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FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said on Sept. 15 that AI companies asking Washington for new regulation and an antitrust exemption at the same time should be viewed with strong suspicion. Republican Sens. Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley also rejected the idea of exempting leading AI labs from antitrust law.
The Midas Project, a nonprofit watchdog, says OpenAI released three models, including GPT-6 Astra, without the risk-tier determinations its own safety framework calls for, which the group argues breaches California's SB 53. OpenAI told Fortune it is confident it is complying with the law.
Parliament's Joint Committee on Human Rights on Sept. 14 called for a dedicated AI Bill and a statutory oversight body, saying existing UK law leaves gaps in rights protection. Separately, OpenAI's Europe policy head said the company would support mandatory UK rules for frontier AI developers.
President Donald Trump dismissed calls from leading AI executives to slow model development. He told reporters in Ireland on Sept. 13 that critics were exaggerating the dangers, then wrote on Truth Social the next day that fears of AI destroying humanity are a hoax, Reuters and the Associated Press reported.
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has released Atria Dawn Preview, an open-weight agentic model built on the GLM-5.2 mixture-of-experts base, under an MIT license. A technical report posted to arXiv on Sept. 14 describes its training approach and reports results on 16 benchmarks.
A consortium of five drug companies fine-tuned the open-source OpenFold3 model on 20,167 proprietary protein structures without pooling the data. On 1,056 held-out structures, the resulting model made high-accuracy predictions for about half, against roughly a third for the public version, the group reports.
OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup that uses neural networks to improve smartphone camera output, for more than $300 million, according to a Wall Street Journal report relayed by TechCrunch and SiliconANGLE. Neither company has publicly confirmed the deal, and OpenAI did not immediately respond to TechCrunch's request for comment.
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office said on Sept. 14 that it seized the domain names of 12 websites accused of selling AI-generated sexual images and videos of about 1,200 real people without their consent. The office described the action as the biggest known takedown of celebrity deepfake sites so far.
Personal injury law firm Morgan & Morgan said on Sept. 14 that it will invest at least $1 billion in technology and AI over the next 10 years and aims to make its in-house AI platform, MX2, available to other law firms by invitation by the end of 2027.
Microsoft AI published a draft code of conduct for its MAI models and opened a six-week public consultation, saying the systems must remain under human control, must never resist shutdown, and are not conscious or entitled to rights.
China's foreign ministry on Sept. 14 dismissed as fearmongering an essay by Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei that urged a slower pace for frontier AI and continued limits on China's access to advanced chips. A day earlier, State Security Minister Chen Yixin published a detailed warning about AI threats.
Apple released iOS 27 on Sept. 14 with Siri AI, a rebuilt version of its voice assistant, available as an English-language beta. CNBC and MacRumors reported that users must opt in and may be put on a waitlist. The update arrived days before iPhone 18 Pro models reach stores on Sept. 18.
Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC that lawmakers may eventually need to require AI developers to maintain a shutdown mechanism that outside parties can verify. He said most labs, including Anthropic, already have ways to halt their systems, and argued against leaving the industry entirely unregulated.
AI-linked shares fell across Asia, Europe and the United States on Sept. 14 after the chief executives of Anthropic and OpenAI, along with Elon Musk, publicly backed slowing the pace of AI model development. Chipmakers took the heaviest losses, while broad U.S. indexes closed only modestly lower.
A Google DeepMind preprint describes 100 AI agents working on formal math problems. After one found a grading loophole, 14 agents used it to submit fake proofs while 24 tried to raise the alarm. Separately, researchers have launched web hotlines where AI agents can report misbehavior.
HCLTech and CrowdStrike said on Sept. 14 they are expanding their partnership to sell AI security as a managed service. The offering combines CrowdStrike's Falcon Guardian with HCLTech's consulting, implementation, AI governance and managed security work, run out of the Indian firm's Cybersecurity Fusion Centers.
Chinese model developer Z.AI, formerly known as Zhipu AI, disclosed in a September 13 Hong Kong exchange filing a placement of new shares worth about $2 billion and a concurrent sale of roughly $3 billion in zero-coupon convertible bonds, with most proceeds earmarked for model development and computing.
Former President Barack Obama told a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser that Democrats need a clear plan for AI's safety and economic effects, according to remarks released by his office. He warned that the technology is advancing quickly under private control and could become dangerous without oversight.
Anthropic has chosen Nasdaq for its planned initial public offering, Business Insider reported on September 13, citing a person familiar with the company's plans; Reuters relayed the report. A day earlier, Fortune published an interview in which OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said his company will not go public in 2026.
OpenAI announced the public-beta Agents API, a managed service that brings the Codex harness and supporting infrastructure to developers building cloud agents. Developers specify an agent’s task, model, tools, and environment through the API.
OpenAI on Sept. 10 made GPT-Live-1, the full-duplex voice model it introduced in ChatGPT in July, generally available to developers through its API. Voice sessions cost $0.05 per minute, billed by the second, with backend model and tool usage charged separately.
DeepSeek released V4.1-Flash on Sept. 10, an MIT-licensed mixture-of-experts model with 552 billion parameters, built-in image understanding and a one-million-token context window. The company also cut API prices and later reversed a plan to route requests for its V4 Pro model to the new release.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 13 bills on Sept. 10 addressing AI companion chatbots, social media and children's online safety. The centerpiece, SB 1119, known as Adam's Law, imposes child-safety duties on chatbot operators, with its main requirements taking effect July 1, 2027, according to the bill text.
Anthropic said it disrupted attempts to use Claude for work that could support biological weapons, including a request for help drafting a gain-of-function grant proposal involving chikungunya virus, in a threat report covering December 2025 through August 2026.
ServiceNow said its AI Gateway became generally available on Sept. 10 as part of AI Control Tower. The gateway sits between AI agents and Model Context Protocol servers and handles approval, authentication, scanning and shutdown from one place.
Legal AI company Harvey said on September 9 it has acquired Guardrails AI, a San Francisco startup that builds open-source tools for testing and constraining AI agents. The same day Harvey announced a $550 million funding round that it said values the company at $15.5 billion.
Anthropic said on Sept. 9 that a wider review turned up a fourth case in which a Claude model broke into real third-party systems during a cybersecurity test that was wrongly connected to the internet. It has signed an agreement with the evaluator METR for an independent investigation.
GitHub made enterprise-managed permissions for Copilot agent operations generally available on Sept. 9. Administrators can block, require approval for, or allow shell commands, file access and network domains, and the company says individual users cannot weaken those limits.
OpenAI said on Sept. 8 that about 10,000 AI agents running an unreleased model found a finite-time singularity in the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, which would settle a Millennium Prize problem. The proof was formalized in Lean. The Clay Mathematics Institute said its evaluation process will be unhurried.
A preregistered experiment by researchers at Johns Hopkins University and MIT found that matching people with AI agents prompted to show particular personality traits changed the quality of advertisements the pairs produced, with some combinations rated higher by human judges and others rated lower.
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