Tuesday, 15 September 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Tuesday, 15 September 2026.
Policy & Ethics
Alex Bores Wants Democrats to Make AI Safety a 2028 Election Issue
Alex Bores, who lost a congressional primary contest that revolved around A.I. regulation, is trying to position himself at the center of the conversation for the next presidential election.
Read moreTrump facing AI backlash in Congress as push for guardrails intensifies
President has dismissed anxieties over AI’s dangerous potential even as Democrats and some Republicans acknowledge risks Analysis: Why a decade of doomsday warnings failed to slow AI race Donald Trump is facing a rare backlash from the US Congress as Democrats and some Republicans push for guardrails on the world’s most powerful AI companies. Concerns over the dangerous potential of AI reached fever pitch this week after tech leaders sounded the alarm over the rapid advancement of the technology and its potential threat to humanity. Continue reading...
Read moreUtah Gov. Cox Calls on Congress to Set Frontier AI Safety Rules
His proposal would add specific federal duties for the most capable AI systems, sharpening Washington’s divide over whether existing authority is enough.
Read moreOpenAI Says It Has Held Weeks of AI Safety Talks With Anthropic and DeepMind
The companies are discussing safety while a proposed legal safe harbor for sharing information faces an uncertain path through Congress.
Read moreResearch & Products
A Vinyl Bar in Shibuya is a startup offering fun music apps without any AI prompting
Former Spotify exec's company releases experimental "singles" that involves users in music making.
Read moreSakana AI Releases PC-ALM, Training 1,000-Layer Networks Without Backpropagation
The research method kept close to backpropagation on a deep image-classification test, but its layer-local approach requires iterative settling before each weight update.
Read moreApple Releases macOS 27 With a Siri That Can Read Your Screen
The update moves Apple’s assistant from a voice prompt toward a desktop tool that can work with windows, selected screen regions, and personal content—though its flagship AI features need newer hardware and begin in English beta.
Read moreTags: hardware, announcement
AI infrastructure company Cornelis raises $205M to chip away at Nvidia’s dominance
The company also announced a product called Active Compute Fabric, a network technology that targets the fact that much GPU time is wasted waiting for data to arrive.
Read moreIndustry
Superhuman Acquires Fathom to Put Meeting Data Into Its AI Workflows
The deal brings an established meeting-recording product into Superhuman’s email, documents, calendar and agent tools. The acquisition price was not disclosed.
Read moreLocalStack Acquires WonderTwin AI to Test SaaS Integrations Without Live APIs
The deal combines local cloud and application emulation, aiming to let developers and AI agents validate integrations before they connect to live services.
Read moreTags: hardware, ai_agents
Perplexity Adds a Local AI Agent to Windows PCs With 24GB RTX GPUs
The new Windows version keeps file analysis on-device and can seek approval for a cloud handoff, but it is limited to high-memory Nvidia systems.
Read moreTags: hardware, reasoning
Salesforce and Nvidia’s new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear
Salesforce Koa is built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model and is trained to do sales, marketing, and customer-support tasks.
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