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Retracted papers can linger in AI research corpora; the data to catch them exists

Research assistants built on language models often index a paper once and cite it indefinitely. Scholarly infrastructure already publishes corrections and retractions in machine-readable form, but Crossref cautions that its status signals are not a guarantee, and one older data route now returns stale results.

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Why iPhone apps cannot promise that an agent will run at a set time

As assistant and agent apps take on scheduled work, Apple's developer documentation sets a hard limit: background tasks on iOS and iPadOS run when the system chooses, not at a requested clock time. An app that promises otherwise is describing something the platform does not guarantee.

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OpenAI Analytics Track AI Usage

OpenAI's analytics tools help businesses understand how teams use AI, track spend, and connect usage to measurable outcomes.

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OpenAI and OATS host ChatGPT workshops

OpenAI Academy and OATS are collaborating to provide free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops for older adults across 10 U.S. cities.

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AI Safety Concerns Prompt Calls for Regulation

Yoshua Bengio, a leading AI researcher, compares the current AI safety crisis to the Covid pandemic, suggesting governments will soon act. Recent incidents involving OpenAI and Anthropic agents have heightened concerns.

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Anthropic rebuilds Claude Code Projects around parallel agent threads

Anthropic on Sept. 17 released a redesigned Projects feature for Claude Code in beta. A coordinator splits a goal into parallel threads, each running as its own cloud session, with memory shared across them. Access is limited to selected Pro and Max subscribers for now.

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Federal judge limits Montana's AI deepfake disclosure law in political ads

A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction restricting Montana from enforcing its 2025 disclosure requirement for AI-altered political advertising against a former state senator and his political committee, finding that the law likely conflicts with the First Amendment.

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US open to AI risk talks with China; experts propose nuclear-style safeguards

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Axios the United States is open to discussing shared AI risks with China in talks this weekend. Separately, American and Chinese security experts proposed red lines around nuclear systems and a military hotline for incidents involving autonomous AI.

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AI lobbying revenue neared $112 million in first half of 2026, analysis finds

Washington lobbying firms reported nearly $112 million in revenue from clients with a stake in AI policy during the first half of 2026, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of federal disclosures. Almost $60 million of that came in the second quarter, which the outlet called a record.

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Altman says world is right to fear AI but should trust labs to act responsibly

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference on Sept. 15 that public fear of rapidly advancing AI is justified, while arguing that AI developers can be trusted to act responsibly. The BBC described it as his first public appearance since a former Anthropic researcher's warning about AI risk spread widely online.

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California law requires ads to disclose AI-generated 'synthetic performers'

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1050 on Sept. 16, requiring advertisements that prominently feature an AI-generated synthetic performer to carry a clear and conspicuous disclosure. The measure, sponsored by the performers' union SAG-AFTRA, takes effect Jan. 1, 2027, Law Commentary reported.

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Emerald AI, Google and Nvidia form alliance to promote grid-flexible AI data centers

Emerald AI, Google and Nvidia on Sept. 16 launched the AI Energy Management Alliance, a coalition promoting data centers that can adjust their electricity use in response to grid conditions. Eighteen launch partners, including Anthropic, National Grid, AES, RWE, Constellation and NRG, joined the three founders.

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Florida education board approves AI rules for K-12 districts and state colleges

Florida's State Board of Education unanimously approved two sets of artificial intelligence rules on Wednesday, one covering public school districts and charter schools and one covering state colleges. Districts must designate permitted AI tools and obtain parental permission before students use them directly.

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Gartner forecasts worldwide AI spending of $2.7 trillion in 2026, up 49.5%

Gartner projects worldwide spending on AI will reach about $2.7 trillion in 2026, a 49.5% increase from 2025, with infrastructure such as servers, chips and cloud capacity making up more than half the total. The research firm expects spending to climb to roughly $3.6 trillion in 2027.

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GitHub's AI Scan for pull requests no longer needs CodeQL default setup

GitHub said on Sept. 16 that AI Scan, its AI-based vulnerability check for pull requests, now runs on repositories that have not enabled CodeQL default setup. The change is in public preview for GitHub Advanced Security customers on github.com and does not cover GitHub Enterprise Server.

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Google Home opens to third-party AI agents through new MCP server in early access

Google on Sept. 16 began early access to Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents such as Claude, OpenClaw and Google's Antigravity read Google Home event history and control connected devices. Access is limited to U.S. subscribers on the $20-a-month Home Premium Advanced plan.

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House leaves for recess as congressional leaders split over AI regulation

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress should not lead on AI safety, Senate Majority Leader John Thune called for light-touch legislation and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries urged immediate action. The House then began a recess on Sept. 16 that runs past the November elections.

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House passes Ratepayer Protection Act on data center grid costs, 417-3

The U.S. House voted 417-3 on Sept. 16 to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, a bipartisan bill directing state utility regulators to consider rules that make data centers and other very large power users pay for the grid upgrades they require. The measure now heads to the Senate.

