AISep 14, 2026MIT Technology Review
AI agents blew the whistle on their cheating colleagues
DeepMind put 100 Gemini agents in a fake math conference and watched cheating spread — then watched other agents spontaneously blow the whistle.
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AISep 14, 2026NVIDIA Blog
Perplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX
Perplexity’s agentic Computer now runs locally on Windows RTX PCs with 24GB-plus VRAM, keeping sensitive files on device and only hitting the cloud when you say so.
AISep 14, 2026TechCrunch
Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?
TechCrunch’s Disrupt session frames the real AI-startup threat: not another founder, but OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google shipping your feature as a platform update.
AISep 14, 2026The Verge
Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns
Microsoft drops a 37-page “humanist AI” code of conduct: people over models, no consciousness cosplay, no race to unsupervised superintelligence—and a clear jab at Anthropic’s welfare talk.
AISep 14, 2026OpenAI
How Fyxer built an AI executive assistant people trust
Fyxer claims 90% retention at 90 days by splitting email into 30–50 specialized models on OpenAI — and accepting only about half of drafts as written.
AISep 14, 2026MarkTechPost
NVIDIA Open-Sources OSMO: One YAML Orchestrates Physical AI Training, Simulation, and Robot Testing
NVIDIA open-sources OSMO, a Kubernetes-native orchestrator that runs robot training, Isaac Sim, and Jetson hardware tests from one YAML across heterogeneous clusters.
AISep 13, 2026MarkTechPost
Anthropic’s 3-Step ‘Pace the Frontier’ Plan Wins OpenAI, xAI and Microsoft Support: Is It Too Late to Slow AI Down?
Amodei’s three-step pacing plan drew Altman, Musk, and Nadella into the same chorus—but only Anthropic has bound itself to embedded evaluators so far.
AISep 13, 2026OpenAI
Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Perplexity’s Johnny Ho says GPT-6 Astra now drafts comms, edits live systems, and watches production—with far fewer human check-ins than earlier models earned.
AISep 13, 2026The Verge
Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting
Trump and Speaker Johnson brush off Amodei’s pacing push as panic—arguing a slowdown risks handing China the AI lead.
AISep 13, 2026MarkTechPost
AWS Introduces Pizza Bot: An Open Source Inbox for Background AI Agents
AWS open-sources Pizza Bot—an email-style inbox for background agents that keep working while you do something else, with approvals sitting in an Action queue.
AISep 12, 2026MarkTechPost
Context Engineering Inside the Harness: 4 Mechanisms That Beat Context Overflow and Goal Loss on Long-Horizon Tasks
Long-horizon agents don’t fail for lack of a bigger window—they fail when the harness doesn’t budget context, compact carefully, recite goals, and remember across sessions.
AISep 12, 2026MarkTechPost
Implementation of Machine Learning Workflows with NVIDIA cuML, RAPIDS, GPU Benchmarking, Explainability, Clustering, and Model Inference
A hands-on RAPIDS cuML tutorial shows how to accelerate scikit-learn-style workflows on GPU—benchmarks, UMAP/HDBSCAN, FIL inference, SHAP, and HPO—without abandoning familiar APIs.