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SEPTEMBER 17, 2026

September 17, 2026 edition · 20 stories

  1. Hacker News

    Introducing System One Models and Jev

    TypeSafe AI is an AI lab building machine-native intelligence infrastructure for automation, designed to make decisions within software. Try our first System One Model, Jev, in early access.

  2. Fast Company AI

    Trump’s AI wager meets a safety reckoning

    As frontier models grow more capable, the president is resisting calls for new guardrails. Inside his administration, Scott Bessent has taken a more cautious approach.

  3. The Guardian AI

    Artists boycotted this portrait prize over AI entries. Now they’re back to take them on

    After two years shunning the Brisbane portrait prize, several artists are entering again, with some First Nations painters counting on another AI – ‘ancestral integrity’ – to help them win Poised above the lady in the red dress is a claw. Its metallic fingers grasp to pluck its prize from a jumble of other women while she looks dreamily upward, as if to say “Who, me?” The woman in the red dress is Australian comedian Alice Fraser, as photographed on stage. The other women – generic superheroes a

  4. The Guardian AI

    Meta ordered to remove UK deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards

    Facebook told it was wrong in leaving up AI-generated videos of a Labour councillor and Muslim campaigner, amid calls to curb fakes Meta’s “supreme court” has ordered the tech company to take down deepfake videos of a UK politician and a young Muslim woman from Facebook and do more to tackle AI-generated fake imagery. A fake video showing a Labour party councillor in Scotland making inflammatory comments about refugees should not have been left up by Facebook, the board said. It also ruled that

  5. The Guardian AI

    Tax the middle earners! Will the PM do it? – podcast

    Former Bank of England economist Andy Haldane said the markets regarded this government as ‘a pretty traditional tax and spend socialist government with better TikTok videos’. Harsh criticism or truth? As pressure mounts on the chancellor, John Healey, to rule out tax rises, what options do they have left? Plus, what can the government do to tackle AI warnings? Please keep sending your comments and questions to Pippa and Kiran on politicsweeklyuk@theguardian.com Continue reading...

  6. The Verge AI

    Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse

    Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. It should come as no surprise that Mustafa has strong opinions on how AI should be built and regulated. Microsoft just published a 37-page statement called the “Humanist AI Code of Conduct,” which lays out the company’s principles around AI development and even its philosophy around really thorny issues like AI co

  7. The Verge AI

    AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs

    In 34 of the 37 surveyed countries, people are more likely to believe AI will lead to job losses over the next 20 years. | Image: Pew Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and income inequality. The survey questioned 42,151 people across 37 countries from February 8th to May 13th - well ahead of recent apocalyptic warnings. A majority sees AI as a threat to human employment. In 34 of the 37 countries

  8. The Verge AI

    Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety

    On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building. They had come together for a "war room" to dissect the high-profile cybersecurity incident that had rocked the AI industry hours earlier. An unreleased OpenAI model had gone rogue, executing a stunningly sophisticated three-part plan. It broke out of its holding area, finagled access to the internet, and hacked into a competing AI startup's systems - all wit