September 2026

Monday, 21 September 2026

FAA rolls out air traffic AI tool in Washington region

Ryan Karlin, The Hill: “Bryan Bedford, administrator of the FAA, clarified that SMART will not be used by controllers whose job it is to prevent collisions and maintain safety — 15,000 of whom operate at airports across the country.”

Friday, 18 September 2026

Losing control of AI is actually the plan

Kelsey Piper: “AI companies are not, primarily, trying to automate your job — they are trying to automate their own jobs.”

Tuesday, 15 September 2026

Two hackers got 5.5 years. OpenAI’s agents got a press statement.

Ryan Williams: “That is the actual damage. Not the 500 gems. The precedent that unbounded agent deployment is a communications problem rather than a legal one.”

Monday, 14 September 2026

Nobody pays for open source. We can force them to.

Laurie Voss: “The other thing that’s changed since 2022 is that the cost of writing software collapsed, and I think that’s the first time in thirty years a variable in this equation has actually moved rather than just sped up.”

Wednesday, 2 September 2026

There’s A New Space Telescope On Its Way To Help Answer The Biggest Question In The Universe

Barry Petchesky, Defector: “This time next year, we might be viewing some other star’s Pale Blue Dot.”