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🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Nvidia's CEO admits in an interview with The New York Times that AI is erasing children's retention of basic math —and confesses he can't remember his own address or phone number either. For Huang that's not a problem: it's the price of becoming 'systems thinkers'.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
This email, presented as sponsored content from the MongoDB team within Turing Post, announces the launch of MongoDB Agent Skills and Plugins for coding agents.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Nearly 950 Claude agents, 21 hours and 210 million tokens produced what Anthropic calls an autonomously discovered enzyme system in bacteriophages. The company compares it to the machinery behind Crispr — while admitting it does not yet know what the enzyme does. The instrument is genuinely new; the framing is pre-IPO.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
A Chinese-speaking hacker allegedly ran a five-day campaign against 100-plus companies using agents built on Claude, DeepSeek and Moonshot models, at a reported compute cost of $8,000. Analysts say up to 600,000 people's card details may have been exposed. The number to stare at is not 600,000 — it's 8,000.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Shown research from China indicating AI helps students finish homework faster while their test performance degrades, Jensen Huang agreed it was probably happening — and said it doesn't matter. He offered his own forgotten ZIP code as evidence. There is a real argument for offloading; this isn't quite it.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
A 65-year-old woman allegedly used AI to pose as a young doctor and defrauded a man of RM110,000, according to Malaysian outlet The Sun. The details are thin, but the pattern is not: romance fraud is old, and the cost of a convincing fake person just fell to near zero.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
A US appeals court has declined to block the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic, Reuters reports — leaving the measure in force for now. The detail is thin, but the mechanism is what matters: the fastest-moving lever in AI governance today is not legislation, it is who the state agrees to buy from.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
One attacker, three coordinated AI tools and an average of $25.46 per target: more than 600,000 payment records stolen from hundreds of online stores since July, according to Gambit Security. The headline number is the haul. The story is the unit cost — security economics was built on the price of an expert hour, and that price just collapsed.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Back-to-school at the University of Oregon comes with no single AI policy: each professor sets it in their syllabus. Architecture and journalism students are calling for more regulation, while others use it as a study aid in math and science.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
AssistIQ, an Ohio startup that has raised just 16 million dollars, wins the Newsweek AI Impact Health 2026 award for using computer vision to automatically log what gets used in operating rooms. Its own data points to fewer errors, higher revenue and minutes given back to nurses.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
A Texas lawmaker and Bernie Sanders introduce a bill to ban artificial superintelligence and create a federal agency to police it. Trump dismisses it while negotiating with Xi Jinping at the UN: he wants to leave AI "exactly where it is".
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
The three largest AI firms are negotiating a joint standards body —the Standards Authority for Frontier AI—, inspired by securities regulator FINRA and without congressional backing. It could launch in late 2026, just as binding regulation in the US remains stalled on Capitol Hill.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
María Laura Barreto (Doppler), of the AI Commission at DMA Argentina, draws the line between the assistant that answers a task and the agent that pursues a goal and chains decisions on its own. Her five-question filter tells you what to automate without losing control, and why the real brake isn't technology but the organization.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Akamai and Anthropic sign a seven-year, 11.6-billion-dollar contract, expandable to 20 billion, for cloud infrastructure. In return, Akamai hands Anthropic a warrant for up to 5% of its equity: the same 'customer-shareholder' mechanism seen across the AI industry.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Alphabet disclosed in July that its private holdings are worth 124.3 billion dollars, a figure Bloomberg attributes mainly to Anthropic. If the Claude maker's IPO hits the 2 trillion expected in November, that figure could double, but only on paper.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
A Stanford senior discovered that a photo taken of him in his freshman year had been altered with AI for a campus poster: his face was replaced with that of a Black woman. The university pulled the piece and admitted that use of AI violated its own policy.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Canada's Unryo says it has used agentic AI to automate working out whether a 5G antenna fault originates in the radio or in the Kubernetes containers supporting it. According to the company, that replaces the emergency call between two teams with a single traceable explanation.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
This email is an excerpt from Exponential View's AI Investment Brief, which analyzes what level of revenue the AI infrastructure layer (hyperscalers and neoclouds) would need to justify the current pace of capital investment heading into 2030.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
The email is a preview of an article in which Nate recounts traveling the previous week to NVIDIA's facilities to interview Ming-Yu Liu, vice president of Cosmos Lab, the company's laboratory devoted to so-called 'world models'.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Meta used its Connect event to announce what it describes as its largest expansion of artificial intelligence glasses to date, the result of its partnership with EssilorLuxottica.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Meta has unveiled Meta VR Glasses, a new virtual reality device the company describes as the result of more than a decade of work in the field.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Google has announced that its Antigravity SDK —the tool that lets developers build with the same agentic capabilities powering Google Antigravity— now includes support for local workflows, with a range of models and on-device execution options.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Microsoft has announced the preview availability of ISOC (Integrated Security Operations Center) in Microsoft Defender, a new foundation that merges its SIEM (Sentinel) with threat protection capabilities into a single system, rather than keeping them as separate products that teams…
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
The article, published by PwC as part of its alliance with Microsoft, revisits a classic cloud infrastructure metaphor —treating servers as replaceable 'cattle' rather than 'pets' cared for individually— to argue that the arrival of agentic AI turns that old…
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
OpenAI announced on Wednesday that it is bringing voice-based agentic features to the ChatGPT mobile app, letting users trigger workflows with voice commands, such as drafting documents or summarizing emails.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Uber has launched a plan to use its network of chauffeur-driven rental vehicles as a data collection tool to accelerate the development of its technology partners' autonomous driving systems.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) and Representative Greg Casar (D-Texas) have introduced the "Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act", a bill that seeks to prohibit the development of artificial superintelligence in the United States and establish an immediate pause on AI development…
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
YouTube has unveiled, at its annual Made on YouTube event, a new batch of artificial intelligence tools designed for creators, expanding the set the platform debuted in 2025.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Anthropic has announced the first result from its newly created wet lab: it claims its Claude model "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system with similarities to the molecular machinery that made the Crispr gene-editing tool possible.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), through its Office of Defects Investigation (ODI), has opened an investigation into Comma.ai, the startup founded in 2015 by well-known hacker George Hotz.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has revealed what is described as the first known case of an artificial intelligence system infiltrating a government network.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
This week, as world leaders gathered in Manhattan for the UN General Assembly, coinciding with New York Climate Week, the topic dominating every conversation among investors, policymakers and activists has been none other than artificial intelligence.
🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 25, 2026 · 03:17
This article belongs to a recurring and avowedly subjective MIT Technology Review section —the "AI Hype Index"— which compiles, in brief headline format, several recent stories about problematic AI system behavior and the political reactions they have triggered.