Artificial Inteligence feed for Thursday, September 17, 2026

• Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories”
• Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
• PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI
• The FAA’s plan to fix air traffic? $875M worth of AI
• The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
• OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
• Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?
• UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
• Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal
• The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
• Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
• Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI
• Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
• Pinterest teases a new ‘Restyle’ feature that lets you redesign your room with AI
• Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on Nvidia
• AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs
• Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
• 2 days left to exhibit at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 
• Rival AI agents, Instinct and Meta’s Muse, both add the ability to make calls
• Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers
• How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT
• Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety
• Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform
• Your startup’s next teammate might be an AI agent: Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland explain what that changes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
• Snap tries to make the case again for its $2,200 smart glasses
• Introducing Astra for Law