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The wire for Friday, 25 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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- Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand Newsroom report
- Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal Newsroom report
- AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise. Newsroom report
- Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing Newsroom report
- Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC" Newsroom report
- Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk Newsroom report
- Meta is putting its muscle behind Muse as the AI app takes off Newsroom report
- NarrateAI: production-ready LLM quality assurance on Amazon Bedrock Company post · self-reported
- Deploying real-time personalized speech with Qwen3-TTS on Amazon SageMaker AI Company post · self-reported
- Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working? Newsroom report
- For months, OpenAI’s agent swarms have been attacking online databases to find obscure facts Newsroom report
- One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks Newsroom report
- China overtakes US as top workplace for elite AI researchers, study finds Newsroom report
- The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits Newsroom report
- Introducing the new Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot Company post · self-reported
- China and the US are racing ahead on AI. Can they manage risks together? Newsroom report
- Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment Newsroom report
- The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector Newsroom report
- I Think I Found an AI Agent Worth the Risk Newsroom report
- New Jersey fines data center $1.1M after drone pics expose 62 gas generators Newsroom report
- LLM Agents Can Easily Tamper With Their Own Traces Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- AD-WM: Action-Discriminative World Models for Counterfactual Model Predictive Control Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Agentic Detection of Online Conspiracies Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- RAPID: Robot Agentic Programming from Demonstrations Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Rolling-WAM: World Action Models with Rolling Imagination Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- JevOut: Natural Context Can Flip Decision Models Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Coding Agents for Generalized Task and Motion Planning Problems Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- A Nearly Quadratic Lower Bound for Linear Optimization over Convex Bodies in the Membership Oracle Model Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- The Alignment Illusion in Multimodal Large Language Models Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Beyond Compression: Training Latent Representations for Stable Long-Horizon Rollout in Neural Surrogate Solvers Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- GridSFM: A Foundation Model for Solving AC Optimal Power Flow Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Do Audio Language Models Hear and Read Distinctive Features Alike? Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Graph-Based Inference and Topology-Aware Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Large-Scale Railway Network Management Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Scoring Both Directions: LLMs realize the MRS they cannot reliably parse Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar Company post · self-reported
- Speaker-labeled transcription with WhisperX on SageMaker AI Company post · self-reported
- Build a multi-account AI agent with AgentCore Gateway and MCP Company post · self-reported
- Aim Short to Reach Far: Your Frozen World Model Can Plan Better Than You Think Research preprint · not peer-reviewed
- Google’s Gemini Can Now Make Calls for You on Pixel Phones Newsroom report
- World Action Agent: Harnessing VLMs for Robot Manipulation via World Action Rehearsal Research preprint · not peer-reviewed