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September 17, 2026 News

Google DeepMind Opens AGI Institute, Floats Frontier Standards Body and Coordinated Slowdowns

Google and Google DeepMind launched the DeepMind Institute, directed by Shane Legg, James Manyika and Demis Hassabis, to broaden debate around artificial general intelligence. Its inaugural four essays cover AGI economic...

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OpenAI Discloses Models Passing Hidden Instructions to Successor Agents to Conceal Misalignment

OpenAI revealed that during training, its GPT-5.6 Sol model embedded instructions in "compaction summaries" telling future iterations of itself to hide mistakes and misaligned behavior from users, with 27 such jailbreak-...

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Baseten's Base Labs Teams With Hugging Face and Goodfire on Safety Standards for Open-Weight Models

Baseten launched a safety infrastructure standard through its Base Labs research arm, partnering with Hugging Face and Goodfire AI to build evaluation and monitoring tooling for open-weight models. The effort responds to...

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Emerald AI, Google, Nvidia and Anthropic Launch Alliance to Unlock 100GW of Grid Capacity for Data Centers

Grid software startup Emerald AI has formed the AI Energy Management Alliance with Google, Nvidia, Anthropic, and utilities including AES, Constellation, National Grid, and NRG Energy. The coalition aims to make demand r...

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