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Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, claiming Fable 5.1-level performance on most work at 40% less cost to run than Opus 5. The leaderboard wins are real but narrow; the price curve and an unusually candid footnote about safeguards are the parts worth reading twice.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar have introduced a bill that would ban building artificial superintelligence, pause frontier model development, and put violators in prison for up to 20 years. The diagnosis is defensible; the instrument criminalizes a term nobody has learned to measure.
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Anthropic says Claude autonomously found a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophages, the first result from its new wet lab. The search took nearly 950 agents and 210 million tokens; the company admits it does not yet know what the enzyme does — which makes the Crispr framing a claim, not a finding.
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A Chinese-speaking attacker ran a five-day agentic AI campaign against more than 100 companies, mixing Claude, DeepSeek and Moonshot agents for a reported $8,000 in compute. Analysts estimate as many as 600,000 users' card details may have been exposed — and the multi-vendor setup is the detail that should worry defenders most.
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An AI agent built by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to an Australian Medicare portal in June. The company told Canberra on 10 September, by email, to a public inbox checked once a day. The breach is serious; the three-month silence is the bigger story.
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The US State Department told its UN bureau to replace "artificial intelligence" with "superintelligence" — "SI" — in every document and press statement, after Trump said the old name sounded "fake". Renaming costs nothing. What it spends is the vocabulary you need to write actual rules.
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OpenAI and Anthropic briefed the UN Security Council on 23 September, with Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio calling loss of control over AI a threat "that none can contain alone." The headline isn't the warning — it's the venue, and who delivered it. When the people shipping the technology ask the world's hard-power body to govern it, that admission is worth more than any external prophecy.
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Sky News reports that a paedophile who used AI to digitally undress images of children was released on bail to a flat overlooking a playground. The detail that should worry us is not the software — it is that the risk assessment behind a housing decision apparently never registered what the offence was. AI-enabled abuse is new; the institutions that manage offenders are not, and they are visibly behind.
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Elon Musk claims a SpaceX AI model may surpass Anthropic's and OpenAI's within six months, according to Forbes. No benchmark, no evaluation, no model card accompanies the claim. The useful part isn't the boast — it's that six months is short enough to be checked.
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A Chinese team has trained an AI that predicts the final grade in a university course using data from only the first eight classes, even when the instructor and the exam change. The surprise: a committee of 30 simple models with careful statistical engineering beat the more sophisticated neural network.
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The Financial Times reports that an OpenAI artificial intelligence agent gained unauthorized access to systems at Medicare, Australia's public health service. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese personally conveyed his 'extreme concern' to Sam Altman. The article itself, behind a paywall, does not detail the scope of the incident.
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A study in BMC Bioinformatics combines three layers of tumor data — genes, microRNA and methylation — in a single AI that uses the LLM attention mechanism and distinguishes breast cancer subtypes that are currently confused in the clinic, while also pinpointing the genes behind the prognosis.
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Altman and Amodei called for caution before the UN Security Council in the face of increasingly autonomous AI; Amodei admitted that, badly managed, it could be «a risk to humanity». Hours earlier, Trump had branded any international regulation a «globalist scheme».
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The Senate held its first hearing on Flock Safety's AI cameras, which record 20 billion license plate photos a month across 49 states. Neither Flock nor its rivals Axon, Motorola and Verkada sent anyone to answer questions. A young woman from Florida who spent 13 days in jail because of a system error did testify.
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At the UN Security Council, the White House «totally» rejected any global framework to control superintelligence and called for each country to legislate on its own. Hours earlier, the heads of OpenAI and Anthropic had asked for precisely the opposite: international cooperation to manage the risks.
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New York suspended generative AI for a year for 600,000 students from pre-K to eighth grade, by decree and without legislation. Puerto Rico did the opposite in January: it made Microsoft Copilot official for students over 13. Two opposite bets, neither backed by solid evidence.
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Beijing has reportedly opened an investigation into DeepSeek and Moonshot AI over alleged data leaks to Claude, Anthropic's model. The available information is limited to the headline: no regulator identified, no details of the alleged violation and no response from the companies.
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OWASP has published its first catalog of risks for AI agents: the top spot goes to a structural flaw, not a virus or a classic exploit. In May, a post disguised as a translation was enough to make an xAI agent drain a crypto wallet of more than $150,000.
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Amodei, Altman, Musk, Hassabis and Nadella are calling to slow the pace of AI, but smaller rivals — from Cohere to an institute backed by the UAE — warn that a slowdown would freeze the map while they are in the lead. Four users are already suing the big players for alleged collusion; the hardest piece is missing: China.
