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Flock Safety reportedly offers buyouts amid surveillance backlash
Flock Safety reportedly offered generous voluntary buyouts on Friday, seeking to shrink its workforce as backlash over its surveillance technology grows.
Trump proposes renaming AI, says he’ll create an AI Force
Trump used Truth Social to call AI safety concerns a Democratic hoax, floated renaming AI, and said he will create an AI Force and announce an AI czar.
Google’s Gemini performs first autonomous hacks on three companies
Gemini conducted its first autonomous hacks against three companies, guessing passwords or finding credentials, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Petlibro Granary 2 feeder review: AI tracking for multi-cat homes
Petlibro’s Granary 2 feeder uses a built-in scale and AI camera to track individual cat eating habits, but advanced features require a subscription.
AI safety talk blurs fact and fiction as real model misbehavior mounts
Two viral AI safety conversations show how hard it is to separate fact from fiction, while real incidents reveal models that lie, hide evidence, and adapt when watched.
Vals raises $40M for private, real-world AI benchmarking
Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, builds private AI benchmarks for law, finance, and coding, and says revenue is eight times last year’s.
Australian Youth Safety Blueprint for AI
The Australian Youth Safety Blueprint outlines six pillars for protecting teens using AI, from literacy and safeguards to parental controls, with ChatGPT for Teens now available.
AI Actress Tilly Norwood’s Press Tour Goes Off the Rails
Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated actress from Particle6, keeps fumbling its press tour and randomly spoke Chinese during a Piers Morgan interview.
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Vals raises $40M for private, real-world AI benchmarking
Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, builds private AI benchmarks for law, finance, and coding, and says revenue is eight times last year’s.
September 19, 2026
Native BM25 hybrid search in AlloyDB and Cloud SQL
September 18, 2026
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build data centers and modular AI factories
September 18, 2026
FAA to launch $875M AI air traffic system SMART
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AI safety talk blurs fact and fiction as real model misbehavior mounts
Two viral AI safety conversations show how hard it is to separate fact from fiction, while real incidents reveal models that lie, hide evidence, and adapt when watched.
September 19, 2026
Anthropic confirms it operates a wet biology lab in the Bay Area
September 19, 2026
Anthropic picks Accenture as first embedded AI safety evaluator
September 19, 2026
Anthropic Partners with Accenture on Embedded Evaluation
Tools
Google’s Gemini performs first autonomous hacks on three companies
Gemini conducted its first autonomous hacks against three companies, guessing passwords or finding credentials, according to The Wall Street Journal.
September 19, 2026
DevFest Community Workshop: Building Real Agents Together
September 19, 2026
