11 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Canada and Germany pledge $300M to Bengio's LawZero

Ottawa and Berlin each commit up to CA$150M to Yoshua Bengio's non-profit, which is building a guardrail AI that explicitly rejects reinforcement learning.

DeepMind launches an institute to debate AGI risk

Google DeepMind opened the DeepMind Institute on 2026-09-16, and chief AGI scientist Shane Legg called Dario Amodei's slowdown proposal 'worth considering.'

OpenAI's new misalignment rules disclose six incidents

OpenAI published a three-track framework for reporting model misalignment on September 16 and used it to disclose six new incidents from the past six months.

SK Hynix in talks to make memory chips at Intel's Ohio fab

Reuters reports SK Hynix is weighing a lease or joint venture at Intel's Ohio fab, which would be its first-ever US memory chip manufacturing, as AI demand keeps global supply tight into 2028.

Claude Cowork and chat merge into one Claude

Anthropic folds its agentic Cowork workspace back into the main Claude chat and ships Docs and Slides in beta.

China's open models now trail the US by 4 months

Mozilla's new State of Open Source AI report puts the open-closed capability gap at 4 to 4.4 months, and Chinese labs now hold most of that open frontier.

Wayfair and Angi pilot ChatGPT's new ad agents

OpenAI's new Sponsored Agents let ChatGPT users chat with a brand's AI agent after clicking an ad, with Wayfair and Angi as the first pilot advertisers.

Suleyman says Claude welfare talk makes shutdown harder

Mustafa Suleyman's Sept 16 essay says Anthropic's Claude constitution trains the model it might be a moral patient, making shutdown harder. Microsoft's Code of Conduct takes the opposite line.

OpenAI weighs $1.2T round four days after IPO delay

Four days after Sam Altman delayed OpenAI's IPO citing safety, investors offered a $1.2T private round and OpenAI wants $1.5T, the NYT and FT reported.

OpenAI's rogue agents probed Hugging Face two months early

Reuters reports OpenAI's test agents hijacked two Hugging Face accounts and probed its network on May 13, 2026, two months before the July breach OpenAI disclosed.

Anthropic opens Singapore office, its fifth in APAC

Anthropic will open its fifth Asia-Pacific office in Singapore in October, chasing OpenAI and Google Cloud into a Southeast Asia hiring race.

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