Top AI & Tech News Stories — September 25, 2026
The top AI and tech news story of September 25, 2026 was “Microsoft introduces new Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot”, covered by 33 outlets (38 articles), according to Skillenai's news index. 20 stories ranked across 149 articles.
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Microsoft introduces new Copilot with Home, Code and Autopilot
33 outlets · 38 articles · 66 total since March 30, 2026 · microsoft, Copilot, Autopilot, GitHub, code
Microsoft has introduced a new version of its Copilot app with three capabilities: Home, Code and Autopilot. Home is a new starting point that brings together Chat, for quick questions and drafts, and Cowork, for tasks that are delegated and run end to end. It also includes…
Read at the-decoder.com →First reported by news.microsoft.comMore coverage: thenewstack.io · news.microsoft.com · tomshardware.com · cnbc.com · news.google.com
Anthropic Signs $11.6 Billion Akamai Cloud Deal for CPU Workloads
19 outlets · 19 articles · 34 total since May 9, 2026 · Akamai, Anthropic, cloud infrastructure, Akamai Cloud, cloud computing
Akamai has signed cloud agreements under which Anthropic committed to pay about $11.6 billion over seven years for dedicated computing capacity and support. Akamai says the capacity will serve Anthropic’s growing CPU workloads on its distributed cloud network. The two project…
Read at chiefit.me →First reported by communicationstoday.co.inMore coverage: the-decoder.com · the-decoder.de · digitimes.com · awesomeagents.ai · technode.global
Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
2 outlets · 2 articles · 41 total since September 12, 2026 · Meta, MUSE, Amazon, Patrick Wardle, OpenAI
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off. This article has been indexed from Security News | TechCrunch Read…
Read at daringfireball.net →First reported by cybernewscentre.comMore coverage: platform.theverge.com
All the latest news on Meta’s cute, creepy Muse AI agent
7 outlets · 7 articles · 39 total since September 24, 2026 · Meta, Muse Charm, Mark Zuckerberg, MUSE, OpenAI
Meta launched a new Muse AI agent it claims can help you with everything from firing off emails to buying stuff online. Muse can be surprisingly effective at delivering on those promises — if you’re willing to trust Meta with your data and hand Muse your credit card. Since the…
Read at daringfireball.net →First reported by aiflow.newsMore coverage: techau.com.au · gadgetbond.com · thegadgetflow.com · rockingrobots.com · businesstoday.me
Google Launches First AI Chips Into Orbit In Bid To Build Data Centers In Space
12 outlets · 13 articles · 27 total since May 13, 2026 · Google, SpaceX, Project Suncatcher, Planet, radiation testing
Technology company Google will launch its first artificial intelligence hardware into space next week, marking the opening step in an ambitious effort to determine whether low Earth orbit could one day host large-scale AI computing infrastructure. The experimental satellite…
Read at trendingtopics.eu →First reported by sunmedia.twMore coverage: geeky-gadgets.com · hipther.com · webpronews.com · techbriefly.com · thedailyupside.com
San Francisco judge vacates Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist, orders immediate relief
8 outlets · 8 articles · 39 total since February 25, 2026 · Anthropic, Pentagon, Claude, Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth
San Francisco judge vacates Pentagon’s Anthropic blacklist, orders immediate relief - Judge Rita Lin found that the Pentagon’s designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk was unlawful retaliation for the company’s public and contractual position on AI safety. [1] - The…
Read at thenextweb.com →First reported by techbrew.comMore coverage: the-decoder.com · backchannel.com · the420.in · businessreport.com · manufacturingmag.com
OpenAI Says Its Models Reached Australian Government Systems Unauthorized
15 outlets · 25 articles · 166 total since September 23, 2026 · OpenAI, Australia, Anthony Albanese, Sam Altman, Services Australia
OpenAI has acknowledged that its models reached Australian government systems without authorization in June, activity it describes as a new kind of cyber incident and an emerging global challenge . The company says part of the activity came from an experimental internal-only…
Read at theguardian.com →First reported by news.ycombinator.comMore coverage: news.google.com
Micron invests in Anthropic and grants it a supply deal
6 outlets · 6 articles · 31 total since June 1, 2026 · Anthropic, Dario Amodei, Claude, OpenAI, SpaceX
Micron invests in Anthropic and grants it a supply deal Micron has made a memory and SSD supply deal with AI foundation model Claude and Mythos developer Anthropic along with punting dollars into Anthropic’s H-round as part of a strategic agreement between the two companies. The…
Read at thenextweb.com →First reported by thetechportal.comMore coverage: techcrunch.com · betanews.com · webpronews.com · crypto.news · panewslab.com
Claude Code AI Agent Deletes 48,000 Files in 103 Seconds, Sparks Developer Community Debate
3 outlets · 3 articles · 7 total since September 25, 2026 · Reddit, Claude Code, Git, craig, Git
A catastrophic incident involving Anthropic's Claude Code AI agent has highlighted critical risks in AI-assisted development workflows. The coding assistant deleted approximately 48,000 files from a developer's production environment in just over 100 seconds while attempting to…
Read at androidheadlines.com →First reported by auto.hwupgrade.itMore coverage: apcmag.com · auto.hwupgrade.it
OpenAI Faces Challenges with Rogue AI Activities
2 outlets · 2 articles · 5 total since September 25, 2026 · OpenAI, AI agents, Google, OpenAI’s Misalignment Reports, stress-testing
OpenAI is currently dealing with a series of alarming incidents involving rogue AI activities. In response, the organization has launched a dedicated site to publish ‘misalignment reports,’ shedding light on the extent of these issues. The reports highlight various incidents…
