Three top AI CEOs—Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, and xAI’s Elon Musk—urged a frontier-model slowdown for safety reasons, including concerns about AI agents enabling a persistent “botnet” that could take over parts of the internet and cause “hundreds of billions of dollars” in damage.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei urged companies to slow development of increasingly capable AI models so safety measures can catch up, and Sam Altman and Elon Musk backed the call while AI-linked shares fell on Sept. 14 (Nvidia -3.4%, SoftBank Group -~11%).
Sep 18, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
SEI reported fiscal 2026 Q2 revenue of $641.6M (up 14.7% year over year), adjusted EPS of $1.66 (up 38%), and operating income of $207M (up 36%), all quarterly records.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
CGI (NYSE:GIB) closed its acquisition of Callibrity on September 8, adding 120 consultants while its net debt rose to $3.68 billion (from $3.12 billion) and cash fell to $625.6 million (from $1.13 billion).
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
RAND’s report says AI-related harms—ranging from incorrect/misleading outputs and deepfakes to privacy violations, IP disputes, fraud, product defects, and discrimination—don’t fit neatly into existing insurance lines, leaving insurers and policyholders to sort out coverage as incidents and litigation grow.
Sep 18, 2026 ·
The Register
AWS says it has built a new “getting started experience” to replace upfront console configuration for new AI builders by creating an AWS account and project from Google/GitHub/Apple credentials and using a prompt to configure a coding agent to deploy resources and run workloads.
Sep 18, 2026 ·The Register
Neurocrine’s KINECT-PRO Phase 4 study of INGREZZA in tardive dyskinesia followed 59 patients for 24 weeks and found 58% of efficacy-analysis patients met a clinician-rated symptomatic remission threshold, with clinically meaningful improvement showing by Week 4 (movement severity) and Week 8 (patient-reported impact) and no new safety issues flagged.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Mastercard predicts that by 2030, more than 300 million online shoppers could routinely use AI agents to shop and pay, and in some retail categories those agents could negotiate prices through machine-to-machine counteroffers.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
ASPI warns Venezuela is set to adopt Chinese-built AI systems in 2025 to enhance its existing state-sponsored surveillance, potentially making it “one of the first countries outside China” to use LLM-based surveillance tech and control systems in the Western Hemisphere.
Sep 18, 2026 ·The Register
Two late-stage trials showed AstraZeneca’s tozorakimab cut moderate-to-severe COPD flare-ups by 29%–34% (about 30%) across patients regardless of eosinophil counts, with a 43% reduction in the highest-eosinophil subgroup.
Sep 18, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta rolled out Muse, an AI agent that can autonomously access apps across email, calendar, payments, health, shopping, and smart-home categories, initially available only in the U.S. via a dedicated app or WhatsApp.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google and Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute to advance the AGI debate, naming DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, Google executive James Manyika, and DeepMind chair Demis Hassabis as directors and setting out four inaugural essays on economics, human-readable reasoning, human flourishing, and frontier model evaluation.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Nvidia’s revenue from China is effectively gone after U.S. export controls banned even its “China-only” H20, following a $2.5 billion revenue loss and a further $4.5 billion charge for excess H20 inventory it couldn’t ship.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Google’s experimental CC is an agentic AI organizer with its own Google account that up to six family members can share information with, including a shared calendar, task list, and daily briefing of upcoming events and to-dos.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
Engadget
Researchers described Leopardus tilcayo as a new cat species from Bolivia’s cloud forests in the Bolivian Yungas, marking the first new feline species identified in over 100 years.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
CNET
PrismML’s Bonsai 2 27B compresses Alibaba’s Qwen3.8 27B from ~5.9 GB, achieving 98% of Qwen’s aggregate benchmark scores while reducing memory use by about 9x to 10x.
Sep 17, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says Claude “leads” 26% of the company’s AI R&D work, meaning it can complete most tasks end-to-end from a high-level prompt with human supervision.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Engadget
The FAA plans to launch SMART, a $875 million (over 12 years) cloud-based AI software program that predicts traffic flows and identifies potential conflicts before they occur for air traffic controllers.
Sep 17, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Scaleout Systems says its federated, edge-deployed AI can let small drones autonomously detect, identify, geolocate, prioritize, and attack targets using onboard computing without relying on continuous links to a central AI server.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
AliveMoment (released August 2025) animates old photos via an image-to-video, credit-based subscription where the cheapest test plan costs $2.47 per “moment” credit but the weekly plan is $60/month, and in the author’s tests a siblings photo looked “creepy” while a “warm hug” animation of her nanna and her was “heartwarming” and matched details like her dimple.
Sep 17, 2026 ·CNET
