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The wire for Wednesday, 16 September 2026
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- Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent?
- Washington Won't Be Regulating AI Anytime Soon
- The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long
- The AI data center e-waste problem is huge — and getting bigger
- Improving HCLS AI reasoning with open-source agent skills
- Microsoft’s commitment for AI in education
- AI labs want in-house auditors — but maybe they should shut the front door first
- Apple might make servers again to cash in on the AI rush
- Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices
- Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home
- Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI
- Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data
- Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork in one interface
- Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides
- Canadian Start-up smartARM Uses AI to Create Intuitive Bionic Prosthetics
- Helping older adults use AI in everyday life
- How Fortell is using AI (and $163M) to crack a hearing aid monopoly
- Optimizing agent system prompts with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 Delivers Leading Performance in MLPerf Inference v6.1 Debut
- China uses 100,000 home-grown AI chips to build leading weather forecast system
- 10 AI, biotech firms in Northern Metropolis to get early cross-border data access
- China’s Z.ai raises revenue target 25% after US$5 billion cash injection
- Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA Launch Alliance to Advance Flexible AI Data Centers
- Reimagining advertising with AI
- Building the materials foundation for AI
- Why Russia’s AI-powered economic future lies in its Far East
- Hong Kong to set up ‘AI city brain’ to boost disaster response and public safety
- The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid
- How to connect AI usage to business value
- China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown
- University of Manchester Uses NVIDIA Earth-2 to Forecast Air Pollution Across the UK
- Agentic Societies Need a Social Harness
- Modality-Autoregressive World-Action Models
- ScienceBuddy: Recursive-in-Recursive Self-Improvement for Interactive Scientific Agents
- When Should LLMs Abstain? Chain-of-Self-Questioning for Selective Risk Control
- What Breaks Under Pruning in Smart Homes, and When? Evaluating LLM Degradation Across Architectures and Task Complexity
- Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all?
- Verifiable Social Reasoning for LLM Assistants
- Det-LIME: Detector-Aware, Multi-Instance Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations for Automated Marine Mammal Detection
- Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking