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Brief 3 min read 28 stories from 7 sources

The Download · A brief history of AI executives calling for regulation

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    The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for September 16, 2026 — 21 more stories from 7 outlets, untouched.

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  1. We don’t need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang says TechCrunch
  2. The AI data center boom is colliding with cities scarred by big industry TechCrunch
  3. Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers Ars Technica
  4. AI ‘Actor’ Tilly Norwood Told Me That ‘All Lives Matter’ Wired
  5. Roundtables: Could AI really kill us all? MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  6. Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again? Hugging Face
  7. Meta’s new One subscriptions put a price on social media and AI The Verge
  8. This doorbell camera lets a human security guard watch your front door The Verge
  9. The Download: AI doomers, whistleblowing agents, and de-aged livers MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  10. Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost Ars Technica
  11. AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop Ars Technica
  12. OpenAI stuck fighting Musk antitrust suit after Apple finds a way out Ars Technica
  13. New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites Wired
  14. Responsible AI for Higher Education IEEE Spectrum · webinars.on24.com
  15. How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  16. Adversarial Fashion Confronts Surveillance Norms IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  17. Why Andon Labs Puts AI Agents in Charge of Real Businesses IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  18. AI Leaders Are Calling for a Slowdown. Trump’s Team Says It’s on Them Wired
  19. Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL Hugging Face
  20. Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow Hugging Face
  21. Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic Hugging Face
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