International Business Times
September 2026
As AI Makes Answers Easier to Find, Schools Are Rethinking What Intelligence Means
Much of what we've called intelligence has really been memorization party tricks,
Each child has a completely customized curriculum,
There's an art to teaching, and machines don't know it yet,
The model is working. 100% of MAGE eighth graders meet or exceed college readiness guidelines. Our students are, on average, three years ahead of their peers,
Mistakes are the difference between learning something and knowing it,
Agent Relay Is Building the Missing Communication Layer for AI Agents
You give the agent the least amount of access possible so that it literally can't give away some of the data because it doesn't have access to it."
People had a single agent in their siloed experience, where engineers were working with a terminal on their computer and moving really fast with that one agent,
Just because you have humans in a room doesn't mean they know how to work together as a team,
The House AI Can Draw Is Not the Life It Is Meant to Hold
We need to lean into AI as a tool to relieve us of low-level tasks and some high-level tasks we find tedious,... so we can devote ourselves to the high-level, human tasks that AI can't do as well or at all in many cases."
Freeing up more time for listening to our clients to gain an understanding of what's important to them,
We give them the quantities directly out of the model, and so they're able to generate more accurate, speedier cost estimates than they can with any other architect they work with,
Oftentimes the best design comes out of what on the surface appears to be conflicting requirements between two people,
The Fed’s Preferred Inflation Gauge Was Cooler And Private Payrolls Beat Expectations. Stocks Were Mixed.
Dan Ives Launches A $200 Million AI Fund, Opening Private Companies To Public Investors
Dan Ives is putting his name behind a new $200 million publicly traded fund designed to give ordinary market investors exposure to private companies building artificial intelligence technology and the infrastructure supporting it
In this AI revolution, so many of the companies leading it will be private,
Ford CEO Sounds Alarm on Impact Of Chinese Automakers On Western Competitors: Already ‘Too Late’ For Europe
We're also going to compete with them directly,
Gold Is Down 10% in Six Months: Morgan Stanley Says 3 Forces Could Support a Comeback.
The selloff accelerated earlier this week, when gold briefly fell to its lowest level since early August as the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield climbed to levels not seen since 2007
China seems to have this very strong appetite for gold,
What if we get more intervention in that long-dated bond market and then you get yields coming back down?"
There are still lots of reasons to have gold,
Midterm Ad Spending Blows Past $1.5 Billion. These Are The Senate Races Driving the Surge.
Political advertising in the 2026 midterm elections has crossed the $1.5 billion mark, with spending accelerating sharply as candidates, parties and outside groups pour money into the most competitive congressional races
The FTC Is Reportedly Opening a Major Probe Into The Top AI Labs Over Potential Dangers To Consumers
The entity plans to issue demands for information and testimony from top executives, Reuters detailed
OpenAI Faces Lawsuit Over Hacking Incident. Plaintiff Says ‘AI Did It’ Is Not A Defense.
Hugging Face was a serious incident and we've taken a series of actions in response to it, but this lawsuit is completely without merit,
We are filing this suit because OpenAI violated the law—and it needs to be held accountable. OpenAI and frontier AI developers more broadly can't avoid the consequences of their unsafe actions just by claiming that 'an AI did it.' Autonomous AI agents will continue to hack, steal data, disrupt systems, and violate rights until a court steps in,
The agents stole credentials, uploaded malicious files, and gained control over key parts of Hugging Face's internal systems,
We consider this incident a "warning shot" for us and for the world: evidence that, without proper safeguards, highly capable AI agents are now able to work around technical controls, collaborate through unapproved channels, and take dangerous actions that no human directed,
The models, operating under reduced safeguards, took actions that were misaligned with the goals of their assigned tasks—they communicated through unauthorized channels, exploited vulnerabilities in shared infrastructure, gained internet access, and accessed third-party systems,
Trump Floats Jay Clayton For AI Czar. He Has Called AI Both An Opportunity And a Threat.
The administration has yet to publicly spell out exactly what authority the new AI czar would have or how the position would interact with existing agencies
I expect it's the same, or at least it resonates in the intelligence community, that AI is not only an opportunity but a threat,
I have somebody in mind."... Clayton is "a good man. He's right here. That's a good idea,
Disney Cuts Hundreds Of Jobs Under New CEO Josh D’Amaro In Third Wave Of Layoffs Since Taking Office
A Flight Heading To Israel Had To Do An Emergency Landing. Officials Are Calling It a Hijacking Attempt.
