September 21, 2026 edition · 20 stories

The Verge AI

The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over

At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding third-party evaluators in labs, coordinating across the domestic industry, and forging international agreements potentially with government assistance. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, and even SpaceX CEO Elon Musk publicly seemed
TechCrunch AI

Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?

A discussion took place on Equity regarding the AI industry's readiness to decelerate its growth and innovation efforts.
The Guardian AI

AI slowdown calls justified but collapse of bubble may be more immediate threat | Heather Stewart

Concerns are rising about the financial sustainability of the AI sector, particularly regarding the significant debt incurred for rapid datacentre expansions by tech companies. While warnings about AI's potential dangers persist, the immediate risk may lie in a possible collapse of the AI bubble.
The Guardian AI

Can Trump and Xi cooperate to guide humanity through the AI revolution? Humanity might depend on it | Alan Finkel

Concerns are rising about the rapid advancement of AI and its potential risks to humanity, with calls for cooperation between leaders like Trump and Xi to manage the situation. The unregulated competition in AI development is seen as a significant threat to global safety.
Fast Company AI

The big AI labs’ safety push could come with a competitive advantage

Major AI labs are focusing on safety through independent evaluations and a more cautious approach, which some analysts believe could lead to a competitive edge and influence over regulations.
Hacker News

Hacking OpenAI

A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repositories
Hacker News

Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

The NYT argues that OpenAI and Microsoft infringed upon its copyright over thousands of news articles.
Hacker News

Bend – A language that blocks AI mistakes via proof, on CPU and GPU

Bend: a fast language that blocks AI mistakes via proof.
The Verge AI

No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown.

Nvidia's CEO expressed skepticism about fears surrounding AI, stating there is a '0% chance' it could lead to catastrophic outcomes. He criticized alarmist views from other industry leaders as unnecessary and irresponsible.
The Verge AI

Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone????

Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the US Department of Justice in the Biden administration. These days, he’s both a professor of law at WashU and professor of technology policy at Carnegie Mellon. The biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. Researchers at the big AI labs including Anthropic and Google DeepMind have quit in noisy
The Guardian AI

China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario

Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity When reporters asked Donald Trump this week if he supported calls to slow down the development of artificial intelligence out of growing fears for cybersecurity, public safety and the fate of humanity, he said no. His argument: China. “We’re leading China in AI,” Trump said. “We’re the most sophisticated country in the world, and frankly, I
TechCrunch AI

AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
Wired AI

Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening

AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.
Wired AI

Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.
Wired AI

Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced

Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.
Fast Company AI

Can you trust AI’s answer to your question? Here’s what to consider

Users are encouraged to evaluate the intellectual effort behind the responses provided by AI agents to determine their trustworthiness.
TechCrunch AI

Open or closed AI? Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Nvidia's Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes discuss one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups on the Builders Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026.
Fast Company AI

Global AI safety is hinging on U.S.-China cooperation, but they see each other as the problem

The superpowers are skeptical of each other’s AI strategy.
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…
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…