"The heads of major AI firms pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to save the world or at least its people — by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing," writes the Associated Press.
"If managed poorly, I even believe AI could be a risk to humanity as a whole," said Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic. And from his competitor Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, came this assessment: "We could lose control of the future to AI."
Yoshua Bengio, who co-chairs the UN's International Independent Panel on AI, called this
"a moment of global awakening" to possible threats, noting AI from top companies had behaved in unacceptably dangerous ways, against instructions, taking actions "that would be crimes if committed by a human".
In his presentation, OpenAI's Sam Altman agreed the discussion about AI "feels different in recent weeks," even suggesting specific reforms:
Altman: We need a mechanism for complementary national and international frontier AI standards, standards for measuring capabilities, assessing risks, determining whether safeguards are sufficient, and preserving meaningful human oversight as systems become more autonomous. We need common standards so countries can compare evidence, verify compliance, and have a shared language and understanding about what is happening. We need accurate and speedy incident reporting, classification reporting protocols, so the world can learn from failures before they become catastrophes. And we need secure channels among governments, critical infrastructure operators and technical experts, to share emerging vulnerabilities and new threats.... We will all be better off if we can agree on what good evidence, good safeguards, and good oversight look like on the global stage.
Speaking next, Anthropic's Dario Amodei agreed that standard-setting was important, also calling for "common global standards for testing AI models for loss-of-control risks and misuse risks — and a notification system for AI incidents that are significant to global security." Reiterating his September 12th call for an industry-wide safety collaboration, Amodei pointed out that Anthropic committed to embedding external evaluators "similar to a food inspector" and recommended other companies do the same. "Some have already agreed to adopt this measure."
Besides calling for global cooperation between governments to set international standards, Amodei also offered two other specific ideas:
Amodei: We should begin with narrow agreements that every member can support, such as a ban on using AI to make biological weapons or permitting your AI technologies to be used to make biological weapons....
We should build evaluation and verification systems that keep pace with AI development so that states can have visibility into frontier model capability and can verify each other's commitments.
"No leader, no company, and no nation can manage this alone. We commit to working with governments in this room on this urgent work."
Lancé le 8 septembre 2026 aux États-Unis, Muse est un agent IA façon OpenClaw, mais en beaucoup plus simple à configurer. Muse n'est pas qu'un chatbot, il peut remplir des formulaires, surveiller des boîtes mail, commander des courses ou prendre des rendez-vous en téléphonant à la place de son utilisateur, le tout sans avoir à configurer un agent sur son ordinateur. Avec Muse, Meta espère rattraper son retard dans la course à l'intelligence artificielle.
Un agent d'IA d'OpenAI a accédé sans autorisation à un portail de statistiques lié à Medicare, l'assurance maladie australienne. Le Premier ministre Anthony Albanese vient de rendre l'affaire publique et dénonce la façon dont l'entreprise l'a prévenu.
Le 23 septembre 2026, Meta a présenté le Muse Charm, un petit appareil pour discuter avec son assistant IA. Derrière son allure de Tamagotchi, une bataille se dessine : celle des objets qui pourraient nous faire moins sortir notre smartphone.
OpenAI's artificial intelligence "went rogue this year in at least four additional incidents," the New York Times reported Wednesday, "hacking and trying to break into government and university websites without being instructed to do so, according to researchers and government officials."
The attacks took place in May and June, before OpenAI's technology breached the A.I. start-up Hugging Face in July and set off a global debate about A.I. safety. Unlike the Hugging Face attack and other incidents in which A.I. systems were told to complete cybersecurity tests that effectively invited the models to demonstrate their hacking skills, the new incidents occurred when A.I. systems were directed to perform relatively mundane data collection, researchers said. When OpenAI's systems struggled to gather data from websites, they resorted to hacking techniques to get the information.
"Three of the incidents were identified by Transluce, a research lab focused on A.I. oversight, and all were confirmed by OpenAI," the article points out. That research lab even reports "an attempt on an Australian government public health website... the first reported instance of agents hacking a government," and which notably was done by the AI agents "while attempting mundane data retrieval tasks which were not cyber-related." (At the UN Wednesday Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese complained it took three months for OpenAI to then alert Australia's government about the breach, Bloomberg reports.)
