California Drafts Emergency AI Bills as Khanna Demands Charges - AI Briefing for September 13, 2026

The RaceCompanies, models and money

Xi Sells BRICS on Open AI as Beijing Weighs Curbs

Xi offered BRICS a China-led open-source AI community and model cooperation, yet the bloc's declaration ignored it and Beijing spent the summer debating whether to cut foreign access to Qwen, Doubao and GLM, an openness with a ceiling nobody has written down.

Anthropic Picks Nasdaq for an October Float

Samsung Leads Mistral's 'Sovereign' €3B Raise

India's Yotta Buys 80,000 Nvidia Chips

Altman Pitches Grid Security to Utility Chiefs

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

AI Can Unmask Georgia Ballots Before November

A known Dominion flaw lets shuffled ballot records be put back in order, and a Princeton researcher says a public AI assistant did the unshuffling and matched many voters to ballots from May's primary - Georgia says it has mitigated, advocates say not enough.

974 Patches as AI Digs Up Forgotten Code

The WorkbenchTools and agents

OpenAI: Your Codex Skills Now Slow Astra

The FightLaw, policy and power

Obama Tells Democrats to Make AI Their Fight

Obama told a private fundraiser that AI 'moving very fast in private hands' could be dangerous and urged Jeffries to build a public framework if Democrats win the House, making safety a 2028 platform plank; the quotes come from a partial transcript.

Apple Drops Its Never-Train-on-You Promise

NSA Builds an AI Directorate in 30 Days

Sanders: 20 Years in Prison for Building ASI

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

AI May Be Squeezing Pay Before It Takes Jobs

They Fixed the Grid. Data Centers Want It.

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

Prime Video's AI Now Moves Actors' Lips

The Agent Canceled His Flight. $200 Gone.