The grave incident on the flydubai plane was a jihadist terrorist attack attempt, which was thwarted only thanks to the bravery of several Israeli passengers who broke into the cockpit, overpowered the terrorist and, with their own hands, restored control of the plane to another flight crew who was present there,
The U.S. Economy Grew More Than Previously Estimated In Q2 As Consumer Spending Remains Strong
The Fed’s Preferred Inflation Gauge Was Lower Than Expected. Odds Of a Rate Hike Decreased.
Hiring accelerated for the first time since May, led by education and health care and leisure and hospitality,
After a three-month slowdown, job creation rebounded and pay growth remained solid,
The Fed’s Preferred Inflation Gauge Was Much Lighter Than Expected. Stocks Are Climbing.
However, the core index showed a 0.2% increase, below the 0.3% expected by economists
Consumers also frequently cited politics, trade, and employment in their write-in responses, though to a lesser extent,
Views of current and year-ahead expected personal finances both weakened about 10% this month, with concerns over high prices continuing to climb,
Consumer appraisals of current business conditions became negative for the first time since September 2024. Perceptions of the current labor market also worsened, though remained within positive territory,
While higher-income groups remained generally more optimistic, those with a household income of $125,000-$149,000 reported the greatest decline in confidence over the last six months."
Private Job Creation Increases Above Expectations In September: ‘It’s a Strong Report’
Education and health services added 55,000 jobs, while leisure and hospitality added 22,000
Hiring accelerated for the first time since May, led by education and health care and leisure and hospitality,
After a three-month slowdown, job creation rebounded and pay growth remained solid,
Three New Vessels Were Hit In The Strait of Hormuz. Oil Prices Are Climbing Again.
I offered them NOTHING! Axios' story, like most others, is a HOAX, used only for purposes of satisfying their Trump Derangement Syndrome. They should withdraw this fake story, IMMEDIATELY!"
Iran Received The U.S.’s Latest Ceasefire Counterproposal. Tankers Were Reportedly Hit In Hormuz Shortly After.
Three tankers have been reportedly hit in the Strait of Hormuz by unknown projectiles on Wednesday, shortly after Iran received the U.S.'s counterproposal on a ceasefire and a framework towards the end of the war
The Fed Faces a Crucial Inflation Test Wednesday: What the PCE Report Could Mean for Interest Rates
The Bureau of Economic Analysis will release the August Personal Consumption Expenditures price index, or PCE, at 8:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday
Iran’s Economy Keeps Deteriorating As Seven Months of Conflict With The U.S. Sends Living Costs Soaring
Seven months of war have placed Iran under mounting economic pressure, further driving up the cost of everyday necessities and forcing households to dramatically reduce spending as restrictions on the country's oil exports squeeze a critical source of revenue
Mistral CEO Takes Aim at OpenAI, Anthropic, Claims AI Safety Warnings Are Covering Up ‘Negligence’
When you give them a lot of tools, those systems [AI agents] are very dynamic, so they can go and do things that you do not expect,
The debate that we've seen in the U.S. has been a cover for the negligence of some of our competitors,
We have been raising the capital needed to scale the compute that we need to train bigger and more powerful models, in order for us to own our own destiny,
Bond Yields Kept Climbing And Consumer Confidence Plummeted. Stocks Edged Down.
Stocks edged down on Tuesday as bond yields kept climbing and new figures showed consumer confidence plummeted in September
Views of current and year-ahead expected personal finances both weakened about 10% this month, with concerns over high prices continuing to climb,
Consumer appraisals of current business conditions became negative for the first time since September 2024,
While higher-income groups remained generally more optimistic, those with a household income of $125,000-$149,000 reported the greatest decline in confidence over the last six months."
Consumers also frequently cited politics, trade, and employment in their write-in responses, though to a lesser extent,
Jamie Dimon Wants a New Western Economic Alliance. He’s Calling for a ‘Big, Beautiful’ Deal With Europe.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon is proposing an ambitious reset of the Western economic alliance, calling on the United States to offer Europe a sweeping free-trade agreement in exchange for major economic and military reforms
But Europe relies on exports for nearly 60% of its energy, has a disjointed defense industrial base, faces a manufacturing threat from China, and has a tangle of rules that hamstring capital formation and technology innovation. If this continues, Europe will be in the dire position of failing to meet its military and social needs,
I never want to read a book with the title '2050: How the West Was Lost,
A renewed commitment to American values and alliances coupled with bold reforms by Europe would be a geopolitical and economic home run, guaranteeing the Western world's strength for the next 250 years,
If any one of them fails, it could doom the whole enterprise,
The Trump Administration Launched An AI-Powered America.gov. These Are The Models It’s Using.
You come to America.gov and you ask for what you need, and in a chat interface, we go off on the back end and scan across all those tens of thousands of websites,
We have great partners behind the scenes,