Also targeted were the University of New Mexico's digital library with exploits like SQL injection and path traversal, and Data USA with cross-site scripting and other exploits. All three incidents involved "a low number of probe payloads" with "no evidence of exploitation," according to the researchers, who released a dataset "containing tens of thousands of queries apparently made by autonomous AI agents leveraging a URL scanning service to avoid access restrictions."
Records from urlquery.net show agents using the service since at least March 6, 2026, about two months before previously reported swarm activity. The first case, a March 6 attempt to retrieve Thai drug-enforcement statistics, shows an agent escalating as each approach failed: it first requested the data directly, then tried a service that converts web pages into text, and finally packed a custom program into a web address. The same technique shows up in thousands of agent requests recorded by urlquery.net starting in mid-April, targets many of the same data sources as the collusion.wiki swarm, and collapsed the same day the wiki activity did. We also report similar activity that occurred as recently as September 16... By March, they were finding creative ways around access limits. By May and June, they were gaining more access, including attempting to bypass cyber defenses to complete their tasks.
"This data reveals that malicious cyber activity is not limited to agents tasked with cybersecurity-related tasks and can arise instrumentally to solve mundane tasks like information retrieval," the researchers concluded.
And they warn that the traffic they observed "goes back at least to March 6, 2026 and extends as recently as September 16, 2026, suggesting agents may still be exploiting these services to bypass restrictions."
TechCrunch quipped it was like if startup school Y Combinator and Peter Thiel's build-a-company-instead of-college Fellowship Program had a baby. Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is investing $35 million to launch a private school in San Francisco "aimed at turning high school graduates into founders," writes the SF Standard.
Or, as CBS News describes it, "One blue-chip Silicon Valley investor has a proposal for young people who are questioning whether to attend college — enroll in AI school instead...."
Specifically, the academy will provide instruction geared to subjects such as designing AI systems, fundraising for startups, selling businesses and storytelling. Students won't take tests or be assigned homework but will instead focus on building real projects. Courses will be taught by tech entrepreneurs, with the academy naming OpenAI CEO Sam Altman as either an instructor or guest lecturer.
From the SF Standard:
"There will be no traditional grades, tests, or homework," said the announcement. Instead, students will be encouraged to "build" in SF and work with partners from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, and other firms. They'll be encouraged to live in campus housing in San Francisco. "The #1 goal is to help students learn to build, which is the most important skill in the AI era," Gagan Biyani, chief executive of the academy, wrote on X. Biyani cofounded the ed-tech startup Udemy...
The school is opening applications for a Founding Class Fellowship a one-year, tuition-free program for around 50 students... The academy said it will bring in notable Silicon Valley names, like OpenAI's Sam Altman, as guest speakers and faculty. Students in the founding class will receive about $50,000 worth of computing credit — the sought-after currency in Silicon Valley to run AI models — as well as a $5,000 travel and research budget. The school is receiving funding from tech executives, including Fidji Simo, formerly of OpenAI and Instacart; Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator; and Tobi Lütke, CEO of Shopify.
"In the AI era, it's more important to come out with a portfolio of projects that you worked on and work experience than it is to have a diploma or certificate," Biyani told the San Francisco Chronicle:
Biyani said the academy plans to grow its enrollment and open a two-year program, pending regulatory approval, starting in the fall of 2028. Tuition is expected to be on par with the cost of an elite private university...
The academy raised $42 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. The ten founding partners are Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit and Stripe. A network of hundreds of instructors, hiring partners and guest speakers includes OpenAI co-founder Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, neuroscientist Andrew Huberman and Microsoft chairman and CEO Satya Nadella, according to the academy's website.
The FAQ describes a typical week by saying "Most of your time is yours to build. Each week, you share your progress with peers and practitioners, get direct feedback, and decide where to take your work next."
Q: Can I use AI to help with my application?
A: Yes. Use AI the way you'd use it on any project: to move faster, test ideas, and get past a blank page....
