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AI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create it

Last year, the clinical trial policy analyst Ruxandra Teslo posted an idea for super-charging medical AI systems: use data from failed biotech companies. By bidding at their bankruptcy proceedings, she proposed, it might be possible to obtain detailed regulatory filings, manufacturing strategies, and safety data—information usually kept hidden as valuable trade secrets. She called these…

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Early Anthropic hire, former METR COO have found a way to rein in rogue AI agents

Their startup, Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) has raised $40 million in a Series A lound led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from First Harmonic.

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Pony.ai unveils autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets

Pony.ai has unveiled an autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets, developed with GAC Commercial Vehicle for freight supply chains. Unveiled at IAA Transportation 2026, this Level 4 (L4) heavy rig marks the fourth-generation (Gen-4) iteration of Pony.ai’s Robotruck platform. It builds on GAC Commercial Vehicle’s T9 battery-electric truck architecture, with mass production set to start […] The post Pony.ai unveils autonomous electric truck for logistics fleets appeared first on AI News

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Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear

Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing and customer-support tasks.

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Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost

Ars previewed Mozilla’s report on how cheap open models caught up on capability.

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What must happen for AI’s trillion-dollar gamble to pay off

When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls a “remarkable fact” that is not in question: A handful of so-called…

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The AI Talent Britain Fought to Hire May Be Recalculating Its Future

A proposed overhaul of UK settlement rules would double the wait for permanent residence, and it reaches back to sponsored engineers already here. For AI employers, it is quietly becoming a retention problem. By Sunny Sandhu, Senior Immigration Associate, AY&J Solicitors For years, the offer that brought skilled engineers to Britain was straightforward: work here […] The post The AI Talent Britain Fought to Hire May Be Recalculating Its Future appeared first on AI News.

Cloudflare Declares the End of the Crawler Black Box: AI Training Data Acquisition Enters a Mandatory Paid Era

On September 15, 2026, Cloudflare began blocking AI training and Agent crawlers by default on ad-bearing pages for newly onboarded domains while allowing search crawlers through, and introduced tiered content-use permissions. The move shifts crawler economics from pay-per-crawl to pay-per-use and forces AI companies into licensing, payment, or clean-data alternatives.

Six Months After Trump Banned Anthropic, a Court Rules: Unconstitutional Retaliation

A federal judge ruled that the Pentagon's designation of Anthropic as a "national security supply chain risk" was unconstitutional retaliation aimed at punishing the company's public safety stance, not a genuine security assessment. The case lays bare the unresolved question of who defines safety boundaries when the government is one of AI's largest buyers.

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Jensen Huang took a call from Trump, and showed off something else, too

When Jensen Huang took a live call from Trump, some of us were more focused the phone he used to take it.

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’

Though Elon Musk and Sam Altman have supported Dario Amodei's calls to slow the pace of AI development, Jensen Huang seems to feel differently.

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OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million, report says

Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.

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AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop

“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”

Trump Rejects AI Regulatory Guardrails: A High-Stakes Gamble on the President as Firewall

President Trump has rejected AI regulatory guardrails, arguing that a strong and intelligent president is the only safeguard AI needs, even as AI safety incidents and calls to slow frontier development intensify. The debate pits accelerationist arguments about competition with China against warnings that the industry’s self-disclosure mechanism is structurally flawed.

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The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the technology, from its…

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