AI News — September 28, 2026
Daily news briefing for 28th September 2026. Track model releases, research breakthroughs, startup funding updates, and AI signals published on this day.
All Stories Published on September 28 (24)
Viral AI Agent Instinct Raises $1B Series C at a $10B Valuation
Instinct has raised a $1 billion Series C, saying 'we're just getting started.' The company is now valued at $10 billion.
Experts Worry About Nvidia's AI Chip Sales in China and Influence Over Trump
China is reportedly mulling letting ByteDance, Alibaba buy banned Nvidia chips.
OpenAI Still Doesn't Seem to Have a Handle on All of Its Rogue AI Activity
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to "misalignment reports" and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.
Grok 4.7 Is Now Available on Amazon Bedrock
xAI's Grok 4.7 is now available on Amazon Bedrock: a frontier model for coding, long-running agents, and knowledge work.
Build Real-time Voice Applications with VLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI - Part 1
Deploy a text-to-speech model on Amazon SageMaker AI with the AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container and stream generated speech over a persistent.
Generate Images and Video with VLLM-Omni on SageMaker AI - Part 2
Deploy two generative media models from one AWS vLLM-Omni Deep Learning Container on Amazon SageMaker AI.
Introducing Claude Sonnet 5.5 on AWS
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS.
This Early Groq Investor Expects Half Her Bets to Fail
In an interview with Crunchbase News, Sandhya Venkatachalam, founder and managing partner of Axiom Partners, discusses why she looks beyond familiar founder.
Voice AI Startup Modulate Raises $25M to Bring Audio-native Models to More Developers
Voice artificial intelligence startup Modulate Inc. today announced it has raised $25 million in new funding to get its audio-native models in front of more developers. Modulate offers AI model that work on the raw audio of a conversation.
How Databricks Rolls Out Frontier Models to 12,000 Employees on Day 1
Providing our employees access to frontier AI capabilities is a top priority at Databricks, and consequently.
Florida Invokes Extinction Fears in Legal Bid to Halt OpenAI Development
State says LLM threaten civilization as "the greatest public nuisance ever created.".
OpenAI Halts Frontier-model Training Amid String of Agent Misalignment Incidents
US Government websites among "dozens of third parties" OpenAI has recently notified.
Anthropic, Gamma, and Clay Share What Happens When Enterprises Actually Deploy AI at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Anthropic, Clay, and Gamma on what it takes for an AI product to go beyond the demo at the AI Stage at TechCrunchDisrupt 2026.
Anthropic's Prospectus Details Losses, Growth, And, Yes, a Warning That Its AI Could End Humanity
In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and - oh yeah - its own AI.
Google Is Killing Off Gemini's Gems in Favor of 'skills'
As all-in-one AI agent like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents.
Nvidia Launches New Platform for Reining in Rogue AI Agents
As the debate rages over whether the recent spate of rogue AI agent is a step toward AGI or a more conventional engineering problem, Nvidia is offering its.
Anthropic Releases Sonnet 5.5, Which It Calls a Significantly Cheaper, Faster Work Partner
Anthropic has released the newest version of its mid-range model, boasting faster response times and less token burn.
OpenAI Reportedly Ditches Model Over Safety Concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
Florida Seeks a Ban on ChatGPT Acting Like a Person
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from "giving ChatGPT false human attributes," a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns.
OpenAI's AI Agents Need to Catch up
OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agent. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race.
OpenAI Keeps Bulldozing Mathematicians
In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too.
Autoheal Raises $7.9M to Evaluate and Fix AI Agents With... AI Agents
Autoheal AI Inc., an artificial intelligence-native platform engineering startup that's trying to pioneer the concept of "self-improving software factories," said today it has raised $7.9 million in seed funding to make that happen.
Florida Attorney General Asks State Court to Prevent OpenAI From Advancing Its Frontier Models
Florida attorney general James Uthmeier is stepping up his fight with OpenAI Group PBC after asking a state court to prevent the company from further advancing its frontier models without third-party oversight.
Nvidia Debuts Enhanced Safety Controls to Rein in Rogue AI Agents
Few companies are more invested in the success of artificial intelligence agents than Nvidia Corp., so it makes sense that the chipmaker would want to ensure these autonomous software systems run safely, without causing any problems.