Afternoon Brief, September 23rd 2026
AI executives took their safety warnings to the UN Security Council. A Hungarian court referral puts Gemini’s use of news before Europe’s top court. Bessemer closed new funds with most of the capital reserved for growth investments.
Altman and Amodei take AI safety warnings to the Security Council
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei and co-founder Clément Delangue addressed the UN Security Council on Wednesday. Altman called for international cooperation and democratic oversight of decisions that should not belong to AI labs alone. Amodei warned that poorly managed AI could threaten humanity. Yoshua Bengio also warned the council of imminent dangers.
The hearing brings the lab leaders’ appeals directly before governments responsible for international security. It does not establish an agreed enforcement system or a pause in development. Reuters’ account reports the speeches, with council members still due to speak; it does not establish the meeting’s final outcome. SourcesB
Hungarian judges ask Europe’s top court to clarify Gemini’s use of news
Hungarian judges have asked the EU’s top court whether Gemini’s training, processing of prompts, retrieval of current web content and generated summaries can infringe press publishers’ rights, MLex reported Wednesday. The referral also asks when the EU’s exception can protect those uses.
The questions extend beyond collecting training material to what a chatbot does when answering a reader. A referral requests an interpretation of EU law; it is not a ruling that Google infringed copyright. The full referral was not available in the source reviewed, so its precise legal tests remain unverified here. SourcesB
Bessemer closes $5.75 billion with most reserved for growth investments
Bessemer Venture Partners announced $5.75 billion in new capital on Wednesday: $1.75 billion for seed and early-stage investing and $4 billion for growth investments. The firm says its expanded growth practice can back existing portfolio companies and new investments as businesses stay private longer.
That allocation gives established private companies a larger pool to pursue than first-time founders. Bessemer places AI at the center of its investment case, but the announcement does not earmark every dollar for AI or establish that this capital has already reached companies.
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