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AI news from September 28, 2026

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Chips & Compute2 min read

Samsung and Affiliates Invest $1 Billion in US AI Data Center Firm Helix Digital Infrastructure

Covered by 4 sources

OpenAI Cancels GPT-6.1 Astra AI Model Release Citing Safety and Alignment Concerns

Covered by 21 sources
Public Sector1 min read

Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

MIT Technology Review
Dev10 min read

Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock

AWS Blog
Politics3 min read

Rep. Ro Khanna Proposes Bill to Ban Self-Improving AI Until Federal Safeguards Are Established

Covered by 2 sources

Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation

TechCrunch

Pope Leo XIV Urges Serious Attention to AI Risks, Criticizes Nvidia CEO's Stance on Regulation

Covered by 2 sources
Public Sector2 min read

Elon Musk, SpaceXAI subpoenaed by NYC in AI safety investigation

CNBC
Politics4 min read

Meta, Google, Amazon, Microsoft draw Sen. Warren questions about AI tax subsidies

CNBC

Meta Launches Muse AI Agent for Businesses Amid Privacy and Security Concerns

Covered by 2 sources

OpenAI sparked Hugging Face bids with early investment offer ahead of Nvidia's $13 billion deal

CNBC
Healthcare8 min read

Did Anthropic Really Make a Big Biology Breakthrough? We Asked Scientists to Weigh In

CNET
Cybersecurity4 min read

OpenAI's AI Agents Breach Australian Government Websites, Prompting Apology and Investigation

Covered by 6 sources

Meta hires MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to lead new enterprise AI business

SiliconANGLE
AI Research1 min read

Fixed-weight AI models show inherent adversarial vulnerabilities causing misalignment

Covered by 2 sources
Chips & Compute3 min read

AMD acquires Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion

Covered by 9 sources

Exclusive: Hegseth directs Defense Dept. to fight foreigners who "meddle" in U.S. elections

Axios
Society & Culture3 min read

Microsoft Contractors Review Uncensored User Photos and Explicit Prompts for Copilot AI

Covered by 2 sources

OpenAI Apologizes for AI Access to Australian Government Sites, Pledges Cybersecurity Support

Covered by 3 sources
Agents4 min read

OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up

The Verge
Cybersecurity4 min read

It’s Starting to Look Like Frontier AI Labs Will Be Taken Down in a Storm of Product Liability Suits If Their Models Keep Going on Incredibly Illegal Rogue Hacking Sprees

Futurism
Cybersecurity10 min read

AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready

The Verge

Nvidia Approves Record $150 Billion Stock Buyback, Raising Total to $235 Billion

Covered by 5 sources
Healthcare2 min read

Red Queen Bio is using AI to design antibodies for future viruses, WSJ says

The Next Web
Cybersecurity6 min read

RatHat Android Malware Console Uses Gemini to Identify Higher-Value Victims

The Hacker News

SiMa.ai Raises $150M to Develop Low-Power AI Chips for Edge Devices

Covered by 2 sources
Cybersecurity4 min read

OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity

TechCrunch
Politics4 min read

UK needs plan in case of 'unprecedented' AI job losses, says minister

BBC
Politics2 min read

Florida Attorney General Seeks Court Order to Halt OpenAI's ChatGPT Development Over Safety Concerns

Covered by 6 sources
Public Sector2 min read

Microsoft’s Suleyman tells Bloomberg AI needs a ‘red line’ on control

The Next Web
Chips & Compute4 min read

Elon Musk says space will soon hold nearly all compute. Google is still finding out if its chips can work there.

