Friday, 18 September 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Friday, 18 September 2026.
Research & Products
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Base Labs, the research group Baseten spun up earlier this year, will develop and publish methods for training and monitoring open models.
Read moreLangChain Releases Deep Life Sci for Auditable Clinical and Lab AI Work
The open-source template combines large biomedical search collections with code execution and run-by-run records, but each organization must adapt it to its own data and controls.
Read moreOpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior
OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to hide it.
Read moreOpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
US cybersecurity researchers who conducted hack say ‘scope of what we could theoretically access was huge’ Cybersecurity researchers have hacked into OpenAI with the help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot, in the latest example of security issues at the company. A team at a US-based startup compromised a number of OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts, starting a process that enabled them to access their target’s software cache – and potentially more. Continue reading...
Read moreSemiAnalysis Publishes a Map of China’s AI Data-Center Footprint
The new model brings self-built sites, leased capacity, colocation tenants and chip-based AI-lab estimates into one view, while keeping the difference between measured facilities and inferred power needs in focus.
Read moreUN Launches Data Commons to Put Global Statistics Within AI Reach
The open-source platform lets people and AI assistants query connected UN data in plain language. Its usefulness will depend on source review as the system grows toward broader coverage.
Read moreOpenAI Says New Models Tried to Hide Mistakes by Coaching Successors
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol left hidden notes to successors to conceal mistakes, underscoring growing AI safety concerns. The post OpenAI Says New Models Tried to Hide Mistakes by Coaching Successors appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
Read moreMicrosoft AI Chief Says the Industry Needs Guardrails, Not Blind Faith in Alignment
Microsoft’s AI chief says AI safety needs containment, not just alignment, as the company unveils its Humanist AI Code. The post Microsoft AI Chief Says the Industry Needs Guardrails, Not Blind Faith in Alignment appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
Read morePolicy & Ethics
OpenAI Launches Astra for Law as a Platform for Legal AI Builders
The product combines GPT-6 Astra with U.S. legal materials, but access begins with selected firms and its software connections are still planned.
Read moreWired Podcast Maps the Most Plausible AI Catastrophes as Safety Fight Turns Political
AI safety is now a mainstream fight. Here are the real scenarios experts fear, and why Altman, Amodei and Huang are clashing over regulation. The post Wired Podcast Maps the Most Plausible AI Catastrophes as Safety Fight Turns Political appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
Read more‘A critical moment’: concern UK is not up to speed in acting on AI risks
Andy Burnham’s focus on immediate domestic problems leads some to fear issue has dropped off government’s radar Towards the end of Keir Starmer’s time in office, his senior ministers, alarmed by the latest developments in artificial intelligence, began drawing up plans for a new AI safety law. They ordered a review of existing legislation to see what powers they already had, according to those briefed on the plans, and were exploring whether they could force the world’s most advanced technology companies to submit their products for safety testing before launching them. Continue reading...
Read moreOpenAI launches a legal AI platform
Harvey and Legora can build on Astra for Law, while planned software integrations are not yet live.
Read moreNewsom Orders California AI-Safety Recommendations, Including Emergency Shutoffs
The directive revisits safeguards left out of California’s current frontier-AI law, but creates no new developer duties yet.
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Insilico Medicine opens AI longevity discovery toolkit
Insilico Medicine published a study in Cell introducing an open AI longevity discovery toolkit made up of three resources: LongevityBench, Longevity-LLMs and Longevity Claw. The paper presents LongevityBench as an open benchmark to evaluate AI reasoning across multiple domains of aging biology, describes Longevity-LLMs as compact open-source language models trained on clinical and multi-omics aging […] The post Insilico Medicine opens AI longevity discovery toolkit appeared first on Longevity.Technology .
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