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Friday, September 18, 2026
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★ Must ReadGoogle DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate

The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. "They will not always agree, and they will likely change their minds, as more data and information comes to light at the fast-moving frontier.

Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
The Verge AI

Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. It should come as no surprise that Mustafa has strong opinions on how AI should be built and regulated.

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Don’t Sleep on the BRICS AI Open Source Community
Interconnects

The world is barreling toward another US-China summit with a bilateral AI dialogue possibly happening this weekend.

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★ Must ReadLiability, regulation, and AI’s new false dichotomy

Gary Marcus — Liability, regulation, and AI’s new false dichotomy

[AINews] Reality Checks on AI News (Yegge shuts down Gas Town, Databricks’ +60% Astra cost)

A dash of cold water keeps the foomers away.

Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?

Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game — and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.

ChessLFM: 2000 Elo in 230M params

Maxime Labonne — ChessLFM: 2000 Elo in 230M params

True Positive Weekly #177

The most important artificial intelligence and machine learning news and articles

LAI #143: DeepSeek V4.1 Flash, Tested

Plus, prompt caching, smarter LLM routing, agent context, and shared research budgets.

★ Must Read[AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, as Xai, OpenAI, and Anthropic all cosign

Latent Space — [AINews] AEF-1 standard emerges for Third Party Evaluators, ...

Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
Aditya Mehta, TechCrunch AI
The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
Maxwell Zeff, WIRED AI
Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
Nilay Patel, The Verge AI