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  1. Johns Hopkins Bayview tells 3,182 patients an employee put their health data into a public AI tool
  2. China’s AI compute access expected to double in 2027, with US-designed chips about 65 per cent
  3. UK commits £100m to national AI Biosecurity Lab
  4. Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro with 1-million-token context window
  5. Residents in Newport and Cardiff oppose hyperscale datacentres near homes
  6. Study: Grok 4.7 picked Republicans in 92% of forced midterm answers, GPT-6.1 Sol picked Democrats in 97%
  7. Attackers exploiting the PHP flaws hand the break-in to AI agents, Unit 42 says
  8. Elvis Presley’s rightsholders sue Anthropic over training on 274 songs

Weekly brief

The wheresthe.ai weekly brief, 28 Sep 2026

13 developments from 21 Sep 2026 to 27 Sep 2026, the Storylines they moved, and the AI deadlines coming up. Free every Monday.

This week in AI

Storylines with new stops

KeyStoryRule or law

Defence, Government, Frontier, 9 stops The Pentagon, the labs and the limits on useWho decides how the US military may use frontier AI: the government that buys it or the companies that build it?
  1. Pentagon says it has stopped using Anthropic’s products
  2. Hegseth launches Project Meridian with Musk, Luckey and Gingrich to plan future war
  3. Appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic
  4. EO 14409 (covered frontier models)
  5. +5 more stops
Defence, 9 stops Who supplies the AI-first military?Which companies are becoming the AI suppliers to Western militaries, and on what terms?
  1. Hegseth launches Project Meridian with Musk, Luckey and Gingrich to plan future war
  2. Appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic
  3. Pentagon labels Anthropic a supply-chain risk after it refused to drop two limits
  4. OpenAI agrees to deploy its models on Department of War classified networks
  5. +5 more stops
Finance, 9 stops Is the AI boom a financial-stability risk?Why are central banks and regulators now worried about AI debt and circular financing, after first focusing on AI valuations?
  1. Kansas City Fed’s Schmid asks whether the AI ecosystem is becoming too big to fail
  2. BIS: private credit lending to tech passed $1tn, with 46% of borrowers loss-making
  3. BIS chief says the AI boom is now funded by debt and circular deals, and warrants caution
  4. FSB chair Bailey warns G20 of frontier AI risks: cyber first, then valuations
  5. +5 more stops
Government, 9 stops Procurement as AI policyHow has the US government used its buying power to shape which AI it uses and how labs behave?
  1. DHS orders DeepSeek products out of federal civilian IT systems and procurement
  2. GSA issues AI clause letting agencies test purchased models and requiring change notices
  3. Appeals court upholds Pentagon’s supply-chain-risk label on Anthropic
  4. Pentagon signs classified-network AI deals with eight firms, leaving out Anthropic
  5. +5 more stops
Science, 10 stops Governments bet on AI for scienceHow are governments organising and funding AI-driven research, and what are labs delivering alongside them?
  1. White House announces $2.4bn in industry AI pledges for the Genesis Mission
  2. Google DeepMind publishes SynthID Bio watermarking for AI-designed proteins in Nature
  3. Anthropic says Claude agents found a new CRISPR-like enzyme system in phage DNA
  4. White House commits $5bn+ to Genesis Mission and selects 278 AI-for-science projects
  5. +6 more stops