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The industry's most powerful voices spent the day insisting the danger is overblown — even as capital, hardware, and geopolitics all quietly moved in the opposite direction.

Tuesday, September 15, 2026

Jensen Huang Calls AI Extinction Risk 'Made Up' as Altman Warns Labs Must 'Earn Public Trust'

Nvidia's CEO flatly dismissed a claimed 10% chance of AI-driven human extinction as fabricated, opening a public rift with peers — including OpenAI's Sam Altman — over whether the safety conversation is legitimate or a brake on progress.

OpenAI Buys Glass Imaging for $300M, Deepening a Quiet Hardware Push

OpenAI acquired computational-camera startup Glass Imaging for $300 million, adding to an earlier webcam investment and fueling speculation about a consumer device before year's end.

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Xi Pitches Open-Source AI Bloc at BRICS as China and Russia Reportedly Turn to Claude

China's president proposed a US-rivaling open-source AI community at the BRICS summit even as reports surfaced of China and Russia allegedly using Anthropic's Claude for military purposes — turning AI into an explicit front in geopolitical competition.

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Jensen Huang Calls AI Extinction Risk 'Made Up' as Altman Warns Labs Must 'Earn Public Trust'

OpenAI Buys Glass Imaging for $300M, Deepening a Quiet Hardware Push

Xi Pitches Open-Source AI Bloc at BRICS as China and Russia Reportedly Turn to Claude

Coding Agents Cross From Personal Tools to Shared Infrastructure

A Wave of Model Releases Keeps the Agent Boom Fed

Domain-Specific AI Moves Into Factories, Law, and Blood Tests

Capital Keeps Flowing Into AI Hardware and Vertical Apps

Trump Posts on AI Seven Times in a Day, All Against Regulation

Open Source Keeps Winning, Regulation or Not

The 'AI Psychosis' Backlash and a Skepticism Undercurrent