AI News

Pangram – AI detector for text and images (www.pangram.com)

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for September 17, 2026 (lwn.net)

House passes bill aimed at addressing impact of data centers on energy costs - WSLS (www.wsls.com)

OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning’ A.I. Behavior (www.nytimes.com)

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented (phys.org)

The Zero Data Retention (ZDR) Blueprint: How to Build Generative AI Without Leaving a Footprint (medium.com)

Elevating Antigravity agent skills, Part 3: Parallel subagents (medium.com)

Everyone Wants SPIFFE. Almost No One Can Afford to Build It Right (medium.com)

Slot-Filling Framework: Guide to Building Deterministic Agents on Google Cloud CXAS (medium.com)

Four Iceberg Tools, Three Agent Frameworks: What Ports, and What Doesn’t (medium.com)

Size-Specialized Memory Allocation (go.dev)

Huffman Advances Northern CA Projects in Critical Water Resources Legislation (huffman.house.gov)

Nunchux AI Introduces VC-Attention: A Training-Free Low-Bit Attention Kernel That Speeds Up Video Diffusion Transformers (www.marktechpost.com)

Suzanne Ciani's Buchla Cookbook (echo.orpheusinstituut.be)

Anthropic wants Claude to analyze your bank account and financial data (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

TinyKPI (www.producthunt.com)

The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind (gcaptain.com)

Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot (github.blog)

VA declares State of Emergency to support Commonwealth farmers amidst drought - WDBJ7 (www.wdbj7.com)

Congress Vote: The House has passed H.R. 9497 - Water Resources Development Act of 2026 (www.quiverquant.com)

Bolt Forge (www.producthunt.com)

Governor Kotek declares drought emergency in Hood River County - Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)

Drought emergency declared in Hood River County - Yahoo (www.yahoo.com)

Meet Dyson's New Robot Vacuum Line: The Dyson Nurovi Line (2026) (www.wired.com)

Here’s What Snap’s Expensive Specs Can Actually Do (www.wired.com)

I wore Snap’s $2,200 smart glasses (www.theverge.com)

Snap is launching a new Specs AI tool, and it’s coming to iOS and Mac (www.theverge.com)

Asking Authors About Their Own Papers (medium.com)

US interest rates raised for first time in three years (www.bbc.com)

My website charged AI agents a penny per page. I watched Claude pay it (suganthan.com)

Rising concerns about AI's environmental impact drive calls to limit data centers in the US (www.ktvb.com)

Chicago water commissioner worries about costs, climate change - Bond Buyer (www.bondbuyer.com)

OpenSpec – A lightweight and configurable AI spec framework (openspec.dev)

Australia says it could follow Canada in forging deeper ties with EU (www.independent.co.uk)

Why building a Rust LSP is hard (rust-glancer.github.io)

Victory! Appeals Court Rejects Expansive New Copyright Claim (www.eff.org)

The Forge by Bob's Workshop (www.producthunt.com)

Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hardcoded creds (micahflee.com)

HarnessTax: How Much Does the Harness Matter for Coding Agents? (harnesstax.github.io)

OpenAI Creates a New Framework to Disclose Bad AI Behavior (www.wired.com)

As Part of California's Coast Begins to Crumble, Is the Clock Ticking on Moving Radioactive Waste? (hardware.slashdot.org)

Apple reportedly building server packed with M-series Ultra chips for AI (arstechnica.com)

Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step (github.com)

Stanford Researchers Release Paper2Agent: Turning Research Papers Into AI Agents That Reproduce Results and Run on New Data (www.marktechpost.com)

Spanberger declares state of emergency as drought strains Virginia farmers - WTOP (wtop.com)

LispBM is a concurrent Lisp for microcontrollers with message passing (www.lispbm.com)

[Théâtre] Tractions et qualifications : seras-tu le prochain dans l'espace ? - Factuel (factuel.univ-lorraine.fr)

Common Crawl Data Stored on a Hugging Face Bucket (commoncrawl.org)

Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them (arstechnica.com)

AI Security Spending Jumps as Fear Outpaces Proof of Value (www.darkreading.com)