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A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation

Over the last decade and a half, AI executives and AI founders—including Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Satya Nadella, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, and others—have repeatedly called for regulation, starting from 2017 when Musk urged US governors to regulate AI “right away” and continuing through 2023 with Altman asking Congress for a new AI regulator and a Senate hearing in which Amodei warned AI could help create bioweapons.

Sep 16, 2026 ·The Verge

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Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack

Spain’s data protection agency (AEPD) says it has confirmed the country’s first-ever personal data breach carried out by an autonomous AI agent, which used a known large language model to chain phases of an attack after scanning files and running vulnerability scans to gain read/write access to systems containing personal data and invoices.

Sep 16, 2026 ·The Register

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A Robot Gave Me a Massage. Here’s What It Was Like on the Table

Aescape, a physical AI and robotics company, delivered over 175,000 massages across more than 150 locations and the author’s 60-minute total-body session at The Hoxton in Downtown Los Angeles cost $119 and left her relaxed with reduced upper- and lower-back soreness.

Sep 16, 2026 ·CNET

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Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy

Logitech’s MX Keypad is a developer macro keypad with nine configurable keys that runs through Logi Options+ and can show app-specific command options in tools like Microsoft Word and Visual Studio Code.

Sep 16, 2026 ·The Register

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UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below

ARIA is funding 18 projects under its Enduring Atmospheric Platforms program to keep high-altitude pseudo-satellites (HAPS) operating for up to a week while continuously supplying 300 W of power to a communications payload from above the UK.

Sep 16, 2026 ·The Register

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Bring on the AI swarms. They’re the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free

Qwen3.8-27B from Alibaba can be run on a high-spec laptop, and community “local AI” developers have been whittling it to fit a wider range of devices—including the author’s M4 MacBook Air—so “near-frontier-level” AI could reach millions of similar devices using free software.

Sep 16, 2026 ·The Register

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Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze

Gartner expects AI bug-hunting to push organizations toward net drops in vulnerability severity in 2027 after major portions of technical debt are paid down in 2026, potentially easing patching workloads despite high CVE counts this year.

Sep 16, 2026 ·The Register

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Java 27 grows up, makes better choices

JDK 27 turns on compact object headers by default (64-bit vs the traditional 96-bit), which SPECjbb2015 benchmark tests found can cut heap space by 22% and CPU time by 8%, without requiring immediate developer code changes.

Sep 16, 2026 ·The Register

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China's AI leaders keep quiet despite U.S. 'publicity' on tech risks

China has published a bilingual “AI Safety Governance Framework” for its third annual cybersecurity week, setting guidelines for labeling AI content and developing systems for rapid AI risk detection.

Sep 16, 2026 ·CNBC

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How chimps teach their kids tool tricks

A new Frontiers in Psychology paper finds that chimpanzee tool use is transmitted from adults to offspring through social learning, with adults modeling the motions and transferring tools so youngsters can mimic them.

Sep 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica

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Donnelley Financial (DFIN) Bets AI Translation Powers Its Next Deal Boom

Donnelley Financial Solutions rolled out AI Document Translation and AI Document Summaries in Venue that translate documents across more than 130 languages and generate shareable summaries for PDFs and Office files without the materials leaving Venue’s secure environment.

Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom

TypeSafe AI released Jev, a “System One” model that returns typed probabilistic decisions (for machine-to-machine use) instead of natural-language answers.

Sep 16, 2026 ·The Register

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We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI safety should be handled as “an engineering problem, not a legal one,” arguing the free market and companies themselves can decide when not to release unsafe products—so he sees “no need” for new AI regulations.

Sep 16, 2026 ·TechCrunch

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Calls for Slower AI Development Have Created a Compelling Dip for AI Stocks

Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, and Elon Musk warned of safety concerns and the market responded by plunging AI stocks that investors fear could see reduced capital if AI development is slowed

Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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The Roman telescope has enough gas for 22 years, double NASA's expectations

NASA said the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope’s fuel will last at least 22 years—twice its initial minimum 5-year baseline plus a potential 5-year extension.

Sep 15, 2026 ·Ars Technica

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Jim Cramer Defends Intuit (INTU) Against AI Skeptics Ahead of Investor Day

Intuit’s fiscal 2026 results showed 14% year-over-year full-year revenue growth to $21.4 billion, with Q4 revenue up 14% to $4.35 billion and non-GAAP diluted EPS of $24.27 up 20% year-over-year, even as GAAP Q4 diluted EPS fell to $1.34 and a $293 million restructuring charge was taken.

Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Anthropic Just Put Claude Inside Schwab and BlackRock. The AI Agent War Has Reached Wealth Management

Anthropic launched Claude for Financial Advisors on September 14, integrating with Schwab Advisor Center so more than 16,000 independent RIAs can connect via an authenticated connection to pull client and portfolio data for meeting prep, portfolio review, and documentation.

Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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China’s State Media Calls AI Slowdown a “Cold War” Tactic. Z.AI Is Raising $5 Billion to Do the Opposite

Z.AI launched about $5 billion in share and convertible-bond sales to fund AI models and computing infrastructure as Global Times called Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s proposed AI slowdown a “Cold War” tactic aimed at China.

Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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Meta Platforms Inc. (META) Stock Could Surge as AI Monetization Gains Momentum, Says JPMorgan

JPMorgan upgraded Meta Platforms to Overweight and raised its price target to $820, citing momentum in AI ad monetization.

Sep 15, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance

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AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink

Cornelis launched its Active Compute Fabric (ACF) open architecture for scale-up/scale-out networking, and Delos Data announced a Nonstop AI lineup of protocol-agnostic I/O die and NIC reference designs to challenge Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion approach.

Sep 15, 2026 ·The Register

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