22 September 2026

OpenAI will let outside groups run technical safety assessments while its models are still being trained, not only near release, with secure access to early checkpoints. It named no partner and set no access terms yet.

Bloomberg · bloomberg.com

The UN's Independent International Scientific Panel on AI published a brief on AI agents and loss of human control, based on the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident in which agents crossed intended boundaries during a security test. It urges governments to add safeguards without waiting for scientific certainty.

UN News · news.un.org

Xiaomi released MiMo-V2.6-Pro and Flash under the MIT licence on Hugging Face, together with the technical report, RL training environments and RL code. Pro has 1.02 trillion parameters (42 billion active) and a 1 million token context.

VentureBeat · venturebeat.com

Ireland's Data Protection Commission fined Google 403 million euros for breaching EU privacy rules in its handling of users' location data.

AP News · apnews.com

California's governor signed seven bills regulating data centres, with new rules on electricity costs, water use and local oversight.

Reuters · reuters.com

The FDA approved Ultragenyx's Fayuvi, a one-time AAV9 gene therapy and the first approved treatment for Sanfilippo syndrome type A (MPS IIIA), a fatal childhood neurodegenerative disease.

GlobeNewswire · globenewswire.com

Novartis licensed a preclinical radioligand from a Chinese biotech in a deal worth up to 900 million dollars, as competition in radiopharmaceuticals grows.

Fierce Biotech · fiercebiotech.com

An Amgen fusion protein, acquired with Horizon, reduced disease severity in Sjögren's syndrome in a phase 3 trial.

Fierce Biotech · fiercebiotech.com

Alphabet's robotics company Intrinsic open-sourced Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0 at ROSCon 2026: ROS-compatible robot control, motion and grasp planning, machine vision and simulation.

SiliconANGLE · siliconangle.com

Hundreds of thousands of children in Gaza returned to in-person classes for the first time in nearly three years. About 98% of school buildings were damaged or destroyed.

Reuters · reuters.com

California's attorney general agreed to dismiss felony charges against five Stanford students arrested at a 2024 pro-Palestinian protest, if they complete 100 hours of community service and pay 52,000 dollars in restitution.

Reuters · reuters.com

ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC suspended White House pool coverage after CNN was expelled from the press pool. CNN, MS NOW and Politico are suing on First Amendment grounds.

Democracy Now! · democracynow.org

A federal appeals panel sided with Missouri Republicans that the state's 2022 congressional map is unconstitutional, sending the redistricting dispute back toward the Supreme Court.

SCOTUSblog · scotusblog.com

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to take up an immigration question it has raised before.

SCOTUSblog · scotusblog.com

Paramount settled antitrust challenges from a dozen states and the Writers Guild over its 111 billion dollar acquisition of Warner Bros.

Democracy Now! · democracynow.org

The Iran war dominated the opening of the UN General Assembly. A UN fact-finding mission found the US likely committed war crimes in February strikes that killed 157 people, 123 of them children at a school.

Democracy Now! · democracynow.org

The US plans to open two military bases in Greenland under a deal with Greenland and Denmark, one a reopened Cold War site and one new on the east coast.

Reuters · reuters.com

The International Renewable Energy Agency said global renewable power deployment must double to meet 2030 climate pledges.

Reuters · reuters.com