AI news for 25 September 2026
Friday 25 September 2026 · Latentown
On Friday 25 September 2026, Latentown tracked 2 posts from 2 AI labs, 4 research papers and 45 news stories from 21 outlets. OpenAI was the busiest lab with 1 post. The highest-ranked story was "Aikido Security Releases Altar-1: An Open-Weight Security Model Pruned From GLM-5.3 to 328 GB".
Top stories
- Aikido Security Releases Altar-1: An Open-Weight Security Model Pruned From GLM-5.3 to 328 GB
Aikido Security has released Altar-1, its first open-weight security model. It is a compressed version of Z.AI’s GLM-5.3, built to run inside infrastructure the customer controls.
- Pentagon was right to slap Anthropic with a security supply chain risk label, federal court says
A federal appeals court has upheld the Pentagon's decision to bar Anthropic from military contracts. Defense Secretary Hegseth argues the company's safety restrictions could jeopardize military…
- DC appeals court sides with Pentagon on blacklist of Anthropic
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
- Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
- AI cloud and data center firm Nscale raises $3.36bn ahead of its IPO
Follows publication of IPO prospectus
From the AI labs
Anthropic
OpenAI
- Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex
With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.
Research papers
- Training Object Permanence in World Models
Object permanence and solidity are hallmarks of human cognitive priors.
- Your Transformer Can Hold Two Thoughts at Once: Evidence of Linear Superposition in LLMs
While Large Language Models (LLMs) rely on highly non-linear components, in this work we demonstrate that they exhibit fundamental linearity: when inputs from distinct text streams are linearly…
- WanPE: Towards Cinematic Prompt Enhancement for Modern Text-to-Video Generation
Video generation begins in text space by authoring a cinematic screenplay, then materializes into pixels.
- A kernel-centric path to real-time video generation on Trainium
Using the Neuron Kernel Interface, a Reactor–AWS collaboration tackled the dynamic shapes, memory access patterns, and cache management that make real-time autoregressive diffusion hard—building…
From the news wire
- Aikido Security Releases Altar-1: An Open-Weight Security Model Pruned From GLM-5.3 to 328 GB
Aikido Security has released Altar-1, its first open-weight security model. It is a compressed version of Z.AI’s GLM-5.3, built to run inside infrastructure the customer controls.
- Pentagon was right to slap Anthropic with a security supply chain risk label, federal court says
A federal appeals court has upheld the Pentagon's decision to bar Anthropic from military contracts. Defense Secretary Hegseth argues the company's safety restrictions could jeopardize military…
- DC appeals court sides with Pentagon on blacklist of Anthropic
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.
- Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features
"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say.
- AI cloud and data center firm Nscale raises $3.36bn ahead of its IPO
Follows publication of IPO prospectus
- Liquid AI Releases LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark: Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models With Up to 3.13x Faster Decoding
Liquid AI has released LFM2.5-VL-3B-DSpark, a 279.5M-parameter draft model that brings speculative decoding to its LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model. It delivers up to 3.13x faster decoding on…
- Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the company's new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.
- Applied Digital reveals $3.2bn Delta Forge 2 AI data center will be built in Alabama
Operations could start by 2028
- The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector
The US government wants to spend $30.3 million over the next five years on an improved form of lie detector, according to a Department of Defense budget request. The program, called Polygraph+ or…
- Microsoft overhauls Copilot with new coding, document editing features
Microsoft Corp. today launched a new version of Copilot, the artificial intelligence assistant included in its Microsoft 365 productivity suite. The biggest addition to the tool is an interface…
- Anthropic rolls out up to $250 in free Claude Code credits, but only for cloud sessions
Anthropic now allows you to run Claude Code via cloud sessions without signing up for the research preview, and it's offering up to $250 in free usage credits, so more users can give it a try. [...]
- Xi-Trump dinner puts US tech titans in spotlight – what does it mean for China ties?
If the American guests seated at the head table with President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump at Thursday’s White House state dinner were any indication, Washington now views its…
- Sony and UMG are suing Suno again
Sony and Universal Music Group filed yet another suit against Suno. The labels claim its new v6 model still infringes on their copyrights because it's trained on user outputs from previous models,…
- AI Love Song for Mistress Played at Murder Trial Is Most Excruciating Watch in Recent Memory
"One’s like a happy or upbeat sad song if that makes any sense, and one’s a sad, sad song. I think one’s in a minor key, one’s in a major key, but I’m not a music professional."
- Amazon to invest $100M in new Indiana manufacturing facility
The new facility will produce products that power Amazon's fulfillment and robotics network across North America.
