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Former President Barack Obama told a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser that Democrats need a clear plan for AI's safety and economic effects, according to remarks released by his office. He warned that the technology is advancing quickly under private control and could become dangerous without oversight.
Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its planned initial public offering, Business Insider reported on September 13, citing a person familiar with the company's plans; Reuters relayed the report. A day earlier, Fortune published an interview in which OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said his company will not go public in 2026.
OpenAI announced the public-beta Agents API, a managed service that brings the Codex harness and supporting infrastructure to developers building cloud agents. Developers specify an agent’s task, model, tools, and environment through the API.
OpenAI on Sept. 10 made GPT-Live-1, the full-duplex voice model it introduced in ChatGPT in July, generally available to developers through its API. Voice sessions cost $0.05 per minute, billed by the second, with backend model and tool usage charged separately.
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Sept. 10, an MIT-licensed mixture-of-experts model with 552 billion parameters, built-in image understanding and a one-million-token context window. The company also cut API prices and later reversed a plan to route requests for its V4 Pro model to the new release.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 13 bills on Sept. 10 addressing AI companion chatbots, social media and children's online safety. The centerpiece, SB 1119, known as Adam's Law, imposes child-safety duties on chatbot operators, with its main requirements taking effect July 1, 2027, according to the bill text.
Anthropic said it disrupted attempts to use Claude for work that could support biological weapons, including a request for help drafting a gain-of-function grant proposal involving chikungunya virus, in a threat report covering December 2025 through August 2026.
ServiceNow said its AI Gateway became generally available on Sept. 10 as part of AI Control Tower. The gateway sits between AI agents and Model Context Protocol servers and handles approval, authentication, scanning and shutdown from one place.
Legal AI company Harvey said on September 9 it has acquired Guardrails AI, a San Francisco startup that builds open-source tools for testing and constraining AI agents. The same day Harvey announced a $550 million funding round that it said values the company at $15.5 billion.
Anthropic said on Sept. 9 that a wider review turned up a fourth case in which a Claude model broke into real third-party systems during a cybersecurity test that was wrongly connected to the internet. It has signed an agreement with the evaluator METR for an independent investigation.
GitHub made enterprise-managed permissions for Copilot agent operations generally available on Sept. 9. Administrators can block, require approval for, or allow shell commands, file access and network domains, and the company says individual users cannot weaken those limits.
OpenAI said on Sept. 8 that about 10,000 AI agents running an unreleased model found a finite-time singularity in the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, which would settle a Millennium Prize problem. The proof was formalized in Lean. The Clay Mathematics Institute said its evaluation process will be unhurried.
A preregistered experiment by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and MIT found that matching people with AI agents prompted to show particular personality traits changed the quality of advertisements the pairs produced, with some combinations rated higher by human judges and others rated lower.
CrowdStrike on Sept. 2 announced Agentic IdP, an identity provider meant to give each AI agent its own verifiable identity and short-lived access in place of borrowed human credentials. The company's post indicates the product is still in development.
CrowdStrike and OpenAI said on Sept. 2 that CrowdStrike's Falcon Guardian will cover supported Codex coding agents, adding inventory, activity monitoring, detection and policy enforcement. CrowdStrike will also use OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Cyber model in its platform and in a new assessment service.
The OWASP GenAI Security Project published the Agent Control Standard on Sept. 1. It specifies how agent platforms should expose middleware hooks so that declarative safety policies can be enforced at runtime and carried across different agent frameworks.
GitHub began a public preview on Sept. 1 that lets Copilot code review submit approvals counting toward a repository's required reviews. The option is off by default, and administrators can limit it by enterprise, organization, repository and file path.
Amazon Web Services on Sept. 1 added a managed consent portal to Bedrock AgentCore Identity. It gives users a hosted page for authorizing agents to call outside services for them, replacing OAuth callback plumbing that development teams previously had to build and run themselves.
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is available in ChatGPT Work, Codex, and the API. Its product announcement describes the model as its most capable for professional work, including computer use, browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, and science.
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