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SEPTEMBER 15, 2026

September 15, 2026 edition · 20 stories

  1. Hacker News

    Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows

    Code sleuth "pdfu" has uncovered iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate private frameworks that show Apple has designed its new Siri architecture to work with third-party AI models at what appears to be a surprisingly deep level. One mechanism called Model Delegation allows Claude to appear as a Siri extension in the same way as the existing built-in ChatGPT extension.

  2. The Verge AI

    This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door

    The new SimpliSafe Video Doorbell Series 2 adds 2K resolution and dual band Wi-Fi. | Image: Simplisafe DIY home security company SimpliSafe is bringing its AI-powered proactive security feature to the front door. The new SimpliSafe Video Doorbell Series 2 launches today for $199.99 and works with the company's Active Guard Outdoor Protection (starting at $49.99 a month). This combines AI analysis with live agents to detect potential threats and respond proactively. When the camera detects suspic

  3. The Guardian AI

    ‘I created my mom and talk to her’: AI ghosts and deathslop are changing the way we mourn

    The rise of AI-generated tributes and bots for ‘talking’ to the dead has experts concerned more people will grieve in isolation Tributes rolled in after the death of Dolly Parton last month. Jack White performed Jolene at a London gig. Kesha sang Old Flames (Can’t Hold a Candle to You), a single her mother wrote for the country music titan. Even Pitbull stopped his Madison Square Garden show to memorialize Parton and all the other “powerful women” in the crowd. But one of the strangest – and mos

  4. The Guardian AI

    Why this AI doomsday warning from former Anthropic researcher broke through

    Last week, researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation from Anthropic, stating that AI ‘could kill us all by the end of the decade’ Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m Blake Montgomery, US tech editor at the Guardian. Today in tech, we’re discussing the past week’s all-consuming apoplexy over AI safety. AI CEOs say they need to slow the pace of development. But will they? OpenAI urges UK lawmakers to rein in technology amid growing safety fears Europe must build own AI or risk getting cut

  5. The Guardian AI

    Democrats say supreme court rejection of Trump mail ballot plans will ensure ‘safe, secure and accurate elections’ – live

    Comments come after court on Monday allowed states to send ballots under process followed for years in blow to Trump’s attempts to limit voter access Supreme court rejects Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for midterm elections Sign up for US Breaking News emails Senator Bernie Sanders and conservative ⁠podcaster Steve Bannon will together on Tuesday call for restrictions on AI systems, uniting two political adversaries around concerns that the technology will ⁠harm humans. They will speak ⁠at th

  6. MIT Technology Review AI

    What’s at stake in AI’s trillion-dollar gamble

    When Jessica Wachter, a finance professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, wanted to assess AI’s impact on the economy over the next few years, she faced a long list of business and technical uncertainties. So she started with what she calls a “remarkable fact” that is not in question: A handful of so-called…

  7. The Verge AI

    Is Big Tech’s AI slowdown a safety pact or a cartel?

    When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to "pace the frontier," signing on at least partially to a proposal for embedding third-party auditors, regulating domestic labs, and reaching a global slowdown agreement. Their critics, however, argued they simply wante

  8. The Verge AI

    What execs and politicians are saying about slowing down AI development

    Dario Amodei kicked off a flood of statements over the past few days about AI safety by publishing a long essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier" detailing why AI development should be slowed down. Other AI leaders and politicians are speaking out in favor of or opposing his points, and we've compiled some of them here. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Amodei's Saturday morning essay outlined three steps for pacing AI development: embedded third-party evaluators that can verify if a company is adheri

  9. MIT Technology Review AI

    The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now?

    This story appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. This weekend, Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, posted an essay calling for a brake on the pace of development of LLMs. Amodei cites the looming dangers he sees from the technology, from its…