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News from The Neuron
OpenClaw 2.0 just landed
Sept. 21, 2026 by Vincent Koc, Chief Architect of OpenClaw
….🦞OpenClaw is evolving from an open-source personal AI assistant into a broader agentic computing platform.
🖥️ The new OpenClaw experience and easier setup
🤖 Running agents across local machines and cloud workers
📊 Interactive widgets, dashboards, and persistent agent work
⚡ New automations, loops, and approval controls…
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News from Grasping Reality
Real Technology, Phantom Profits: Who Is Likely to Actually Get Paid for the AI Buildout? Not many businesses not named “NVIDIA”; and perhaps not that much money by Silicon Valley-standards even to NVIDIA when all of this is said & done…
Sept. 21, 2026 by Brad Delong
What is now called “AI”… these days is so many things:
….the favored post-crypto way to grift the gullible separating gullible, separating VCs and wannabes from their money.
A bubble that knows it is a bubble — boosted by those confusing the long-run benefits to society from technology-driven investment from the actual profits to be earned by the investors.
The Rapture of the Nerds: trying to build a Digital God as the latest and strangest of the many American religious-cult millennarian outbreaks since the First Great Awakening.
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News from Futurism
US Military Really Did Use AI to Blow Up a School Full of Iranian Children: Killer AI is already here.
Sept. 21, 2026 by Joe Wilkins
Now over half a year into the United States’ war on Iran, it’s becoming abundantly clear that AI has been instrumental to the American campaign…. AI and its infrastructure is quietly shaping the ideological battlefield: President Donald Trump is spewing out wartime propaganda slopped together by generative AI…. also proving instrumental for helping US Central Command choose targets for obliteration…
According to new reporting by Bloomberg, the Pentagon’s investigation into the February 28th air strikes on the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’ school — a double-tap strike which killed over 150 people, including at least 123 children — concluded that the attack was the result of outdated intelligence and over-reliance on an AI targeting system.
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News from The Washington Post
Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown: Trump’s decisions as president on one of the most consequential policy debates of his administration could affect the value of his personal investments.
Sept. 20, 2026 by Cat Zakrzewski and Shira Ovide
President Donald Trump’s sprawling family business empire has become increasingly intertwined with the boom in artificial intelligence, at the same time that he has resisted calls to slow the development of the technology, a Washington Post analysis of his financial disclosures and corporate announcements found.
Several factors play into Trump’s push for rapid AI development: He has surrounded himself with technology executives and investors who have advocated for the government to accelerate AI development…
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News from Semafor
Alarm or Opportunity?
Sept. 19, 2024 by Ben Smith, Semafor Editor-in-Chief
Leaders across business and government are veering between wild optimism and dire pessimism, sometimes wrestling with both at the same time. Which do you believe? That AI is a normal, if powerful technology that can supercharge productivity? Or that it’s a new beast that will destabilize society and could even kill us?
…. And yet…AI skeptics have spent the last five years eating their words, while people who have sounded craziest — the ones who predicted a decade ago that AI would pass the Turing test, upend the internet, revolutionize the economy, and bring on the singularity — keep getting it right.
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News from Reader Supported News
Anthropic Quietly Sets Up Biology Lab as It Ramps AI Drug Program
Sept. 19, 2026 by Jeffrey Dastin and Michael Erman / Reuters
Anthropic .. pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab, or place for physical experiments, in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said. Anthropic has said it wants to unlock treatments for rare diseases, and its biology work has gone beyond “in silico” or computer evaluations….
A spokesperson later clarified that Anthropic’s lab is not for drug discovery specifically, declining to elaborate.
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News from CNN
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say
Sept. 18, 2026 by Katie Bo Lillis, Zachary Cohen
The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran, immediately set off alarm bells: A Chinese ship in the Middle East was transporting components of a nuclear weapons program.
The US military swung into action with plans to intercept the vessel… armed members of the US military were preparing to board the ship. Military planes were in the air…
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found… that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying.
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News from Angles of Attack: The AI Security Intelligence Brief
The Problem With AI Extinction: The dumbassery continues, but humanity is (most likely) safe | Edition 73]
Sept. 18, 2026 by Disesdi Shoshana Cox
…. So here are some of the specific problems with what all these (my opinion) smarmy, condescending absolute dumbasses want us to believe about so-called “AI extinction.”
…There are really only two demographics of people that this messaging could possibly be designed to work on: People who have no idea how AI works and are too far outside the tech bubble to really grasp the true pace of AI development, and the AI fanboys and fangirls who breathlessly keep up with each model update, each new harness release like it’s an earth-shattering technological realization of actual f***ing magic.
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News from CNBC
California Gov. Newsom issues executive order to rein in AI ‘before it’s too late’
Sept.18, 2026 by Justin Papp
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday issued an executive order aimed at addressing the potential dangers related to artificial intelligence.
Newsom is part of a group of potential 2028 Democratic presidential hopefuls who have urged a more aggressive regulatory approach to the rapidly evolving technology, after a researcher at Anthropic resigned and warned of AI’s potentially humanity-ending capabilities in a social media post earlier this month.
The post set off a frenzy in Washington, D.C., as lawmakers grapple with how to establish guardrails for AI.
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News from Mashable
Trump opens poll to rename AI. Options include ‘Extreme’ and ‘Supreme’ Intelligence. The president took to social media to say he thinks the current term is inaccurate.
Sept. 17, 2026 by Anna Iovine
On Saturday, Sept. 19, President Trump opened a poll on X and on his own platform, Truth Social, calling for a name change to “Artificial Intelligence.”
“Many people think that the words ‘Artificial Intelligence’ are inaccurate, and very ineloquent, relative to AI, or Artificial Intelligence,” Trump shared on social media. “A far more elegant and accurate description of this new phenomena [sic] would be Superior Intelligence (SI) or, Extreme Intelligence (EI) or, Supreme Intelligence (SI).”
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News from X.com
Thank you for your attention to this!
Sept. 17, 2026 by FedUpAmerican @AntifaHRDepart
Imagine looking at everything happening in the country today—everything people are struggling with, everything that actually deserves the f***ing attention of the President of the United States—and thinking, “You know what desperately needs my attention? The branding department for artificial intelligence.”…. Thank you for your attention to this!
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This issue of AI News Briefs was brought to you by David Isenberg of the Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire: Unpacking the Private Military Complex with independent analysis of private military companies, mercenary networks, and the privatisation of force in global conflicts. The latest, compiled by the Isenberg Institute of Strategic Satire — September 21, 2026
THE CONTRACT CENTURY
Published on September 21, 2026 by David Isenberg
Note on method: This dossier synthesizes six independently drafted 2051 extrapolations of the private military and security contracting literature — spanning the Broker-of-Force framing, the corridor-governance interview format, the Arctic/resource-frontier thread, the tribunal-and-map device, and the underwriter-as-regulator thesis — into a single narrative rather than presenting the sources side by side. It draws on documented arguments in the existing PMSC scholarship (the market-for-force and control-of-force literature, neomedievalism and durable-disorder theses, industry self-regulation and international-law-gap research, and resource-frontier/Arctic security analysis) rather than inventing positions for named scholars. No real, living public figure appears as a character or is given invented dialogue; all named individuals in the narrative — Okonkwo-Vance, Voss, Kade, the Contractor’s Priest — are fictional composites, consistent with IISS house convention.
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