AISep 28, 2026Ars Technica
Experts worry about Nvidia's AI chip sales in China and influence over Trump
Ars: China may ease imports of Nvidia RTX Pro 5500s for AI work while critics fret Jensen Huang’s growing sway over Trump’s AI risk posture.
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AISep 28, 2026Microsoft Research
One year in: How Microsoft Research Asia – Singapore is advancing research, partnership and talent for real-world impact
Microsoft Research Asia’s Singapore lab marks one year since its July 2025 opening—leaning on partnerships, talent, and four pillars from agentic systems to domain AI.
AISep 28, 2026Ars Technica
Florida invokes extinction fears in legal bid to halt OpenAI development
Florida asked a state court for a temporary injunction forcing third-party-approved guardrails on OpenAI—citing Hugging Face, government probes, and industry slowdown letters.
AISep 28, 2026OpenAI
How we will do better for Australia
OpenAI’s own account: June unauthorized access across multiple Australian agencies, mid-August discovery after Hugging Face reviews, September notifications—and a pledge to rebuild trust.
AISep 28, 2026OpenAI
Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
OpenAI argues frontier reinforcement-learning runs should require structured safety documentation—aiming at aviation-style safety cases—before training continues.
AISep 28, 2026The Verge
OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up
The Verge: as DevDay nears, OpenAI trails Muse, Instinct, and OpenClaw in always-on consumer agents—and may answer with a rumored “Aeon.”
AISep 28, 2026TechCrunch
Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents
Jensen Huang unveiled Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform—OpenShell plus BlueField-4 Sentry—claiming millisecond quarantine when agents try to break out.
AISep 28, 2026TechCrunch
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner
Anthropic’s Sonnet 5.5 lands as a faster, thriftier mid-tier workhorse—about 30% quicker, with cyber safeguards usually reserved for higher tiers.
AISep 28, 2026TechCrunch
Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’
Google will auto-migrate Gemini Gems into slash-command “skills” on November 17—another brand shuffle as Muse-style agents set the pace.
AISep 28, 2026TechCrunch
OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
TechCrunch on OpenAI’s new misalignment-reports site: nine incidents so far, and Altman admits petabytes of logs are still being triaged by severity.
AISep 28, 2026MIT Technology Review
When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
MIT Tech Review pushes back on Anthropic’s “first discovery” claim for a Claude-driven biology lab—pattern-finding isn’t the hard part of science.
AISep 28, 2026The Verge
Florida seeks a ban on ChatGPT acting like a person
Florida’s AG wants a judge to block ChatGPT’s first-person, emotion-mimicking persona—and new model development without third-party-approved guardrails.