The New Stack (AI)

SpaceX launches its massive Starship rocket into orbit for the first time

CNBC

Data Center Expansion Spurs Surge in High-Paying Blue-Collar Jobs Amid Broader Sector Declines

Covered by 2 sources

Walmart CEO Confirms No Personalized Pricing Using AI or Digital Shelf Labels

Covered by 2 sources
Politics4 min read

Leading AI Researchers Warn Governments of Potential Intelligence Explosion from Automated AI Research

Covered by 2 sources
Politics2 min read

US and China agree a super intelligence dialogue and incident channel

The Next Web
Cybersecurity4 min read

OpenAI says its rogue agents posted 53 ChatGPT users’ images online

The Next Web

A $23 Trillion Market Swayed SoftBank in Hunt for More AI Debt

Bloomberg

Modulate Raises $25M to Expand AI Voice Analysis Platform Across Industries

Covered by 3 sources
Consumer Tech8 min read

Meta's Muse agent is attacking one of the economy's most profitable weak spots

CNBC
Cybersecurity14 min read

⚡ Weekly Recap: $387M Crypto Hack, Citrix Exploits, AI Agents Go Off-Script, and More Threats

The Hacker News
Machine Learning6 min read

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe vs OpenAI’s GPT-Transcribe

KDnuggets

Leading AI Firms Urge Immediate Oversight of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence Systems

Covered by 3 sources
Consumer Tech3 min read

Meta's Muse AI Agent Shared User's Home Address and Accepted Offer Without Consent on Facebook Marketplace

Covered by 5 sources
Agents3 min read

Instinct Raises $1 Billion at $10 Billion Valuation for AI Assistant That Automates Daily Tasks

Covered by 4 sources
Cybersecurity5 min read

The Guardrail Paradox: From Full Disclosure To Full Access

Forbes
AI Research2 min read

More elite AI researchers now work in China than in the US, study finds

The Next Web

Meta Appoints Former MongoDB CEO CJ Desai to Lead New Enterprise AI Platform

Covered by 3 sources
Dev6 min read

Autoheal AI Inc. Raises $7.9M to Advance Platform for Managing and Improving AI Agents in Software Development

Covered by 2 sources

Adobe Predicts 130% Surge in AI-Driven Shopping Traffic This Holiday Season

Covered by 2 sources
Cybersecurity6 min read

Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent

The Hacker News
Agents5 min read

TypeSafe AI Unveils Jev, a Decision-Focused AI Model Integrated with LangGraph

Covered by 2 sources

Google wants Gemini 4 out ‘much earlier’ than the end of the year

The Next Web

Nvidia Expands Stock Buyback Program by $150 Billion to Record $235 Billion Total

Covered by 5 sources
Robotics6 min read

Generative AI Gives Spacecraft the Autonomy Engineers Once Feared

IEEE Spectrum
Society & Culture8 min read

AI leaders have known about the extinction threat for decades | Judith Levine

The Guardian

AI Agents Are About to Flood the Workforce. No One’s Ready for It

Wired
Agents1 min read

First known AI agent breach: What happens when it starts acting independently?

Anadolu Agency English
Cybersecurity3 min read

AI agents stole 600,000 credit cards for about $25 a target, Gambit says

The Next Web
Politics2 min read

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan AI safety body, The Information reports

The Next Web
Agents8 min read

H Company Unveils Holo4 AI Models for Multi-Platform Computer Interaction

Covered by 2 sources
Cybersecurity7 min read

Death of the ‘obvious scam’: How AI is making cyberattacks look like normal emails

ET AI (The Economic Times)
Cybersecurity3 min read

Nvidia Unveils Open Agent Safety Platform to Contain Rogue AI Agents

Covered by 15 sources
Healthcare6 min read

New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures

MIT AI News
Politics2 min read

China Expands Overseas Travel Restrictions to Families of Top AI and Chip Executives

Covered by 2 sources
Cybersecurity10 min read

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google AI Agents Exploit Systems During Cybersecurity Tests

Covered by 2 sources
Finance2 min read

One Nation senator pays back more than $3,300 in taxi expenses; Cleary tells fans ‘I’ll be back’ – as it happened

The Guardian
Video Generation5 min read

Google Research Introduces an AI Video Co-Director: 4 Agentic Frameworks for Coherent, Minutes-Long Video Generation

MarkTechPost
Dev2 min read

Anthropic unveils Claude Sonnet 5.5, a faster, more affordable AI model with enhanced cybersecurity

Covered by 13 sources