AI NewsWednesday, September 30, 2026
16 stories- 1 Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can t use it yet Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro in June, but it spent the summer trotting out smaller Flash models . Now, Google is ready to take on the frontier again with Gemini 4 Argon . The company claims this new 70 4 src 10h ago
- 2 Disrupting a coordinated model-distillation campaign Learn how OpenAI disrupted a campaign to extract protected model reasoning and is strengthening defenses against adversarial distillation. 60 2 src 20h ago
- 3 An interview with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on the Hugging Face incident, slowing AI development, shifting 5%-10% of compute to safety, and more (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review) Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review : An interview with OpenAI Chief Research Officer Mark Chen on the Hugging Face incident, slowing AI development, shifting 5%-10% of compute to safety, and 51 2 src 15h ago
- 4 California Gov. Gavin Newsom bans AI 'robo bosses' in landmark state law, reversing his earlier veto California Gov. Gavin Newsom bans AI 'robo bosses' in landmark state law, reversing his earlier veto cnbc.com 50 5 src 7h ago
- 5 Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence Covered by 1 outlet. 49 1 src 10h ago
- 6 “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face , OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady d 46 1 src 19h ago
- 7 Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content. 36 2 src 12h ago
- 8 The Americans have officially renamed artificial intelligence to 'Super Intelligence,' which should fix everything The Americans have officially renamed artificial intelligence to 'Super Intelligence,' which should fix everything Yahoo 29 2 src 11h ago
- 9 Representative August Pfluger introduces H.R. 10594: Reliable Artificial Intelligence Research Act of 2026 Representative August Pfluger introduces H.R. 10594: Reliable Artificial Intelligence Research Act of 2026 Quiver Quantitative 26 2 src 14h ago
- 10 Which API for general real-time LLM agents [D] TL;DR what is the right interface for writing custom real-time LLM agents? I ve noticed many projects (academic, startups, pet, etc) are trying to make LLMs work in real-time world where things happen 26 2 src
- 11 DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food By launching an AI agent for food ordering, DoorDash is looking to gain an edge over rivals Uber Eats and Grubhub. 25 2 src 14h ago
- 12 Introducing SynthID Bio Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function. 24 1 src 15h ago
- 13 Helping small businesses put AI to work OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams are using AI. 24 1 src 20h ago
- 14 'Super intelligence is a national security issue,' Jay Clayton says; dodges AI 'czar' question 'Super intelligence is a national security issue,' Jay Clayton says; dodges AI 'czar' question cnbc.com 18 2 src 17h ago
- 15 ‘Not putting brakes on’: Delaware pursues AI-run companies initiative amid reports of agents going rogue ‘Not putting brakes on’: Delaware pursues AI-run companies initiative amid reports of agents going rogue WHYY 18 2 src 21h ago
- 16 US Health Secretary RFK Jr. says AI can offer "a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country" and "free us from medical tyranny" (Sheryl Gay Stolberg/New York Times) Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times : US Health Secretary RFK Jr. says AI can offer a second opinion that is much better informed than any doctor in the country and free us from medical tyranny The h 15 2 src