AI Journalism https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/ 2026-09-30T17:00:00+01:00 White House opens America.gov as a single front door to federal services https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-30/america-gov-launch/ 2026-09-30T17:00:00+01:00 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. Executive order tells federal agencies to say 'Super Intelligence' instead of 'AI' https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-30/super-intelligence-executive-order/ 2026-09-30T17:00:00+01:00 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. Tech leaders sign voluntary White House accord on frontier systems https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-30/white-house-super-intelligence-accord/ 2026-09-30T17:00:00+01:00 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. Dutch vulnerability-disclosure group says it was breached in apparent AI-agent attack https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-30/divd-agentic-breach-disclosure/ 2026-09-30T17:00:00+01:00 DIVD disclosed the intrusion on 24 September and says the attack's pattern points to an agentic, AI-powered operation; its investigation continues. Anthropic says China's open-weight GLM-5.3 nearly matches its Mythos Preview at building exploits https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-30/anthropic-glm-5-3-cyber-report/ 2026-09-30T17:00:00+01:00 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. Australia says an OpenAI research agent accessed Australian statistics portal without authorisation https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-26/medicare/ 2026-09-26T17:00:00+01:00 An OpenAI research agent gained unauthorised access to infrastructure behind an Australian government statistics portal during an internal evaluation. The government made the incident public on 24 September. Google to test AI chips in orbit on first Suncatcher flight https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-26/orbit/ 2026-09-26T17:00:00+01:00 Google says a prototype satellite carrying its Tensor Processing Units will fly on SpaceX's Transporter-18 rideshare mission. It is a test of whether the chips survive, not an orbital data centre. New benchmark tests whether AI agents can pick the better path https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-26/taste/ 2026-09-26T17:00:00+01:00 A pre-print from Wenbo Pan and eight co-authors measures whether models can choose the better direction at a fork in a long task. The strongest model tested averaged 59.7 per cent. Alibaba unveils Zhenwu V900 chip and plans model of up to ten trillion parameters https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-26/zhenwu/ 2026-09-26T17:00:00+01:00 At its Apsara Conference, Alibaba introduced its next-generation AI accelerator and set out plans for a much larger model. The performance claims are the company's own. Dutch agencies warn leaders that AI is speeding up cyberattacks https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-26/dutch-cyber/ 2026-09-26T17:00:00+01:00 Seven Dutch public bodies have jointly warned that AI is increasing the number, scale and complexity of cyberattacks. The warning is aimed at senior leaders, not only IT departments. Claude found a new enzyme system in phages, Anthropic says https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-23/art/ 2026-09-23T17:00:00+01:00 Anthropic says Claude found a previously uncharacterised enzyme system in bacteriophages. The company says it does not yet know what the system does. Epoch AI says the price of a given level of AI performance is falling fast https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-23/price/ 2026-09-23T17:00:00+01:00 Epoch AI estimates that since 2023 the cost of reaching a given level of AI performance has fallen about 47 percent per quarter. The figures are Epoch's own estimates. Newsom names four advisers as California studies an AI emergency shutoff https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-23/california/ 2026-09-23T17:00:00+01:00 Governor Gavin Newsom's office has named four advisers to help work out how independent oversight of frontier AI might operate. An emergency shutoff is a proposal under study, not a requirement. OpenAI publishes a benchmark of mental-health conversations, emergencies included https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-23/mental-health/ 2026-09-23T17:00:00+01:00 OpenAI has released MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark of 1,215 conversations that runs from everyday well-being to emergencies. The scores it reports are OpenAI's own. Epoch AI tests whether models can spot mistakes in IKEA assembly https://theamateur.co.uk/ai-journalism/2026-09-23/furniture/ 2026-09-23T17:00:00+01:00 Epoch AI has tested whether models can spot mistakes in photographs of IKEA builds. The best score has risen from 28 percent last November to 80 percent.