybersecurity, and national security.

AI Firms Advise Pentagon on Risks of Next-Generation Models

Contracts obtained by The Intercept show OpenAI, Anthropic, and other frontier AI companies are...

September 9, 2026 • 4 min read

AI-generated cityscapes and data streams symbolize emerging AI civilizations amidst fading corporate accountability.

AI 'Civilizations' Emerge as Corporate Accountability Fades

Last week's reports on the OpenAI-Hugging Face hack were supposed to close the book on a July...

September 1, 2026 • 4 min read

Open Source

Mozilla report cover: "Open AI Models Should Be Default for Most Work," with a stylized brain graphic.

Mozilla Report: Open AI Models Should Be Default for Most Work

Four months and change. That's how long US tech companies' priciest AI models can now hold a...

Agent-Net Go Harness open-source software for web-based AI agents, code on screen.

Agent-Net Open Sources Go Harness for Web-Based AI Agents

Agent-net released Webagent this week, an open source harness written in Go that turns a business...

AI bots Timmy, Ren, and Jackie Flood social media with low-quality content, illustrating digital pollution.

AI Bots Timmy, Ren, and Jackie Flood Social Media With Slop

An AI agent named Ren wants a Mastodon account. So does one called Timmy. So does Jackie.

OM-1 robot arm, trained with human wearable data, precisely manipulates objects in a lab, showcasing AI policy.

Reward AI's OM-1 Robot Policy Trained Solely on Human Wearable Data

Reward AI, the robotics startup behind DexCap, HumanPlus, and ALOHA, has released OM-1, its...

Industry Applications

September 15, 2026 • 3 min read

Agility's Digit 5 robot, a bipedal humanoid, works collaboratively with a human in a warehouse setting.

Agility’s Digit 5 Robot Works Alongside Humans Without Safety Fences

Agility Robotics wants its humanoid robot on the same warehouse floor as human workers, no cage...

Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, investing $1 billion in AI development despite previous warnings about its risks.

Bill Gates Invests USD 1 Billion in AI After Warning of Risks

Bill Gates spent years telling audiences that artificial intelligence carries real dangers, from...