Daily Digest

Tuesday, 29 September 2026

This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Tuesday, 29 September 2026.

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Research & Products

When can we say AI made a scientific discovery?

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last Wednesday, Anthropic announced that earlier this year it had launched a molecular biology lab, where Claude agents read and conjecture about hard biology problems and human scientists run experiments on what…

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Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be cheaper to run as well. Here are some pelicans riding bicycles . Sonnet 5.5 suffered from the same bug as Opus 5.5 : the "max" thinking effort pelican thought for 128,000 tokens (at a cost of $1.28) before running out of tokens and failing to produce an SVG. Here's the pelican it gave me for thinking effort "xhigh", at a cost of 5.74 cents and taking 41 seconds: Sonnet 5.5...

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Policy & Ethics

AI godfathers warn of runaway ‘intelligence explosion’

OpenAI chief scientist also among authors of report on prospect of ‘most consequential technological development in history’ Two of the “godfathers” of modern AI and senior executives at OpenAI and Anthropic have warned governments to prepare for an AI “intelligence explosion”, which they say could be the most consequential technological development in history. A report co-authored by the Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton and the Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio , considered godfathers of modern AI for their work in the field, urges politicians to act now before there is runaway...

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Tags: hardware, ai_agents

Industry

Tags: hardware, open_source

Nvidia Rolls Out Open-Source Security Tools to Contain Rogue AI Agents

Nvidia is releasing open-source AI security tools to sandbox rogue agents, monitor behavior, and help companies contain autonomous software. The post Nvidia Rolls Out Open-Source Security Tools to Contain Rogue AI Agents appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .

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