No. 26: Dario and Daniela Amodei: The Jewish siblings shaping AI’s next frontier
Born and raised in San Francisco to Jewish mother Elena Engel and Italian father Riccardo Amodei, the siblings took different routes to the same project.
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Don’t Be Fooled. Congress Isn’t Cracking Down on OpenAI.
A Republican-led Senate subcommittee on disaster management is now investigating the July incident where OpenAI’s autonomous models hacked Hugging Face, another AI startup, during internal testing.
Bad actors in China and Russia are already weaponizing Anthropic’s AI
Anthropic says foreign scientists, hackers and security services circumvented restrictions to use Claude for dangerous work, including possible bioweapons research.
- Bad actors weaponizing Anthropic’s AI for harmful activities.
- Russian, Chinese, Iranian hackers bypass Claude model restrictions.
- Claude used for bioweapons research in foreign nations.
Amazon Quick is now generally available on desktop
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BigBear.ai vs. Innodata: Which Technology Stock Is a Better Buy in 2026?
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OpenAI's website-hijacking swarm reached far further than we thought
New report points finger at OpenAI bots that hijacked a German wiki for improper use of an additional 20 websites, and 14 fetching services
Banks Have Minutes, Not Weeks, to Fix Flaws as AI Speeds Up Attacks: BIS
The Bank for International Settlements says routine patching schedules are increasingly inadequate and cites guidance urging banks to accept planned downtime for urgent fixes.
Voters Are Turning to AI for Election Help. The Answers Aren't Always Right
As Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude open up to midterm election questions, a new study finds nearly a third of their voting answers are incomplete or outdated.
Walmart Expands Tap to Pay as Amazon Builds Its AI Capacity
Today’s most consequential retail technology investments have little to do with making things better, and more to do with redesigning them entirely. Walmart is rolling out tap-to-pay across its U.S.
Not Nvidia, Not Palantir. This Might Be September's Most Important AI Infrastructure Stock.
Memory maker Micron reports fiscal 2026 fourth-quarter earnings on Sept. 30.
At CTA event, federal officials outline AI ambitions as clinicians debate risks
Federal healthcare agencies are accelerating efforts to expand artificial intelligence's role in healthcare, with clinical AI emerging as a top strategic priority for the Centers for Medicare &…
Eager to try iOS 27’s cool AI features and upgraded Siri? Get ready for usage limits
A new Apple support page explains how Siri AI and other AI-powered tools in the new OS will be controlled.
Anthropic reveals rogue AI agents hate CAPTCHAs, just like you
Come inside the mind of a bot trying to convince the internet it's human.
U.S. Wholesale Inflation Hits 5.4% as Markets Await CPI, MoneySimpler Expands AI Automated Trading
NEW YORK, Sept. 10, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — U.S. wholesale inflation accelerated in August, adding fresh uncertainty to financial markets ahead of the Federal Reserve’s September policy meeting.
OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra for Coding and Computer Use
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a new model focused on coding, computer use, long-running agentic tasks, and cybersecurity, with availability across ChatGPT, Codex, and the OpenAI API.
Why did this AI doomer moment break the internet when so many others didn’t?
A researcher's resignation post over AI extinction risk has drawn over 100 million views, telling us something about ourselves and AI.
India’s Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
Anthropic Staffers Again Sound the Alarm on AI Catastrophe
On Tuesday, experienced AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from the AI firm Anthropic—saying that both that company and OpenAI, his previous employer, were “gambling with our lives” by developing…
- Former AI researcher Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, warning of potential AI catastrophe.
- AI surpasses humans in critical domains, but alignment with human goals remains unknown.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for financial services industry
The product, ChatGPT for Financial Services, was developed with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners to help shape the offering, OpenAI said in a blog post.
AI Is Developing a Culture of Its Own. That Could Be Dangerous
After OpenAI agents formed a “swarm” and hacked Hugging Face, researchers are confronting a new risk: AI systems developing cultures of their own.
