AI & Robotics News — Sunday, September 13, 2026 | Compute Bulletin

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Z.AI Plans $5.0 Billion Fundraising to Fuel AI Expansion

SourcesWall Street Journal TechnologyReuters TechnologyWSAU News/Talk 550 AM · 99.9 FM | Wausau, Stevens PointSouth China Morning Post — Tech

02

OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Altman says

SourcesReuters TechnologyBusiness Today24/7 Wall St.Progressive RobotThe VergeTechCrunchAxios AI+Engadget

03

Z.ai shares tumble over 10% after $5 billion fundraising, its second major raise in two months

SourcesCNBC Technology

04

Donald Trump rejects calls from tech bosses for an AI slowdown

SourcesFinancial Times AIBusiness TodayChicago TribuneLos Angeles TimesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

05

Nav2 Ready v0.1.0 — A CLI readiness checker for custom Nav2 robots

SourcesROS Discourse

06

AI-linked Asian stocks slump after top lab CEOs call for slowing down technology's development

SourcesReuters TechnologyWSAU News/Talk 550 AM · 99.9 FM | Wausau, Stevens Point

07

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up

SourcesInside AISecurityWeekTech Xplore: Machine Learning & AI

08

While Barack Obama urges Democrats to make AI a campaign issue, Trump downplays the need to slow development despite dire warnings

SourcesFortuneTechCrunch

09

Washington scrambles to meet calls for AI guardrails while the window to act closes

SourcesCNBC Technology

10

Chinese leader pledges to help Brics nations with AI and smart manufacturing

SourcesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

11

Anthropic has chosen the Nasdaq for its IPO listing

SourcesBusiness TodayCrypto BriefingTNWBusiness Insider

12

He was close to a huge math breakthrough. Then he got scooped by AI

SourcesWashington Post Technology

13

Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off

SourcesThe Decoder

14

AI Regulation: Who Should Define the Rules?

SourcesCohere

15

Trump Defends White House’s Light Touch On AI Regulation

SourcesWall Street Journal Technology

16

“Machine translation is still broken for most of the world’s languages”: Cohere builds non-reasoning for a reason

SourcesThe New Stack

17

Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter, FT reports

SourcesFinancial Times AIReuters TechnologyWSAU News/Talk 550 AM · 99.9 FM | Wausau, Stevens Point

18

Sanders proposes 20 year prison sentence for AI devs who plow ahead with Artificial Superintelligence plans — penalty on par with…

SourcesTom's Hardware

19

CRA reporting starts tomorrow. How do you tell an exploited vulnerability from a normal robot failure inside 24 hours?

SourcesROS Discourse

20

Chinese researchers extend future memory endurance 100-fold in semiconductor advance

SourcesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

21

Big AI sets out its terms for regulatory capture and calls it ‘Pace the frontier’

SourcesThe Register AI + ML

22

NBI Clearance for Robotics Job Applications: What Documents Should I Prepare?

SourcesROS Discourse

23

China's Ligent seeks about $723 million in Hong Kong IPO, targets AI-related expansion

SourcesReuters Technology

24

Johnson calls for AI solutions but says Congress won't take the lead

SourcesAxios AI+

25

Global AI stocks slip on concerns over risks

SourcesFinancial Times AI