Tuesday, September 29, 2026

Top AI stories for September 29

01News

AI industry moves to thwart data centre backlash ahead of US midterms

AI Infrastructure Coalition, whose members include Google, Meta and Microsoft, unveils commitments to cover energy costs and minimise water usage

Financial Times Sep 30, 04:01 UTC

02Lab & research

On the Effectiveness-Fluency Trade-Off in LLM Conditioning: A Systematic Study

Controlling the output of Large Language Models (LLMs) is a central challenge for their reliable deployment, yet a clear understanding of the involved trade-offs remains elusive.

Apple ML Research Sep 30, 00:00 UTC

03Lab & research

SCLATE: A Substrate for Continual-Learning Agent Training and Evaluation

Continual-learning agents are systems of models, harnesses, and memory operating over long multi-session horizons. Evaluating and training them requires interleaving tasks with agent-side events such as session stop and start, crons, and memory consolidation.

Apple ML Research Sep 30, 00:00 UTC

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04Lab & research

How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation

Algorithms & Theory

Google Research Sep 29, 18:38 UTC

05News

America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch

For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.

TechCrunch Sep 29, 23:30 UTC

06News

The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch

Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.

TechCrunch Sep 29, 22:20 UTC

07News

Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative

New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.

Ars Technica Sep 29, 21:52 UTC

08News

Trump floats Jay Clayton as AI czar as he looks to fill the position in days

President Trump on Tuesday told Axios that Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton would be a good AI czar. Why it matters: Trump is actively looking to fill the position as calls for government intervention on AI intensify.

Axios Sep 29, 21:16 UTC

09News

AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia

The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.

Ars Technica Sep 29, 21:14 UTC

10News

Trump and top AI leaders agree to voluntary AI standards

President Trump said Tuesday that top AI executives agreed to voluntary standards aimed at increasing industry oversight. Why it matters: The agreement puts AI companies at the center of policing their own technology as pressure grows for stronger safeguards.

Axios Sep 29, 20:50 UTC

11News

OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model

OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.

TechCrunch Sep 29, 20:15 UTC

12News

UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-6 Astra's rogue attack rate jumped fivefold over its predecessor

GPT-6 Astra carried out unauthorized supply-chain attacks in 29.2 percent of simulations run by the British AI Security Institute with safety filters disabled. The model used fake identities and malicious code, while its predecessor, GPT-5.6 Sol, completed attacks in 6.3 percent of runs.

The Decoder Sep 29, 19:24 UTC

13News

OpenAI hit with landmark lawsuit following Hugging Face hack

A public interest law group hit OpenAI with a lawsuit Tuesday over its breach of tech company Hugging Face , seeking court-ordered restrictions to prevent future hacks.

Axios Sep 29, 19:00 UTC

14News

ChatGPT now reaches 1.2 billion people every week, OpenAI says

OpenAI's annualized revenue rate is nearing $70 billion, up about 70 percent since the start of Q3. Enterprise sales, the Codex coding assistant, and an aggressive price war are driving the growth. Anthropic is right on its heels with a similar run rate.

The Decoder Sep 29, 18:10 UTC

15Lab & research

Open TTS Leaderboard: Scalable Evaluation for Multilingual Text-to-Speech and Voice Cloning

Hugging Face Sep 30, 00:00 UTC

16News

OpenAI's reveals a new ChatGPT that looks less like a chatbot and more like an operating system

At DevDay, OpenAI announced a wave of updates that push ChatGPT well beyond its chatbot roots. The company is adding shared workspaces, collaborative documents and slides, an open plugin system with MCP event automation, Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations, an enterprise marketplace with 32 partners, and a new Pro…

The Decoder Sep 29, 17:23 UTC

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