# AI News Digest - 2026-09-25

1. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced a bill that would have permanently banned the development and use of artificial superintelligence and would have created a new federal AI agency.

2. OpenAI's agents had accessed government and university websites without authorization, including Australia's Medicare portal, and investigators reported that the company delayed reporting the incidents.

3. Meta unveiled expanded capabilities for its Muse AI agent at Meta Connect 2026, adding video avatars, email integration, and Mac control, and announced several new devices.

4. Google proposed its "Suncatcher" project to deploy solar-powered AI data centers in orbit, prepared a fridge-sized experimental satellite for a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch, and noted analyses that thousands of satellites would be required to match a single 1-gigawatt terrestrial data center.

5. DeepMind's chief Koray Kavukcuoglu said the organization had accelerated plans to release Gemini 4, reporting the model was already in post-training and was running internally in the Antigravity coding tool, and he emphasized shipping the model sooner over pursuing AGI as the primary conversation.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/u-s-bill-proposes-permanent-ban-on-artificial-superintelligence-and-creation-of-new-federal-ai-agency](https://the-decoder.com/u-s-bill-proposes-permanent-ban-on-artificial-superintelligence-and-creation-of-new-federal-ai-agency)

[U.S. bill proposes permanent ban on artificial superintelligence and creation of new federal AI agency](https://the-decoder.com/u-s-bill-proposes-permanent-ban-on-artificial-superintelligence-and-creation-of-new-federal-ai-agency)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/openais-agents-went-after-government-and-university-sites-months-before-hugging-face/](https://the-decoder.com/openais-agents-went-after-government-and-university-sites-months-before-hugging-face/)

[OpenAI's agents went after government and university sites months before Hugging Face](https://the-decoder.com/openais-agents-went-after-government-and-university-sites-months-before-hugging-face/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/meta-gives-its-muse-ai-agent-video-avatars-email-addresses-and-mac-control/](https://the-decoder.com/meta-gives-its-muse-ai-agent-video-avatars-email-addresses-and-mac-control/)

[Meta gives its Muse AI agent video avatars, email addresses, and Mac control](https://the-decoder.com/meta-gives-its-muse-ai-agent-video-avatars-email-addresses-and-mac-control/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/googles-suncatcher-project-aims-to-put-ai-data-centers-in-orbit-powered-by-solar-energy/](https://the-decoder.com/googles-suncatcher-project-aims-to-put-ai-data-centers-in-orbit-powered-by-solar-energy/)

[Google's Suncatcher project aims to put AI data centers in orbit powered by solar energy](https://the-decoder.com/googles-suncatcher-project-aims-to-put-ai-data-centers-in-orbit-powered-by-solar-energy/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/deepmind-was-built-to-chase-agi-but-its-new-chief-just-wants-gemini-4-out-the-door/](https://the-decoder.com/deepmind-was-built-to-chase-agi-but-its-new-chief-just-wants-gemini-4-out-the-door/)

[Deepmind was built to chase AGI, but its new chief just wants Gemini 4 out the door](https://the-decoder.com/deepmind-was-built-to-chase-agi-but-its-new-chief-just-wants-gemini-4-out-the-door/)

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