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The wire for Friday, 18 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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- AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack Newsroom report
- World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets Newsroom report
- Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced Newsroom report
- FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion Newsroom report
- A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers Newsroom report
- Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers Newsroom report
- Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO Newsroom report
- Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters Newsroom report
- Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households Newsroom report
- US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious" Newsroom report
- Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how? Newsroom report
- Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch Newsroom report
- Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock Company post · self-reported
- What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings Newsroom report
- Migrating multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime Company post · self-reported
- Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI Newsroom report
- Deploy Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI with coding agents Company post · self-reported
- AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race Newsroom report
- If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already Newsroom report
- Alibaba open-sources medical AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions Newsroom report
- New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team Company post · self-reported
- Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI Newsroom report
- Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream Newsroom report
- Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway Company post · self-reported
- Ant International embeds AI agents across all platforms in biggest-ever product upgrade Newsroom report
- The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat Newsroom report
- Hong Kong to recruit AI chief by mid-2027, with confidence in local talent pool Newsroom report
- Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered. Newsroom report
- He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Nature Newsroom report
- FWD Hong Kong backs HKSAR’s Five-Year Plan, Healthy Greater Bay Area healthcare, and responsible AI in insurance. Newsroom report
- Will AI adoption shrink office space? Asia-Pacific firms are on the fence in survey Newsroom report
- The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech Newsroom report
- Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets Newsroom report
- Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Embedding Models Measure in Peculiar Ways Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Workspace Models: Lightweight Robotic Memory via Saliency-Driven Supervision Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- How Does Distribution Shift Shape Pretraining Gains in Neural PDE Surrogates? Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Quantifying Overclaiming Propensity in Frontier LLM Agents Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Unifying Models of Intergroup Hostility in Online Discourse Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents Research preprint · not peer-reviewed