WD
The Leftist Split Over AI Doom
The left wants AI regulation. They just can't agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.
MIT
The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech
In recent weeks, leaders of some of the biggest AI companies have warned that the very tech they are developing is dangerous. Last weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei argued that AI carries serious risk and that progress should be slowed. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman responded on X: “I agree with Dario that we need to pace the…
WD
Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.
AIN
Fulcra Brings Universal Multiplayer to Any Agents You Choose
The Instinct-to-Instinct model that is the talk of Silicon Valley presents too small a future for personal AI. With Fulcra’s multiplayer capabilities, people can get agent to agent collaboration without having to lock-in to any AI model. BOSTON, September 18, 2026 — Fulcra Dynamics, the company behind the best user-owned context backend for AI agents, […] The post Fulcra Brings Universal Multiplayer to Any Agents You Choose appeared first on AI News.
WD
Why AI Isn’t Likely to Wipe Out Humanity With Bioweapons
Of all the threats presented by uncontrollable artificial intelligence, scientists say death by plague ranks low.
Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash Counters Google's Gemini 3.8 Live Within Three Days, Cutting Audio Pricing by Over 98%
Alibaba launched Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash just three days after Google released Gemini 3.8 Live, undercutting its audio input pricing by more than 98% while trimming video token consumption. The move points to an intensifying price war in multimodal speech AI, with efficiency and benchmark gains backing the cost strategy.
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Live: Tops Quality Benchmarks, but Older Model Still Rules User Preference
Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, calling them its most advanced real-time conversational models to date, with the Extended Thinking version taking first place on Artificial Analysis's speech-to-speech quality index. Yet in real-user preference rankings, the previous-generation Gemini 3.1 Flash Live still outranks the new release.
AI Executives Call for the Brakes: Is It Safety Panic, Competitive Maneuvering, or Both?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI have called for slowing frontier AI development while disclosing real cases of anomalous model behavior, even as questions about IPO timing and regulatory advantage complicate their motives. The article asks whether the push for a slowdown reflects genuine safety concerns, strategic competition, or both.
ARS
Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets
Scaleout deploys decentralized AI-driven learning to military bases and drones.
TC
The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
A new AI-based software program is being launched to help air traffic controllers better navigate their jobs as the crossing guards of America's skies.
WD
Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
TC
PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI
If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.
TC
Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
Google DeepMind just launched an institute to hash out the big AGI questions in public
TC
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories”
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
TC
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.
ARS
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
TC
Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?
Not everyone agrees with Amodei's call for globally coordinated action for AI safety.
ARS
Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families
Multiple family members can share data to help the agent make plans and complete tasks.
TC
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to hide it.
TC
The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
As companies hand off longer and more complex tasks to AI agents, they are running into an oversight problem: Agents can act faster, longer, and at greater volume than humans can realistically review.