AI news of 20 September 2026

Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’

Trump announces plan to form an AI Force and appoint an AI czar to lead it.

The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing calls from across the political spectrum and even within the industry to pump the brakes on AI development. He posted that his administration "will not in any way hinder or stifle the Growth of this incredible Industry. Rather, we will cherish it, help it, and watch over it, as it grows!" In the rambling post, Trump said that data centers were "wealthy and prestigious" and claimed without evidence that they raised salaries, lowered taxes, and made for safer streets in the communities in which they were …

The Verge 12h ago 1 min read

AI safety

No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI safety concerns are overblown in television interview.

The Verge 9h ago

Alibaba, image generation models

Alibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters

Alibaba releases Qwen-Image-2.1, an open-weight model generating images on consumer GPUs with 7 billion parameters.

The Decoder 7h ago

Meta, data collection

Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Meta's Muse app uses surveillance to train AI while requesting users' sensitive financial and identity data.

Wired 13h ago

Tencent, multimodal AI agents

Tencent's Gander aims to keep talking while it works in the background

Tencent launches Gander, an AI system that processes speech and images while performing background tasks.

The Decoder 8h ago

datacentres, AI infrastructure

It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Trump backs AI and datacentre expansion while his political base opposes the infrastructure push.

Wired 13h ago

AI regulation

Is the AI industry really ready to slow down? Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Debate over whether AI industry executives are genuinely committed to slowing development.

TechCrunch 5h ago

chip supply

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Samsung plans to more than double HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM chip production.

Hacker News 6h ago

ChatGPT

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector Opens at the publisher in a new tab

ChatGPT gains ability to track user activity across websites via ad collector.

Hacker News 8h ago

cybersecurity, energy

Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems

Human error and insider threats pose greater cybersecurity risks to energy systems than AI attacks.

The Verge 15h ago

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Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’

No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown.

Alibaba's open-weight Qwen-Image-2.1 claims to beat closed models in image generation with just 7 billion parameters

Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Tencent's Gander aims to keep talking while it works in the background

It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Is the AI industry really ready to slow down? Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM Opens at the publisher in a new tab

ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector Opens at the publisher in a new tab

Humans, not rogue AI, are still the biggest cybersecurity risk to energy systems

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