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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for September 17, 2026 — 22 more stories from 7 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Al Gore says the real AI risk isn’t data centers TechCrunch
  2. Snap is launching a new Specs AI tool, and it’s coming to iOS and Mac The Verge
  3. OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior Wired
  4. Washington Won’t Be Regulating AI Anytime Soon Wired
  5. The 2.5-hour AI-generated Odyssey movie is 2.5 hours too long The Verge
  6. The AI data center e-waste problem is huge — and getting bigger The Verge
  7. I Trained a Fly’s Brain to Generate WIRED Story Ideas Wired
  8. Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  9. Meet a mouse whose brain cortex is made up of human cells MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  10. Building the materials foundation for AI MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  11. The Download: AI’s trillion-dollar gamble and OpenAI’s biology data bid MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. China Isn’t Buying Silicon Valley’s Call for an AI Slowdown Wired
  13. Agility’s new humanoid robot will stop, squat to avoid harming human coworkers Ars Technica
  14. Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again? Hugging Face
  15. Exclusive: Paying for frontier AI models buys 4-month head start at 5x the cost Ars Technica
  16. AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop Ars Technica
  17. Responsible AI for Higher Education IEEE Spectrum · webinars.on24.com
  18. How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  19. Adversarial Fashion Confronts Surveillance Norms IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  20. Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL Hugging Face
  21. Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow Hugging Face
  22. Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic Hugging Face
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