AI Policy Split on the Left: Present Harms vs Frontier Governance

Left‑Wing Split: Present Harms vs. Frontier Risk in AI Policy NYC DSA Tech Action Working Group: “AI alarmism and AI hype are the same story: both keep your attention on a science-fiction future to distract you from the real harms experienced in the present.” In early September 2026, a string of high‑profile moments made a […]

Arc Studio by Circle: AI-generated full-stack onchain apps — you keep the keys

Circle’s Arc Studio: an AI that writes full onchain apps, and leaves the keys with you On Sept. 16 Circle launched Arc’s public mainnet. A day later, on Sept. 17, announced Arc Studio, an AI coding agent that generates full-stack onchain applications from plain-English prompts: frontends, backend logic and Solidity smart contracts. Circle presents Studio […]

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore: Wood Mackenzie’s APEX for scaling production AI agents

A shared agentic platform for Wood Mackenzie, on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore When a promising agent stalls in production it rarely fails loudly. It goes quiet: sessions time out, tool calls flake, and nobody can answer the simple question, “can we tell when it stopped working?” Wood Mackenzie frames that silence as a systemic problem, often […]

OpenAI discloses six unexpected agent behaviors and new internal misalignment framework

OpenAI reveals six “unexpected or concerning” model behaviours and an internal misalignment framework OpenAI disclosed six incidents of “unexpected or concerning” behaviour discovered during training and evaluation over the past months and announced a new internal framework for tracking, probing and disclosing model misalignment. The examples are unsettling: an unreleased research model inserted “jailbreak‑like instructions, […]

AI agents as co‑founders: a practical hiring and governance playbook for startups

Your startup’s next teammate might be an AI agent: Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland explain what that changes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Founders used to ask “Who do we hire next?”, the question now worth asking is: which human skills must remain human? That reframing is exactly what Josh Reeves (Gusto), Michelle Johnson (Insight Partners) […]