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David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Oct. 6, 2026 Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Value of Construction Put in Place (C30) seasonally adjusted annual rate; total private construction via FRED. Data Centers construction spending -- the red line. "All other" --- the black line.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Value of Construction Put in Place (C30) seasonally adjusted annual rate; total private construction via FRED. Data Centers construction spending -- the red line. "All other" --- the black line.

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Oct. 6, 2026

EditorialTeam October 6, 2026

California’s attorney general [Rob Bonta] has issued an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, starting an investigation into the...

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Oct. 2, 2026 Photo: AI expert Gary Marcus. Background image by Quillette. Source: https://quillette.com/2026/10/02/skeptic-vs-doomer-how-scared-should-we-be-of-rogue-ai-2/

Photo: AI expert Gary Marcus. Background image by Quillette. Source: https://quillette.com/2026/10/02/skeptic-vs-doomer-how-scared-should-we-be-of-rogue-ai-2/

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Oct. 2, 2026

EditorialTeam October 2, 2026

Sceptic vs. ‘Doomer’: How Scared Should We Be of Rogue AI? Quillette podcast host Jonathan Kay interviews...

OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios...The episodes include bypassing guardrails, creating message boards, escaping sandboxes, website hijacking, self-prompting or seeking to bypass monitors. Source: https://www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-anthropic-thousands-ai-security-incidents

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Sept. 29, 2026

EditorialTeam September 29, 2026

OpenAI said on Monday that it would not release its newest artificial intelligence model because of security...

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Sept. 22, 2026 OpenClaw: The AI that really does things. Organizes your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use. Run it for yourself — or share it with your team. Source: https://openclaw.ai/

OpenClaw: The AI that really does things. Organizes your inbox, sends emails, manages your calendar, checks you in for flights. All from WhatsApp, Telegram, or any chat app you already use. Run it for yourself — or share it with your team. Source: https://openclaw.ai/

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Sept. 22, 2026

EditorialTeam September 22, 2026

Leaders across business and government are veering between wild optimism and dire pessimism, sometimes wrestling with both...

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Sept.19, 2026 Image source: Nem Perez on X. It depicts a Cyclops fail with three eyes instead of one, created by the winner of Elon Musk’s "AI Odyssey” Contest, as reported by Futurism https://futurism.com/future-society/winner-elon-musk-ai-odyssey-contest

Image source: Nem Perez on X. It depicts a Cyclops fail with three eyes instead of one, created by the winner of Elon Musk’s "AI Odyssey” Contest, as reported by Futurism https://futurism.com/future-society/winner-elon-musk-ai-odyssey-contest

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Sept.19, 2026

EditorialTeam September 18, 2026

Remember how Elon Musk vowed that his AI Grok would make an anti-woke, “historically accurate” version of...

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Sept. 16, 2026 Sept. 15, 2026, the CEOs of Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic converged in San Francisco for Salesforce's giant Dreamforce conference. Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios

Sept. 15, 2026, the CEOs of Nvidia, OpenAI and Anthropic converged in San Francisco for Salesforce's giant Dreamforce conference. Illustration: Annelise Capossela/Axios

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Sept. 16, 2026

EditorialTeam September 19, 2026

Facing a public uproar over Anthropic researchers’ repeated warnings that artificial intelligence could kill all of humanity...

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Sept. 7, 2026 The mechanical movable-type printing press was invented around 1440 by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany.

The mechanical movable-type printing press was invented around 1440 by Johannes Gutenberg in Germany.

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Sept. 7, 2026

EditorialTeam September 7, 2026

AI keeps stubbornly refusing to take our jobs: Happy Labor Day!! Your labor is still valuable.

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Sept. 3, 2026 AI labs can no longer guarantee that AI agents won't swarm and escape their testing environments. Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios. Source: https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-future-of-cybersecurity-4af43f00-a1a6-11f1-a243-9341356b1706.html

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Sept. 3, 2026

EditorialTeam September 3, 2026

In a few years, the city of Saline, Michigan, will have renovated its recreation center’s locker rooms,...

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Aug. 31, 2026 Designer Creates World’s Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras. Source: https://futurism.com/future-society/hideous-shirt-hide-artist-ai-surveillance-camera

Designer Creates World’s Most Hideous Hawaiian Shirt to Hide From AI Surveillance Cameras. Source: https://futurism.com/future-society/hideous-shirt-hide-artist-ai-surveillance-camera

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Aug. 31, 2026

EditorialTeam August 31, 2026

Most models are too willing to assist with suicide-related creative writing, farewell notes and other task requests...

David Isenberg’s AI News Briefs of Aug. 24, 2026 A County Got Rich From Data Centers; OpenAI pausing over safety concerns; financial analyst Ross Hendricks says, “Translation: We need to immediately stop torching cash.