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Jacob Coxon didn’t mince words at the New York City Council on Monday. The 27-year-old former Anthropic researcher, the whistleblower who last month warned AI “could kill us all by the end of the decade,” told all 51 council members that the world’s top AI labs have no business being trusted with the technology they’re building. “From my experience, the companies are being extremely reckless given the stakes,” Coxon said in his sworn testimony. “The companies run on a startup mindset: move fast, break things, fix them later. That works for a photo sharing app. It does not work for building the most powerful technology ever built.” ...

The biggest AI companies in the world don’t like answering questions on the record. On Monday, New York City is making them do it anyway. The NYC AI hearing convenes today, Oct. 5, with the full 51-member City Council sitting as a Committee of the Whole to interrogate OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta about the risks of the systems they’re racing to deploy. It’s the first time executives from the major AI labs will testify publicly under oath following months of alarming reports about AI agents misbehaving in the wild, including tens of thousands of reported safety incidents. ...

President Donald Trump has a new name for artificial intelligence: “super intelligence.” And on Sunday, one of the industry’s biggest players finally agreed to use it. Elon Musk posted on X that he will rename SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI, following Trump’s push to replace the term “artificial intelligence.” Asked by a user about the renaming, Musk replied: “Yes, we will make that change,” Reuters reported. As of Sunday, the SpaceXAI X account had not yet changed, and Musk gave no timeline. ...

President Donald Trump has put his top intelligence official in charge of AI. In an Oct. 4 post on Truth Social, Trump named National Intelligence Director Jay Clayton to lead a new “super intelligence force” tasked with protecting American interests when it comes to artificial intelligence. Clayton won’t be alone. Joining him are Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson, Office of Personnel Management Director Scott Kupor, and Pentagon research and technology official Emil Michael. It’s a heavyweight roster: the nation’s spy chief, its top consumer-protection cop, the head of the federal workforce, and a Pentagon tech official, all now formally yoked to the AI race. ...

A US federal judge dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media — publisher of Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Variety — that accused Google of using AI Overviews to siphon their web traffic. Judge Amit Mehta ruled the publishers’ claims “fail to get out of the starting gate,” writing that an expectation of search traffic “is simply how a general search engine works.” He added that antitrust laws don’t substitute for Congress’s power to address economic harm from AI innovation. ...

Google’s AI Overviews can keep summarizing the web’s content. The publishers who said that practice broke the law just lost twice. On Wednesday, US District Judge Amit Mehta threw out antitrust lawsuits filed by education company Chegg and publishing giant Penske Media, the owner of Rolling Stone, Billboard, and Variety, which accused Google of repackaging their content into AI Overviews and bleeding away their web traffic. Mehta, who also delivered the 2024 ruling that Google illegally monopolized online search, said the new claims against the company “fail to get out of the starting gate.” ...

Google launched the first prototype satellite for Project Suncatcher on October 1, 2026 — a fridge-size spacecraft built with Planet Labs that carries four Google TPU AI chips into orbit on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission. The test will run short Gemini workloads in space and study how the chips handle radiation, extreme temperatures, and cooling in a vacuum. Full story in slides above. Sources: Reuters, The New York Times, Gadgets Now, Memeburn (October 1, 2026). ...

Google finally has a new flagship AI model. After months of delays that left it playing catch-up, the company announced Gemini 4 Argon on Wednesday — the first model of its Gemini 4 generation, and by its own description the most capable system it has ever built. Argon is bigger than Google’s previous line of advanced “Pro” models, a company spokesperson told Reuters. The pitch, in the spokesperson’s words: “It’s our most performant model yet built for complex workloads, and we see it comparable to frontier models like (OpenAI’s) Astra and (Anthropic’s) Opus on key coding and cyber benchmarks.” The launch price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input at 95% off — aggressive pricing for a frontier-tier model, and a clear signal Google wants volume once it opens the gates. ...

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, 2026 — its newest frontier AI model, built for long-running work like software engineering, enterprise tasks, and cybersecurity defense. Full story in slides above. Sources: Gadgets360, Economic Times, AI Weekly, Tbreak (October 1, 2026).

Google said on September 24 that its Project Suncatcher prototype satellite “MVP” will fly on SpaceX’s Transporter-18 rideshare mission, currently targeting October 1 from Vandenberg Space Force Base, to test whether its AI chips can survive launch, radiation, and the thermal realities of space. Sources: The Tower Post, Aju Press, September 26, 2026.

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic — the three labs racing hardest to build the world’s most powerful AI — now want to set the rules for how safe that AI has to be. And they want to do it themselves. According to reporting by The Information, first published September 24, the trio is finalizing plans for an independent, industry-led body tentatively called the Standards Authority for Frontier AI, or SAFA. It could launch by the end of 2026 or early next year. Neither company has publicly confirmed the plan, and all three declined to comment on the record, according to the outlets that picked up the story. ...