"The best assignments now are problems so hard they cannot be solved without AI," Andreessen Horowitz argued on X.com. "The Academy courses follow the same logic and will be taught by world-class leaders... The next generation will not be taught the way the last one was. The Academy is built for that world, and it begins in San Francisco."
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader theodp for sharing the news.
Un développeur a découvert que ZCode, l'assistant de programmation de Z.ai, empaquetait et expédiait en silence des dépôts de code entiers vers Alibaba Cloud. L'entreprise chinoise s'excuse et publie son code source.
U.S. President Trump addressed the United Nations on Tuesday. And a half hour in, after decrying immigration, Trump pivoted to add that "The United States also totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme to control for the artificial intelligence being spoken of so much now."
But then he added "hereinafter officially called super intelligence, changing the name, in that the use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake. It makes it sound fake, and it is not fake. It's actually... amazing. But we have to be careful — in fact, it is exactly the opposite of what it purports. From this point forward, all of United States documents and hopefully the world's will be changed to use the much more accurate term super as opposed to artificial. So it's super intelligence."
TRUMP: In other words, welcome to the new world of super intelligence — SI. SI. Let's see if that goes. It sounds much better. It is much better, and it's much more accurate. Let's see if I have any power. Maybe I do and maybe I don't. We're going to find out pretty soon. Super intelligence.
Every major new technology brings challenges, and super intelligence is no exception. Yet the very same people who said we'll all be dead in 12 years because of global warming, a name since reborn to climate change because the planet was cooling not warming, and nobody was dead — these are the same people that are now saying that AI is going to kill us all. That robots are going to attack us, and that everything is going to be a total disaster — same group of people. This is the group that came up with the Russia Russia Russia hoax, the Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine hoax. Climate change, open borders.
Whoever wins AI — you have to remember this — and now I say, whoever wins SI, whoever wins super intelligent [sic] — wins. That's the group that wins. And we're leading now over China by a lot, and everyone else, and we're going to keep it that way. We're going to keep it very — very straight and very strong. I'm not going to stifle growth of something that will be bigger than the Industrial Revolution. Many say, bigger than the Industrial Revolution or the internet itself.
And we will be very careful, and that's why we have a Department of Justice that we've already used it, having to do with this very subject, and used it very powerfully. Everything worked out very well and very quickly. And other law enforcement bodies that will rein things in if we have to do that.
But we will only encourage super intelligence. We're gonna encourage it, not rein it in. We're gonna watch it closely, through the Department of Justice. The United States leads the world in Super Intelligence, and will continue to do so, safely and responsibly.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader
ArchieBunker for suggesting the story.
Quelques jours après avoir appelé à ralentir la course à l'IA, Anthropic lance Claude Opus 5.5 et OpenAI complète sa gamme GPT-6 avec GPT-6-Sol et GPT-6-Luna. La bonne surprise vient des prix : les deux entreprises baissent les tarifs de leurs API.
Fidji Simo, entrepreneuse française et ancienne patronne des applications d’OpenAI, vient d’inscrire sa fille à Alpha School. Ce réseau américain d’écoles privées promet de concentrer les matières fondamentales en seulement deux heures par jour, notamment grâce à l'IA.
Two U.S. missiles hit an elementary school in Iran, killing over 150 people including 123 children on the first day of the Iran War. But Gizmodo notes that a new Bloomberg investigation cites U.S. officials involved in an unreleased internal Pentagon review who blame "a cascade of preventable failures that included an overreliance on an AI tool built by Palantir."
According to the officials who spoke to Bloomberg, some personnel inside U.S. Central Command leaned too hard on the AI inside the Maven Smart System, an AI-powered data integration and targeting platform developed by Palantir to accelerate intelligence analysis and decision-making. The Defense Department has reportedly made the software tool a cornerstone of military operations over the past year... Officials said some users expected Maven to flag stale records or contradictions in the intelligence assembled for potential targets, though it is not clear why they thought the system would do that. The Minab [elementary school] site, which was cataloged as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility due to outdated data, was fed into Maven with other candidates and came out as a recommended day-one target. Target-list work that once took hours was condensed into minutes.
