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AI news on September 26, 2026 · Saturday

95 stories — deduplicated across sources, ranked by significance, every source cited.

★ Top story · Industry3d ago

Australia Senate Requests OpenAI, Anthropic CEOs Face AI Inquiry

The Australian Senate has requested that the chief executives of OpenAI and Anthropic PBC testify before a government inquiry. This summons follows a recent security breach involving an Australian government website, prompting lawmakers to seek information regarding the potential risks and oversight of artificial intelligence technologies.

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Alibaba Launches Qwen Intelligence As A Full-Stack Agentic AI Platform For Smartphones

Models·Pokde.Net +3·4d agoPE디

What Is an AI Kill Switch? Why Shutting Down AI Isn’t So Simple

Opinion·Bloomberg Technology +2·5d agoBNP

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra can now tell you exactly where you screwed up your IKEA shelf

Models·The Decoder·5d agoT

ModelsGPT-6 Astra

Former Ukrainian Defense Minister Fedorov pitches a private-sector robot army

Products·The Decoder·4d agoT

Nvidia's SoL-Pi system cuts coding agent token usage nearly in half by optimizing the harness

Hardware·The Decoder·5d agoT

From AI models to agents: Sarvam’s Kumar, Emergent’s Jha map India’s next five years

Opinion·News18 +3·5d agoNML

Not just Sarvam models: Indian AI startup can now host American models too

Products·Inshorts +2·5d agoIWM

Mistral boosts expansion with 3 billion EUR raised in latest funding round

Models·Frontier Enterprise·4d agoF

ChatGPT-6 Astra cracks 85-year-old 1941 Enigma-coded message in two days — autonomous AI coded its own simulator to crack code that was unsolved since it was shared online back in 2005

Models·Tom's Hardware·5d agoT

ModelsGPT-6 Astra

Supersonic Labs Releases Julia 1: A 144.3M-Parameter Open Decision Model That Runs on a CPU

Models·MarkTechPost·4d agoM

Docker Cloud Sandboxes Provide a Consistent Sandbox Abstraction Across Laptop and Cloud

Products·InfoQ AI·4d agoI

AI access makes people almost entirely unwilling to say "I don't know," study finds

Research·The Decoder·4d agoT

AI Gives Tech Firms New National Security Power

Policy·Bloomberg Technology·4d agoB

Presentation: Adaptive Recommenders in the Real World: Inference, Evals, and System Design

Hardware·InfoQ AI·5d agoI

Exa Launches Agent Ultra: A Subagent Swarm Deep Research API Built for Exhaustive List Building

Models·MarkTechPost·5d agoM

At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere

Other·TechCrunch AI·5d agoT

Two-thirds of IT leaders report AI results, but few would interrupt the CEO's vacation over them

Industry·The Decoder·4d agoT

China respects US choice on what term to use for artificial intelligence: spokesperson

Hardware·Xinhua +2·4d agoXGF

U.S. should err on the side of innovation in AI regulation, U.S. Rep. Arrington says

Policy·KSAT +1·4d agoKT

US DOE will give $5.25B to upgrade the grid for AI datacenters

Other·Hacker News·5d agoH

42x faster prompt lookup drafting in llama.cpp

Models·Hacker News·4d agoH

DeepSeek Elastic Compute (DSec)

Models·Hacker News·4d agoH

Broken promises, confiscated land: the hyperscale AI datacentre being built

Other·Hacker News·4d agoH

China wants in on U.S. AI data center boom. Here's why

Hardware·CNBC·5d agoC

Alibaba launches Qwen-Audio 3.1 and cuts voice API prices up to 95%

Models·Pasquale Pillitteri·5d agoP

ChatGPT-maker’s AI inappropriately probed federal government websites

Models·The Washington Post·5d agoT

The US wants the world to pick a side on AI. But for many countries, China’s pitch may be more compelling

Other·CNN·5d agoC

ICYMI: Bennet Calls for New Federal Agency to Prevent Catastrophic AI Risk

Policy·U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (.gov)·5d agoU

Ghost Bats and Maven Smart: How AI is transforming Defence

Opinion·ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation·4d agoA

Japan's Sumitomo Life to deploy AI for tailor-made contracts

Other·Nikkei Asia·4d agoN

Analysis | The government is enlisting AI to help decide what public records you get to see

Policy·The Washington Post·4d agoT

As A.I. Makes Law Firms More Efficient, Clients Ask: ‘Where’s My Discount?’

Policy·The New York Times·5d agoT

‘Whoever wins AI, wins’: How AI is transforming the future of war

Opinion·The Independent·5d agoT

Chinese AI models surge in global popularity — and Washington is worried

Other·CNBC·5d agoC

A single function Jev-like wrapper for LLMs, including vision models

Products·Hacker News·5d agoH

AI leaders attend Trump-Xi state dinner as Zuckerberg rejects coordinated AI safety

Policy·Fox News·5d agoF

One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

Other·Hacker News·5d agoH

Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

Research·Hacker News·5d agoH

Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

Industry·The Verge·4d agoT

I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it

Research·TechCrunch AI·4d agoT

Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?

