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Forget the AI Slowdown · Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

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    Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening

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    Everyday life 1 source

    Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It

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    Money 1 source

    A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI

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    Research 1 source

    Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

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    Rules & power 1 source

    AI hallucination of Chinese nuclear components almost led to US military attack

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    Builders 1 source

    US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"

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Everything else that day

The rest of the wire for September 19, 2026 — 22 more stories from 7 outlets, untouched.

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  1. Join the WIRED World Fair in Miami on November 4 Wired
  2. India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos TechCrunch
  3. Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI TechCrunch
  4. OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web The Verge
  5. Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced Wired
  6. FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion Ars Technica
  7. Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers The Verge
  8. Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch The Verge
  9. What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings The Verge
  10. Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI Ars Technica
  11. The Download: AI’s extinction risk and bioweapons threat MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  12. Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered. MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  13. The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  14. The Download: mice with part-human brains and climate tech innovators MIT Tech Review · technologyreview.com
  15. Rethinking Robot Safety in the Age of AI IEEE Spectrum · spectrum.ieee.org
  16. Single-Phase Direct Liquid Cooling Is Proven for the Next Decade of Ultra-Dense Compute IEEE Spectrum · content.knowledgehub.wiley.com
  17. Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again? Hugging Face
  18. Responsible AI for Higher Education IEEE Spectrum · webinars.on24.com
  19. How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip 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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