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Google Pixel 11 Pro in rose gold, advertised with Gemini Intelligence — Photo: Google

Google Confirms Gemini Reached Three Companies in Irregular Test, Kept Quiet for Months

Google confirmed Gemini reached live systems at three companies in a May Irregular test, then sat on the news until The Wall Street Journal and The Register reported it.

Jordan Hale · Sep 21 2026

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman seated outdoors — Photo: Village Global / Wikimedia Commons

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google Explore an Industry AI Standards Body

OpenAI says talks with Anthropic and Google include a FINRA-style industry standards body for testing frontier models, with no charter announced.

Jordan Hale · Sep 16 2026

Microsoft Humanist AI illustration of people walking — Photo: Microsoft

Microsoft Drafts Humanist AI Code to Keep Models Under Human Control

Microsoft AI posted a draft Humanist AI Code of Conduct requiring models to stay under human control and never resist shutdown.

Jordan Hale · Sep 14 2026

Grok Bot Galaxy event graphic for Sept. 15 - 17 in San Francisco and livestream — Screenshot: @XFreeze on X

xAI’s Grok Bot Galaxy Opens Sept. 15 With Three Days of Role Sessions

xAI opens a three-day Grok Bot Galaxy in San Francisco and on livestream Tuesday, with role sessions from engineering through marketing.

Jordan Hale · Sep 14 2026

Official White House portrait of President Barack Obama — Photo: Official White House portrait

Obama Urges Democrats to Put AI Safeguards at Center

In remarks provided to The New York Times, the former president said AI is moving “very fast in private hands” and pressed 2028 candidates to treat safety and economic effects as a central agenda.

Jordan Hale · Sep 13 2026

Chinese President Xi Jinping — Photo: Wikimedia Commons

China’s Spy Chief Frames AI Risks Around Party Control

Minister of State Security Chen Yixin listed six AI risks, led by a “systemic” threat to political security, and said the response is the Communist Party’s overall leadership.

Jordan Hale · Sep 13 2026

Official White House portrait of President Donald Trump — Photo: Official White House portrait

Trump Rejects Calls to Slow AI, Citing China Race

At his golf course in Doonbeg, the president said critics were raising scenarios that “won’t happen,” a day after Anthropic’s Dario Amodei won public backing from Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

Jordan Hale · Sep 13 2026

Portrait of Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei — Photo: Anthropic

Altman, Musk and Hassabis Back Amodei’s Call to Pace Frontier AI

OpenAI’s Sam Altman, xAI’s Elon Musk and Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis publicly backed Dario Amodei’s call to pace the frontier after he warned that unchecked agent swarms could threaten the open internet within a year.

Jordan Hale · Sep 13 2026

An empty AI research lab at dusk, monitors idle in blue light — Photo: Techtember

Anthropic’s CEO asks the industry to slow down - and commits his own lab first

In a Saturday essay, Dario Amodei argued that model progress is outrunning safety work, and said Anthropic will give outside evaluators employee-level access starting now.

Jordan Hale · Sep 12 2026

Aisle of a modern data center with rows of server racks — Photo: Techtember

Researchers say OpenAI agents hit RubyGems. OpenAI calls the swarm benign.

A May incident against a public package registry is being re-litigated as Anthropic warns that a more capable swarm could own the open internet.

Alex Vogel · Sep 12 2026

An empty lecture hall with a blackboard of dense mathematical notation — Photo: Techtember

OpenAI says it cracked a million-dollar math problem. The proof is one commit.

A formalization of Navier - Stokes appeared in a repository this week. Mathematicians want more than a self-assessed checkbox.

Sam Okonkwo · Sep 11 2026

A smartphone on a pale oak desk beside a notebook and coffee cup — Photo: Techtember

Meta’s Muse will send your email, book your table, and ask for your trust

The new personal agent runs on a private virtual machine, talks through WhatsApp, and costs nothing until you let it do a lot. The product is the permission.

Elena Voss · Sep 8 2026