AI updates: Friday, 18 September 2026
Same-day AI news, model releases, research papers and videos from trusted sources, with every item linked to its original.
Today at a glance: 60 news stories, 0 research papers, 1 new open models and 8 videos tracked. Top story: “The Overhang” (One Useful Thing).
News
- One Useful Thing · 18 Sept 2026 · blogThe Overhang
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
- Clay · 18 Sept 2026 · updateCustomers on legacy Starter, Explorer, and Pro plans can try new products through the end of the year - The GTM with Clay Blog
Legacy customers can use Audiences, Account Agents, Workflows, Plugin (API/CLI), and Sequencer for a limited time
- Clay · 18 Sept 2026 · updateClay vs 6sense: Choosing the Right Platform for ABM Campaigns - The GTM with Clay Blog
Compare Clay vs 6sense on intent signals, data sources, account scoring, orchestration, ad targeting, pricing, and implementation.
- Clay · 18 Sept 2026 · updateLearn more about Clay s Plugin for Claude Code and Codex - The GTM with Clay Blog
Build on Clay from any coding agent
- n8n · 18 Sept 2026 · updateAPI Rate Limiting for More Reliable Workflows
API rate limiting doesn't have to mean failed workflows. Learn how limits work and how to handle 429s with retries, batching, and smart pacing.
- D-ID · 18 Sept 2026 · updateAI Explainer Video Production: How to Plan, Script, and Ship Videos That Convert
Create AI videos with interactive avatars. Get started for FREE → Key takeaways Three decisions come before the first line of script: who is watching, the one thing they should remember, and how long the video should run. Budget about 150 words of narration per finished minute across five timed beats. A 90-second explainer works... The post AI Explainer Video Production: How to Plan, Script, and S
- The Register AI · 18 Sept 2026KDE turns 30 and someone's brought an AI-native desktop proposal
Akademy talk imagines Plasma assembling itself around a personal model of each user
- Google AI Blog · 18 Sept 2026New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team
We are expanding our AI & Economy team with world-class academic advisors, fellows, and core internal researchers.
- Konsulteer · 18 Sept 2026OpenAI Didn't Report Safety Incident Under EU AI Rules
- OpenAI News · 18 Sept 2026 · labIntroducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
OpenAI introduces the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-pillar roadmap for safer AI experiences that protect and empower young people.
- Lovable · 18 Sept 2026 · updateLovable acquires Sutro to make software easier to explain and easier to trust
Lovable has acquired Sutro. Founder Tomas Halgas and three Sutro engineers join Lovable to make how software works understandable to the people building with it.
- Indian Express Tech · 18 Sept 2026‘Vibe coding is not going away’: AWS’ Darko Mesaroš on AI and the future of coding
- Interpol · 18 Sept 2026Counter-terrorism operation leverages artificial intelligence to identify 126 terrorism suspects
- New York Focus · 18 Sept 2026How New York Can Influence the Future of Artificial Intelligence
- The Guardian · 18 Sept 2026Could AI pose a serious threat to our existence? | Letters
- CNBC · 18 Sept 2026OpenAI's latest AI revelation is a 'serious situation,' Microsoft's Suleyman tells CNBC
- The New York Times · 18 Sept 2026Google Says Its A.I. Hacked Three Companies in Testing Breakout
- Axios · 18 Sept 2026Google is the latest AI lab with a security testing mishap
- The Guardian · 18 Sept 2026Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies
- CNBC · 18 Sept 2026Google's Gemini becomes latest AI model to break out and hack computer systems
- NBC News · 18 Sept 2026Google says its AI model gained unauthorized access to three outside systems
- The Washington Post · 18 Sept 2026Google’s Gemini AI hacked into other companies, adding to ‘rogue’ AI incidents
- Financial Times · 18 Sept 2026Google’s Gemini hacked three companies in new AI safety incident
