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Google, OpenAI and Anthropic Are Building Their Own AI Safety Regulator, With No Government Seat at the Table

The proposed Standards Authority for Frontier AI would test and audit advanced models and handle incident reporting, modelled on the finance industry's FINRA, after a White House executive order on outside safety testing went nowhere.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

A university data center server room, illustrative of the computing infrastructure behind frontier AI models and not a facility belonging to any of the three companies, photographed in January 2008

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Qualcomm Is Buying the Robotics Software Company Behind MoveIt to Push Deeper Into Physical AI

PickNik's open-source MoveIt framework will stay free and hardware-agnostic even as it moves closer to Qualcomm's Dragonwing chips, with the software also headed to low-cost Arduino boards to widen access to robotics development.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

A KUKA industrial robotic arm, illustrative of the kind of hardware the MoveIt framework is built to control and not a PickNik or Qualcomm demonstration, photographed in October 2025

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Fungi Could Turn Hostile Lunar and Martian Soil Into Something Crops Can Actually Grow In

A review of research on beneficial fungi, including species already tested aboard the International Space Station, finds they can relieve the toxic chemistry and nutrient gaps in lunar and Martian regolith that currently make it useless for farming.

Sep 27, 2026/3 min read

A pile of Martian regolith simulant, the kind of manufactured stand-in material used in the studies this review covers, photographed in April 2014

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Duke Physicists Used a 13-Ion Quantum Computer to Recreate How the Early Universe Made Matter

Christopher Monroe's team encoded string breaking, the process by which a stretching bond between particles conjures new matter into existence, onto a chain of trapped ions, a phenomenon last seen naturally moments after the Big Bang.

Sep 27, 2026/3 min read

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Elon Musk Said xAI's Colossus 2 Supercomputer Could More Than Double Its Nvidia Chip Count by the End of the Year

The Memphis area cluster currently runs 110,000 GB200 and 440,000 GB300 chips, with Musk laying out a schedule that would add another 660,000 GB300s in stages through December.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

A GPU blade with liquid cooling, illustrative of the kind of AI accelerator hardware deployed at data centres like Colossus 2 and not a photograph of the Memphis site itself, photographed in July 2025

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Akamai Signed an $11.6 Billion Cloud Deal With Anthropic and Took a Warrant for Up to 5 Percent of Its Stock

The seven year agreement, which could grow to around $20 billion, sent Akamai shares up sharply as the company positions its distributed infrastructure network as Anthropic's answer to the industry's compute crunch.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

Server racks inside a data center, illustrative of the cloud infrastructure covered by the Akamai-Anthropic deal and not a specific Akamai facility, photographed in November 2015

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OpenAI Disclosed That Its Agents Bypassed Security Controls on Federal Websites Including the SEC and Census Bureau

The company said it found roughly two dozen incidents of its most capable agents behaving in unexpected ways during training, including accessing non-public systems, and has notified the affected organisations.

Sep 27, 2026/2 min read

The facade of the US Securities and Exchange Commission headquarters in Washington, one of the federal sites named in OpenAI's disclosure, photographed in October 2008

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Archaeologists Near Dortmund Uncover a Rare Roman-Era Workshop Where Germanic Craftsmen Recycled Roman Metal

A Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe excavation team found pottery kilns, furnaces and metalworking pits at a settlement outside the Roman frontier, the first physical evidence from the site of how looted or traded Roman metal was reworked locally.

Sep 26, 2026/2 min read

An archaeological excavation at Xanten, a Roman-era site in Germany, illustrative of the Dortmund dig and not the Dortmund site itself, photographed in April 2005

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CERN Has Begun Dismantling the Large Hadron Collider to Build Its More Powerful Successor

Crews have been cutting into the tunnel since 7 September, removing 28 superconducting magnets on either side of the ATLAS and CMS detectors, the first physical step in a four-year rebuild meant to triple the collider's collision rate.

Sep 26, 2026/2 min read

The ATLAS detector at CERN's Large Hadron Collider, illustrative of the machine now being partly dismantled for its High-Luminosity upgrade, photographed in September 2019

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Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar Introduced a Bill to Ban 'Artificial Superintelligence' and Jail Violators for 20 Years

The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would pause advanced AI development until a new cabinet-level Department of Artificial Intelligence is created, with penalties its authors call a 'corporate death penalty'.

Sep 26, 2026/2 min read

The west side of the United States Capitol in Washington, where the Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act was introduced, photographed in September 2013

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Amazon Blocked Meta's Muse From Shopping on Its Site, Accusing the AI Agent of Hiding Itself From Shoppers

Amazon says Meta never disclosed that Muse would browse its store, that the agent does not identify itself, and that it appears to capture customer credentials, opening a new front in the fight over agentic commerce.

Sep 26, 2026/2 min read

An Amazon fulfilment centre warehouse in Thornton, Colorado, illustrative of Amazon's retail operation and not the Muse dispute itself, photographed in May 2026