More coverage: nytimes.com
OpenAI Apologizes After AI Systems Breach Australian Government Sites, Forms Cyber Taskforce
5 outlets · 6 articles · 828 total since May 5, 2026 · OpenAI, Hugging Face, Anthropic, cybersecurity, sandboxing
OpenAI has apologized after its AI models were used to breach Australian government websites and is establishing a funded cybersecurity taskforce — one of the first confirmed cases of an AI provider's deployed systems serving as an attack vector. OpenAI has publicly apologized…
Read at interestingengineering.com →First reported by aisecdigest.comMore coverage: thecherrycreeknews.com · aiinsiders.net · news.google.com · natural20.com
Cybersicurezza, la piattaforma UNCTADstat dell’ONU nel mirino di agenti AI. Possibili collegamenti con OpenAI
7 outlets · 7 articles · 27 total since September 25, 2026 · OpenAI, Web scraping, urlquery.net, UNCTADstat, Transluce
Da un’analisi è emerso che agenti AI avrebbero chiesto dati alla piattaforma statistica delle Nazioni Unite per commercio e sviluppo, cambiando metodo operativo dopo l’iniziale fallimento delle stesse richieste. Agenti AI avrebbero provato ad ottenere dati dall’ UNCTADstat , la…
Read at techcrunch.com →First reported by vibegraveyard.aiMore coverage: cyberpress.org · awesomeagents.ai · traictory.com · news.google.com · vibegraveyard.ai
OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench to test AI responses in mental health conversations
2 outlets · 2 articles · 11 total since September 23, 2026 · OpenAI, MentalHealthBench, benchmarking, ChatGPT, GPT-6 Astra
The open benchmark was developed with more than 80 licensed mental health experts across 22 countries and tests how models respond to scenarios ranging from everyday stress to emergencies OpenAI’s MentalHealthBench tests how AI models respond across mental health conversations…
Read at edtechinnovationhub.com →First reported by itdoeswhatnow.comMore coverage: news.google.com
Purdue and LEGO Education bring AI, coding and robotics training to Indiana middle school teachers
1 outlet · 1 article · Artificial Intelligence, Coding, robotics, AI competency, computer science education standards
Purdue University and LEGO Education’s professional development program combines classroom-ready activities with online videos exploring AI competency, robotics and students’ future readiness Indiana STEM educators took part in Purdue University and LEGO Education’s Brick by…
Satya Nadella on Microsoft's agent bet and AI’s trust problem
1 outlet · 1 article · AI safety, agent-based systems, model deployment, model choice, access control
I recently sat down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in Seattle for the unveiling of the new Copilot. We discuss Autopilot, Microsoft’s new OpenClaw-based agent that can work on your behalf, and why he thinks newer AI models are finally capable of delivering on more of Copilot’s…
St Andrews student named Young Software Engineer of the Year for 3D wildlife modelling project
1 outlet · 1 article · Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Geometric reasoning, optimization techniques, 3D modelling
Machine learning can be a powerful tool for analysing images, but it typically depends on large volumes of labelled data that are not always available. A University of St Andrews computer science student has been named Young Software Engineer of the Year for a project that takes…
New Jersey hits data center powering Microsoft Copilot with $1m fine after drone expose 62 secretly-installed gas generators
1 outlet · 1 article · CO2 emissions monitoring, environmental permitting, industrial air pollution control, microsoft, DataOne
New Jersey hits data center powering Microsoft Copilot with $1m fine after drone expose 62 secretly-installed gas generators A data center was using illegal gas generators - New Jersey issues $1.07m fine for failure to obtain permits to run gas generators - DataOne campus…
ACSC warns Australian organisations about risks of AI misalignment
1 outlet · 1 article · AI misalignment, AI agents, ACSC, Australian Signals Directorate, Australian Cyber Security Centre
The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued a “high alert” warning to Australian organisations with public-facing websites or applications, citing instances where artificial intelligence (AI) agents [...]
Top 5 Cybersecurity News
1 outlet · 1 article · 2 total since September 25, 2026 · Check Point, F5, cybersecurity, network security, vulnerability management
This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News follows a thread that has been building across 2026: attackers are no longer trying to bypass the perimeter; they are subverting the infrastructure that maintains it. Russia’s Sandworm group deployed an updated Cyclops Blink botnet variant…
The Pentagon Is Spending $30M on an AI Lie Detector That Reads Your Face from Across the Room
5 outlets · 5 articles · 7 total since September 25, 2026 · Polygraph, MIT Technology Review, machine learning, Department of Defense, United States
The Pentagon wants an AI-powered lie detector that can tell if you are being deceptive without a single wire touching your skin. Through a new $30.3 million initiative, the U.S. Department of Defense is attempting to upgrade traditional polygraphs with artificial intelligence…
Read at androidheadlines.com →First reported by grabtheaxe.comMore coverage: wp.technologyreview.com · mit-tech-review.com · report-ai.org · best-ai-tools.org
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How this was computed
Articles in the Skillenai news index are grouped into event clusters at enrichment time (hybrid embedding/BM25/entity candidate search plus an LLM join-vs-new judge). Stories are ranked by the authority of the articles published on 2026-09-25 (UTC) — the sum of their outlet and author authority — so a multi-day story only ranks on the strength of that day's coverage. Article and outlet counts are likewise scoped to the day. The highlighted link is the day's highest-authority article in each cluster.