AI News This Week

September 14–September 20, 2026 · The most important AI developments from the past 7 days

This week in AI: 6 episodes covering top stories from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Microsoft, and more. Each day distilled into a free 5-minute briefing.

Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a 'doom loop' for the web
Trump wants to rebrand AI and is creating an 'AI Force'

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Hackers used Claude to break into OpenAI in 72 hours
AI hallucination nearly triggers a US military operation
AI actress Tilly Norwood glitches, starts speaking Chinese on camera

Full transcript · Blog post

Meta preps camera-free glasses after 'perv glasses' backlash
Google lets AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT control your home
Al Gore says AI's real risk isn't data centers

Full transcript · Blog post

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind held secret AI safety talks for weeks
US data centers could burn more gas than Germany and Japan combined by 2035
Salesforce and Nvidia's new Koa model has AI labs worried

Full transcript · Blog post

Jensen Huang puts Trump on speakerphone, vows no AI slowdown
AI bots named Timmy, Ren, and Jackie flood social media with spam
OpenAI buys iPhone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300 million

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Trump and Mike Johnson dismiss AI industry's call to slow down
Trump administration eases pollution rules to speed AI data centers
Perplexity hands GPT-6 Astra near-total control of its systems

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