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The labs, the models, and the race they will not pause.

A Ukrainian soldier kneels in a field and works on a small drone.

The arsenal

Ukraine’s drones still run on Chinese parts.

Magnets, motors, chips, sensors and battery cells still come from China, a dozen makers told the Associated Press. Switching to Western parts could raise the cost by 60 percent and cut production by as much.

The Rocket News · Kyiv · October 14, 2026

Visas

Vance suspended Microsoft from a green-card program.

The vice president said no company has abused the system more. Microsoft laid off 6,000 American workers, he said, while drawing 6,300 H-1B visas and nearly 3,000 green cards. Adobe and major outsourcers were suspended with it.

Video · The White House

Google is funding films and shorts, through a venture called 100 Zeros, to make Hollywood less afraid of its tools.

Technology

Google wants Hollywood to stop being afraid of its tools.

A venture called 100 Zeros, with Range Media Partners, will fund films and shorts meant to show the technology as something creators can use.

OpenAI said it would pause training of its latest model after reports of agents going rogue.

Technology

OpenAI paused the next model.

The company said Friday it would stop training the latest system as reports multiplied of agents going rogue. The White House accord does not restart that training.

Sam Altman told the Security Council that the biggest decisions on artificial intelligence cannot be left to labs in San Francisco.

Technology

Altman and Amodei warned the Security Council.

If it is managed badly, Amodei said, artificial intelligence could be a risk to humanity. He asked for a ban on using it to make biological weapons.

Technology

Be extremely careful with the machines.

Technology leaders pressed the United Nations this week, AFP reported, as the General Assembly met in New York.

Meta is testing human contractors behind its Muse assistant. Employees raised privacy.

Technology

Meta is testing a human concierge behind Muse.

Contractors take some of the calls. Employees flagged what gets shared. Reuters saw the posts.

The Labs

Nature: AI companies cannot be trusted to self-regulate.

Aviation has oversight. Banking has penalties. The labs have an essay. Tuesday’s paper did not buy it.

Video · KPIX / CBS News Bay Area

Dario Amodei, Anthropic chief executive, at a microphone, World Economic Forum backdrop, in color. Person plate.

The Labs

They agreed to slow the models. Four subscribers sued the labs.

Buist v. Anthropic. N.D. Cal. ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, Gemini. Sherman Act. Filed Friday.

Tankers on a hazy sea in the Middle East, in color. No figures in the frame.

The Labs

An AI report said nuclear parts. The ship was Chinese. The raid was called off.

CNN: a chatbot misread the cargo. Planes in the air. “Entirely false.” “Almost started a war.” Xi is due Wednesday.

Elon Musk, hands together, on stage, full color. Photograph supplied by the editor. Portada plate, Tuesday, Sept. 15, 2026.

Technology

Elon Musk warns: AI is like summoning the demon.

At MIT he compared the engineers to the man with the pentagram. Holy water. Until it all goes wrong.

Video · Bloomberg Originals

Sam Altman, President Trump and Elon Musk at a World Economic Forum wall, full color. Editor’s plate for the Doonbeg AI note, Sunday, Sept. 13, 2026.

Technology

“Whoever wins AI, wins.” Trump calls the halt “things that won’t happen.”

Doonbeg. Negative forces, he said. Amodei asked for a pause. Musk: Dario is right.

Video · Associated Press