AI Briefing — Sunday, September 20, 2026

Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?

On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down.

I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot

Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion

Trump says it’s time to rebrand AI with a new name — and he’s also creating an AI Force

Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.

Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies

Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.

Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes

Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an ex…

Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint

OpenAI introduces the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint, a six-pillar roadmap for safer AI experiences that protect and empower young people.

LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used

SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.

Go-based Robotics Framework built around NATS.io

Introducing Astra for Law

OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for confidential client work.

Your Agent Aced the Task. Will It Do It Again?

Async GRPO with LoRA across HF Jobs: a bucket, a proxy, and no NCCL

Rebuilding AUTOMATIC1111 with Gradio Workflow

Safety for Whom? Refusing the Right Subset of a Topic, Not the Whole Topic

NeoMME: an efficient Multimodal-native and Multilingual Encoder

Coding Agents with an Obstacle-Aware Harness for Safe Robot Manipulation

Coding agents have emerged as a promising paradigm for robot manipulation: a language model writes the robot controller as a program, and agents built in this way now operate robots without robot-specific training.Wheth…