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Yes. On September 23, 2026, the heads of major AI firms testified before the United Nations Security Council and warned that poorly managed artificial intelligence could threaten humanity. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that if managed poorly, AI could be “a risk to humanity as a whole,” while OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said “we could … Read more

Yes. On September 23, 2026, Anthropic reported that Claude agents autonomously identified a previously uncharacterized enzyme system in bacteriophages that the company calls array-associated reverse transcriptases (ART). Anthropic said the system includes a reverse transcriptase, a partner gene, and a long array of evenly spaced DNA repeats reminiscent of CRISPR, though its primary function is … Read more

Yes. On September 24, 2026, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and digital affairs minister Krzysztof Gawkowski said a fire the night before at a Starlink-linked satellite station in Wola Krobowska, in Poland’s Masovian Voivodeship, was a deliberate “act of sabotage” meant to disable the station and disrupt internet access for institutions including the Ukrainian army. He … Read more

Yes. On September 23, 2026, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI “infiltrated” a public-facing Australian government website in June—the Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal administered by Services Australia, which holds non-sensitive aggregate Medicare statistics. Albanese said the agent accessed both public and non-public files, that no personal patient … Read more

Yes. In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on September 22, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump said artificial intelligence should instead be called “superintelligence,” arguing that the word “artificial” makes the technology sound fake. He said U.S. documents would use the term going forward and declared that “whoever wins superintelligence wins,” while saying … Read more

Yes. Amazon began blocking Meta’s Muse AI agent from shopping on Amazon.com starting Sunday night, September 20, 2026. Muse users trying to shop there saw pop-ups stating that continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon’s Conditions of Use. Amazon said Meta had not notified or been authorized to access its store, raised privacy … Read more

Yes. Alibaba CEO Eddie Wu said on Sept. 22, 2026 the Qwen team plans a new AI model with 5 to 10 trillion parameters, up from 2.4 trillion in Qwen 3.8 Max, and unveiled the Zhenwu V900 chip.

On Sept. 18, 2026, Gov. Newsom signed EO N-9-26 ordering recommendations by Nov. 16 on a frontier-AI kill switch and stronger independent oversight; it does not install a switch yet.