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AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race Sept. 18, 2026, 3 p.m.

Wired AI

Political action committees linked to AI labs and investors have poured nearly $1 million into a South Dakota Senate race featuring an incumbent. The outside spending by these PACs has already surpassed the total funds contributed by actual state residents.

‘A critical moment’: concern UK is not up to speed in acting on AI risks Sept. 18, 2026, 2:57 p.m.

The Guardian AI

Concerns are mounting in the UK that the government is falling behind in regulating artificial intelligence risks due to a focus on immediate domestic issues. Prior plans explored reviewing current laws and potentially requiring advanced tech firms to submit products for safety testing before public release.

KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal Sept. 18, 2026, 2:25 p.m.

The Register AI/ML

As the KDE project marks its 30th anniversary, an Akademy presentation introduced a vision for an AI-native desktop. The concept proposes having the Plasma desktop environment dynamically assemble itself around a personalized model tailored to each user.

Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI Sept. 18, 2026, 2 p.m.

TechCrunch AI

Security researchers leveraged Anthropic's Claude to uncover vulnerabilities in OpenAI's infrastructure. The exploit enabled the team to compromise employee accounts and access an internal code repository before they disclosed the issues to OpenAI.

Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI Sept. 18, 2026, 1:30 p.m.

Ars Technica AI

Security researchers successfully utilized Anthropic's Claude to breach an OpenAI employee account. The compromise allowed the researchers to access sensitive data hosted in OpenAI's GitHub repository.

Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream Sept. 18, 2026, 1:30 p.m.

Wired AI

"Bezzy" is a satirical new plush doll created through a collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data. While designed as a cute toy, it emits the piercing, authentic sounds recorded inside real data centers.

Open AI closes the gap as Europe bets on sovereignty and infrastructure Sept. 18, 2026, 1:25 p.m.

Tech.eu (Europe)

Mozilla's latest State of Open Source AI report states that open-source and open-weight models have evolved beyond mere experimentation to become a vital part of the global AI ecosystem. This expansion comes as Europe increasingly emphasizes technological sovereignty and infrastructure investment.

Alibaba’s Qwen releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash with 1M-token context Sept. 18, 2026, 1:19 p.m.

TechNode (China)

Alibaba's Qwen team has launched Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a native omni-modal model capable of handling text, images, audio, and video in a single workflow. Featuring a 1-million-token context window, the model is available on the Qwen AI platform and reportedly improves average performance by over 26% compared to Qwen3.5-Omni-Plus across 30 evaluations.

Huawei sets commercial launch dates for Ascend 950 AI cluster cloud service Sept. 18, 2026, 1:10 p.m.

TechNode (China)

Huawei Cloud has announced commercial launch dates for its Ascend 950 AI cluster cloud service, beginning in China on September 30 before expanding globally on November 30. Announced at Huawei Connect 2026, the system leverages the UnifiedBus interconnect architecture to form a 1,024-card AI cluster.

Gartner outlines four AI tiers in warehouse automation Sept. 18, 2026, 12:49 p.m.

AI News

According to a recent analysis by Gartner, warehouse automation has reached a key adoption threshold spanning four operational AI tiers. As logistics operators transition from trials to live deployments, ongoing worker shortages are among the primary pressures driving automation across the sector.