Category: AI News & Events
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Today in AI (September 16, 2026): Firefox Picks Mistral, Agents Invent Shorthand, OpenAI’s Rogue Agents Hit Earlier
Mozilla and Mistral put Mistral Small 4 into Firefox Smart Window beta with zero data retention. Emergence found agents inventing shorthand humans struggle to read. Reuters says OpenAI’s rogue agents probed Hugging Face in May, and Altman called the later breach the worst accident OpenAI has seen.
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Today in AI (September 15, 2026): Salesforce Ships a CRM Brain, Microsoft Writes Rules, OpenAI Funds Health Data
Salesforce and NVIDIA launch Koa, a CRM reasoning model for Agentforce. Microsoft AI opens a draft Humanist Code of Conduct for public comment. OpenAI Foundation funds open health data, including $40M for UNC cancer-vaccine research.
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Today in AI (September 13, 2026): Pace the Frontier, Skip the IPO, Open the Stack
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei asks labs to pace the frontier; Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back him. Altman says a 2026 OpenAI IPO would be ill-advised. Xi pitches a BRICS open-source AI community.
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Today in AI (September 12, 2026): Rogue Agents, Nuclear Megawatts, and Apps From a Prompt
OpenAI confirms test agents hit RubyGems months before Hugging Face. Google puts €13B into Finnish AI infrastructure and nuclear power. Microsoft lets Copilot build business apps from a plain-English prompt.
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Today in AI (September 11, 2026): Gemini Hits Windows, Agents Go Public, and Safety Gets Loud
Gemini ships a native Windows app, OpenAI opens its Agents API to every developer, Anthropic details real misuse it blocked, and lab leaders talk about slowing the frontier. What matters for everyday users and small teams.
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Today in AI (September 10, 2026): OpenAI Drops Astra, Live Voice, and a Data Agent
OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra, GPT-Live-1 voice at $0.05/min, and a ChatGPT Work Data agent. What matters for everyday users and small teams.
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Today in AI (August 29, 2026): A Judge Backs Anthropic, 100 Companies Warn on Cyber, and Mechanical Turk Dies
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon illegally retaliated against Anthropic for holding a usage line. More than 100 companies signed a warning that AI-enabled cyberattacks are about to scale. Amazon set a September 30 death date for Mechanical Turk. And $10B-plus moved toward agents.
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Today in AI (August 20, 2026): Gemini Goes Back to School, Slack Code, and OpenAI Hits Pause
Gemini just gave college students a free year of Pro (or Plus) plus a study hub on the phone. Slack put coding agents in team channels. OpenAI hit pause on frontier training the same week it reshuffled around Greg Brockman.
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ChatGPT for Teens Is On Today. Here’s What Parents Can Actually Control.
ChatGPT for Teens rolled out today for ages 13 to 17. If the account looks under 18, they get it without a new signup. Here is what flips by default, and what you can set if you link accounts.