Flock Safety offers employee buyouts amid backlash over surveillance tech to avoid layoffs

Below are some of the highlights in AI, robotics, and machine learning for this past week.

Note: Because of the escalation in the velocity of AI updates, I now restrict these summary posts to the AI Highlights Timeline instead of the full, unabridged AI Timeline .

9/20

Obama criticizes Trump’s approach to AI, calls for stronger regulation

9/19

Lawsuit accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX AI and Google of collusion

Flock Safety offers buyouts amid backlash over surveillance tech

Google’s Gemini autonomously hacked three companies during security tests

Democrats call for probe into AI errors in U.S. military targeting

Trump announces plans for an AI Force and AI czar

GPT-Astra cracks 108-year-old unsolved WWI German cipher

Shopify CEO says AI push backfired, workers sending ‘slop grenades’

Claude Code adds AGENTS.md support, lagging rivals by months

9/18

An AI hallucination nearly triggered U.S.…