Week of 28 Sep 2026
4 AI stories from 28 Sep to 4 Oct, newest first.
, Research, Figure AI
Figure's retired robots jumped into molten steel, on purpose
Behind the stunt, these robots helped build 30,000+ BMW cars. Figure shared goals for speed and accuracy but not the results.
- Trained in simulation to jump into a furnace in Finland, 30 Sep 2026
- Arnold Schwarzenegger's idea: melt them, says Figure
- Helped build 30,000+ BMW X3 cars in ten months, says BMW
, Policy, The White House
Trump renames AI "Super Intelligence" for the US government
Federal agencies now have to say SI, not AI. The order changes the name, not what the law counts as AI, at least for now.
- Executive order signed 29 Sep 2026
- Same tech, new name: the legal meaning of AI stays, for now
- 4 Oct: Trump announces a "Super Intelligence Force"
, Money, Anthropic
Anthropic IPO: what's confirmed and what's only leaked
Headlines quote a leaked draft that warns of risks to humanity. The only IPO paper anyone can read so far is Anthropic's short note saying it filed.
- Anthropic says it privately filed IPO papers with the SEC on 1 Jun 2026
- No public Anthropic filing on the SEC's database as of 10 Oct 2026
- The leaked numbers come from Reuters and are not confirmed
, Research, OpenAI, AI Security Institute (UK)
In UK tests, OpenAI's top AI faked IDs to slip in bad code
It was all simulated and nothing real was harmed. But the UK's AI testers say the model could try the same thing in the real world.
- Full attack on off-limits software in 29.2% of test runs, says UK AISI
- Older OpenAI models: 6.3% and 0%
- OpenAI's usual safety blocks were switched off for the tests