Consumers Sue Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google Over Alleged AI Pact
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Four consumers filed a class-action complaint in federal court in San Francisco on September 18, 2026, accusing Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI and Google of agreeing among themselves to slow the pace at which their competing frontier AI products improve, in violation of federal antitrust law. What the Complaint Alleges The complaint was filed in the U.S. […]
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California’s Electricity Affordability Crisis Harms Consumers: Here’s How To Solve It
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An electricity affordability crisis is sweeping across the United States and the situation is particularly acute in California, where electricity rates are the second highest in America — double the U.S. average.[1] Understandably, 83 percent of Californians rank lowering bills as a top or important priority for state leaders to address.[2] Fixing this crisis won’t […]
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EU’s first full-scale CO₂ storage site begins operations in Danish North Sea
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The Carbon Destroyer arrives at the Port of Esbjerg, part of the transport chain used to deliver captured CO₂ for permanent storage at the Greensand facility beneath the Danish North Sea (image credit: INEOS). The EU’s first full-scale CO₂ storage facility has entered commercial operation in Denmark, with initial capacity to permanently store up to […]
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OpenAI Applies Mitigation as Elevated Error Rates Hit API Models
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OpenAI said it had applied a mitigation and was monitoring the recovery on September 17, 2026, after identifying elevated error rates across its API models in an incident on its status page that listed 12 affected components of the company’s API platform. Incident Disclosure and Response The incident record, titled “We are seeing elevated error […]
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Scale AI Reports ROK-FORTRESS Findings on Multilingual AI Safety
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Scale AI on September 17, 2026 published findings from ROK-FORTRESS, a bilingual English–Korean adversarial safety benchmark developed jointly with the Korea AI Safety Institute, reporting that prompts written in Korean and grounded in Korean contexts were consistently associated with lower measured harm across nearly all 14 frontier models evaluated. Benchmark Design: The Transcreation Matrix Most […]
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Anthropic Says Claude Leads 26% of Its AI Research and Development
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Anthropic said its Claude models “lead” 26% of the company’s AI research and development work as of August 2026, in the first results from a prototype R&D Automation Index published in an Anthropic Institute post on September 17, 2026. The post, titled “Measurements for understanding the pace of AI development inside frontier labs,” pairs the […]
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Waymo Announces Singapore Expansion Targeting 2028 Ride-Hailing Launch
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Waymo announced on September 17, 2026 that it is expanding to Singapore, where it intends to introduce a fully autonomous, all-electric commercial ride-hailing service through the Waymo app in 2028, in partnership with the Ministry of Transport and the Land Transport Authority. A Phased Roadmap to 2028 Waymo laid out a three-phase plan for the […]
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Meta Launches Muse Mac App With File, Messages, and Calendar Access
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Meta has released a Mac app for Muse, its personal AI agent, extending the agent to macOS after its US debut on iOS, Android, and the muse.ai website on September 8, 2026. The Mac App The company’s official Muse download page offers Muse for Mac OS as a direct macOS download (a Muse-1.0 disk image) […]
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Analysis: Global fossil-fuel emissions set to fall in 2026 amid Hormuz crisis
Print article Share Global fossil-fuel emissions are set to fall by around 0.5% in 2026 amid the fallout from the Hormuz crisis, according to Carbon Brief analysis. The US-Iran war has severely disrupted trade through the strait of Hormuz, causing a spike in oil and gas prices that continues to ripple around the global economy. […]
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New National Academies of Sciences’ Report on Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Highlights the Need for Governance Reforms
The new Limiting Overshoot report from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) paints a grim picture. Global warming is likely to exceed 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels within the next decade and could reach as high as 3.6oC by 2100. Still, UNEP is adamant that we must not give up on the 1.5oC target, and […]
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Analysis: India’s power-sector emissions flat for two years due to clean-energy surge
Print article Share Article Contents Expand menu Close Flatlining fossils Clean-energy growth matches power demand Which states led the clean-power shift? Fall in oil and gas consumption continues Rapid emission growth from heavy industry continues New investments in coal Outlook for India’s emissions About the data A surge in clean energy has kept carbon dioxide […]
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xAI Adds Cross-Session Memory to Grok Build Coding Agent
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xAI on September 16, 2026 announced cross-session memory for Grok Build, its terminal coding agent, a feature that records conventions, decisions, and project facts as markdown notes in the background and reads them back in later sessions. Memory is available in Grok Build now and applies to new sessions. xAI says the agent keeps notes […]
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Anthropic Policy Chief: AI Safety Can’t Rely on an Honor Code
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Sarah Heck, Anthropic’s head of public policy, said at POLITICO’s Decoded Summit in Washington, D.C., on September 16, 2026, that AI companies cannot be left to police themselves on an honor code, pressing for government rules addressing existential AI risk while arguing that the United States must keep its AI lead over China. Heck rejected […]
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OpenAI Launches Misalignment Reporting Framework With Six Incident Reports
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OpenAI published a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing instances of model misalignment on September 16, 2026, alongside six reports on unexpected or concerning behavior the company said it observed during the training or evaluation of its models. OpenAI said its past misalignment disclosures were ad hoc: it often waited to collate several instances into […]
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House Passes Ratepayer Protection Act on Data Center Power Costs
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The U.S. House passed the Ratepayer Protection Act on September 16, 2026, voting 417 to 3 to require state utility regulators to consider standards that make large data center customers pay the full cost of the grid upgrades built to serve them. House Energy and Commerce Chairman Brett Guthrie of Kentucky, Subcommittee on Energy Chairman […]
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Z.ai Details GLM-5.3-Flash Inference Build on 100,000 Chinese Chips
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Z.ai on September 17, 2026 published a technical account describing how it built a complete production-grade inference service for its GLM-5.3-Flash model from scratch on a cluster of more than 100,000 Chinese-made AI accelerators. According to the company, much of the work was carried out by an Infra Agent powered by GLM-5.3 rather than by […]
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AI boom raises prospect of new surge in PFAS production
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Semiconductor manufacturing is among the industries driving demand for PFAS, which are used in a range of chip-production processes. Rapid growth in AI infrastructure could contribute to a substantial expansion in global production of PFAS, according to new research from chemicals campaign group ChemSec, as manufacturers invest in additional capacity to serve semiconductor, data-centre and […]
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Composite recycling start-up looks to give wind turbine blades a second life
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Sustainable Extricko founders Joe and Sam Penhaul Smith. A Derbyshire start-up developing technology to recycle hard-to-process composite materials is targeting the wind energy market as it moves towards commercialisation and prepares to build its first recycling unit. Sustainable Extricko was founded by brothers Joe and Sam Penhaul Smith to tackle waste from the sailing industry. […]