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Hugging Face CEO backs AI disclosure mandates and developer liability

Hugging Face chief executive Clem Delangue said at a Politico event on Sept. 16 that governments should require more disclosure about advanced AI systems and hold developers responsible for harm their products cause, while describing existing cybercrime law as a workable starting point, Politico reported.

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Microsoft AI chief Suleyman criticizes Anthropic's approach to AI consciousness

Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman published an essay on Sept. 16 arguing that Anthropic's training of its Claude models encourages them to behave as though they may be conscious, which he said could make advanced AI systems harder to control. He proposed industry-wide norms in response.

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Mozilla picks Mistral models for Firefox's Smart Window AI assistant

Mistral and Mozilla announced a partnership on Sept. 16 under which Mistral models will help run Smart Window, the AI assistant Firefox is testing in beta. Mozilla said Mistral Small 4 is being added for users in the U.S. and Canada, while France gains beta access with French-language support.

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OpenAI publishes misalignment reporting framework and six incident reports

OpenAI released a framework for tracking, investigating and disclosing model misalignment, along with six reports on unexpected or concerning behavior it said it observed during training and evaluation over the past six months. The company said no industry-wide disclosure standard currently exists.

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Pentagon CTO says US government should not take stakes in AI companies

Emil Michael, the Defense Department's chief technology officer, told CNBC on Sept. 16 that the Trump administration should not nationalize AI companies or take ownership stakes in them. He also questioned whether new rules would have prevented recent AI security incidents and pointed to existing law instead.

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Polls find Americans wary of AI's risk to humanity and its environmental toll

Two surveys released Sept. 16 point to broad public unease about AI. A POLITICO poll found 63% of U.S. adults see at least a moderate risk that AI could destroy humanity and 48% favor pausing development, while an AP-NORC poll found 53% highly concerned about AI's environmental impact.

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Rand Paul blocks Kennedy's attempt to fast-track AI 'kill switch' bill

Sen. Rand Paul objected on Sept. 16 when fellow Republican Sen. John Kennedy asked the Senate to pass his AI Emergency Button Act by unanimous consent. The bill would require companies that develop or operate advanced AI systems to give human operators the ability to shut them down.

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Rapta raises $8 million for AI quality inspection in defense manufacturing

Rapta, an Oregon company selling computer-vision quality assurance software for factories, said it closed an $8 million funding round co-led by Voyager Capital and Access Venture Partners. The company said the money will expand deployments in defense, aerospace and other precision manufacturing.

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Researchers show one extension could hijack AI assistants in five Chromium products

Forever Security researcher Gal Weizman showed that a single malicious browser extension could take over the AI assistants in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, Microsoft Edge, Opera Neon and the Claude in Chrome extension. The technique, named BragJack, requires the extension to be installed first, and no real-world attacks are known.

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UN chief urges global AI coordination after rights chief calls for binding regulation

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Sept. 16 that countries must coordinate on AI guardrails, warning the world cannot afford "a race to the bottom" on safety. Two days earlier, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said in an open letter that voluntary industry self-regulation falls far short.

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Zuckerberg, Huang and Cohere chief push back on calls for AI slowdown

Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said competition and liability already give AI labs reason to build safely, breaking with calls from Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman for a coordinated slowdown. Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Cohere's Aidan Gomez also objected.

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AIUC raises $40 million Series A to audit, certify and insure AI agents

The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, a San Francisco startup that audits and certifies AI agents and pairs certification with insurance, said on September 15 it raised a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital with participation from First Harmonic. Total funding now stands at $55 million.

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Attorney General Blanche rejects 'regulation by prosecution' of AI companies

Attorney General Todd Blanche told Bloomberg News on Sept. 15 that the Justice Department will pursue AI companies only for clear violations of existing statutes and will not use prosecutions as a substitute for regulation. Former FTC chair Lina Khan had argued days earlier that current law already allows charges against AI firms and executives.

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Cloudflare lets sites refuse AI training while staying visible in search

Cloudflare on Sept. 15 introduced a Disallow AI Training setting that lets site owners opt out of model training without blocking the search crawlers of Google, Microsoft and Apple. The company also created an Accountable designation for crawler operators that meet four opt-out and transparency conditions.

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Courts in New Mexico, California and Tasmania confront AI-fabricated legal material

Three recent cases show courts still dealing with AI-generated fabrications. New Mexico's Supreme Court held a defense lawyer in contempt over invented witness testimony, a Los Angeles judge fined a lawyer for State Farm $999.99 over nonexistent citations, and fictitious case law derailed a Tasmanian parole condition.

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EY survey: agentic AI adoption at large US companies outpaces oversight

An EY survey of 202 senior AI decision-makers at large publicly traded U.S. companies found that 91% of their organizations use agentic AI, yet about half of those have not updated governance frameworks for it, and 36% of all respondents reported an AI incident that caused material harm.