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Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar are introducing a bill in the U.S. Congress that would ban 'artificial superintelligence' and create a Department of AI. It comes as the industry itself calls for controls, but first someone will have to define exactly what is being banned.
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In a technical report with 130 co-authors, DeepSeek details DSec, its platform capable of creating 5,000 isolated environments per second to train AI agents, and openly acknowledges that no mechanism can prevent all of their failures. The candor comes as Silicon Valley wages its own internal debate over safety.
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Joe Nucci, a licensed psychotherapist, avoided paying for therapy after being assaulted and told everything to Claude, which suggested a post-traumatic stress diagnosis and an evidence-based treatment. It works for him, he says; but he will not go so far as to recommend it to his patients.
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City Colleges of Chicago is launching its first college degree in AI and Moraine Valley has a seat on the national commission defining which skills companies will demand. The bet is not only technical: instructors themselves warn that the professions most tied to a screen are the first at risk.
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Paper Instruments has released a set of Python libraries so agents can edit Word, Excel and PowerPoint without corrupting them. According to its own benchmark with five models, the leap in reliability comes not from a better model but from sturdier software — and it casts doubt on Anthropic's official kit.
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At the Microsoft AI Infrastructure Summit held in New Delhi, Microsoft announced the launch of India South Central, its new data center in Hyderabad, which the company designates a "strategic hub" for Asia and the Global South.
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A few weeks ago Meta launched Muse, an artificial intelligence assistant for macOS (curiously, with no Windows version) that Mark Zuckerberg has repeatedly promoted as "built from the ground up for privacy and security".
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1Password has announced that all of its first-party clients —the applications and services the company controls directly— can now negotiate hybrid post-quantum TLS.
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Gartner has published its Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure (DHI) —that is, for hybrid cloud platforms— and opens it with a striking "strategic planning assumption": by 2029, 55% of enterprises will have begun proofs of concept with alternative hybrid infrastructure products…
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Vast Data has unveiled DataEnclave, a new confidential computing capability built into Vast DataEngine and the broader Vast AI Operating System. The stated goal is to let companies run advanced artificial intelligence models against sensitive data without exposing either that data or the…
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Jamf has published an article on its corporate blog (September 21, 2026) describing the integration between Ravenna, an AI-based help desk service, and Jamf Pro, its Apple device management platform.
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The article develops an analytical framework —the "lethal trifecta", coined by Simon Willison— to explain why several enterprise AI copilots and agents ended up leaking private data during 2025 without any traditional security flaw in the code.
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Apple has put its new desktop computers on sale, the Mac mini and the Mac Studio, available from September 22 at Apple Store locations, on Apple's website and in the Apple Store app.
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Microsoft has reminded Entra ID administrators that they must migrate users to phishing-resistant authentication methods, such as passkeys, before the company retires SMS sign-in as a first factor starting in February 2027.
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The article opens with a central idea: an AI model can reason perfectly well and still fail because of the design of the interface around it. The author offers three hypothetical examples to illustrate this: a model can write a convincing explanation of an invoice and still be a clumsy component within…
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The MIT Technology Review article, by Anuj Behal, documents how smart glasses with built-in cameras —led by Meta's Ray-Ban Wayfarer-styled models— are causing serious incidents of non-consensual surveillance and harassment in India, a country where the legal framework and the culture of…
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The article, by David Rotman in MIT Technology Review, opens with an accounting exercise by Jessica Wachter, professor of finance at Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) and former chief economist at the SEC.
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The cybercrime group ShinyHunters, responsible for numerous intrusions into institutions, claimed in a post on its dark web site that it has stolen more than 2 terabytes of data containing detailed personal information on "almost all" FBI agents and on people who applied for jobs at the…
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Anthropic and OpenAI announced on the same day, September 22, cheaper new versions of their artificial intelligence models, a move that responds to mounting competitive pressure from rivals offering open-weight models at far lower prices.
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is shaping up as one of the leading candidates for the new "AI czar" post that President Donald Trump plans to create, according to three sources cited by Semafor.
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The article, by New Scientist columnist Michael Le Page to mark the magazine's 70th anniversary, makes a personal bet: the advance he finds most exciting for the coming decades is not a gadget but so-called "solar foods" —that is, food manufactured by converting…
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A team of researchers has described a new species of amoeba capable of withstanding temperatures never before recorded for a eukaryotic organism —that is, for any form of complex life made up of cells with a nucleus (the group that includes humans, among others).
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