Artificial Inteligence feed for Monday, September 28, 2026

• OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns
• Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
• AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion
• Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
• AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
• Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents
• The AI boom took over Climate Week and not everyone is happy about it
• Towards safety cases for frontier AI training
• How we will do better for Australia
• OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up
• Nvidia launches new platform for reining in rogue AI agents
• AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready
• Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner
• Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’
• OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
• When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?
• Florida seeks a ban on ChatGPT acting like a person
• OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians
• Meta launches enterprise AI platform, hires MongoDB CEO to lead new initiative
• Walmart won’t hike prices based on your shopping history, CEO says
• Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay share what happens when enterprises actually deploy AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
• After a deepfake voice fooled her grandfather, this founder sprang into action
• Next 5 VCs judging Startup Battlefield 200 contenders at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
• Modulate raises $25M for its voice models and analysis suite
• The SaaSpocalypse that wasn’t, with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes
• Your final chance to grab your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is October 2
• Insurtech Outmarket raises $34.5M just months after prior round
• Viral AI agent Instinct raises $1B Series C at a $10B valuation
• Nvidia says its new AI safety platform can contain rogue agents within ‘milliseconds’
• Holo4: powering generalist computer-use agents
• New formulation helps RNA vaccines withstand high temperatures
• Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?
• The Lenfest Institute grows landmark program with expanded OpenAI support
• Welcome RL Environments to the hub
• Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra
• Are you a Codex Original?