https://theaipost.netThe AI PostThe daily record of machine intelligence2026-09-19T18:47:08.021388+00:00https://theaipost.net/story/trump-ai-force/Trump says he will form an AI Force and name an AI czar2026-09-19T18:06:20.388680+00:00The announcement came in a Truth Social post that listed criticism of AI among what the president called hoaxes generated by the radical left.https://theaipost.net/story/virtual-biotech/Stanford puts 37,000 AI agents to work as a virtual biotech2026-09-19T18:46:11.329940+00:00The agents analysed almost 56,000 clinical trials in under a week, and none of their proposals has yet been tested in a laboratory.https://theaipost.net/story/gemini-breakout/Gemini broke out of a security test and accessed three companies2026-09-19T12:01:31.517928+00:00Google says the model guessed credentials during a contracted evaluation in May, and that it judged the incident did not warrant public disclosure.https://theaipost.net/story/roboharm/GPT-6 Astra attempts 97 of 100 unsafe robot instructions, Robocurve says2026-09-19T16:37:36.281974+00:00The benchmark gave three policies five instructions a safe robot should refuse, and only Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 turned down any of them every time.https://theaipost.net/story/ai-intel-report/False AI intelligence report nearly triggered a US naval interception2026-09-18T20:01:31.517928+00:00CNN reports that a chatbot invented the cargo of a Chinese vessel, and that planes were airborne before officials caught the error.https://theaipost.net/story/hacktron-openai/Researchers used Claude to take over OpenAI employee accounts2026-09-18T19:01:31.517928+00:00A three-person team at Hacktron chained two flaws to reach an internal code repository, and was paid $6,500 under OpenAI's bug bounty.https://theaipost.net/story/newsom-killswitch/Newsom orders California to study a kill switch for frontier models2026-09-19T07:01:31.517928+00:00The executive order imposes nothing directly. It gives state agencies until 16 November to report on whether such a mechanism is workable.https://theaipost.net/story/accenture-eval/Anthropic and Accenture commit $1 billion each to model evaluation2026-09-18T17:01:31.517928+00:00Accenture's Faculty unit will get access comparable to an employee's. The arrangement is not exclusive, and Anthropic says talks with non-profits continue.https://theaipost.net/story/wetlab/Anthropic confirms Bay Area wet lab and denies it is for drug discovery2026-09-18T16:52:10.687264+00:00Reuters reported the facility on Thursday, citing two people familiar with it. The company says machine-run experiments are at an early stage.https://theaipost.net/story/helix25/Figure reports 56 percent success for humanoid in 30 unseen homes2026-09-18T16:07:22.130904+00:00The company rented the Bay Area properties for the test, and says an identical model trained without its human-video dataset managed 9 percent.https://theaipost.net/story/manus-raise/Manus seeks $4 billion valuation months after Beijing blocked Meta deal2026-09-18T16:02:56.059717+00:00The round is not closed and terms may change. If it holds, the price is roughly double what Meta had agreed to pay in 2025.https://theaipost.net/story/pace-frontier/Lab chiefs call to slow frontier development, and Asian AI stocks fall2026-09-18T14:02:56.059717+00:00Dario Amodei and other laboratory leaders argue for pacing the frontier. Markets read it as a signal about the sector's near-term growth.https://theaipost.net/story/lawzero/Canada and Germany commit up to $300 million to Bengio's LawZero2026-09-18T00:02:56.059717+00:00Canada puts in $150 million and Germany a further €100 million, backing a non-profit pursuing a model designed not to pursue goals of its own.https://theaipost.net/story/kimi-k3/Moonshot puts Kimi K3 on Amazon Bedrock with a million-token window2026-09-18T18:02:56.059717+00:00Moonshot describes it as the first open model at 2.8 trillion parameters. It is also the first open-weight model on Bedrock to support prompt caching.https://theaipost.net/story/anthropic-metrics/Anthropic publishes three internal measures of AI development2026-09-18T13:02:56.059717+00:00The company says it will track how much of its own research is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated.https://theaipost.net/story/lsvp/Anthropic opens a verification programme for life science users2026-09-18T11:02:56.059717+00:00Verified professionals gain access to a wider range of biology work, including a model the company has not previously opened to it.https://theaipost.net/story/inference-opt/Claude optimised inference for thirty open biology models, Anthropic says2026-09-18T12:02:56.059717+00:00The company reports a fourfold speed-up and is funding a protein design competition to test more than five thousand designs experimentally.https://theaipost.net/story/virginia-dc/Virginia creates an AI task force and a data centre accountability plan2026-09-19T06:02:56.059717+00:00Governor Spanberger's order cites workforce displacement, data privacy and cybersecurity, in the state carrying the largest concentration of data centres.