Opinion·Wired AI·5d agoW

End-to-End Multimodal Data Augmentation and Adversarial Robustness Benchmark with AugLy for Images, Text, Audio, and PyTorch

Research·MarkTechPost·5d agoM

ASI TECH INC. Announces Expansion of Artificial Intelligence Services and Robotics Development Roadmap

Products·TMX Newsfile +1·4d agoTY

What reversing, modernising old games tells us about the economic impact of AI

Policy·Hacker News·4d agoH

The bumpy road to the AI promised land

Other·AFR·4d agoA

North Carolina attorney general pushes Congress for AI guardrails after string of bot attacks

Policy·WBTV·4d agoW

The Big Topic at Zalando’s ‘Partner Day’: What AI Can — and Can’t — Do for Online Fashion

Opinion·WWD·4d agoW

Here's How Oracle's "Force Majeure" Changes the AI Data Center Thesis

Research·Yahoo Finance·4d agoY

Can AI Detect Life? Lessons From Artificial Life

Other·Astrobiology Web·4d agoA

IITMAA Sangam 2026: FM Sitharaman Calls for Patient Capital and AI Integration Across MSMEs

Products·CXOToday.com·4d agoC

Securing the data behind the AI: Information protection and insider risk in the Microsoft 365 era

Policy·EU Reporter·4d agoE

The AI Bubble Explained

Other·Hacker News·4d agoH

Qwen 27B vs Swift: 50% Faster Speeds Come at an Accuracy Cost

Models·Geeky Gadgets·4d agoG

Understanding the Impact of LLM Watermarking on AI Agent Behavior

Policy·Hacker News·4d agoH

DeepX, a physical artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor company that has been receiving love ca..

Hardware·매일경제·5d ago매

Some lawmakers doubt a Congress that’s ‘barely capable of email’ can regulate AI

Policy·NBC News·5d agoN

Milwaukee Police Department considers use of generative AI

Other·Wisconsin Watch·5d agoW

Overreliance on AI could replace 'social intelligence' in the workplace, protocol expert warns

Hardware·Fox Business·5d agoF

Traditional industries see limited AI gains as K-shaped economy widens: Expert

Other·focustaiwan.tw·5d agoF

The AI safety debate is confusing. Here's our guide to the different factions

Policy·NPR·5d agoN

Advancing Africa’s cross-border collaboration through AI-assisted health emergency preparedness

Other·WHO | Regional Office for Africa·5d agoW

Could AI firms be held responsible for mass shootings?

Other·Al Jazeera·5d agoA

India’s AI Future Could Be Built Around Enterprise AI, Not Just Consumer Chatbots

Products·News18·5d agoN

‘AI is a weapon system now’: Sarvam’s Pratyush Kumar says India needs its own defence layer

Other·Moneycontrol.com·5d agoM

Evolving programming languages in the AI era

Other·Hacker News·5d agoH

AI correction tone influences effectiveness in combating medical misinformation

Other·News-Medical·5d agoN

Federal Leaders Guide to the CAIO & CDO: Army’s CW5 Kevin Banks on in-house AI development

Policy·Federal News Network·5d agoF

Election officials are showing what AI adoption looks like when accountability comes first

Opinion·Federal News Network·5d agoF

Allegations of sexual harassment and rape at Bay Area AI party houses

Other·Hacker News·4d agoH

Cole County developing guidelines for employee use of artificial intelligence

Policy·ABC17NEWS·4d agoA

The Case for Learning in the Era of AI

Opinion·Hacker News·4d agoH

College president warns AI could strengthen education — or create dangerous shortcuts: 'It’s how we manage it'

Opinion·foxbusiness.com·4d agoF

Make Claude your assistant in excalidraw

Models·Hacker News·4d agoH

Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games

Models·Hacker News·4d agoH

Trump hails ‘productive’ meeting with Jinping – only to double down on AI rebrand

Products·Indy100 | News·4d agoI

IBM Granite vs Mistral Large 3 vs Falcon H1 [2026]

Models·tech-insider.org·5d agoT

ModelsMistral Large 3

Austin AI Film Festival sparks debate over artificial intelligence and filmmaking

Hardware·Yahoo·5d agoY

How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs

Opinion·Hacker News·5d agoH

Artificial intelligence can be a boon rather than a menace, but it needs guardrails [column]

Hardware·LancasterOnline·5d agoL

AI & Tech Brief: Pacing AI without Washington

Other·The Washington Post·5d agoT

Generate fonts where every LLM token is the same width

Other·Hacker News·5d agoH

This Was Trump’s Big Week to Take Action on AI and All He Did Was Rename It

Other·Gizmodo·5d agoG

"can't a guy walk down the street anymore without being harassed by AI" [video]

Other·Hacker News·4d agoH

AI Data Center Are Monkey Business [video]

Hardware·Hacker News·4d agoH

Durham non-profit helps community with AI knowledge

Open Source·WRAL·4d agoW

Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

Products·Hacker News·4d agoH

Best Keynote Speakers on Agentic AI Futurist Scott Steinberg

Other·futuristsspeakers.com·5d agoF

One Month Without AI

Other·Hacker News·5d agoH

Marjorie Taylor Greene Takes Aim at Trump’s ‘Super Intelligence’ Push, Says Renaming AI Won’t Solve Data

Hardware·Benzinga·5d agoB

UNESCO opens third edition of its course on digital citizenship and

Other·UNESCO·5d agoU

The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Gibney's 'Musk'

Products·Hacker News·5d agoH

It Pains This Lifelong Progressive to Admit It, but Donald Trump Stumbled onto a Truth About AI

Other·Daily Kos·5d agoD

Why I’m talking about coffee in a column about artificial intelligence: Letter from the Editor

Hardware·Cleveland.com·5d agoC

12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones

Other·Hacker News·5d agoH