Has AI been reading Adam Smith? (How do they react if I’m willing to pay less?)
https://www.reuters.com/business/inside-mcdonalds-push-have-ai-price-your-big-mac-2026-09-29/
Insight: Inside McDonald’s push to have AI price your Big Mac
McDonald’s is increasingly using artificial intelligence to guide menu prices across the U.S. and some global markets, a plan that aims to boost headquarters’ profit but risks alienating customers and attracting antitrust scrutiny.
One pricing factor supercharged by AI: an estimate of how much each store's patrons are willing to pay.
War is coming. Shooting is easier. No need to wait to see the whites of their eyes…
Poland changes rules of engagement for firing on foreign aircraft amid growing Russia threat
Poland is changing the procedures under which its military can fire upon foreign aircraft, citing the “growing threat from Russia”. Visual identification of targets will no longer be required, with other forms of data to be used instead.
The move follows a series of violations of Polish airspace over the last year by Russian drones, a missile and a helicopter, as well as Russia’s increasing use of jet-powered drones to attack targets in Ukraine close to the Polish border.
Assume something has already happened?
https://thenextweb.com/news/raf-space-squadron-satellites
The RAF launches a new space squadron to defend UK satellites
The Royal Air Force has set up a new space squadron, the Ministry of Defence said on 23 September. No. III Space Effects Squadron is the first UK unit dedicated to disrupting, degrading and denying threats to British satellites.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Harv Smyth, the Chief of the Air Staff, announced it at the first UK Space Power Conference. The squadron joins No. I Space Operations Squadron and No. II Space Warning Squadron, which watch for threats in space. The new unit will act against them.
It will use advanced technology, including electronic warfare, and support both defensive and offensive operations. The MoD has not said more. A spokesperson told The Register the details are classified.
An interesting take on security.
AI doesn’t need a conscience. It needs a leash.
The safety of artificial intelligence may be less a problem of ethics — teaching machines how to behave — than one of engineering: AI systems can never be fully trusted, so they must be heavily constrained.
… Launched with the support of more than 100 industry partners, Nvidia’s Open Agent Safety Platform places hard limits on what these agents can do, using deterministic software that exists outside the AI to enforce the rules. The system may not be bulletproof out of the gate, but the very existence of an engineered solution suggests regulators should pace themselves.
(Related)
https://thenextweb.com/news/florida-openai-temporary-injunction-model-development-uthmeier
Florida asks a court to stop OpenAI building new AI models
Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a motion for a temporary injunction filed on Monday.
(Related)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-anthropic-thousands-ai-security-incidents
Scoop: Top AI companies probing tens of thousands of security incidents
OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios.
Why it matters: The sheer number of incidents, which occurred in recent months in internal testing and the real world, indicates that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is publicly known.
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