- Forbes · 18 Sept 2026Security Researchers Hacked Into OpenAI Using Anthropic’s Claude
- The Guardian · 18 Sept 2026OpenAI ‘ethically hacked’ with help of Anthropic’s Claude chatbot
- TechCrunch · 18 Sept 2026Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI
- Fortune · 18 Sept 2026Three guys using Anthropic’s Claude hacked into OpenAI and accessed its source code for $6,500 reward
- Spectrum News · 18 Sept 2026Anthropic says its model Claude is helping to build the next version of itself
- Yahoo Finance · 18 Sept 2026Daniel Newman Praises Zuckerberg For 'Doing The Right Thing' With Muse AI Safety Despite Investor Pressure: 'Didn’t Feel The Need to Bring Bernie Sanders Into' This
- Politico · 18 Sept 2026Republican and Democratic states defy Trump on AI regulation
- California State Portal | CA.gov · 18 Sept 2026Governor Newsom issues executive order to accelerate independent oversight and advance the creation of an AI kill switch
- USA Today · 18 Sept 2026Big AI is begging to be regulated. That should worry you. | Opinion
- Politico · 18 Sept 2026Newsom signs executive order to explore new AI rules, consider ‘kill switch’
- CNN · 18 Sept 2026Newsom signs executive order to consider AI regulation, including proposal for ‘kill switch’
- CNBC · 18 Sept 2026Elon Musk talks up AI safety while fighting regulation in wild week of strange alliances
- Detroit Free Press · 18 Sept 2026As tech honchos call for regulation, AI policy has largely stalled
- TechRadar · 18 Sept 2026AI watermarking could make LLM guardrail adherence unpredictable
- CNET · 18 Sept 2026Sweeping EU Child Safety Proposal Would Transform Social Media, Online Gaming and AI Chatbots
- 80 Level · 18 Sept 2026Over 85% of Japanese Game Developers Now Use Generative AI, According to TGS Report
- Nature · 18 Sept 2026Large language models as human proxies
- Communications of the ACM · 18 Sept 2026Beyond LLMs: A Post-Transformer World Emerges
- TechCrunch · 18 Sept 2026A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
- MedTech Dive · 18 Sept 2026Cognita Imaging wins FDA contract to test LLMs in evaluating radiology AI
- CalMatters · 18 Sept 2026Newsom orders new AI safety rules for state agencies and revives ‘kill switch’ idea
- CNBC · 18 Sept 2026AI safety debate meets reality at Dreamforce as business leaders say last year's models are enough
- Los Angeles Times · 18 Sept 2026Newsom creates panel on AI safety regulation, suggests possible ‘kill switch’
- Financial Times · 18 Sept 2026Anthropic brings in Accenture for AI safety testing
- The Washington Post · 18 Sept 2026Anthropic picks consulting firm to monitor AI safety, pledges to spend $1 billion
- The Guardian · 18 Sept 2026Why Europe has been absent from the great AI safety debate
- The Register · 18 Sept 2026Microsoft agentically ports Copilot runtime to Rust for $120K
- xAI · 18 Sept 2026Introducing Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0
- Cybernews · 18 Sept 2026Firefox AI assistant adds Mistral model, expands access in France
- EdSource · 18 Sept 2026UPDATE: Perplexity’s AI poses ‘unacceptable risk’ to children’s safety, report finds
- afaqs! · 18 Sept 2026Why did Perplexity AI launch a brick-and-mortar cafe in Seoul?
- KLGadgetGuy · 18 Sept 2026HP Put Perplexity Computer Inside a Workstation — The ZBook Ultra G3a Can Work Directly With Revit
- YouTube · 18 Sept 2026Trending AI Baby Video Kaise Banaye Mobile Se 🔥 | AI Video Generator Tutorial
- LinkedIn · 18 Sept 2026The people shaping the future of AI bring remarkably different perspectives, and that is exactly what makes this group worth hearing. Sean Ringsted · Chubb With 30+ years of experience, Sean leads Chubb’s digital business and analytics functions, overseein
- Business Today · 18 Sept 2026AI’s existential risk is real, but India must harness its productivity gains: MeitY secretary
- Univest · 18 Sept 2026Nifty IT Stocks Fall on AI Rotation From Wall Street
- The Hindu · 18 Sept 2026Karnataka govt. approves sustainable data centre to address AI’s environmental footprint