- Another Google Deepmind researcher quits, says building superintelligent AI soon is "inherently irresponsible"
Google Deepmind researcher Robert O'Callahan has quit, saying AI's "current rate of change is far too high." He worked on chip design tools that helped make AI cheaper and faster, a contribution he…
- Elon Musk's SpaceXAI to add another 660,000 AI GPUs this year, nearing a total of 1.44 million in operation
Elon Musk says that the Colossus 2 will receive 220,000 GB300 GPUs by next week, with another two tranches of the same amount expected to arrive later this year. This will put the site at over a…
- DDR5 laptop memory prices surge 6X in 12 months
XMG noted that SO-DIMM prices have jumped 6x, with other components like PCBs, CPUs, and GPUs also facing increasing costs. This has forced the niche laptop manufacturer to bump their SRPs between…
- Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand
They wanted the silicon. They got the sand.
- Govt Mulls ₹20,000 Cr Fund To Power Frontier AI, Compute Ecosystem: Report
The Centre is considering an anchor investment of ₹15,000 Cr to ₹20,000 Cr in a proposed fund aimed at supporting…
- Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
- Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic…
- Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"
Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding.
- Meta makes the Muse filesystem even more accessible
Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and appeared…
- Microsoft packages business AI in single app as it tries to compete with Anthropic
With Microsoft still searching for a winning AI strategy, the company its updating its Copilot app to combine more capabilities.
- OpenAI is preparing a $500 ChatGPT Pro Max plan with faster Codex
OpenAI appears to be preparing a new ChatGPT Pro Max subscription that could cost $500 per month, but it's unclear when it'll begin rolling out. [...]
- Perplexity Trains Its Computer Agent on Real Mistakes With Hint-Guided Self-Distillation
Perplexity Research published a new post-training study. It trains a model inside Perplexity Computer on real user sessions, including failed ones.
- Pine Labs, Google Cloud partner to expand agentic commerce to merchants
Pine Labs has partnered with Google Cloud to build AI tools for merchant advertising, customer support and payments. It is also developing Jarvis, a platform to help merchants manage operations.
- China overtakes US as top workplace for elite AI researchers, study finds
For China’s elite artificial intelligence researchers, Silicon Valley no longer holds the unrivalled appeal it once did. A growing number are opting to stay home to build their careers, helping…
- How recent grads and college students should be thinking about AI, the CV, and the job market
It is getting harder for college students and recent graduates to be seen in the job market as AI is used as a hiring tool and demanded by employers as a skill.
- Bessent won’t be the ‘super intelligence’ czar, Trump says
Trump’s comments come amid rumors that the Treasury secretary could be tapped to lead the administration’s AI efforts.
- AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.
"There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring.”
- General Robotics is betting on modular intelligence, not one robot brain
Rather than training one model to do everything, General Robotics composes specialized capabilities—helping robots adapt across tasks and form factors.
- T-Mobile US expands AI network service
AutoPilot aids T-Mobile's self-organizing network efforts
- Behind the Blog: Did you notice?
This week, we discuss some small changes, an AI song, and internet soup.
- Agility Robotics, maker of Digit humanoid, exploring wheeled robots
Agility Robotics is exploring a range of robot designs and form factors, including wheels, to address different operating environments and customer needs.
- How Enterprises Are Building Robust Infra Backbone For AI At Scale
After the proliferation of AI adoption, enterprise India has started to ask whether its infrastructure is robust enough to survive…
- China and the US are racing ahead on AI. Can they manage risks together?
The United States and China must work together to establish safety guardrails for artificial intelligence, leading scholars and industry leaders said at a Singapore forum, warning that rapid…
- Labor-scarce Japan counts on AI-powered robots
As Japan faces a severe labor shortage in many sectors such as healthcare and manufacturing, more companies are counting on artificial intelligence-driven robots, paving the way for them…
- Video Friday: Life’s Better With a Little Robot Goose
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few…
- YouTube expands likeness detection to voices as Indian courts target AI voice clones
Expanding the likeness detection tool to include voice, YouTube said this "will improve match accuracy" and lay "the groundwork for broader voice protections over time".
- How Pine Labs Shifted Gears: From PoS Devices To An AI-Powered Fintech Stack
In 1998, the newly incorporated Pine Labs was helping petrol pumps accept payments and manage loyalty programmes. Nearly three decades…
- Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements
Despite challenges, Tesla aims for 1,000 Optimus robots per week by end of 2026.
- What to expect at NetApp INSIGHT: Join theCUBE Sept. 30
As artificial intelligence goes into production, unified storage could be the glue that keeps everything together. NetApp Inc., a leader in enterprise data storage, wants to lift the burden of AI on…
- 4 insights from Dreamforce: AI agents move from demos to measurable outcomes
At Dreamforce 2026, AI agents are being judged less on what they can say and more on what they get done. Across Salesforce Inc.’s ecosystem, the standalone toolkits that let technology teams build…
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