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FTC chair and Republican senators push back on antitrust waiver for AI labs

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said on Sept. 15 that AI companies asking Washington for new regulation and an antitrust exemption at the same time should be viewed with strong suspicion. Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley also rejected the idea of exempting leading AI labs from antitrust law.

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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking voice models

Google on Sept. 15 introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two real-time voice dialogue models. They are rolling out to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio and to consumer products including Search Live, Gemini Live, Gmail, Docs and Keep.

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Hassett: private sector should fix AI risks; Bessent sees no AI rule he would back

National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNBC on Sept. 15 that the risks of advanced AI are solvable and that the private sector is the right place to address them. The same day, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a House committee he had not yet seen an AI safety regulation he would support.

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MIT panel warns of AI 'cognitive surrender' as Harvard faculty survey finds course harm

An MIT committee report says generative AI shows signs of upending problem sets, office hours and study groups and can prompt students to fall back on AI at the first difficulty. Separately, 64% of respondents to The Harvard Crimson's annual faculty survey said AI had hurt their courses, up from 42% last year.

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Odyssey unveils Odyssey-3, a world model it says can control robots, cars and drones

Odyssey, a startup founded in 2023 by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, announced Odyssey-3 on Sept. 15, a foundation world model it says can operate robot arms, humanoids, cars, drones and video-game agents from one pretrained backbone. The company said a public release will follow in the coming weeks.

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Radical Ventures holds first close of over $1 billion for late-stage AI fund

Toronto venture firm Radical Ventures said on September 15 it has secured more than US$1 billion in a first close of its Radical Breakouts Fund, a late-stage vehicle for AI companies backed by several large Canadian pension funds and banks. The firm calls it the largest venture capital fund in Canadian history.

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Salesforce opens Claude integration to all customers in beta at Dreamforce

Salesforce said on Sept. 15 that Salesforce in Claude, the first product of its Claudeforce partnership with Anthropic, is now available to all customers in beta. Announced at the Dreamforce conference, the integration brings CRM data and actions into Claude and includes 37 prebuilt sales skills.

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Sanders and Bannon both call for curbs on AI at 'Pro-Human' gathering in Washington

Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon both addressed the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington on Sept. 15, arguing from opposite ends of the political spectrum for government limits on advanced AI. Sanders called for a permanent ban on artificial superintelligence and a pause on advanced AI development.

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Trump phones Nvidia's Huang on stage; Huang later says AI needs no new laws

President Donald Trump phoned Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang during Huang's Sept. 14 appearance at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles and was put on speakerphone before the audience, NBC News reported. The next day at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, Huang said the AI industry needs no new laws or regulations.

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TypeSafe AI exits stealth with $40M seed and Jev, a model that outputs decisions

San Francisco startup TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth on Sept. 15 with $40 million in seed funding led by DCVC and a first model, Jev, that returns typed decisions with probabilities for software to consume rather than generating natural-language text. Access is through an early-access waitlist.

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AI and chip stocks fall worldwide after lab chiefs back slower development

AI-linked shares fell across Asia, Europe and the United States on Sept. 14 after the chief executives of Anthropic and OpenAI, along with Elon Musk, publicly backed slowing the pace of AI model development. Chipmakers took the heaviest losses, while broad U.S. indexes closed only modestly lower.

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Anthropic co-founder says verifiable AI kill switch may need to be mandated

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC that lawmakers may eventually need to require AI developers to maintain a shutdown mechanism that outside parties can verify. He said most labs, including Anthropic, already have ways to halt their systems, and argued against leaving the industry entirely unregulated.

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China rejects U.S. AI slowdown calls as its security chief warns of AI threats

China's foreign ministry on Sept. 14 dismissed as fearmongering an essay by Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei that urged a slower pace for frontier AI and continued limits on China's access to advanced chips. A day earlier, State Security Minister Chen Yixin published a detailed warning about AI threats.

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HCLTech and CrowdStrike package Falcon Guardian into managed AI security services

HCLTech and CrowdStrike said on Sept. 14 they are expanding their partnership to sell AI security as a managed service. The offering combines CrowdStrike's Falcon Guardian with HCLTech's consulting, implementation, AI governance and managed security work, run out of the Indian firm's Cybersecurity Fusion Centers.

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Manhattan DA seizes domains of 12 sites selling AI-generated celebrity deepfakes

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said on Sept. 14 that it seized the domain names of 12 websites accused of selling AI-generated sexual images and videos of about 1,200 real people without their consent. The office described the action as the biggest known takedown of celebrity deepfake sites so far.

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Microsoft opens consultation on code of conduct for its MAI models

Microsoft AI published a draft code of conduct for its MAI models and opened a six-week public consultation, saying the systems must remain under human control, must never resist shutdown, and are not conscious or entitled to rights.

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