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  • OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
    The Verge [ai] - 21:07 Sep 18, 2026
    Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "largest theft of labor in human history," and that it […]
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  • Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers
    The Verge [ai] - 18:29 Sep 18, 2026
    Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Executive Order 22 bans executive branch officials from signing nondisclosure agreements […]
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  • Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch
    The Verge [ai] - 17:04 Sep 18, 2026
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will deliver recommendations within two months on how to […]
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  • What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings
    The Verge [ai] - 16:35 Sep 18, 2026
    As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as well film startups focused on bringing generative AI into the mainstream […]
  • Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI
    The Verge [ai] - 15:30 Sep 18, 2026
    A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, the Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI's GitHub repository, called "Monorepo," which reportedly contains "OpenAI's algorithmic secrets," according to the […]
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  • Flash floods can strike without warning — this new technology could change that
    The Verge [ai] - 11:00 Sep 18, 2026
    On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border. She was on a Zoom call, unaware that the heavy rain outside was beginning to flood her yard. "I look over to where the barn is over there, […]
  • The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
    The Verge [ai] - 19:28 Sep 17, 2026
    Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time […]
  • Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
    The Verge [ai] - 18:58 Sep 17, 2026
    The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "threads" running different tasks in parallel, with a "coordinator" directing everything: […]
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  • Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Sep 17, 2026
    Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation.  It should come as no surprise that Mustafa has strong opinions on how AI should be built and regulated. Microsoft just published a […]
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  • AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Sep 17, 2026
    Pew Research has published a new global survey that sheds light on how people view AI, including its impact on jobs, life in general, and income inequality. The survey questioned 42,151 people across 37 countries from February 8th to May 13th - well ahead of recent apocalyptic warnings. A majority sees AI as a threat […]
  • Inside the suddenly explosive world of AI safety
    The Verge [ai] - 11:30 Sep 17, 2026
    On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building. They had come together for a "war room" to dissect the high-profile cybersecurity incident that had rocked the AI industry hours earlier. An unreleased OpenAI model had gone rogue, executing a stunningly […]
  • Snap is launching a new Specs AI tool, and it’s coming to iOS and Mac
    The Verge [ai] - 23:40 Sep 16, 2026
    Snap is introducing "Specs Intelligence," a new AI assistant that can connect other digital accounts to help you with things like work tasks and keeping track of travel information. It seems similar to AI assistants like Meta's Muse and Gemini's Spark, though Snap is pitching Specs Intelligence as an "anticipatory AI service" that "helps you […]
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  • The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long
    The Verge [ai] - 20:59 Sep 16, 2026
    Christopher Nolan's engrossing take on The Odyssey dominated at the box office and spurred a newfound interest in classic literature among filmgoers. But a new retelling of the story made entirely with AI is so bad that it might just make viewers hate the original tale altogether. The new film, called Odysseus: The Fall, comes […]
  • The AI data center e-waste problem is huge — and getting bigger
    The Verge [ai] - 20:40 Sep 16, 2026
    E-waste from the AI boom has been vastly underestimated, a new report warns. By 2050, it could become enough trash to fill 23 million shipping containers - roughly enough 40-foot containers to circle the world six times if lined up in a row. It's a significantly higher estimate of AI's e-waste than previous studies have […]
  • Apple might make servers again to cash in on the AI rush
    The Verge [ai] - 17:20 Sep 16, 2026
    According to The Information, Apple is planning to get back into the server game and might just pair up with Nvidia to make it happen. Apple retired its Xserve line in 2011 and has largely left enterprise machines to other manufacturers since. But the growing demand for compute power as the AI industry continues to […]
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  • Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home
    The Verge [ai] - 17:00 Sep 16, 2026
    Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control your connected devices and analyze your home's data using the standardized Model Context Protocol. Google Home MCP is a new integration that lets third-party AI agents control and monitor your smart home and act on […]
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  • Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides
    The Verge [ai] - 16:30 Sep 16, 2026
    Claude is getting a pair of new tools today: Docs and Slides. They'll let you create documents and presentations through Claude chats, which you can export, edit, and share with other users. As part of the announcement, Anthropic is also simplifying how Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into "one Claude," with all […]
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  • The sexy AI-powered dating app scams are here
    The Verge [ai] - 14:45 Sep 16, 2026
    Security researcher Matthew "Zigula" Gore-Kormanik was analyzing a fraudulent dating app called Dora when he got a pop-up message saying he was receiving a call from Jennifer. According to her bio, she's a 41-year-old Sagittarius with red hair, blue eyes, and piercings. She likes music, horror movies, nightlife, and sports. Gore-Kormanik answered the call, but […]
  • A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Sep 16, 2026
    Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose control - including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X […]
  • Voters mostly don’t like AI and data centers, but neither party seems to have an edge
    The Verge [ai] - 23:34 Sep 15, 2026
    Poll data released Tuesday by the New York Times and Siena University confirms what we've already been seeing, and what politicians are responding to - AI and data centers are incredibly unpopular. Asked if they support or oppose the construction of data centers to power AI tech, 61 percent of the 1,503 likely voters surveyed […]

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