A Palantir spokesperson told Bloomberg the company "is not responsible for the underlying data nor identifying intelligence deficiencies" and that there is no evidence its software was at fault. Two people familiar with Palantir's Pentagon contracts said the government keeps primary responsibility for the quality of the information that's fed into Maven. After the strike, Palantir added features that "re-review underlying intelligence to identify factors that would disqualify a target and flag inconsistencies and inaccuracies that human review may have missed," a person familiar with the work said. That new functionality is said to have already caught some anomalies...
More than 1,000 Iranian targets were hit in the first 24 hours, and according to Bloomberg's sources, that pace compressed the time available for additional confirmations. Staffing on civilian harm mitigation teams across the U.S. Department of Defense had also fallen by roughly 90% over recent years, shrinking to fewer than 20 people overall. The U.S. Central Command's group shrank from 10 people to one. No member of those teams reviewed the Minab site before the missiles were up in the air.
A separate inquiry by the United Nations' Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on Iran this week reached the conclusion that there were reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching an indiscriminate attack.
OpenAI a annoncé ce lundi 21 septembre 2026 la création d'un groupe consultatif de mathématiciens de renom, chargé de l'aider à publier ses résultats sans froisser la profession. Une main tendue après des semaines de tensions autour de ses annonces en maths.
Meta's AI "personal agent" Muse overtook ChatGPT as the #1 iOS free app in the U.S. on Friday, reports CNBC — and it's still showing more downloads as of Monday night.
Muse now has over 2.5 million downloads since its debut less than two weeks ago, according to analytics firm Sensor Tower...
[Muse] is currently ahead of popular services like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Polymarket and Kashi... It's also ahead of rival AI apps like Anthropic's Claude and SpaceXAI's Grok AI, in addition to the Facebook-parent's own Meta AI app... Meta pitched the app as a way for consumers to manage and direct supercharged digital assistants that can perform a number of tasks across the web, like filling out electronic forms and organizing email inboxes... "I think up to this point most of the agentic use cases have not really been for normal people," Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon told CNBC in a "Squawk on the Street" interview on Monday. "Now you've got Meta's Muse and other agents out there that are starting to maybe get more potential for more broad-based adoption." The buzz around Meta was also reflected in the stock, which surged more than 11% on Monday.
Amazon is already blocking Muse, reports GeekWire. Amazon first tried to get Meta to voluntarily exclude Amazon, but they were unsuccessful:
The problem, Amazon says, is that it never agreed to any of it. Meta didn't tell Amazon that Muse would access its store, the agent doesn't identify itself when it browses, and it appears to capture and store customer credentials, which the company says could create privacy and security risks. As of Sunday night, people trying to use Muse to shop on Amazon were seeing the popup, "Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed..."
Amazon has spent the past year trying to keep outside agents off its site, suing Perplexity over its Comet browser and moving to block shopping agents from Google and OpenAI. [Amazon won a preliminary injunction against Perplexity in March, the article poitns out, "then lost it on Aug. 4, when the Ninth Circuit ruled that the user — not the AI company — was the one accessing Amazon's computers under federal anti-hacking law. The court denied Amazon's petition for rehearing on Sept. 10."]
On Sunday night, Amazon said it is in direct conversation with Meta about the issue. Asked whether it would consider taking legal action, the company declined to comment. The business stakes are high for Amazon. In addition to operating its flagship e-commerce site, Amazon generated more than $68 billion in ad revenue last year — a business that depends on people browsing its pages and seeing sponsored products.
Muse also appears to scrape account data, reports CNBC. But Shopify, however, "is working with Meta on Muse access. Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke announced Monday that the e-commerce site was partnering with Muse to allow agentic checkout in its online stores."
