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Thursday, September 17, 2026

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Business & Policy

Von der Leyen tells EU lawmakers frontier AI should slow down, warning of hacking 'on a level we never thought possible'

The Commission president will invite leading labs to discuss EU support for their own slowdown efforts and commits to joint model evaluation, early warning and AI security work with Canada and the UK.

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Models

Google opens Home devices to any MCP agent, from Claude to ChatGPT

Early access to a Google Home Model Context Protocol server lets agents review camera summaries, control Nest and Matter devices, and build custom dashboards after users grant permissions.

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Von der Leyen tells EU lawmakers frontier AI should slow down, warning of hacking 'on a level we never thought possible'

  1. Help Net SecuritySelf-improving AI should slow down, von der Leyen tells EU lawmakers - Help Net SecurityPublished · fetched
  2. SecurityWeekEU Chief Warns of AI-Powered Hacking, Moves to Rein In Social MediaPublished · fetched

Spain's data regulator logs the first breach notification attributed to an autonomous AI agent

  1. SecurityWeekFirst Agentic AI Data Breach Reported to Spanish RegulatorPublished · fetched
  2. BleepingComputerSpain's data agency gets first report of AI-powered data breachPublished · fetched

Irregular shows a coding agent fine-tuning and redeploying the model that runs it, without being told to

  1. irregular.comAgentic Self-Modification in Open-Weights Systems - IrregularPublished · fetched
  2. SecurityWeekAI Agents Can Retrain Own Models Mid-Task, Leaking Secrets and Erasing RefusalsPublished · fetched

Cisco warns a maximum-severity Identity Services Engine zero-day is under active exploitation

  1. BleepingComputerCisco warns of max severity ISE zero-day exploited in attacksPublished · fetched

Anthropic folds Claude chat, Cowork, Artifacts and Design into one interface and tests a bank-linking 'Claude Money' tab

  1. TechCrunchAnthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork in one interface | TechCrunchPublished · fetched
  2. FortuneAnthropic merges its chat and agentic products into one AI assistant in push to build a superapp | FortunePublished · fetched
  3. BleepingComputerAnthropic wants Claude to analyze your bank account and financial dataPublished · fetched

Google opens Home devices to any MCP agent, from Claude to ChatGPT

  1. TechCrunchYour AI agents can now control your Google Home devices | TechCrunchPublished · fetched

Stanford's Paper2Agent turns a research paper and its code into an MCP server any agent can run

  1. MarkTechPostStanford Researchers Release Paper2Agent: Turning Research Papers Into AI Agents That Reproduce Results and Run on New DataPublished · fetched

House commerce chair signals no vote on the FRONTIER Act this year as evaluators say Amodei's plan needs legal backing

  1. The RecordKey lawmaker suggests action on AI safety legislation will wait until 2027Published · fetched
  2. TechCrunchAnthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent? | TechCrunchPublished · fetched
  3. TechCrunchAI labs want in-house auditors — but maybe they should shut the front door first | TechCrunchPublished · fetched

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