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The wire for Friday, 18 September 2026
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- AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack
- World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
- Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced
- FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion
- A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
- Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers
- Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO
- Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
- Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households
- US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"
- Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?
- Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch
- Introducing Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock
- What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings
- Migrating multi-model AI agents to Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime
- Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI
- Deploy Hugging Face models on Amazon SageMaker AI with coding agents
- AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race
- If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
- Alibaba open-sources medical AI model that can detect cancer and nearly 150 conditions
- New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team
- Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
- Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream
- Introducing Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference Gateway
- Ant International embeds AI agents across all platforms in biggest-ever product upgrade
- The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat
- Hong Kong to recruit AI chief by mid-2027, with confidence in local talent pool
- Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.
- He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Nature
- FWD Hong Kong backs HKSAR’s Five-Year Plan, Healthy Greater Bay Area healthcare, and responsible AI in insurance.
- Will AI adoption shrink office space? Asia-Pacific firms are on the fence in survey
- The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech
- Small AI models let drones autonomously identify and attack battlefield targets
- Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation
- Embedding Models Measure in Peculiar Ways
- Workspace Models: Lightweight Robotic Memory via Saliency-Driven Supervision
- How Does Distribution Shift Shape Pretraining Gains in Neural PDE Surrogates?
- Quantifying Overclaiming Propensity in Frontier LLM Agents
- Unifying Models of Intergroup Hostility in Online Discourse
- An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents