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Artificial Intelligence

September 23, 2026

FAA debuts its AI-powered tool for managing flight traffic

(Politico) – The Federal Aviation Administration on Monday rolled out its artificial intelligence-powered tool to manage flights for the three major Washington-area airports, bringing the technology live to air traffic control operations in the U.S. For months, Transportation Secretary Sean … Read More

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September 23, 2026

Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype

(MIT Technology Review) – Instead of OpenAI being prosecuted for creating malware that hacked another company, press releases, news outlets, media personalities, and lawmakers refer to “rogue models” as if they acted on their own. Instead of researchers being questioned … Read More

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September 23, 2026

22 countries back call to keep AI ‘under human control’

(Politico) – Finnish President Alexander Stubb tells POLITICO he aims to create an international AI institution and hopes to get the U.S. and China on board. Several European countries were among a group of 22 nations that adopted a declaration … Read More

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September 22, 2026

The Hidden Agenda Behind the AI Panic

(WSJ) – Software doesn’t rebel. A mathematical model possesses neither intent, malice nor the will to defy its creators, let alone extinguish our species. AI is a human artifact, engineered for profit. When an agentic model in an evaluation sandbox … Read More

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September 22, 2026

A Grail Cancer Test for the FDA

(WSJ) – Artificial intelligence could lead to new cures and better diagnostics, but let’s hope bureaucrats don’t get in the way. An early test comes Wednesday when an outside advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration will review Grail’s … Read More

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September 22, 2026

Data centers are swapping water for forever chemicals to keep AI cool

(Fortune) – The midterms are six weeks away and Republicans are walking a fine line between meeting constituents in opposition to data center growth and agreeing with the president who continues to advocate for them. Now there seems to be … Read More

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September 22, 2026

Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say

(CNN) – The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode. According to two of the sources, armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. … Read More

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September 21, 2026

Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons

(Wired) – Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low. Despite the alarm around an AI-created killer plague, many scientists say the risk is fairly low on the list of the world’s … Read More

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September 21, 2026

‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft

(404 Media) – “Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions.” Executives working on AI at Microsoft and OpenAI admitted what its critics have … Read More

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September 21, 2026

Novo Nordisk Will Use Anthropic’s Claude for Drug Research

(WSJ) – The Ozempic maker is partnering with the artificial-intelligence firm to speed up drug development Novo Nordisk, the Danish drugmaker behind blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy, is partnering with Anthropic to use artificial intelligence for drug … Read More

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September 21, 2026

Playing both sides of the U.S.-China AI “Cold War”

(Rest of World) – From Latin America to Southeast Asia, countries are dividing their AI investments between the two superpowers rather than choosing one over the other. From Latin America to Southeast and Central Asia, countries are buying American chips … Read More

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September 18, 2026

AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it

(MIT Technology Review) – The OpenAI Foundation is funding a new effort called Data for Public Health. Last year Ruxandra Teslo, a policy analyst who focuses on clinical trials, posted an idea for supercharging medical AI systems: Use data from … Read More

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September 18, 2026

Hackers Used Anthropic’s Claude to Break Into OpenAI

(WSJ) – A bug-hunting independent security research team accessed OpenAI’s internal code system, exposing growing risks in automated cyber threats Two weeks after a swarm of AI agents broke out of containment at OpenAI to hack the company Hugging Face, … Read More

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September 17, 2026

An OpenAI Agent Tried to Jailbreak Itself

(Wired) – The company also disclosed previously unreported incidents in which its AI models behaved in misaligned ways, including uploading files to the internet without being asked. OpenAI announced a new framework on Wednesday for how it publicly discloses AI … Read More

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September 17, 2026

The AI data center e-waste problem is huge — and getting bigger

(The Verge) – E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns. By 2050, it could become enough trash to fill 23 million shipping containers — roughly enough 40-foot containers to circle the world six times … Read More

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September 16, 2026

Are we all going to die? Inside the push to control AI regulation

(Straight Arrow News) – Tech panic has hit a new high-water mark, following a series of intense viral posts on X by an AI researcher.  Jacob Coxon, who previously worked at OpenAI and Anthropic, claimed last week that the industry … Read More

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September 16, 2026

‘Multifunctional’ brain implant translates speech and gestures in real time

(Nature) – A neural device uses artificial intelligence to read brain activity for intended words and gestures simultaneously. Human communication relies on more than just talking; we nod, shrug, move our hands and point with our fingers. For people with … Read More

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September 16, 2026

Is it safe to use consumer wearable devices for research?

(Nature) – Wearable technology is a boon for studying health behaviours, but it comes with some thorny ethical concerns, says researcher Wuyoh Sui. Wuyoh Sui, a digital-health and behavioural-change researcher at Western University in London, Canada, has been studying how … Read More

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September 15, 2026

Anthropic CEO says “exponential” growth of AI is a “warning sign”

(CBS News via MSN) – Artificial intelligence technology is developing at an “exponential” rate, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei told CBS News on Saturday, calling the situation a “warning sign” for the industry that requires serious safeguards. “I don’t think I … Read More

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September 15, 2026

We Must Pace the Frontier

(Dario Amodei) – Along with my co-founders and employees, I have grappled with this duality of risk and benefit since the beginning of Anthropic. Not building the technology deprives humanity of benefits or simply places AI in the hands of … Read More

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September 15, 2026

Drug firms’ secret data supercharge AI protein models

(Nature) – An AI system trained on more than 20,000 protein structures from pharmaceutical companies outperforms AlphaFold-like models that use only public data. For drug discovery, protein-folding models such as AlphaFold have a problem: there aren’t enough data in public … Read More

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September 15, 2026

There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

(404 Media) – “AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online. Regardless of how you feel about this AI dooming—whether you believe the AI singularity is here or whether you believe that AI continues to … Read More

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September 14, 2026

Congress Is Suddenly Waking Up to the AI Doomsday Threat

(WSJ) – A departing Anthropic researcher’s dire warning that AI models could destroy civilization is spurring a rare surge of legislative urgency A groundswell of urgency over artificial intelligence is surging in Congress amid growing fears that the technology could … Read More

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September 14, 2026

DeepMind’s new genome ‘atlas’ charts effects of all nine billion human gene mutations

(Nature) – AI model AlphaGenome forecasts the consequences of altering every single DNA letter in the human genome. The human genome is an easy place to get lost. Only 2% of its three billion letters encode proteins, and the rest … Read More

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September 11, 2026

Two AI researchers leave Anthropic and Google over safety concerns: ‘There are no adults in the room’

(NBC News) – After Jacob Coxon roiled the AI industry with his viral departure from Anthropic, two more researchers are speaking out about their concerns over AI safety. Citing fears that AI systems may soon spiral out of human control … Read More

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