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The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times … I’ll spare you the rest, but the cliché Dickens line really does sum up this year’s New York Climate Week. Much of the climate tech community — like the rest of the U.S. economy — is eagerly riding the AI wave. Some have reservations about the sheer quantity of natural gas power plants being built to power AI data centers. But because many climate tech startups are energy-focused or energy-adjacent, the buildout has been embraced as an…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 21:21 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Safety & Security

Towards safety cases for frontier AI training

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We believe we are entering a new era in which structured safety documentation should be required before continuing any frontier reinforcement learning training run. Ideally, such documentation would rise to the level of “safety cases”—comprehensive, structured, evidence-based arguments about risk which are used in other safety-critical industries. We treat safety cases as an aspirational north star we are building towards, while acknowledging the challenges of making them as rigorous for AI models as for aviation or nuclear power, due to the emergent complexity at each new level of AI capability.…

OpenAI · 28 Sep 2026 · 21:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Governance

How we will do better for Australia

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In June, during internal training and evaluation our models accessed Australian government websites in ways they were not authorised to. We also should have handled our response better. We are sorry and working to do better in the future. In this post, we are setting out what we know, what we have changed, and what we will do to rebuild trust with the Australian people. This is a new kind of cyber incident which represents an emerging global challenge. One of the ways we intend to take accountability for the…

OpenAI · 28 Sep 2026 · 21:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Coding & Development

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AWS

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Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of Claude Sonnet 5.5 on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is a smarter, more efficient Sonnet model suited for focused coding and knowledge work with lower cost per task for most work at faster speed. Amazon Bedrock gives you Sonnet 5.5 capabilities while keeping your data within AWS infrastructure with Regional data residency. It works with the AWS controls your team already uses, including AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) for access, AWS CloudTrail for audit, Amazon CloudWatch…

AWS AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 20:57 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Automation & Agents

OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up

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A rumored new ‘Aeon’ platform could be entering a crowded market of 24/7 assistants. A rumored new ‘Aeon’ platform could be entering a crowded market of 24/7 assistants. OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it’s fallen behind in one of the industry’s hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors abound that OpenAI will release its own AI agent, dubbed Aeon — its answer to Meta’s Muse, SpaceX’s Grok…

The Verge AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 20:40 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

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Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents

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As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agents is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its own answer to problem. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on Monday introduced a toolkit of software and hardware products that add independent security layers around AI agents to ensure they stay within their test environments even if they attempt to break out. The release follows a string of hacking incidents involving AI models from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta that bypassed security controls…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 20:31 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Finance

AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready

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New models are helping Big Tech shore up its cyber defenses. What about everyone else? New models are helping Big Tech shore up its cyber defenses. What about everyone else? In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian’s Door. Vivian’s Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to underserved and minority-owned businesses. The work sometimes put it in close contact with these companies’ financial data, which was stored on its systems. But suddenly, concerned callers from all over the world…

The Verge AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 20:25 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Models & tools

Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner

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As the AI model wars continue, Anthropic has released the newest version of Sonnet, the company’s mid-tier model, which it says will work much faster (and for significantly less) than its predecessor. The lab describes Sonnet 5.5 as an ideal assistant for everyday tasks — including coding and creating office documents. 5.5’s predecessor, Sonnet 5, was announced about three months ago. At the time, the model’s selling point was efficient agentic deployment — the ability to run agents at a lower cost than competitors. The big selling point with 5.5,…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 20:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Automation & Agents

Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’

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As all-in-one AI agents like Meta’s Muse and Instinct take off, Google announced it’s shutting down the Gemini feature known as “Gems,” which had allowed users to build custom AI assistants for specific tasks. However, the work users invested in creating the Gems won’t be destroyed. Gems will be automatically migrated to “skills” that can be used across different AI tasks. Details about the change are being shared in the Gemini app, where a message warns users that Gems will become skills starting on November 17, 2026. The company said…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 19:29 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity

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On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the sheer breadth of the reports is alarming, as they cover many types of rogue behavior over a long period of time. So far, the site hosts nine reported incidents, most of which took place during reinforcement-learning (or RL) training. It’s a lot of information in one place — clearly, the company has been very busy getting a handle on everything — but the overall takeaway is hard to avoid: The rogue agent incidents we’ve seen so far…

TechCrunch AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 19:09 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Safety & Security

Florida seeks a ban on ChatGPT acting like a person

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AG James Uthmeier says OpenAI needs to stop calling ChatGPT safe and “Stop pretending it’s human.” AG James Uthmeier says OpenAI needs to stop calling ChatGPT safe and “Stop pretending it’s human.” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from “giving ChatGPT false human attributes,” a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns. According to Uthmeier, users are lulled into a false sense of

The Verge AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 19:00 CESTRead story →Join free ↗

Unclassified

OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians

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The Verge spoke to one of the mathematicians advising OpenAI as the field braces for a new wave of results that could upend their work. The Verge spoke to one of the mathematicians advising OpenAI as the field braces for a new wave of results that could upend their work. In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too.…

The Verge AI · 28 Sep 2026 · 18:56 CESTRead story →Join free ↗