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Wednesday 30 September 2026

5 stories · about 9 minutes

Timeline: 29 September, questions live on America.gov; 29 September, big services must join; within 90 days, OMB memo due; later in 2026, passport and Medicare planned.

Government services

White House opens America.gov as a single front door to federal services

An executive order and fact sheet published on 29 September set out which services the new site will cover, who will build it, and the limits it must observe.

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Timeline: 29 September, order signed; same day, new documents must say SI; old rules stay unchanged; within 60 days, a definition proposal is due.

Federal policy

Executive order tells federal agencies to say 'Super Intelligence' instead of 'AI'

The 29 September order changes the vocabulary of official documents but, by its own terms, leaves the legal definition of the technology where it was.

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The accord's four layers: internal controls, an internal oversight team, an external auditor and an independent board committee. No penalty is stated.

Industry commitments

Tech leaders sign voluntary White House accord on frontier systems

The document, described by Speaker Mike Johnson as a voluntary statement of principles, sets out four layers of review but states no means of enforcement.

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Timeline: 24 September, DIVD discloses the breach and reports it to the Dutch data protection authority, the NCSC and police; 28 September, DIVD update calls the attack 'loud and very very messy'; 1 October, fuller update promised.

Security incident

Dutch vulnerability-disclosure group says it was breached in apparent AI-agent attack

DIVD disclosed the intrusion on 24 September and says the attack's pattern points to an agentic, AI-powered operation; its investigation continues.

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Bar chart of how often GLM-5.3 engaged with an overtly harmful order in Anthropic's simulation: bare order 0%, cover story 64%, prefilled reasoning 92%, abliterated weights 100%.

Cyber capability

Anthropic says China's open-weight GLM-5.3 nearly matches its Mythos Preview at building exploits

A red-team post published on 29 September reports benchmark results, safeguard-bypass rates and a low-cost Chrome exploit chain, all from Anthropic's own testing.

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Feature · Ideas · Alignment

Editorial illustration moving from repeated AI safety patching toward moral discovery: a whack-a-mole board and detect-patch-repeat mallet lead across an A to A-star transition toward a compass, judgment and moral reasoning.

Alignment to what? Why AI safety can look like whack-a-mole

The leading AI labs are getting better at suppressing individual failures. Their own results raise a deeper question: whether morality is ultimately something humans specify to an artificial mind, or something an intelligent agent should learn to discover.

26 September 2026 · 9 minute read

Inside: Alignment to what? · Honour, thumos and practical wisdom · The experiment the labs could run

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