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The wire for Thursday, 17 September 2026
40 unedited headlines, exactly as their publishers wrote them. This is an archived snapshot of what the front page's Wire showed that day — it is not re-ranked or checked after the fact, and it is not reporting. How this differs from the edited paper →
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- The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI
- OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
- Google announces new experimental "CC" AI agent for families
- Is the AI safety debate about safety or control?
- Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
- UN turns to Google to make its global data ready for AI agents
- The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess
- The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
- Customer Data Permanently Lost in Iran Strikes on Amazon Data Centers
- Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
- The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
- LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
- Reduce time-to-hire for quality candidates with AI-powered Amazon Connect Talent
- Even the king of England has his hesitations about AI
- Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents
- A shared agentic platform for Wood Mackenzie, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
- How MRH Trowe enabled secure self-service AI agents in financial services
- Enhancing industrial safety AI with synthetic data on Amazon SageMaker AI
- China trusted more than US, EU on AI regulation in Pew survey of middle-income countries
- What we’ve learned from Microsoft’s own AI transformation
- AI is feared globally as the destroyer of jobs
- Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
- Lunacy Audio Nova is a place to build and sell your own AI-powered music plug-ins
- President Xi’s industrial power play sees China bet big on AI, chips and smarter factories
- The EU Wants to Break Up Kids and Their Chatbots
- An OpenAI Agent Tried to Jailbreak Itself
- Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI
- Improving HCLS AI reasoning with open-source agent skills
- Microsoft’s commitment for AI in education; protecting students, strengthening learning
- A Zeroth-Order Paradigm for LLM Preference Alignment
- In-Context Robot Learning with VLM Agents
- ScienceIDE: Turning World's Scientific Codebase into Agent Learnable Environments
- Cognitive Extensions for Dual-Process Language Agents: Memory and Self-Reflection in Interactive Environments
- Affora: A Design System for Agent-Friendly Interfaces
- Flag Game: A Toy Model for Mechanistic Swarm Interpretability
- Playing log(N)-Questions over Wikipedia Abstracts: Communication Efficiency Between Paired Frontier Models
- How Model Growth, Recursion, and Boundary Operators Influence Scaling Exponents
- rMuscle: Robotic Muscle Memory for Efficient Vision-Language-Action Model Inference
- Monitoring and Discovering Reward Hacking with Internal Representations during LLM Evaluations
- Evidence-Grounded Agentic Formulation Development in an Autonomous Laboratory