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NYC Council Rolls Out 10-Bill AI Package With Kill Switches And Whistleblower Bounties — Sep 27, 2026 — Speaker Julie Menin unveiled a 10-bill package on 25 September that would force AI companies operating in New York City to install kill switches, subm...White House Asks OpenAI And Anthropic To Hold Back Models From UK AISI — Sep 26, 2026 — The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to delay giving the UK AI Security Institute pre-release access to two new frontier models until a US s...AlphaGo Co-Architect Thore Graepel Launches AI Reasoning Startup Metis — Sep 24, 2026 — Ex-DeepMind principal scientist Thore Graepel, credited with AlphaGo, is raising tens of millions for Metis Reasoning to bring structured search back...Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, 2,000+ Voices And SynthID Watermarks — Sep 24, 2026 — Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS ships 2,000+ voices, promptable voice design and SynthID watermarks; Flash-Lite drops price another 50%.Sanders And Casar Propose Permanent Superintelligence Ban, Cabinet-Level AI Agency — Sep 24, 2026 — Sanders and Casar's twin bills would ban superintelligence, pause massive training runs and create a cabinet-level Department of AI.Verizon Puts $70M Behind AI Skills For America With Six Big-Tech Curricula — Sep 24, 2026 — Verizon's $70M AI Skills for America aggregates IBM, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and Coursera coursework with Goodwill, LISC and NACCE coachi...GlobalFoundries And Marvell Expand SiGe Deal For AI Data Center Optics — Sep 19, 2026 — GlobalFoundries and Marvell Technology are expanding their multi-year silicon germanium agreement, adding fresh SiGe capacity at GF's Burlington, Verm...Cohere's Model Vault Now Encrypts AI Inference So Even Cohere Can't See It — Sep 17, 2026 — Cohere adds confidential computing to Model Vault, sealing enterprise AI inference inside NVIDIA-Intel-AMD trusted execution enclaves so neither Coher...AISLE Finds Six New cURL CVEs After Anthropic Mythos And OpenAI Codex Returned Zero — Sep 3, 2026 — AISLE's autonomous AI system produced 29 vulnerability reports against cURL — six accepted as CVEs in curl 8.22.0 — days after Anthropic Mythos and Op...Cisco Warns Of Critical 9.8 CVE-2026-20212 In Nexus 9000 With Silicon One ASICs — Sep 3, 2026 — Cisco has disclosed CVE-2026-20212, a critical 9.8-severity unauthenticated RCE in Nexus 9000 switches using its Silicon One ASICs — exposed on the de...Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash With Fairwind Cyber Variant On September 2 — Sep 3, 2026 — Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash on September 2, 2026, its fourth Flash release in as many months, at $0.75 per million input tokens and with a Fairwi...Anthropic Ships Claude Fable 5.1 And Mythos 5.1 With 45% Cheaper Agent Runs — Sep 3, 2026 — Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 broadly and kept the more capable Mythos 5.1 restricted, cutting sustained agentic workload costs by up to 45% and...TSMC 2027 Capex Seen Reaching $85 Billion As AI Capacity Strain Deepens — Aug 31, 2026 — Wall Street's most bullish TSMC 2027 capex model now points to $85 billion, up from Goldman Sachs' $78B forecast, as leading-edge AI capacity stays co...MediaTek Locks In Google TPU v8 Inference Role With Zebrafish Design — Aug 31, 2026 — Google's TPU v8 splits training and inference across Broadcom and MediaTek, with MediaTek's Zebrafish variant giving the Taiwanese fabless a durable f...Google Research Unveils 'Nested Learning' To Beat Catastrophic Forgetting — Aug 30, 2026 — Google Research introduced Nested Learning, a new machine-learning paradigm that treats a model as a hierarchy of nested optimization problems, and a...Trump Weighs Chip Tariffs On Laptops And AI Servers, Pegging Duty-Free Quota To US Fab Investment — Aug 30, 2026 — Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick favors extending semiconductor duties to laptops, gaming consoles and AI servers — with a duty-free quota pegged to...Nvidia Q2 FY27: Record $96B Quarter On Blackwell Ultra Ramp — Aug 29, 2026 — Nvidia posted record fiscal-Q2 2027 revenue of $96.2 billion — up 106% year-over-year — on the ramp of its Blackwell Ultra AI platform, and guided cur...TITAN Ransomware Pitches AI That Sorts 700GB Of Stolen Data Per Hour — Aug 29, 2026 — The TITAN RaaS group is marketing an on-prem GPU-powered classifier that ingests up to 700GB of stolen corporate files an hour to accelerate double-ex...Nvidia In Early Talks With South Korea's Rebellions For Deal Or Buyout — Aug 22, 2026 — Jensen Huang met Rebellions CEO Sunghyun Park at Nvidia HQ to discuss investment, partnership or acquisition of the $2.3B Korean AI inference chip sta...Anthropic Eyes Mega IPO That Could Rival SpaceX's Record Debut — Aug 22, 2026 — Anthropic is preparing to file its S-1 as soon as end of August with a mega IPO that people familiar say could match or top SpaceX's record listing.