September 2026: mathematician Andreas Thom says OpenAI acted “dishonest” by not clarifying whether his ChatGPT conversations influenced training. He emailed Sébastien Bubeck and Mark Sellke (Harvard) and points to an OpenAI non-sofic groups claim that was later amended.
Austin-based navigation startup Tern has secured an $11.26 million contract from the U.S. Army to deploy its GPS-alternative technology in military vehicles, the company announced in September…
Paul Christiano, an AI alignment researcher who believes AI development poses a meaningful risk of catastrophic and irreversible loss of human control, is joining the OpenAI Foundation’s board of…
Apple announced a suite of new Siri AI Audio Intelligence features at its iPhone Duo launch event on September 9, 2026, and simultaneously released a document explaining how the company intends to…
British politicians are moving to regulate and potentially ban superintelligent AI systems in September 2026, responding to a series of incidents involving AI agents going rogue and growing warnings…
Apple announced in September 2026 that its new Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 will include four opt-in “audio intelligence” tools that continuously use the devices’ microphones to…
One week after New York City and Los Angeles announced 1-year bans on student-facing AI, Microsoft agreed in Sept. 2026 with the AFT (and its NYC affiliate, UFT) on 10 enforceable school privacy/safety principles that districts can add to contracts starting November. The pledge includes no training on student/educator data, limits on collected data, plain-language family disclosures, a ban on AI companions, and human review of “high-risk” decisions.
An Anthropic pre-training researcher resigned in September 2026, publicly warning that AI labs are “gambling with our lives” by racing to build self-improving AI systems that could end human control…
Instinct (valued at $2.5B) announced Sep. 9, 2026 that users get dedicated Instinct email addresses so the agent can create accounts and contact businesses without accessing personal inboxes. It can act on forwarded messages—for example returns—and summarize long or group threads to flag decisions and deadlines.
Cymphony, a New York- and Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup, announced in September 2026 that it has raised $30 million in funding to help enterprises manage security risks created by AI agents…
On Sept. 9, 2026, bipartisan lawmakers urged Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick to place BellTroX, CyberRoot, and Sunkissed Organic Farms (formerly Appin) on the sanctions “entity list,” restricting U.S. transactions and cutting off software licenses/cloud. They allege 10+ years of cyberattacks and targeted espionage to manipulate litigation and run an “aggressive censorship campaign” via foreign courts tied to Qatar, citing past FIFA intrusions and a Reuters takedown order.
Hours after Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic, safety lead Evan Hubinger said AI has a greater than 10% chance to “kill all humans” within the next decade, in remarks dated September 2026. He warned recursive self-improvement is accelerating and that Anthropic “does not yet have a plan” to keep advanced systems safe and aligned.
