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  • Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run
    The Verge [ai] - 20:52 Sep 22, 2026
    Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 "agentic operating system" runs in the cloud but operates locally across Windows, Mac, and Linux devices. According to Rabbit, you can […]
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  • Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta
    The Verge [ai] - 16:34 Sep 22, 2026
    Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The "Horowitz Andreessen Academy" will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe, along with $42 million in funding led by a16z. […]
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  • Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity
    The Verge [ai] - 16:30 Sep 22, 2026
    Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 5.5 model comes with stronger safeguards in the wake of recent rogue AI hacking incidents. In an announcement on Tuesday, Anthropic says Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain risky behaviors, including attempts to escape the company's testing sandbox. It's the first model released by Anthropic after CEO Dario […]
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  • Trump says the US is officially renaming AI to ‘super intelligence’
    The Verge [ai] - 16:01 Sep 22, 2026
    In a speech Tuesday morning at the UN General Assembly, Donald Trump railed against Iran, "globalists," climate change, and transgender people while also claiming that the US is now "officially" renaming artificial intelligence to "super intelligence." Oddly, this wasn't one of the entries in the poll Trump posted a few days ago when he started […]
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  • Meta patches Muse exploit that let attackers control the AI agent
    The Verge [ai] - 11:53 Sep 22, 2026
    Meta has issued a patch for its Muse macOS app following the discovery of a zero-day vulnerability that could allow someone to take control of the AI agent. The bug found by security researcher Patrick Wardle utilized an undocumented Muse setting that enabled potential attackers running local code to redirect transcription processing from Meta's servers […]
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  • California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use
    The Verge [ai] - 20:29 Sep 21, 2026
    California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed seven bills designed to prevent AI data centers from passing utility costs onto residents, as reported earlier by the Los Angeles Times. The package of laws requires the California Public Utilities Commission to introduce a new rate classification for data centers while forcing them to pay for upgrades to […]
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  • Can John Ternus find Apple’s next big thing?
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Sep 21, 2026
    Today, I’m talking with Mark Gurman, who is the world’s best-sourced Apple reporter — both as Bloomberg’s chief Apple correspondent and the host of the upcoming podcast Power On.  Earlier this month, Apple hosted its annual iPhone hardware event, virtually every detail of which was reported ahead of time by Mark. But this event was […]
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  • iPhone owners can now submit claims in Apple’s $250 million Siri AI settlement
    The Verge [ai] - 13:36 Sep 21, 2026
    Apple is paying $250 million to settle claims that it failed to deliver an AI-upgraded Siri - and now, eligible iPhone owners can submit a claim for a payout. If you live in the US and purchased an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 model between June 10th, 2024, and […]
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  • UN says AI safeguards can’t wait for certainty
    The Verge [ai] - 10:18 Sep 21, 2026
    Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned in the global organization's first major assessment of OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face earlier this year. The report cements AI's place on the global diplomatic agenda this week as leaders gather in New York […]
  • Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent
    The Verge [ai] - 09:21 Sep 21, 2026
    Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed." According to GeekWire, Meta didn't notify Amazon that […]
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  • No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown.
    The Verge [ai] - 18:50 Sep 20, 2026
    The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he claimed there was a "0% chance" of AI being the end of the […]
  • Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’
    The Verge [ai] - 15:39 Sep 20, 2026
    The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing calls from across the political spectrum and even within the industry to pump the brakes on AI development. He posted that his administration "will not in any way hinder […]
  • Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems
    The Verge [ai] - 12:00 Sep 20, 2026
    Before recent high-profile hacks raised the specter of AI possibly "killing all humans," our energy systems were already disturbingly vulnerable to cyberattack - and the risk is growing. "We were always prey. We were just kind of surviving at the appetite of our predators," Joshua Corman, executive in residence for public safety and resilience at […]
  • Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think
    The Verge [ai] - 20:44 Sep 19, 2026
    Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, posted on Threads […]
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  • Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it
    The Verge [ai] - 15:25 Sep 19, 2026
    In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI. According to WSJ, Google didn't […]
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  • Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone????
    The Verge [ai] - 14:00 Sep 19, 2026
    Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the US Department of Justice in the Biden administration. These days, he’s both a professor of law at WashU and professor of technology policy at Carnegie Mellon. The […]
  • The AI regulation smackdown isn’t over
    The Verge [ai] - 13:00 Sep 19, 2026
    At the start of this week, the who's-who of AI seemed - at least tentatively - on the side of AI regulation. Over the weekend, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed a three-step plan for slowing AI development, including by embedding third-party evaluators in labs, coordinating across the domestic industry, and forging international agreements potentially […]
  • 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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