Saturday, 19 September 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Saturday, 19 September 2026.
Research & Products
LangChain 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 ‘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 moreGoogle says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-security firm Irregular. Irregular, an Israel-based startup that scrutinizes the security of advanced AI systems, was also at the center of some of the recent OpenAI and Anthropic hacks of third-party entities, including OpenAI’s breach of AI software company, Hugging Face. Continue reading...
Read moreJina AI Releases Document Parser, Claims 2.57 Pages Per Second
The open-weight model combines speculative decoding with API access, while its reported results point to damaged scans as a practical limitation.
Read moreAnthropic picks Accenture unit as its first in-house safety evaluator, signaling a new model for AI oversight
Anthropic named Accenture’s Faculty as its first embedded evaluator, a major AI safety move that could reshape how frontier models are reviewed. The post Anthropic picks Accenture unit as its first in-house safety evaluator, signaling a new model for AI oversight appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
Read morePolicy & Ethics
‘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 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.
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 moreNYC Council Calls AI Safety Hearing and Warns Companies of Subpoenas
The Oct. 5 session will put company safeguards, misuse and possible city legislation before all 51 Council members. Whether the companies appear voluntarily remains unsettled.
Read moreAI Industry Money Flows Into South Dakota Senate Race as Data Center Fight Heats Up
AI PAC spending is pouring into Mike Rounds’s South Dakota race as tech donors eye regulation, data centers and Senate influence. The post AI Industry Money Flows Into South Dakota Senate Race as Data Center Fight Heats Up appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
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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 .
Read moreIndustry
Anthropic Partners With Accenture on Employee-Like AI Safety Reviews
The partnership promises unusually deep scrutiny of model development, but the evaluator’s company-funded role arrives before standards for access, reporting or independence exist.
Read moreFulcra Brings Universal Multiplayer to Any Agents You Choose
The Instinct-to-Instinct model that is the talk of Silicon Valley presents too small a future for personal AI. With Fulcra’s multiplayer capabilities, people can get agent to agent collaboration without having to lock-in to any AI model. BOSTON, September 18, 2026 — Fulcra Dynamics, the company behind the best user-owned context backend for AI agents, […] The post Fulcra Brings Universal Multiplayer to Any Agents You Choose appeared first on AI News .
Read moreTags: ai_safety
Is Trump’s AI obsession walking the world into disaster? – podcast
Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and the creation of formal guardrails from the US government. But why is President Trump unmoved by the doomsday predictions, dismissing them as a ‘hoax’? What lies behind his embrace of the AI industry? Jonathan Freedland speaks to the Guardian US tech editor, Blake Montgomery Watch Jonathan Freedland on our new Politics Weekly YouTube channel Send your questions and feedback to politicsweeklyamerica@theguardian.com Listen to the latest season of Black Box Continue reading...
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