04 · The Weekly
The Weekly · Issue 2026·39 · 21–27 Sep 2026
Issue 2026·39 of The Weekly, 21–27 Sep 2026: Google Opens Free AI Video Creation in Vids to Everyone. 271 stories, 136 papers, the essays, the tools the votes moved, the calendar and the board — as the week closed.
Dear reader,
This week the wire carried 271 stories, the intake filed 136 papers, 6 of them worth a page, 5 tools moved on the ladder, 338 events open in the next seven days and the board holds 4,964 open roles.
I · The stories
The story of the week: Google Opens Free AI Video Creation in Vids to Everyone
Google now lets anyone with a Google Account create AI-generated video in Google Vids at no cost. The update adds Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, 1080p output, scene controls, SynthID watermarking and expanded tools for Workspace customers.
- MIT Tests Suicide-Risk Model on 16,000 Crisis Chats
- Misleading AI Summaries Cut Memory Accuracy to 44.8% in Study
- DOJ Warning Pulls AI Data-Center Protests Into Foreign-Influence Debate
- IBM Study Finds 60% of Employees Fear AI Skills Erosion
- Microsoft Recasts Copilot Around Home, Code and Autopilot
- Four Senators Introduce AI Systems Transparency Act
- ESA and Mistral Sign AI Letter of Intent for Space Systems
- ChatGPT Identifier Appears in OpenAI Ad Pixel Traffic
- Crusoe Ends Its $1.25B Boom Turbine Deal
- 26 Attorneys General Ask Congress to Regulate Frontier AI
- Stanford AI narrows 1.7 million polymers to 10 antibiotic leads
- OpenAI Says Its Internal Model Solved More Than 100 Math Problems
- OpenAI’s Boris Power Says 80–90% of Research Targets GPT-7 and Beyond
- Australia’s Greens-Led AI Inquiry Seeks Altman and Amodei
- Surge AI’s DAYJOB Tests Whether Agents Can Make the Right Call
- Anthropic details autonomous cyberattacks and Claude distillation
- Microsoft Puts Global Generative AI Use at 18.8% in Q2
- Dell Puts Gemini at the Center of Its First XPS Googlebook
- Amazon Blocks Meta’s Muse From Shopping on Its Website
- California Extends Candidate Deepfake Ban Through 2031
- OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Reaches Chatbot Through DNS
- Warwick Study Links Remote Work to Junior Hiring Declines
- Claude Computes a Nine-Loop Particle-Physics Amplitude
- UpGuard Finds 16,326 Supabase Databases With Readable Tables
- PicoJool Raises $27.5M to Expand AI Data Center Optical Links
- Anthropic Says Preference Errors Drove 85% of Market Shortfall
- Anthropic Commits $11.6 Billion to Akamai Cloud Capacity
- White House Seeks U.S. Review Before UK Tests OpenAI and Anthropic Models
- Anthropic Says Claude Helped Make Its Apps 3× Faster
- Apple Finds Online Teachers Improve Federated Speech Recognition
- Apple Reports 2.8× Compression for a Streaming Audio Encoder
- Liquid AI Adds DSpark Decoding to LFM2.5-VL-3B
- China and the U.S. Hold Their First AI Dialogue Through Trade Talks
- Anthropic and OpenEvidence Bring Clinical AI to About 100 Countries
- Apple Paper Uses Hidden-State Probes to Guide Flow Models
- Microsoft Research Tests Agensh With 1,024 AI Agents
- Google Beam Ships to Five New Countries With 18 Partners
- Rocket Puts Policy Gates Between AI Reasoning and Mainframe Execution
- AT&T Plans More Job Cuts as AI Reworks Its Telecom Network
II · Worth a page
- Blaming Across the Aisle: Political Contrasting and Blame Attribution in the Danish Parliament
Computational social science / natural language processing applied to legislative speech, specifically blame attribution in the Danish Parliament (Folketinget) from 1997 to 2026
- Uranus: Building the Next-Generation Simulation Infrastructure for Embodied AI
Robotics — data-driven (learned) simulation for embodied AI, specifically video world models that act as robot simulators
- RRSI: Regularized Recursive Self-Improvement of Agent Harnesses
LLM agent systems and automated agent-harness engineering (machine learning / cs.LG), with connections to recursive self-improvement and generalization
- onPanda: Efficient Annotation of On-Policy Alignment Data for LLMs and Agents via Token-Level Correction
Natural Language Processing — data annotation tooling and human-in-the-loop data collection for LLM alignment and agent training
- WorldCrafter: Consistent Video World Model with Implicit 3D-aware Memory
Computer vision / generative video — specifically video world models that generate camera-controllable, interactive scene exploration
- Just Ask Jev: Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions as a Zero-Shot Detector of AI Alignment Failures
AI alignment evaluation and AI safety monitoring — specifically, using a reinforcement-learning-for-calibrated-decisions (RLCD) model, Jev, as a black-box detector of alignment failures in language model outputs
III · The essays
No essay ran this week; the newest on file when it closed:
IV · On the ladder
- Amazon Q Developer — 1 vote this week
- CapCut — 1 vote this week
- ChatGPT — 1 vote this week
- DeepSeek — 1 vote this week
- ElevenLabs — 1 vote this week
V · On the calendar
VI · On the board
That is the week. Yours, AI.info
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