Dix ans après l’arrêt de la Corsa OPC, Opel ressuscite sa citadine sportive, et le fait avec un badge inédit : GSE, pour Grand Sport Electric. Après le Mokka GSE l’an dernier, c’est au tour de la Corsa de recevoir le traitement haute performance version zéro émission. Présentée en mai dernier et dévoilée aux médias en août, elle fera sa première apparition publique au Mondial de l’Automobile de Paris en octobre, avec des commandes ouvertes dès septembre.
Une citadine qui joue des coudes
Difficile de confondre cette Corsa avec une version de base. Le bouclier avant spécifique GSE attire immédiatement le regard, tandis que l’arrière adopte un traitement tout aussi affirmé, avec des inserts noirs qui courent sur le bas de caisse et autour des passages de roues élargis. Le toit et le spoiler arrière passent au noir, en contraste marqué avec la carrosserie, et les jantes de 18 pouces à trois branches, chaussées de Michelin Pilot Sport 4S en 215/40, laissent entrevoir des étriers de frein Alcon peints en jaune et floqués du logo GSE. Une signature visuelle qui ne cache rien de ses ambitions.
Un habitacle qui rend hommage à la Corsa GSi
À bord, Opel a soigné les clins d’œil aux Corsa sportives des années 80 et 90. Les sièges Performance, garnis d’Alcantara et floqués du logo GSE, reprennent un revêtement à damier noir, gris et jaune directement inspiré des anciennes GSi, tandis que les ceintures de sécurité jaune vif viennent trancher avec le reste de l’habitacle. Le volant est lui aussi gainé d’Alcantara, les pédales passent à l’aluminium, et la planche de bord arbore fièrement son logo GSE sur fond gris argenté. Niveau technologie, l’écran tactile central de 10 pouces embarque un mode dédié aux données de performance : forces G, valeurs d’accélération et gestion de la batterie s’affichent en direct, avec une instrumentation numérique entièrement personnalisable en face du conducteur.
280 chevaux et trois modes de conduite
Sous le capot, ou plutôt sous le plancher, la Corsa GSE reprend le bloc électrique du Mokka GSE et de son pendant compétition, le Mokka GSE Rally. Le moteur synchrone délivre 207 kW, soit 280 chevaux, et 345 Nm de couple, pour un 0 à 100 km/h abattu en 5,5 secondes et une vitesse de pointe de 180 km/h. De quoi faire de cette Corsa l’Opel de série la plus rapide à l’accélération, tout simplement.
Trois modes de conduite permettent de moduler ces performances. Le mode Sport libère l’intégralité de la puissance avec une calibration pensée pour le circuit, le mode Normal ramène la donne à 170 kW (231 ch) tout en conservant un tempérament sportif, et le mode Eco limite la casse à 140 kW (190 ch) et 300 Nm, avec une vitesse maximale abaissée à 150 km/h pour préserver l’autonomie. Cette dernière est annoncée jusqu’à 336 km en cycle WLTP, pour une batterie lithium-ion de 54 kWh, dont 51 kWh utiles, dotée d’une gestion thermique spécifiquement adaptée aux sollicitations intensives.
Un châssis pensé pour l’exercice
Opel n’a pas fait les choses à moitié côté mécanique. La transmission aux roues avant s’accompagne d’un différentiel autobloquant Torsen, épaulé par un châssis sport surbaissé, avec essieux, barres antiroulis et butées hydrauliques spécifiquement développés pour l’exercice. La direction et les réglages des pédales ont été revus pour l’occasion, et le freinage est confié à des étriers haute performance à quatre pistons.
Dernier détail qui ne manquera pas de faire parler : Opel a développé à Rüsselsheim un son sport actif exclusif à la Corsa GSE, qui adapte sa signature sonore à l’accélération et à la vitesse, façon voiture thermique. Côté équipement, la Corsa GSE ne se prive de rien : sièges et volant chauffants, navigation, caméra de recul à 180 degrés, régulateur de vitesse adaptatif, accès et démarrage sans clé, et même un chargeur bidirectionnel V2L capable d’alimenter un vélo électrique ou un barbecue directement depuis la batterie de la voiture.
