September 2026 - Page 18 of 29

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Microsoft AI Privacy Rules Skip One Crucial Word: Copilot

Microsoft AI privacy rules for American classrooms stopped being a promise and became a signed contract on 7 September 2026, when Brad Smith and Randi Weingarten put their names on a 31-page Memorandum of Agreement. Two days later the American Federation of Teachers, the United Federation of Teachers and Microsoft announced it as the National […]

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Superintelligence Is Coming. Should We Let It? The Superintelligence Ban Campaign Defines It Five Different Ways

Superintelligence ban advocacy got its biggest mainstream platform of the year on 9 September 2026, when TechCrunch published an Equity podcast episode titled “Superintelligence is coming. Should we let it?” The guest was Connor Leahy, founder of EleutherAI and of the AI safety startup Conjecture, and now the US lead at ControlAI — a non-profit […]

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AI Distillation: Essential Facts on the Risky US Warning

AI distillation is the subject of a joint advisory published on 8 September 2026 by the National Security Agency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Catalogued as AA26-251A, it names six Chinese companies — DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI — and accuses them of extracting “billions […]

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Sequoia Doubled Down on Cymphony for AI Agent Security. Cymphony’s Own Blog Says “AI Agent” Zero Times

Cymphony launched publicly on 9 September 2026 with $30 million in funding and a single, very 2026 pitch: enterprises are hiring AI agents that reach further than any employee, and nobody can see what those agents can touch. Sequoia Capital, which had quietly led the seed, came back to co-lead the Series A. TechCrunch broke […]

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Instacart Launched Clementine to Millions of Shoppers. Its Consumer Pages Never Say “Model”

Instacart Clementine arrived on 9 September 2026 as the company’s first consumer-facing AI grocery shopping assistant, available immediately to most customers across the United States and Canada. The pitch is disarmingly simple: type “I need a week of budget-friendly kid lunches” and get a ready-to-buy cart. TechCrunch, Engadget, Forbes, Modern Retail and the WSJ all […]

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Suno v6 Licensed Music: The Crucial Word Missing

Suno v6 licensed music was the story every headline told on 9 September 2026. Engadget: “Suno trained its v6 AI music models with help from Warner and BMG.” TechCrunch: “Suno replaces its AI models with a new one trained on licensed music as copyright suits pile up.” Reuters, Billboard, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter ran […]

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