Tuesday, 15 September 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Tuesday, 15 September 2026.
Policy & Ethics
China Rebukes Anthropic CEO’s Call to Restrict AI Chip Sales
The exchange sharpens a core contradiction in AI policy: Anthropic’s chief wants tighter limits on China’s computing access while Beijing says global AI governance requires cooperation.
Read moreSome in Silicon Valley Are Questioning the Calls for an A.I. Slowdown
The debate over the safety of artificial intelligence grew personal as key tech leaders said calls for government regulation were self-serving and misplaced.
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 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 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 morePerplexity Portable Computer Is Now Available on Windows, Powered by NVIDIA RTX
As local models become more capable, AI agents can handle more work directly on a PC while keeping sensitive information on the device. Portable Computer is a local version of the agent Perplexity Computer that plans and carries out multistep tasks. Accelerated by NVIDIA GPUs, it uses local models to analyze data, bring together information […]
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 moreTrump Joins Huang Onstage as Nvidia Chief Dismisses AI Panic at All-In Summit
Trump and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang used the All-In Summit to push a pro-growth message on the AI race as safety worries intensified. The post Trump Joins Huang Onstage as Nvidia Chief Dismisses AI Panic at All-In Summit appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
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, opinion
Former DeepMind Employee Calls for International Limits on AI Training Compute
Alex Turner’s new essay argues that voluntary pledges cannot restrain a race toward more capable AI, and urges governments to track and limit the computing power used to train it.
Read moreTags: hardware, ai_safety
Jensen Huang’s Trump Call Put Nvidia’s AI Power on Display — and Apple’s New Foldable, Too
Jensen Huang’s Trump call at All-In spotlighted AI safety politics, Nvidia’s clout and Apple’s unreleased foldable phone. The post Jensen Huang’s Trump Call Put Nvidia’s AI Power on Display — and Apple’s New Foldable, Too appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
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