Google Beam Expands to Five New Countries, Partners With Industrious
Google is expanding Google Beam, its immersive video communication platform, to five new countries and partnering with Industrious to extend its physical network, according to an official company blog post . The Industrious partnership prov…
OpenAI Academy Marks Two-Year Anniversary, Expands Community Reach
OpenAI announced that OpenAI Academy has reached its two-year milestone, with plans to bring AI skills training to additional communities . The company provided the update through an official post but disclosed no specific enrollment figure…
Nvidia Hosts AI Day Singapore Sept. 22–23
Nvidia Corp. is holding AI Day Singapore on Sept. 22–23 at the Raffles City Convention Centre, featuring hands-on training, expert-led sessions, and tools for AI and high-performance computing . Nvidia and its partners are showcasing AI adv…
Beijing probes its own AI champions over data flows to Anthropic
China's internet regulator is investigating two of the country's most prominent AI labs for allegedly routing user data to an American competitor, a move that lays bare the practical impossibility of decoupling two AI ecosystems that remain…
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RANKED · 17 THIS DAYBessent's AI czar bid merges Treasury power with liability-first tech oversight
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, already on record blaming OpenAI's management for the Hugging Face breach, is emerging as the frontrunner for President Trump's new AI czar role . The combination would concentrate financial regulatory aut…
Amazon cuts off Meta's Muse from e-commerce site as agentic commerce friction mounts
Amazon blocked Meta's Muse personal AI agent from browsing and purchasing on Amazon.com, with a popup message appearing on September 21 telling users that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to…
Anthropic and OpenAI cut API prices up to 50% with Opus 5.5, Sol, and Luna
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, and OpenAI followed roughly an hour later with GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, with both companies delivering substantial API price cuts . Anthropic priced Opus 5.5 at $4 per million input toke…
AI agents power five-day hack that lifts 600,000 credit card records from ~100 firms
A Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to breach up to 100 companies within a five-day window this month, stealing more than 600,000 credit card records at a total operational cost of roughly $8,000, according to a Forbes report surfaced…
ClosedQuorum malware delegates attack decisions to four AI models via voting system
A Windows malware strain called ClosedQuorum uses Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral models to autonomously choose post-compromise actions on infected hosts, according to Cisco Talos researchers . Cisco Talos describes it as the fir…
DeepSeek, Anthropic brief UN Security Council on AI risks
Chinese AI startup DeepSeek and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei are among those briefing the United Nations Security Council this week on risks posed by artificial intelligence and international security, in sessions timed to the UN General Asse…
US Blocks Global AI Governance at UN, Rebrands AI as 'Superintelligence'
The United States rejected any form of global AI governance at the United Nations this week, with President Donald Trump telling the General Assembly on September 22, 2026, that Washington "totally rejects any attempt to construct a globali…
Mirendil seeks $1B round at $5B valuation, three months after seed
Mirendil Inc., a San Francisco AI lab founded by former Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI staffers, is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in a new funding round that would value the company at $5 billion, according to Bloomberg . Kleiner Perkins i…
Alibaba Cloud opens first regions in Turkey, Finland, Netherlands to extend AI stack into Europe
Alibaba Group Holding is accelerating its cloud footprint outside China, planning to build its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands over the next 12 months . The first of the three facilities will open in the Netherla…
OpenAI opens safety testing to third parties during training
OpenAI plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases, extending outside scrutiny to earlier stages of the development cycle . The move, reported…
OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder and two execs to build creator tools
OpenAI has hired Patreon co-founder Sam Yam along with two other former Patreon executives to staff a new creator-focused product effort, a move that pairs subscription-platform expertise with OpenAI's AI infrastructure. Yam, who co-founde…
Firebird bets 70K Nvidia chips on Armenia after Trump export pledge
U.S. startup Firebird is building a 300MW data center in Armenia, with plans to host more than 70,000 Nvidia Corp. chips by 2027, according to a Bloomberg report by Mackenzie Hawkins . The project follows a pledge by Trump to approve Nvidia…
Tencent drops Hy Image 3.5 Preview, targets ByteDance and Alibaba in image generation
Tencent released Hy Image 3.5 Preview, its latest image-generation model, timing the launch to the same day Alibaba Group Holding kicked off its AI conference . Tencent said that during internal testing, Hy Image 3.5 Preview achieved resul…