AI news of 20 September 2026 · Humans Versus Robots

Meta, data collection

Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Meta's Muse app uses surveillance to train AI while requesting users' sensitive financial and identity data.

Wired 1mo ago 5 min read

cybersecurity, energy

Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems

Human error and insider threats pose greater cybersecurity risks to energy systems than AI attacks.

The Verge 1mo ago

AI infrastructure and investment

Following OpenAI, Anthropic is also reportedly postponing its IPO

Anthropic delays IPO to November 2026 as infrastructure costs, including $1.25 billion monthly for compute, strain finances.

The Decoder 1mo ago

datacentres, AI infrastructure

It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Trump backs AI and datacentre expansion while his political base opposes the infrastructure push.

Wired 1mo ago

US government AI policy

Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’

Trump announces plan to form an AI Force and appoint an AI czar to lead it.

The Verge 1mo ago

AI regulation

Is the AI industry really ready to slow down? Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Debate over whether AI industry executives are genuinely committed to slowing development.

TechCrunch 1mo ago

ChatGPT

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector Opens at the publisher in a new tab

ChatGPT gains ability to track user activity across websites via ad collector.

Hacker News 1mo ago

AI adoption

Daily AI usage in the U.S. has more than doubled in just six months

US adults using AI almost daily more than doubled from 8 to 19 percent between March and August 2026.

The Decoder 1mo ago

LLM tooling

llm-keys-ui 0.1

Developer releases llm-keys-ui tool to manage credentials while running coding agents on remote machines.

Simon Willison 1mo ago also at Simon Willison

AI hallucinations

U.S. military nearly boarded a Chinese ship over a hallucinated AI intelligence report

U.S. military nearly boarded a Chinese ship after an AI chatbot falsely reported its cargo contained nuclear weapons components.

The Decoder 1mo ago

Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems

Following OpenAI, Anthropic is also reportedly postponing its IPO

It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’

Is the AI industry really ready to slow down? Opens at the publisher in a new tab

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Daily AI usage in the U.S. has more than doubled in just six months

llm-keys-ui 0.1

U.S. military nearly boarded a Chinese ship over a hallucinated AI intelligence report

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