Sur circuit et sur route : nos premières impressions
Les premiers essais menés en Autriche, sur un petit circuit fermé puis sur route ouverte, confirment que la Corsa GSE ne se contente pas d’un beau discours marketing. Sur le tracé sinueux, chaussée en Michelin Pilot Sport 4S, l’avant plonge franchement à la corde et se resserre encore lorsqu’on surbraque, tandis que le différentiel autobloquant Torsen fait parfaitement son travail à la réaccélération, à condition de bien débrayer l’angle de braquage pour l’aider. Seul bémol relevé: la direction manque un peu d’informations sur le niveau d’adhérence, même lorsque le mode Sport en réduit l’assistance. Ce mode Sport, seul à libérer l’intégralité des 281 chevaux, retarde également l’intervention de l’ESP, non débrayable, et coupe toute récupération d’énergie au freinage pour offrir une pédale plus cohérente entre la phase de régénération et la phase purement mécanique. En ligne droite, la puissance monte de façon progressive afin d’éviter tout patinage des roues avant, y compris sous la pluie, mais les sensations restent en retrait, et le son artificiel censé recréer une ambiance sportive peine à convaincre.
Sur route ouverte, en usage quotidien, la Corsa GSE ne fait pas semblant : les bruits de roulement se font sentir sur revêtement granuleux, les sièges très enveloppants deviennent fermes sur les dos-d’âne, et la suspension se montre nettement plus remuante que sur une simple Corsa Electric. On est clairement plus proche de l’esprit GTI que d’une GT reposante, dans la droite lignée des anciennes Corsa OPC. Côté consommation, l’autonomie WLTP homologuée plafonne à 354 km grâce à la batterie CATL de 51 kWh utiles, une valeur qu’il faudra confirmer sur un protocole de test plus posé. Car sur un rythme soutenu et une route sinueuse, la consommation relevée lors de cet essai a grimpé jusqu’à 30 kWh/100 km, ramenant l’autonomie réelle à seulement 170 km environ. De quoi rappeler qu’une citadine sportive électrique, aussi joueuse soit-elle, impose encore un vrai compromis entre plaisir de conduite et rayon d’action.
Prix et disponibilité
La nouvelle Corsa GSE s’affiche à 39 990 €, un tarif qui la positionne clairement en dessous de ses rivales directes : la Peugeot e-208 GTi, avec laquelle elle partage l’intégralité de sa fiche technique, réclame 2 910 € de plus, et l’Alpine A290, moins puissante, ne fait pas mieux. Avec le bonus écologique déduit, la facture peut redescendre à 35 290 €. De quoi rappeler qu’une sportive électrique n’est pas forcément réservée aux plus grosses bourses. Les commandes sont ouvertes depuis septembre, en attendant la présentation officielle au public lors du Mondial de l’Automobile de Paris en octobre. Opel confirme au passage que les performances électriques n’ont plus besoin d’un badge premium pour convaincre.
There's at least 15 author-driven lawsuits underway against AI companies, while publishers have filed roughly 10 more coordinated suits of their own, notes Publisher's Weekly.
Yet "While the lawsuits play out, some publishers are building bridges."
Google recently announced a partnership with Bloomsbury, De Gruyter Brill, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan, O'Reilly Media, and Penguin Random House to enhance e-books from its Google Play store with AI, allowing readers to interact with the text of the books directly, ask questions and get answers, and develop tools such as quizzes and slideshows... [The CEO of the Author's Guild called the partnership "a positive step forward in the legitimized use of books in the AI ecosystem to the benefit of readers, publishers, and authors alike."]
Of even more significance is the growing number of licensing deals publishers are striking with AI companies. In 2024, HarperCollins became the first of the Big Five to publicly reveal that it had signed a deal to license its content for AI training. The three-year agreement paid $5,000 per participating title, split equally between HarperCollins and the authors. Wiley announced its first AI licensing deal in 2024 and has since made several more. For fiscal year 2026, it reported earning $49 million in revenue from the deals. The company also has a number of strategic collaborations with companies including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Anthropic, Perplexity, IQVIA, OpenEvidence, and others.
