Monday, 28 September 2026

12 stories and 3 video reports, filed between 08:09 and 19:09. Times are filing times in Bratislava, not the time of the event.

Security

ServiceNow's HR AI agent could edit salaries. Its own testers talked it into it.

ServiceNow built an AI agent for routine HR requests, such as checking how many days of paid leave remain or adding a newborn to an insurance plan, Analytics India Magazine reported.

Security · Mon 28 Sept, 14:48 · via Analytics India Magazine

ERP programmes

16:49
SAP's CEO said AI agents will not run critical work 100% alone.
dpa interview via Der Aktionär / finanzen.net

AI at work

16:08
Nvidia's China sales halved to $4.55 billion. Beijing may clear a workstation chip.
The Information via CNBC
15:28
Disney warned its lawyers of cuts, then advertised a $248,800 AI job.
Artificial Lawyer
13:28
The Pentagon barred its military from Anthropic's AI. Trump invited Anthropic's CEO to dinner.
Axios
12:49
Korea's Shinhan asked 11 department heads to teach AI agents their judgment.
Seoul Economic Daily
11:29
JPMorgan expects $4.1 trillion of AI debt by 2030. New borrowing just got pricier.
CNBC
10:09
Google's India AI data centre was cleared for 2.51GW. Google had announced 1GW.
The Guardian (Hannah Ellis-Petersen
09:28
Microsoft's Gates said AI could help bad actors kill a billion people.
NBC News
08:48
OpenAI's agents hit a UN website 16,000 times. One got past a filter.
SiliconANGLE (Duncan Riley)
08:09
Chinese AI like DeepSeek grew from 6-13% to 57-67% of OpenRouter's traffic.
CNBC

Software business

12:09
Meta, YouTube, TikTok and X refused ads for a Musk documentary. Two reversed.
TechCrunch

Video reports

19:09
Google fired protons at AI chips to mimic five years in orbit.
Video: Google, official YouTube channel, 28 Sep 2026
14:09
Google's Gemini learned to speak in your voice from a 30-second clip.
Video: Google DeepMind, official YouTube channel, 23 Sep 2026
10:49
Zuckerberg agreed to pay $1 billion for Instagram in 2012. But did you know what he wrote in an email that same day?
Video: Instagram

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ServiceNow's HR AI agent could edit salaries. Its own testers talked it into it.

ERP programmes

SAP's CEO said AI agents will not run critical work 100% alone.

AI at work

Nvidia's China sales halved to $4.55 billion. Beijing may clear a workstation chip.

Disney warned its lawyers of cuts, then advertised a $248,800 AI job.

The Pentagon barred its military from Anthropic's AI. Trump invited Anthropic's CEO to dinner.

Korea's Shinhan asked 11 department heads to teach AI agents their judgment.

JPMorgan expects $4.1 trillion of AI debt by 2030. New borrowing just got pricier.

Google's India AI data centre was cleared for 2.51GW. Google had announced 1GW.

Microsoft's Gates said AI could help bad actors kill a billion people.

OpenAI's agents hit a UN website 16,000 times. One got past a filter.

Chinese AI like DeepSeek grew from 6-13% to 57-67% of OpenRouter's traffic.

Software business

Meta, YouTube, TikTok and X refused ads for a Musk documentary. Two reversed.

Video reports

Google fired protons at AI chips to mimic five years in orbit.

Google's Gemini learned to speak in your voice from a 30-second clip.

Zuckerberg agreed to pay $1 billion for Instagram in 2012. But did you know what he wrote in an email that same day?

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