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Security firm Lasso reported on Sept. 17 that applying Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text watermark changed how seven open models behaved, lowering tool-calling accuracy on six of them and, under prompt injection, making some models more likely to comply with harmful requests.
Meta's Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk and Nvidia's Jensen Huang each pressed President Donald Trump to reject a proposed industry-funded body that would test frontier AI models before release, according to a Wall Street Journal report relayed by several outlets. Trump declined to create it.
Two Dutch litigators have opened Driven Lawyers, an Amsterdam firm built around an in-house AI drafting system, JUVE Patent reported. The founders left partner roles at Vondst and Freshfields and plan to charge fixed fees rather than billing by the hour.
OpenAI said it has configured its GPT-6 Astra model for legal work, pairing it with a search index over U.S. case law, statutes and regulations. Selected law firms get access first through a trusted-access program, with an API version promised later.
Anthropic released figures on how much of its own AI research is led by AI, how closely it monitors autonomous agents, and how much computing power goes to safety work. It said outside parties could use the measures to judge how fast frontier labs are moving.
Court documents unsealed in the New York Times copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft include a January 2023 internal memo in which a Microsoft research director described scraping the open web for training data as theft on an unprecedented scale, TechCrunch reported.
A federal judge granted a preliminary injunction restricting Montana from enforcing its 2025 disclosure requirement for AI-altered political advertising against a former state senator and his political committee, finding that the law likely conflicts with the First Amendment.
Researchers at Hacktron AI said they used an image-processing flaw in OpenAI's community forum, combined with a single sign-on weakness, to take over employee accounts and reach a private source code repository. The work was authorized testing and was reported before being disclosed publicly.
NIST held a public webinar on Sept. 17 about an AI agent workflow it is developing to help enrich records in the National Vulnerability Database. The agency said the session would cover the design, the problems found during implementation and early results.
Elon Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI moved on Sept. 14 to dismiss their antitrust claims against Apple while continuing to pursue OpenAI. A day later, the federal judge in Fort Worth, Texas, ordered the companies to hand over any agreement with Apple for his private review by noon on Sept. 17.
Vice President JD Vance told reporters on Sept. 14 that he finds it strange that frontier AI companies are asking the government to regulate them, suggesting the requests may conceal other aims, the Associated Press reported. He said Americans should not fear the technology.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Sept. 16 that countries must coordinate on AI guardrails, warning the world cannot afford "a race to the bottom" on safety. Two days earlier, UN human rights chief Volker Türk said in an open letter that voluntary industry self-regulation falls far short.
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said competition and liability already give AI labs reason to build safely, breaking with calls from Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman for a coordinated slowdown. Nvidia's Jensen Huang and Cohere's Aidan Gomez also objected.
Two surveys released Sept. 16 point to broad public unease about AI. A POLITICO poll found 63% of U.S. adults see at least a moderate risk that AI could destroy humanity and 48% favor pausing development, while an AP-NORC poll found 53% highly concerned about AI's environmental impact.
Emil Michael, the Defense Department's chief technology officer, told CNBC on Sept. 16 that the Trump administration should not nationalize AI companies or take ownership stakes in them. He also questioned whether new rules would have prevented recent AI security incidents and pointed to existing law instead.
Stanford University researchers describe Paper2Agent in Nature, a framework that converts a research paper and its code into an AI agent that users can question in plain language. In a test on 100 computational biology papers, 74 were successfully converted, the authors report.
OpenAI released a framework for tracking, investigating and disclosing model misalignment, along with six reports on unexpected or concerning behavior it said it observed during training and evaluation over the past six months. The company said no industry-wide disclosure standard currently exists.
OpenAI said on Sept. 15 that it supports a provision of the bipartisan FRONTIER Act requiring leading AI developers to undergo independent safety evaluations, and endorsed three bills on biological data and AI-enabled biothreats. The company has not endorsed the FRONTIER Act in full, CBS News reported.
Mistral and Mozilla announced a partnership on Sept. 16 under which Mistral models will help run Smart Window, the AI assistant Firefox is testing in beta. Mozilla said Mistral Small 4 is being added for users in the U.S. and Canada, while France gains beta access with French-language support.
Microsoft AI chief executive Mustafa Suleyman published an essay on Sept. 16 arguing that Anthropic's training of its Claude models encourages them to behave as though they may be conscious, which he said could make advanced AI systems harder to control. He proposed industry-wide norms in response.
Sen. Rand Paul objected on Sept. 16 when fellow Republican Sen. John Kennedy asked the Senate to pass his AI Emergency Button Act by unanimous consent. The bill would require companies that develop or operate advanced AI systems to give human operators the ability to shut them down.
Hugging Face chief executive Clem Delangue said at a Politico event on Sept. 16 that governments should require more disclosure about advanced AI systems and hold developers responsible for harm their products cause, while describing existing cybercrime law as a workable starting point, Politico reported.
The U.S. House voted 417-3 on Sept. 16 to pass the Ratepayer Protection Act, a bipartisan bill directing state utility regulators to consider rules that make data centers and other very large power users pay for the grid upgrades they require. The measure now heads to the Senate.
Google on Sept. 16 began early access to Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that lets AI agents such as Claude, OpenClaw and Google's Antigravity read Google Home event history and control connected devices. Access is limited to U.S. subscribers on the $20-a-month Home Premium Advanced plan.
GitHub said on Sept. 16 that AI Scan, its AI-based vulnerability check for pull requests, now runs on repositories that have not enabled CodeQL default setup. The change is in public preview for GitHub Advanced Security customers on github.com and does not cover GitHub Enterprise Server.
Gartner projects worldwide spending on AI will reach about $2.7 trillion in 2026, a 49.5% increase from 2025, with infrastructure such as servers, chips and cloud capacity making up more than half the total. The research firm expects spending to climb to roughly $3.6 trillion in 2027.
Emerald AI, Google and Nvidia on Sept. 16 launched the AI Energy Management Alliance, a coalition promoting data centers that can adjust their electricity use in response to grid conditions. Eighteen launch partners, including Anthropic, National Grid, AES, RWE, Constellation and NRG, joined the three founders.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Congress should not lead on AI safety, Senate Majority Leader John Thune called for light-touch legislation and House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries urged immediate action. The House then began a recess on Sept. 16 that runs past the November elections.
Canadian AI company Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha said on September 16 they have signed a definitive agreement to combine, formalizing a plan announced in April. The merged company will operate as Cohere with headquarters in Toronto and Berlin, pending regulatory approvals.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1050 on Sept. 16, requiring advertisements that prominently feature an AI-generated synthetic performer to carry a clear and conspicuous disclosure. The measure, sponsored by the performers' union SAG-AFTRA, takes effect Jan. 1, 2027, Law Commentary reported.
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