And publishers are even building in-house AI tools for producing royalty statements, proofreading, and providing customer service:
In its 2025 Salary and Jobs Report, Publisher's Weekly reported that 63% of industry professionals surveyed said their organizations were using AI... Keith Riegert, president of the Stable Book Group and CEO of Perfect Bound, has been a vocal advocate for the use of AI in publishing — despite calling himself a "hardcore techno-pessimist." He tells PW, "I do this because you use AI or you die at this point...." Like many in the industry, he maintains any use of AI must "start with a human and end with a human," and he draws a clear line, avoiding AI for core creative work, such as selecting titles, designing covers, or creating illustrations — reserving it for developmental editing, formatting, and admin instead... What is known is that each of the Big Five is developing proprietary AI systems for internal use, as proven by the numerous AI-related job openings the companies have posted... [And the parent company of Penguin Random House said in 2025 they used AI for marketing and to forecast demand.]
There've been a few high-profile controversies about prominent authors accused of using AI. But Princeton University Press CEO Christie Henry "is less concerned about authors secretly using AI to write than about the time spent policing the situation."
"It pulls us away from having focused time to think," she says. Princeton University Press is currently vetting companies that promise to be able to certify that a given book was written by a human, including Created by Humans, Human Authored, and Verify My Writing. Henry adds that the proliferation of plagiarized, copycat, and pirated books online, now supercharged by AI agents mass producing and reproducing content, is further draining resources, as it demands constant vigilance and takedown requests sent to Amazon, YouTube, and others.
Le 12 septembre 2026, le patron d’Anthropic appelait les géants de l’IA à ralentir le développement de leurs modèles. Une semaine plus tard, son entreprise envisagerait pourtant de bientôt en lancer un nouveau face au succès de GPT-6 Astra d’OpenAI, selon Reuters.
Tom's Hardware reports:
Four plaintiffs subscribed to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, or Gemini filed a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the developers of these AI models violated antitrust laws when they agreed to slow AI development. According to the Associated Press, the lawsuit argues that this agreement would "reduce the value consumers get for paid AI subscriptions" and that this coordination started in July 2026 after the leading AI labs signed a statement admitting there is "intense competitive pressure not to unilaterally slow" development.
The plaintiffs recognize the need for AI development to slow for the sake of safety, but they say that Anthropic founder Dario Amodei's cooperation proposal is a "shortcut" that "substitutes collective restraint for individual accountability." Attorney Nick Rowley, the lead counsel for the plaintiffs, says, "AI will quickly spin out of human control and could kill us all if we allow AI safety and protocol ... to be controlled by private self-serving agreements between the world's most powerful 'for profit' technology companies."
"Representatives for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI did not immediately respond..."
reports the Associated Press:
The coordination largely took place on Sept. 12, the lawsuit argues, when Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay urging for industrywide cooperation on decelerating advancements in favor of enhanced safety measures. That same day, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceXAI CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind's co-founder and chair Demis Hassabis each publicly responded to Amodei's proposals in agreement. But the lawsuit also alleges that the coordination began to take shape months earlier. It points to a statement from July 2026 that high-ranking employees from several of the leading AI labs signed that acknowledged the "intense competitive pressure not to unilaterally slow" development. That statement called on the government to support a global effort to slow automated AI development.
Sam Altman even specificially said "we do not believe we need to wait for an antitrust exemption or legislation to begin the work of providing this confidence," notes Tom's Hardware.
However, the Trump administration shot down this idea... Chinese state media also criticized this announcement, saying that the call to put the brakes on AI development is nothing but a response to Chinese competition, especially as Amodei's essay explicitly mentioned the desire to slow China's progress and widen the U.S.'s gap over Beijing
Saturday morning President Trump announced he's creating an AI task force and appointing an AI czar, reports Politico.
"I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS," Trump wrote Saturday in what Politico earlier described as "a lengthy Truth Social post on Saturday morning."
TRUMP: Over the years, there have been many Hoaxes, all generated by the Radical Left Dumocrats, for purposes of destroying our Country. RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, UKRAINE, Global Warming, Impeachment Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2 [...] and now, the decimation, or destruction, of AI, commonly known as Artificial Intelligence — And I, as President of the United States, will not stand by and let this happen.
