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Wednesday, September 16, 2026

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Business & Policy

OpenAI confirms weeks of safety talks with Anthropic and DeepMind as FTC chair warns against antitrust exemptions

Policy chief Chris Lehane says the three labs do not need a government waiver, hours before Andrew Ferguson tells a Georgetown audience to be deeply suspicious of companies seeking one.

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OpenAI confirms weeks of safety talks with Anthropic and DeepMind as FTC chair warns against antitrust exemptions

  1. TechCrunchOpenAI, Anthropic, Google have been in talks on AI safety for weeks | TechCrunchPublished · fetched
  2. SiliconANGLEOpenAI, Anthropic and Google secretly joined forces to collaborate on AI safety - SiliconANGLEPublished · fetched
  3. The StarFTC chair suspicious of calls for AI antitrust exemptionsPublished · fetched

Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live voice models at a fraction of GPT-Live-1's price

  1. GoogleIntroducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended ThinkingPublished · fetched
  2. The DecoderGoogle launches Gemini 3.8 Live to take on OpenAI's GPT-Live-1 at a fraction of the costPublished · fetched
  3. 9to5GoogleGemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking powers Gemini Live, Gmail, & KeepPublished · fetched

Salesforce and Nvidia unveil Koa, a CRM reasoning model trained on synthetic data instead of customer records

  1. TechCrunchSalesforce and Nvidia's new reasoning model is everything the AI labs should fear | TechCrunchPublished · fetched
  2. SiliconANGLESalesforce debuts Koa, a specialized model built to reason about CRM data - SiliconANGLEPublished · fetched
  3. NVIDIA Blog‘Now We Can Know Everything and Do Anything,’ Jensen Huang Says at DreamforcePublished · fetched

Bessent rejects liability exemptions for AI labs as Huang says safety needs no new laws

  1. FedScoopTreasury’s Scott Bessent says no liability exemptions for AI labsPublished · fetched
  2. TechCrunchWe don't need AI regulation — leave safety to us, Nvidia's Jensen Huang says | TechCrunchPublished · fetched
  3. paNOWSilicon Valley shouldn’t self-regulate on AI safety, Cohere CEO saysPublished · fetched

OpenAI Foundation launches Public Data for Health to fund biology datasets, starting with failed biotechs' archives

  1. MIT Technology ReviewAI models need more data about biology, and OpenAI is paying to create itPublished · fetched
  2. openaifoundation.orgPublic Data for HealthPublished · fetched

Apple patches more than 260 CVEs in its largest cycle ever as AI bug hunting accelerates

  1. theregisterThe vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of patchesPublished · fetched

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