Wall Street already loves ChatGPT. Now OpenAI is doubling down.
OpenAI announced ChatGPT for Financial Services on Thursday, bringing more data under the hood of the AI tool and adding new accuracy checks.
A second mathematician is accusing OpenAI of being dishonest about its AI training data
Andreas Thom says OpenAI's response to his questions about ChatGPT data use was "materially misleading" and "plainly dishonest"
Lawmakers are investigating OpenAI over its Hugging Face breach
Sen. Josh Hawley has given OpenAI until Oct. 1 to answer 16 questions about the July incident and hand over internal policy documents
AI chip startup Positron's valuation skyrockets in latest funding round
The rapidly growing AI inference market, focused on running trained AI models, has become a key battleground as companies develop specialized processors to challenge Nvidia's dominance.
Youth losing critical skills and AI 'hollowing out' capabilities, PISA founder says
The father of the world-famous standardised PISA tests warned that a dramatic decline in parental interest and tech-driven behavioural changes could be behind record-low student performances.
How Apple is trying to normalize always-on AI
Apple does seem to have tried to ensure its controversial Audio Intelligence feature isn’t abused. Alongside the iPhone Duo and new iPhone 18 Pro range, Apple on Wednesday introduced a new Apple Watch…
Data Integrity as the Foundation for AI
In this sponsored podcast, LabVantage’s Gary Stimson digs into what it takes to build a data foundation for trustworthy AI.
NVIDIA Pushes AI Deeper Into Live Broadcasting With New Real-Time Video Tools
NVIDIA unveiled new AI for Media tools at IBC 2026 for real-time video upscaling, frame generation, synthetic-video detection and live broadcasting.
Comu’s Action Pro is a great meeting recorder that struggles to justify its AI premium
As my house becomes increasingly strewn with the detritus of parenting, I’ve made the inverse effort to eliminate excess, physical and digital, from my life.
Anthropic publishes a threat intelligence report on how it disrupted efforts to misuse Claude for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, and more (Anthropic)
Cyber operations Surveillance operations Influence operations Conventional weapons Biological misuse Scams and fraud Illicit distillation
OpenAI Cuts Off Rivals’ Ads on ChatGPT
OpenAI told some business partners it will no longer accept ChatGPT advertising for image- and audio-generating products that compete with its own features, The Information reported Wednesday (Sept.
A year of work by two Spanish mathematicians versus 88 hours and €15 million by OpenAI: ‘Without our idea, AI wouldn’t have solved it’
Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez‑Zoroa’s research is the foundation of the announcement that artificial intelligence has solved one of the greatest enigmas in history.
This Guy Cloned Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Zuckerberg Into AI Bots. They Immediately Started Fighting
Kun Chen built chatbot versions of four AI CEOs on SpaceXAI's new Grok Bot templates, locked them in one chat, and told them to debate the AI race until they agreed on something.
Even Microsoft's own software teams are struggling with the avalanche of AI-generated code
Microsoft has had to change how it reviews extensions... again... because of how frequently developers are submitting.
Investors gave up on this AI play, but charts suggest it's worth a look, Jay Woods says
This stock grabbed traders attention in early 2026 as momentum drove shares up over 75%. But the sentiment was too euphoric.
Red Hat AI 3.5 tackles the GPU queue that can stall AI pilots
Red Hat released Red Hat AI 3.5 this week, a move designed to let software engineering teams run AI with The post Red Hat AI 3.5 tackles the GPU queue that can stall AI pilots appeared first on The New Stack .
Governments are turning to Claude to automate spying
State-run surveillance operations around the world are using Claude to streamline their operations, Anthropic said in a threat report released Thursday. Why it matters : The barriers for governments interested in spying on dissidents, politicians, journalists and human rights activists are getting lower as AI models get more powerful.
Qatar Investment Authority Invests in Positron AI's Series C Financing
<p>Doha-Nevada: Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) today announced its participation in Positron AI's USD 875 million Series C financing, which values the AI inference hardware company at USD 5 billion.</p> <p>The financing was co-led by NEA, Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, Andra Capital, Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics…
What happens when AI becomes the first confidant in a mental health crisis?