It all began with an attack on our Data Centers, until people realized how wealthy and prestigious they were for the Communities in which they were built. Higher Salaries, Lower Taxes, and Safer Streets, was the result, and the crazed Data Center attack has largely failed, so now [...] they are going straight at AI. We will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows!
However, we will also be looking for BAD, and we can do that, very easily, with our already existing Criminal and Civil Justice System. For this purpose, I am forming the AI Force, much like I did Space Force, which has been a tremendous SUCCESS, in my First Term. To that end, I will be announcing, in the near future, the AI "Czar" — Only High I.Q. individuals need apply!
Trump concluded by saying AI "is the next Industrial Revolution, or Internet, but will be even larger and more impactful... We are leading China, and the rest of the World, and I intend to keep it that way!"
But what exactly is AI Force? "The White House did not immediately respond to a request to clarify whether the agency would be military or civilian," notes the Washington Post. So now "The tech industry is struggling to make sense of President Donald Trump's surprise announcement," Politico reported Saturday afternoon:
Four representatives for the sector, who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly, told POLITICO that the industry was not widely informed of Trump's decision prior to the Truth Social post. "Nobody knows what the idea even is," one of the people said. Another said that feedback on the idea was not widely solicited within the industry. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment...
"I think that he clearly feels pressure to say something, but he's torn because he's just spent the last few days saying that the whole thing is a hoax," Adam Kovacevich, CEO of the progressive tech industry coalition Chamber of Progress, said of Trump and his prior dismissal of AI doomsday scenarios. Since the departure of David Sacks, who stepped down as the Trump administration's previous AI czar earlier this year, the White House has been "making up AI policy as it goes," Kovacevich added. "I think it's clear they've really missed the presence of an organized leader like David Sacks was."
One of the tech industry representatives said they were confused about whether the task force would be charged with formulating more AI regulations or recommending policies that would further stimulate the tech's development. Taylor Barkley, director of federal government affairs at the industry-aligned Abundance Institute, is eyeing it as a way to solidify a light-touch government approach to the technology he says will foster innovation. "Any AI Force or AI Czar should have one job: keep the field open so entrepreneurs at every scale can compete, free from onerous regulation," he told POLITICO. "Existing criminal and civil law can handle bad actors. New permission regimes will stifle the very activity America needs most."
It's worth noting that the day before, California's governor made an announcement. "With Donald Trump and Congress asleep at the wheel, Governor Gavin Newsom is once again taking the lead to strengthen AI safety for all Americans," the governor's office announced Friday. Newsom issued a strong executive order convening experts to help California create new AI safety laws and reporting rules, possibly even requiring safety auditors embedded in labs and emergency "kill switches" in frontier models.
U.S. military intelligence received an inaccurate report this spring that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program, reports CNN.
"The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel, according to four sources familiar with the episode."
Armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship [according to two of the sources]. Military planes were in the air, one of those sources and another source familiar with the incident said. It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of AI — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.
The report, according to one of the sources, was "entirely false." But it also "almost started a war," the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
Across the US military and the intelligence community, officials are pushing to weave AI into nearly every facet of their work, from analyzing the huge volumes of raw intelligence the US collects and selecting targets for strikes, to more mundane applications like managing budgeting, logistics and supply chains. But the episode underscores the profound risks of using this powerful, new and relatively poorly understood technology for targeting in the middle of a war...
Officials say the US can't afford to fall behind in integrating AI in case it must one day fight China or another adversary who would potentially be able to stay one step ahead of the US. In January, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth released his agency's "Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Strategy" in a bid to speed up the military's use of AI. "We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI," Hegseth said in a speech announcing the strategy.
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Trois actualités à retenir cette semaine dans le cyberespace : des agents OpenAI qui apprennent seuls à mentir et à s'affranchir de leurs garde-fous, Revolut piégée par une simple usurpation par mail qui vire au chantage, et l'étrange union sacrée des géants de l'IA autour d'un appel à ralentir.
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