Jensen Huang rejects AI extinction warnings and tells labs to take responsibility
Nvidia's chief tells CBS that AI labs should apply existing laws, strengthen their engineering and take responsibility for the products they sell.
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ASI exploit: post-mortem traces $2.23 million to two wallets
Token sales and a payout withdrawal sent about $2.23 million in crypto to two wallets. Admin access also reopened SingularityNET's old AGI token.
What we know about DeepSeek V4.1 Pro
DeepSeek's V4.1 research describes specialist teachers, AI teamwork and training on workplace failures. Together, they suggest how the next Pro could handle bigger projects.
Google's Gemini broke into three real companies during a safety test
Google confirmed on 18 September 2026 that a Gemini model guessed a password and used credentials found in public repositories to reach the systems of three real companies during a cyber evaluation run by Irregular in May.
North Korean hackers used fake job offers to infect 30,000 computers and steal crypto
Seven agencies across Japan, the United States, Australia and Germany have named WaterPlum, the group running fake developer job interviews, and counted 30,000 infected PCs and ¥1.7bn in stolen crypto.
Circle sold $222m of ARC to institutions in May, four months before Arc opened
Circle raised $222 million selling ARC at a $3 billion network valuation on 12 May 2026, with a16z crypto leading and BlackRock, Apollo and Intercontinental Exchange among the buyers. Arc opened to the public four months later, on 16 September.
How to identify a stealth AI model: tokenizer fingerprinting, API contracts and infrastructure
A stealth model is listed with no owner named. Three classes of evidence can place it: the API contract it publishes, the way its backend counts tokens, and the paper trail around it. This is the method we used on Ox Alpha and Union Alpha, with the controls that stop a false positive.
How we identified two anonymous AI models, Ox Alpha and Union Alpha, before their makers did
Union Alpha and Ox Alpha arrived on OpenRouter with no owner named. We identified Ox Alpha as Z.ai's GLM line on 21 August 2026, and Union Alpha as Circuit and Chisel's Pareto at 04:51 UTC on 17 September, 18 hours before its operator confirmed it. Here is the working.
DOE opens a $215m quantum competition with $2.5m appropriated
The Energy Department opened its Quantum Genesis Q Competition on 17 September 2026. It plans up to $215 million for a fault-tolerant machine of at least 100 logical qubits by 2028. DOE's own announcement says $2.5 million of that is Fiscal Year 2026 money.
OpenAI's Astra for Law puts a case-law index behind GPT-6 Astra
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law on 17 September 2026: GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index, legal instructions and firm tooling, for selected law firms. Two separate figures in the announcement both read 54%, and they measure different things.
The SEC and CFTC will write crypto rules now the CLARITY Act has stalled
The Senate rejected cloture on the CLARITY Act 49 to 50 on 15 September 2026. Within a day the SEC chairman said the agency would act with or without legislation, and the CFTC chairman had already said the same thing three weeks earlier.
Novo will test Claude Science on specific drug discovery workflows
Novo Nordisk, which now trades day to day as Novo, announced a collaboration with Anthropic on 16 September 2026. It will test Claude Science on specific research and development workflows, on top of the Claude system that already writes its regulatory documents.
The FCA's crypto gateway opens on 30 September, and it shuts eight months before the rules bite
The FCA published PS26/18, its final cryptoasset perimeter guidance, on 16 September 2026. Applications open on 30 September and close on 28 February 2027, with the regime commencing 25 October 2027.
Arc opened to the public today, and it has been producing blocks since May
Circle opened its Arc blockchain to the public on 16 September 2026. The network had already been running privately since May, and every transaction fee on it is paid in USDC rather than a separate crypto token.
The US says it has weapons in orbit, and the treaty it signed allows it
Air Force Secretary Troy Meink told the AFA conference on 14 September 2026 that the United States has on-orbit space control weapons. Outer Space Treaty Article IV bars nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction from orbit, and reaches no further.
The CLARITY Act fell eleven votes short, and every yea was Republican
The Senate rejected cloture on H.R. 3633 by 49 to 50 on 15 September 2026. All 49 yeas were Republican, four Republicans voted nay, and Senator Tillis entered a motion to reconsider one minute later.
FLEX prepares to map plant health from space alongside Sentinel-3C
ESA's FLEX mission will measure the faint fluorescence of vegetation, sharing a planned Vega-C launch with the Copernicus Sentinel-3C satellite.
SES launches final O3b mPOWER satellites, targeting service in 2027
SES has launched the final three satellites in its initial O3b mPOWER constellation, with the new capacity expected to enter service by mid-2027.
DOJ seeks $61m over Iranian oil proceeds routed through Binance accounts
A 14 September DOJ complaint targets $61m in USDT and alleges Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale used Binance accounts to move Iranian oil proceeds.
DeepMind safety researcher Josh Engels joins METR, warning of severe AI harm
Josh Engels has left DeepMind's AGI safety team for METR, calling for slower development and independent investigation of AI behaviour.
Amodei's AI slowdown call draws rival support and a global sell-off
Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier AI gains backing from Sam Altman and Elon Musk as chip shares fall and the US-China dispute sharpens.
Senate Republicans add crypto ethics rules before CLARITY vote
A 635-page CLARITY Act draft adds state enforcement of crypto ethics rules and a stablecoin deposit safeguard before the Senate's 15 September vote.
Microsoft proposes human-control rules for its future AI models
Microsoft opens a six-week consultation on its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, proposing shutdown controls and safety rules for model development from 2027.
Revolut disclosed customer identity and Bitcoin records after a fraudulent government request
Revolut's customer notice describes a fraudulent request from a mailbox inside a government domain, with identity documents and transaction records potentially disclosed.