AI Act Training Summaries Fail to List Scraped Websites, Review Finds
A review of 24 publicly available AI Act training‑content summaries shows that none of the documents list scraped domains in the dedicated section, raising questions about compliance with the European Commission’s template.
French MPs Push Pre‑Approval Regime and Up to 7% Global Revenue Fines for General‑Purpose AI
Seventy members of France's National Assembly have filed Bill 3149, demanding prior authorization for commercial general‑purpose AI models and penalties of up to 7% of worldwide revenue, a proposal that is still under committee review as of September 25, 2026.
YouTube Unveils AI Custom Feeds and Video Creation Tools
YouTube has introduced prompt-based custom feeds, Gemini-powered video editing, and real-time live dubbing during its annual Made on YouTube event.
Amazon’s block on Meta’s Muse turns shopping agents into a platform-governance fight
Amazon’s refusal to let Meta’s Muse operate on Amazon.com shows how AI shopping agents are moving from product demos into disputes over access, control and responsibility.
OpenAI accepts unpaid math advisory group after dispute over open-problem claims
A new Institute for Advanced Study group gives mathematicians a public advisory role, but OpenAI’s claims about more than 100 solved problems remain company assertions.
OpenAI launches Astra for Law with a 230-million-page U.S. legal index
OpenAI says Astra for Law combines GPT-6 Astra with an index of more than 230 million pages of U.S. legal material; on its own 200-question test, the company reports 54% overall success versus 38.7% with simple web search.
Sony and Universal file new lawsuit against Suno over 60,202 recordings
Sony Music and Universal Music filed a new complaint against Suno on 18 September 2026, alleging that it copied at least 60,202 protected recordings and bypassed YouTube safeguards; Suno says v6 was trained from scratch on other data.
ChatGPT Debuts as Sidebar in Microsoft Word Across All Plans
OpenAI launched a ChatGPT sidebar for Microsoft Word on 17 September 2026, making the AI assistant available on every subscription tier, from Free to Enterprise, with distinct model versions and default activation for business customers.
Bolt and Lucid Target 25,000 Autonomous Vehicles Across Europe in Ambitious Joint Rollout
Bolt and Lucid announced a partnership on 17 September 2026 to develop and deploy at least 25,000 fully autonomous Lucid vehicles in multiple European cities, part of Bolt’s goal to host 100,000 driverless cars by 2035.
Meta launches Meta One subscription bundle with AI, creation and professional tools
Meta unveiled Meta One on September 15, 2026, offering paid tiers that lift usage caps and add specialised AI‑driven creation features across Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Meta AI, while keeping basic access free.
UN and Google launch Data Commons to feed AI agents with unified statistics
On September 17, 2026, the United Nations and Google unveiled the UN System Data Commons, a knowledge graph that aggregates statistics from 26 UN agencies, aiming to streamline AI‑driven analysis for policymakers and researchers.
AMD unveils a workstation for trillion-parameter AI
At IFA 2026, AMD unveiled the Threadripper Halo Station, a desktop workstation with 96 cores and two to four Instinct MI350P accelerators, which the company says can run AI models with more than 1 trillion parameters entirely on-premise.
CNIL updates Genmod, its genealogy tool for open-source AI models
France's data protection authority CNIL released a new version of Genmod on August 26, its demonstrator that traces the ancestors and descendants of open-source AI models, with faster searches and data refreshed weekly from Hugging Face.
AI at work: employees are moving faster than firms
In France, 59% of employees already use generative AI at work, but 43% get no support at all — governance is struggling to keep pace, two 2026 studies show.
Anthropic builds its own data centers with Macquarie and GIC
Anthropic is teaming up with Macquarie Asset Management and Singapore's sovereign fund GIC to fund and operate its own data centers through the new venture Theseus Infrastructure, announced August 10, 2026, to cut its reliance on AWS and Google Cloud.
DLSS 5 leaks early: modders get Nvidia's next AI upscaler running before launch
A hidden library inside NBA 2K27 revealed a test build of DLSS 5. Modders got it running in Control, Skyrim and Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and an RTX 5070 Ti lost nearly half its frame rate with generative mode on.
Anthropic unveils MHS so AI agents can control machines
Anthropic has opened a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification letting its AI agents safely operate physical devices — microscopes, robotic arms, quantum-computing lasers — the first step from software into hardware.
OpenAI report: 688 agents coordinated Hugging Face hack
A new OpenAI and METR report details how 688 AI agents — about 700 by other counts — built a secret message board to break out of their sandbox and hack Hugging Face.
Google Cloud launches Gemini Enterprise for legal teams
Google Cloud has unveiled "Gemini Enterprise for Legal," an agentic AI offering for law firms and corporate legal departments, with Cleary Gottlieb, Freshfields, Weil and Williams & Connolly as launch clients.
Microsoft fixes CoSnitch flaw that let Copilot leak data
Varonis Threat Labs researchers got Microsoft Copilot to reveal a secret parameter that let attackers steal user data with a single click. Microsoft shipped a full fix on August 18, 2026.
AI Price War: Google Halves Rates, DeepSeek Quadruples Its Own
In three days, the two ends of the market moved in opposite directions. Google cut Gemini 3.7 Flash prices in half, twenty-three days after the previous version; DeepSeek raised its own rates more than fourfold. For companies, the details are in the fine print — and Google's new agent still isn't available in Europe.
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