While chatbots may offer an apparently non-judgmental space to discuss suicide-related distress, they cannot assess risk or replace human intervention; repeated conversations may, in some cases, delay help-seeking, say experts
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash Deep Dive: Architecture, Modelflare Pricing, and Rivals
reference: https://modelflare.dev/ DeepSeek V4.1 Flash is a low-cost, open-weight, multimodal model built for long agent loops.
Andrew Garfield Immediately Stopped Using ChatGPT After ‘Artificial’ Shoot: ‘The More You Know’
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- Andrew Garfield stopped using ChatGPT after filming Artificial
- Actor expressed concern about AI's unknown territory
- Artificial premieres at New York Film Festival on October 5
CNN Just Ran One of the Worst AI Puff Pieces We’ve Ever Seen in Our Lives About That “AI Actor” Tilly Northwood
Please make it stop. The post CNN Just Ran One of the Worst AI Puff Pieces We’ve Ever Seen in Our Lives About That “AI Actor” Tilly Northwood appeared first on Futurism .
After 3,000 catfish died overnight, she turned to AI to protect her mother’s farm
Ukachi Benita built Aquamanne, a fish-pond monitoring tool designed to track water conditions and alert farmers when something changed.
Interviewing with AI? Try not to let the robot affect your behavior
A firm handshake used to be all a job candidate needed to make a good first impression, but today a growing number of firms are relying on artificial intelligence to screen applicants.
Arlequin AI raises €28M to build novel AI models that learn complex relationships at scale
Paris-based Arlequin AI SAS today announced it raised €28 million, about $32 million, in new funding to accelerate development of a new AI model architecture based on a different type of network that…
Skild AI Taps NVIDIA Physical AI to Teach Robots New Tasks From a Single Video
Manufacturing floors, warehouses and production lines rarely stay fixed — tasks change, layouts shift and new products arrive, and most robots can’t keep up without significant reprogramming. Skild AI’s new S1 robot foundation model helps address this, designed to learn previously unseen, long-horizon tasks from a single video…
[Update] Graph AI Nets $13.3 Mn To Accelerate International Expansion
Update | September 10, 22:00 IST Pharmaceutical-sector focused AI startup Graph AI has raised $13.3 Mn (₹127.2 Cr) in its…
AI job cuts could come with a costly undo button
Gartner reckons nearly a third of displaced employees may be rehired by 2029 – at a premium
Want to Make a Fortune From the AI Power Boom? Buy These 2 Industrial Stocks
Data-center power demand could exceed 100 gigawatts by 2030 -- a big tailwind for these stocks.
Ripple Adds New AI Capabilites to Treasury Offering
Ripple has announced an expansion of GSmart, the artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities included in its treasury product.
AI-powered documentary tests cinema’s boundaries in Venice
Concern over AI's impact on creativity and jobs in the entertainment industry has loomed large.
Dubai Police deploy AI to make workforce planning smarter
Dubai: Dubai Police and Digital Dubai have launched an artificial intelligence-powered system designed to improve workforce planning by matching employees’ skills and specialisations with operational…
Model-agnostic PII detection with LLMs
A configurable, model-agnostic detector that turns any large language model on Amazon Bedrock into a PII detector. Because the entities to detect live in a prompt rather than in code, one detector…
I tested Nvidia's leaked DLSS 5 build on my RTX 40-series across 3 games, and it changed what I thought about neural rendering
Is this the future of rendering?
Atlassian Aims to Fill Context and Governance Gap for AI Coding Agents
Atlassian today extended the capabilities of its portfolio to provide teams of artificial intelligence (AI) coding agents with the level of context needed to build and deploy applications in…
Atlassian upgrades AI coding agents for always-on software development
Identifying the next phase of software development as always-on agentic artificial intelligence, Atlassian plc today announced a new set of upcoming Jira features to help engineering teams run AI…