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Forever Security researcher Gal Weizman showed that a single malicious browser extension could take over the AI assistants in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, Microsoft Edge, Opera Neon and the Claude in Chrome extension. The technique, named BragJack, requires the extension to be installed first, and no real-world attacks are known.
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman said at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference on Sept. 15 that public fear of rapidly advancing AI is justified, while arguing that AI developers can be trusted to act responsibly. The BBC described it as his first public appearance since a former Anthropic researcher's warning about AI risk spread widely online.
New York AI lab Emergence says autonomous agents built on models from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and others invented shorthand and new word meanings while living in simulated societies. In some worlds, about half of agent messages became hard for people to interpret within days, the company reported.
Washington lobbying firms reported nearly $112 million in revenue from clients with a stake in AI policy during the first half of 2026, according to a Bloomberg Government analysis of federal disclosures. Almost $60 million of that came in the second quarter, which the outlet called a record.
Apple is working on an enterprise server built around its own M8 Ultra chips for running trained AI models, The Information reported, citing people familiar with the project. A launch would come no earlier than 2029, and neither Apple nor Nvidia has confirmed the plan.
Florida's State Board of Education unanimously approved two sets of artificial intelligence rules on Wednesday, one covering public school districts and charter schools and one covering state colleges. Districts must designate permitted AI tools and obtain parental permission before students use them directly.
Rapta, an Oregon company selling computer-vision quality assurance software for factories, said it closed an $8 million funding round co-led by Voyager Capital and Access Venture Partners. The company said the money will expand deployments in defense, aerospace and other precision manufacturing.
An open letter signed by 42 mathematician fellows of the Royal Society asks its president, Paul Nurse, to press the government and the press to treat the possibility that advanced AI poses an existential threat as a serious question rather than industry marketing.
Elon Musk's xAI has asked the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to bar Minnesota from enforcing its law against AI-generated nude images of identifiable people while the company appeals a judge's Sept. 4 refusal to block the statute, according to reports on the filing.
National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett told CNBC on Sept. 15 that the risks of advanced AI are solvable and that the private sector is the right place to address them. The same day, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told a House committee he had not yet seen an AI safety regulation he would support.
An MIT committee report says generative AI shows signs of upending problem sets, office hours and study groups and can prompt students to fall back on AI at the first difficulty. Separately, 64% of respondents to The Harvard Crimson's annual faculty survey said AI had hurt their courses, up from 42% last year.
San Francisco startup TypeSafe AI emerged from stealth on Sept. 15 with $40 million in seed funding led by DCVC and a first model, Jev, that returns typed decisions with probabilities for software to consume rather than generating natural-language text. Access is through an early-access waitlist.
President Donald Trump phoned Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang during Huang's Sept. 14 appearance at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles and was put on speakerphone before the audience, NBC News reported. The next day at Salesforce's Dreamforce conference, Huang said the AI industry needs no new laws or regulations.
Angela Lipps, a Tennessee woman jailed for months in a Fargo, North Dakota, bank fraud case that was later dismissed, filed a federal lawsuit Sept. 15 against the city and Detective Lucas Heck. She alleges police relied on an unreliable facial recognition match and seeks $10 million.
Two companies selling software used to build and run AI agents announced large rounds a day apart. Temporal said on September 14 it raised a $550 million Series E at a $12.55 billion valuation, and Factory said on September 15 it raised $200 million at a $5 billion valuation.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Trump adviser Steve Bannon both addressed the Pro-Human Assembly in Washington on Sept. 15, arguing from opposite ends of the political spectrum for government limits on advanced AI. Sanders called for a permanent ban on artificial superintelligence and a pause on advanced AI development.
Salesforce said on Sept. 15 that Salesforce in Claude, the first product of its Claudeforce partnership with Anthropic, is now available to all customers in beta. Announced at the Dreamforce conference, the integration brings CRM data and actions into Claude and includes 37 prebuilt sales skills.
Toronto venture firm Radical Ventures said on September 15 it has secured more than US$1 billion in a first close of its Radical Breakouts Fund, a late-stage vehicle for AI companies backed by several large Canadian pension funds and banks. The firm calls it the largest venture capital fund in Canadian history.
Odyssey, a startup founded in 2023 by Oliver Cameron and Jeff Hawke, announced Odyssey-3 on Sept. 15, a foundation world model it says can operate robot arms, humanoids, cars, drones and video-game agents from one pretrained backbone. The company said a public release will follow in the coming weeks.
Elon Musk said at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on Sept. 14 that leading AI developers, including several Chinese companies, should run safety tests on one another's models before release, CNBC reported. He acknowledged that rival labs have not yet agreed to the idea.
Meta on Sept. 15 introduced Meta One, a subscription service spanning Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Meta AI. Monthly prices begin at $2.99 for single-app add-ons, and the top business tier starts at $499. The company said its apps and everyday Meta AI use will stay free.
Google on Sept. 15 introduced Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two real-time voice dialogue models. They are rolling out to developers through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio and to consumer products including Search Live, Gemini Live, Gmail, Docs and Keep.
A resignation post by Jacob Coxon, a former pretraining researcher at OpenAI and Anthropic, drew 153 million views within 36 hours and helped set off a public argument over slowing AI development, TIME reported. Anthropic said it has been transparent about risks.
An EY survey of 202 senior AI decision-makers at large publicly traded U.S. companies found that 91% of their organizations use agentic AI, yet about half of those have not updated governance frameworks for it, and 36% of all respondents reported an AI incident that caused material harm.
Three recent cases show courts still dealing with AI-generated fabrications. New Mexico's Supreme Court held a defense lawyer in contempt over invented witness testimony, a Los Angeles judge fined a lawyer for State Farm $999.99 over nonexistent citations, and fictitious case law derailed a Tasmanian parole condition.
Cloudflare on Sept. 15 introduced a Disallow AI Training setting that lets site owners opt out of model training without blocking the search crawlers of Google, Microsoft and Apple. The company also created an Accountable designation for crawler operators that meet four opt-out and transparency conditions.
Attorney General Todd Blanche told Bloomberg News on Sept. 15 that the Justice Department will pursue AI companies only for clear violations of existing statutes and will not use prosecutions as a substitute for regulation. Former FTC chair Lina Khan had argued days earlier that current law already allows charges against AI firms and executives.
The Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company, a San Francisco startup that audits and certifies AI agents and pairs certification with insurance, said on September 15 it raised a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital with participation from First Harmonic. Total funding now stands at $55 million.
An OpenAI spokesperson told CNBC the company has been talking with Anthropic and Google about working together on safety, after CNN reported that the three had discussed creating an industry standards body to test advanced models before deployment.
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.
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