The News Roundup For September 18, 2026

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Sep 18, 202687:41News & Politics

This week the nation woke up to the potential danger of runaway tech — that AI is behaving in ways its creators don’t intend and can’t control. And that we might be as little as six months to a year away from AI being ca...

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