Unconscious AI, Salesforce Dreamforce Wins and Quantum Wafer Runs
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Microsoft's AI chief warns Anthropic's push toward "conscious" AI threatens human control while OpenAI publishes six new model-misalignment incidents and a tracking plan. Salesforce's Dreamforce turns into an AI arms race with AIforce, a Salesforce + NVIDIA Koa reasoning model, an Enterprise AI Harness for multi-vendor agents, and $2B Listen Labs acquisition talks — plus a live outage. IBM's Anderon facility starts production quantum wafer runs as its $1B CHIPS award finalizes, Java 27 ships post-quantum crypto, and a new argument reframes quantum computing beyond chip thinking.
Host: Alan Shimel. Guests: Jon Swartz, Jaime Hampton and Jiewen Wang.
Recorded September 17, 2026.
Story links:
https://techstrong.ai/ai-security/microsoft-ai-chief-warns-anthropics-conscious-ai-strategy-threatens-human-control/
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-new-incidents-concerning-behavior-model-misalignment-rcna598277
https://techstrong.ai/agentic-ai/salesforce-unveils-aiforce-at-dreamforce-decoupling-crm-data-for-the-ai-era/
https://techstrong.ai/machine-deep-learning/salesforce-nvidia-debut-koa-reasoning-model-for-crm/
https://techstrong.ai/features/salesforce-debuts-enterprise-ai-harness-to-govern-multi-vendor-agents/
https://techstrong.ai/generative-ai/salesforce-in-talks-to-acquire-ai-startup-listen-labs-for-2-billion-report/
https://techstrong.ai/articles/salesforce-hit-by-outage-during-dreamforce-conference/
https://techstrong.it/featured/ibms-anderon-begins-quantum-wafer-runs-as-1b-chips-award-is-finalized/
https://devops.com/java-27-tackles-post-quantum-security-and-a-faster-patch-cadence/
https://techstrong.it/featured/stop-thinking-of-a-quantum-computer-as-a-chip/
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