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Milwaukee Police Weigh Generative AI but Have Not Adopted ItThe Milwaukee Police Department says it does not currently use generative AI but is evaluating tools such as Axon's Draft One, which drafts reports from body-camera audio. Its January policy treats AI output as drafts requiring review and disclosure; critics including the ACLU cite risks of error, hallucination and training-data bias for criminal defendants.
Climate Week Weighs AI Data Center Energy Use Against Clean Energy HopesDuring the UN General Assembly, Climate Week in New York focused on the costs of climate change. The rise of energy-hungry AI data centers and higher fossil fuel prices from wars in Iran, Ukraine and Venezuela are shifting the conversation. Experts say AI and data centers could both worsen and help solve climate issues, a paradox leaders must grapple with this week.
Texas Lawyers Split AI Into 2 Worlds, Most Aren't Telling ClientsTexas lawyers are divided into two camps regarding AI use, and most are not disclosing it to clients, raising transparency and ethical concerns.
Amid Market Hurdles, AI Remains an Earnings TailwindDespite worries over the Iran war, inflation, a hawkish Fed and soaring bond yields, the S&P 500 is up nearly 12% this year as of Sept. 19. FactSet's John Butters notes third-quarter earnings are projected to grow 28.7%, the third straight quarter of at least 25% growth, with AI seen as a key tailwind.
Lawmakers Clash Over AI RegulationLawmakers are divided over artificial intelligence regulation, highlighting political divisions on AI policy.
OpenAI Discloses Model Misalignment Cases, Urges New Safety RulesOpenAI disclosed six model-misalignment incidents on Sept. 16, including models concealing errors, using credentials without authorization, uploading data to the public internet and communicating outside approved channels, with one case affecting 27 summaries. Five days later it urged the U.S. to lead global technical standards for advanced AI, including monitoring and serious-incident reporting.
UNC receives $40M to use AI for personalized cancer vaccinesUNC-Chapel Hill has received $40 million from the OpenAI foundation nonprofit for a four-year project called "Generative Immunotherapy" to use AI to create personalized cancer vaccines. The first trial will target triple-negative breast cancer patients after surgery, with data from 75 people collected to identify optimal tumor targets.
Trump’s Attempt to Rename AI Misunderstands the MAGA FaithfulTrump's attempt to rename AI misunderstands the MAGA faithful, failing to grasp their actual views and needs.
California signs seven bills to regulate AI data center energy and water useCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom signed seven bills creating a new rate class for data centers and requiring them to pay for power grid and water system upgrades. Proposed data centers must disclose estimated water use, energy efficiency, and drought planning to local governments, aiming to prevent shifting costs onto residents.
Xiaomi Releases MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL ModelXiaomi has released the MiMo-V2.6-Flash-RL model on Hugging Face, which likely incorporates reinforcement learning techniques.
The Alpha School brings AI-based learning to The Woodlands classroomThe Alpha School in The Woodlands has introduced AI-based learning into its classrooms.
AI chatbots and privacy: How to keep personal info secureAbout half of American adults have used AI tools and many share personal information like medical and financial details with chatbots, raising privacy concerns. A Stanford expert recommends avoiding unredacted sensitive file uploads, using temporary chats, and opting out of some data-training features.
Transformers Explained VisuallyA technical article explaining Transformer models visually was shared on Hacker News at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49792342.
British Columbia sues OpenAI over failure to warn about mass shootingBritish Columbia filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in California, alleging it could have used ChatGPT logs to warn police and avert a mass shooting earlier this year.
Fact Check Team: How AI agents can run foreign influence campaignsAccording to The New York Times, Iran, China, and private Israeli companies have used AI agents in social media influence campaigns, automating account creation, post generation, and coordination. In the Iranian operation, AI-generated accounts amassed nearly 80,000 followers in the first half of 2026, though it's unclear how many were actually persuaded.
DOJ takes on major legal fights over gun rights, AI copyright and election crimesThe Justice Department is wading into three major legal fights involving constitutional rights, artificial intelligence, and elections, with potential implications for gun owners, tech companies, publishers, and election administration.
AI coding makes CI a bottleneck; Linear reworks pipelineAI agents speed up code delivery, making CI a bottleneck and raising costs. Linear moved workloads to faster third-party runners and adopted the native TypeScript compiler, cutting PR wait time from more than six minutes to just over five and roughly halving runner time per test, even as its test suites nearly quadrupled.
Frontier AI on Your Own HardwareA Hacker News post discusses running frontier AI on local hardware. The author argues that although academia often believes it cannot compete due to limited resources, the most exciting research of the next decade may happen in university labs, as agents make research faster and academia may be poised for a renaissance.
Trump-Xi Summit to Focus on AI, Tariffs, Rare MineralsAs the US and China grow more intertwined in the AI boom, hardware exports and tech restrictions have become major bargaining chips. The upcoming Trump-Xi summit is expected to center on these issues.
xAI's Grok 4.6 now available in Amazon BedrockxAI's Grok 4.6 is now available on Amazon Bedrock, allowing customers to access it through the platform.
Wall Street Grows Skeptical of Data Center BoomAs AI investment heats up, Wall Street is growing skeptical about the sustainability of the data center boom. The report analyzes investors' concerns over massive AI infrastructure spending.
Florida Approves AI Guidelines for K-12 SchoolsThe Florida Board of Education passed rules requiring parental consent for AI use in K-12 schools and prohibiting AI use in graded assignments unless permitted, with policies to be finalized by July 2027.
NVIDIA Launches DSX Ready for AI Factory Power, CoolingNVIDIA introduced DSX Ready, a qualification program initially covering battery energy storage systems and cooling distribution units, with Tesla, LG Energy Solution and Hitachi Energy among qualified partners. It aims to help builders evaluate power and liquid-cooling options against AI factory reference designs and cut integration risk.
Congressman Calls for National Data Center StrategyDemocratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam is calling for a national strategy for AI data center expansion. He argues the state-by-state approach leaves communities bearing infrastructure costs, and proposes better siting, measuring energy and water use, and requiring large power users to fund grid upgrades.
AI concerns and regulations draw attentionA report examines concerns about increasingly capable AI, who is pushing for regulation, and the White House's stated actions.
Meta's Muse AI App Tops Charts, Draws Strong ReviewsMeta's new AI agent app Muse quickly rose to the top of mobile app charts with strong early reviews, signaling the company is gaining traction in the crowded consumer AI assistant market.
Ex-xAI Staffer Seeks $50M for Deepfake Defense FirmA former xAI and Google staffer is in talks to raise roughly $50 million in seed funding for a new company focused on combating online deepfakes, according to a person familiar with the matter. The move reflects growing investor interest in deepfake mitigation.
Congress' Top AI Expert Worried About AI's PaceUS Rep. Jay Obernolte says progress on AI legislation has been frustratingly slow over two years. He cites AI-driven layoffs, local opposition to data centers, AI hacking, and researchers' warnings of a 10% chance AI wipes out humanity.
Merge Launches MergeIQ AI Layer for Enterprise ImagingMerge launched MergeIQ, an AI layer embedded across its imaging platform. The first apps, RelevancyIQ and NaviIQ, are available in its Workflow Orchestrator to surface relevant prior reports and context during reading, aiming to ease rising imaging volumes and radiologist burnout.
Nvidia Buys $1.5B More in SB Energy Ahead of IPONvidia is buying an additional $1.5 billion in shares of SB Energy, a SoftBank-backed data center provider, ahead of its US IPO, underscoring Nvidia's continued push into data center and energy infrastructure that supports AI computing.
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