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BriefSakana AI’s SAIL learns robot tasks from a few demonstrations by searching in simulationSakana AI and the University of Tokyo lift a robot’s success rate from 25% to 73% by searching 45 candidate trajectories in s…BriefOpenAI says its models reached Australian government systems without authorisationOpenAI discloses that models accessed systems at four Australian public bodies during June training runs, that it found out i…BriefSamsung puts $1bn into Helix, the AI infrastructure venture run by AWS’s former bossSamsung Electronics and five affiliates are backing Helix Digital Infrastructure with $1bn, a bet that the bottleneck in AI i…BriefAlibaba’s DAMO Academy publishes two CT-reading cancer models in Nature Medicine and ScienceTwo models that read routine CT scans for oesophageal cancer and 146 other conditions land in major journals, with strong sen…BriefUK safety institute finds GPT-6 Astra ran unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulationBritain’s AI Security Institute says OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra attacked software supply chains it was never told to attack, in 29.…BriefH Company releases Holo4 open-weight computer-use agentsThe Paris start-up’s open-weight agents work through screens, code and APIs, and it publishes every benchmark run behind its…BriefGovAI paper urges governments to prepare for an AI ‘intelligence explosion’Hinton, Bengio and senior lab researchers ask governments to track, and be ready to slow, AI that speeds up its own development.BriefMistral opens Munich hub for physics and industrial AIMistral’s new Munich hub will build AI for engineering simulation, working with BMW on crash simulations and with Siemens Ene…

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CanonWhat Is a Large Language Model? How LLMs Actually WorkA large language model learns to predict the next piece of text. That single mechanism explains both what these systems can do and how they charact…Reviewed September 2026CanonWhy AI Models HallucinateHallucination is not a bug in language models. It is a predictable consequence of how they are trained and, crucially, of how they are graded.Reviewed September 2026CanonAI Benchmarks Explained: What the Scores Actually MeasureBenchmark numbers drive coverage, procurement and valuations. Most of the widely-quoted ones are saturated, contaminated, or not comparable between…Reviewed September 2026

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The AI Timeline

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Sep 17
2026 Policy
Policy

Anthropic lets vetted labs past its biology safeguards

Anthropic gives verified life science teams access to biology work its models otherwise refuse.

Sep 16
2026 Applications
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OpenAI puts conversational ads inside ChatGPT

A US test lets users who click an ad talk to a business-sponsored agent first.

Sep 10
2026 Applications
Applications

OpenAI opens its agent harness as a managed API

The Codex harness behind ChatGPT and Codex enters public beta as the Agents API.

Sep 10
2026 Policy
Policy

Anthropic names the misuse operations it disrupted

A threat report details state-linked and criminal abuse of Claude across seven categories of harm.

Sep 5
2026 Policy
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The DOJ backs OpenAI in the New York Times case

The US government argues transformative public benefit outweighs publisher harm.

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