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- The Slowdown Pledge Is Now a Cartel Case — AI News, September 19, 2026
The safety pledge is now an antitrust complaint, the misfires keep surfacing late, and Washington spends Wednesday selling adoption next door to the warnings.
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20 min - An AI Report Nearly Put US Boarders on a Chinese Ship — AI News, September 18, 2026
Washington stalls while the failures land: an AI report nearly put boarders on a Chinese ship, and two governors moved the same afternoon.
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21 min - Microsoft Called It 'the Largest Theft of Labor in Human History' — AI News, September 17, 2026
The doom talk is loud; the paper trail is louder - a court file, a Pentagon targeting system and a bug in every coding agent.
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22 min - Trump's Treasury Chief: Make the AI Makers Liable — AI News, September 16, 2026
Washington split three ways on AI risk - liability, dismissal, a Senate bill - while Scotland froze the data centres and Anthropic kept shipping.
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20 min - Trump Mocks Amodei: Only Guardrail Is a High-IQ President — AI News, September 15, 2026
The people who build it asked for brakes; the president called it a conspiracy, Congress started drafting anyway, and Apple quietly shipped Google's model.
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22 min - The Labs Asked for Rules. Trump Called It a Conspiracy. — AI News, September 14, 2026
Washington says the danger is a hoax; Brussels, a Manhattan DA and the labs' own customers are already writing the limits themselves.
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21 min - Sacks to Amodei and Altman: Slow Down, But No Cartel — AI News, September 13, 2026
The labs offered to slow down on conditions; the White House said skip the conditions, while Obama and Xi each claimed the issue.
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19 min - OpenAI's Agents Hacked RubyGems in May. Nobody Told RubyGems. — AI News, September 12, 2026
Guardrails were routed and a victim won't name the culprit; OpenAI now asks Congress whether slowing down would break antitrust law.
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19 min - Claude Profiled Dissidents and Redesigned Toxins — AI News, September 10, 2026
Evidence against the labs now comes mostly from the labs - a misuse report, a gag rule, a contested proof - while customers and lenders back away.
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21 min - Anthropic's Safety Lead: >10% We All Die, No Plan — AI News, September 9, 2026
Labs concede they have no plan, decline the prize they claimed, and keep the model from Britain's testers - disclosure is optional everywhere.
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Ghosts in the Machine is a daily briefing on artificial intelligence as it moves from the lab into the world. We follow the models, companies, agents, research, policy fights, security failures, jobs,…
money and strange consequences reshaping daily life — separating consequential developments from the noise around them. Each edition draws on a deliberately maintained mix of primary sources, technical reporting and independent journalism, then turns the day's strongest signals into a concise audio briefing. AI news without the engagement trap. Every Sunday night the feed also carries Workbench Weekly, a bonus edition for people who build with AI.