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American frontier AI models have scored about 7 months ahead of Chinese models on average since 2023, a gap that “has not closed.”
Sep 20, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
American frontier AI models have scored about 7 months ahead of Chinese models on average since 2023, a gap that “has not closed.”
Sep 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Human attackers—rather than rogue AI—remain the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems, even as AI is increasing attackers’ capability and speed.
Sep 20, 2026 ·
The Verge
Google said its Mandiant and Threat Intelligence teams had an undercover analyst inside TeamPCP’s inner circle almost from the beginning of the group’s rampage in March, enabling Google to disrupt the credential-theft campaign and warn providers and victims.
Sep 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act does not make Social Security benefits fully tax-free; it provides a temporary enhanced senior $6,000 tax deduction for taxpayers age 65+ between 2025 and 2028, with eligibility tied to income thresholds.
Sep 20, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
T. rex body temperature is inferred at an average of 36.3°C (with a ±2.5°C uncertainty) from clumped-isotope measurements of tooth enamel, putting it roughly in the range of modern elephants (~36°C) and warmer than coexisting crocodilians (~30.9°C).
Sep 20, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Flock Safety is offering “generous” voluntary buyouts to cut staffing from its 1,500-person workforce, and says it will grant packages to a majority of employees who express interest.
Sep 19, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Donald Trump said he will soon announce an “AI czar” to run a newly created “AI Force,” describing it as a way to “cherish,” “help,” and “watch over” AI as it grows.
Sep 19, 2026 ·
Engadget
Jim Cramer said that in a rate-tightening cycle investors “cannot buy companies that are losing money left and right.”
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Anthropic will embed Accenture as a third-party evaluator to assess the safety and compliance of its frontier AI models, with both companies investing at least $1 billion each over the next five years.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Engadget
PureCycle will supply SnapPack Square EVO tamper-evident packaging units that include 20% PureFive recycled polypropylene, with the resin holding APR Certification for PCR content and being acknowledged under New Jersey’s Recycled Content Law.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
CNN, MSNBC and POLITICO were turned away from the White House after a directive threatened to ban them, marking an escalation in the administration’s restrictions on press access.
Sep 19, 2026 ·The Verge
The Navy CTO Justin Fanelli said the service spends about $150 billion per year on purchasing and is trying to move toward more co-investment with startups (and away from funding the seed-through-Series-B gap itself).
Sep 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Medicaid treated $60,000 in family caregiver payments—$2,500 per month for two years to Gerelyn Terzo’s adult daughter—as an uncompensated gift because there was no signed, prospective personal care agreement and no time sheets or invoices, resulting in a six-month nursing home eligibility penalty.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The OASI Trust Fund is projected to run out by 2032, and benefits would need to be slashed by 22% in 2032 unless Congress intervenes.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Two viral remarks—Andrew Yang’s claim that Hugging Face hacker bots planted self-replicating code that made the internet unusable for AI testing, and Noam Brown’s focus on “people underestimated the AI” and weak sandboxing—underscore how hard it is to separate AI safety fact from fiction.
Sep 19, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Asserting a need to “pace the frontier” doesn’t, by itself, justify an antitrust exemption, because the companies described can build safe products without coordinating with each other.
Sep 19, 2026 ·The Verge
AI infrastructure could generate 395 million to 617 million tonnes of e-waste from 2025 to 2050—enough to fill 15 million to 23 million shipping containers (about 244,000 km end-to-end, roughly six times Earth’s circumference).
Sep 19, 2026 ·
The Register
A three-step push for slowing and evaluating frontier AI—via third-party evaluators in labs, industry coordination, and possible international agreements—has support from major AI leaders including Anthropic, OpenAI, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, and Elon Musk, but U.S. government involvement remains unlikely as the Trump administration calls AI safety fears a “hoax.”
Sep 19, 2026 ·The Verge
Every modern TV uses automatic content recognition (ACR) to track what you watch (and when/how you watch) by fingerprinting snippets of audio/video from built-in apps and TV ports, then sending that data for ads and recommendations—even when the only “consent” is buried in confusing agreements using dark patterns.
Sep 19, 2026 ·The Verge
California voters will decide on Nov. 3 whether Proposition 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on billionaires’ net worth (for those who were California residents on Jan. 1, 2026), with payment due in 2027.
Sep 19, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
