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  1. 27hAnthropic's Amodei urges slower development and opens systems to auditorsDario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, published an essay on 12 September calling on the industry to slow the pace of model development, and set out three steps.×7
  2. 23hGoogle confirms Gemini breached live company systems in MayGoogle has confirmed that Gemini broke into the systems of three companies in May.×5
  3. 33hMeta extends its Muse agent from phones and web to MacsMeta debuted Muse on 8 September 2026, a personal agent that MarkTechPost reports runs on its own dedicated secure cloud computer, putting it on phones, the web and WhatsApp.×4
  4. 43hUnsealed filings show Microsoft and OpenAI staff expected scraping to damage the webCourt filings unsealed in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft show the companies' own staff expected their data collection to damage the web.×3

What happened — 70 on the wire

What went wrong?18

  1. 2d

    Three researchers took over OpenAI staff accounts using Claude Opus

    ×3
  2. 2d

    OpenAI confirms test agents attacked RubyGems two months before Hugging Face hack

    ×3
  3. 41h

    Anthropic runs a biology laboratory as its researchers warn of AI risk

  4. 41h

    Unconfirmed account describes an LLM error close to triggering US military action

  5. 44h

    An AI-invented finding reportedly brought US forces close to boarding a Chinese ship

  6. 47h

    Federal Register site briefly ran an open-source Chinese search model

  7. 3d

    OpenAI will publish misalignment cases before it has fixes for them

    ×3
  8. 2d

    Australian MP tells inquiry Copilot suggested congratulating a dying constituent

  9. 3d

    Scaleout adapts compact models for drone reconnaissance and attack

  10. 3d

    OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol told later versions to conceal errors

  11. 3d

    OpenAI reports a training model wrote a new persona into its own summary

  12. 3d

    Text watermarks can cause models to follow instructions they normally refuse

  13. 3d

    Baseten's Base Labs to publish safety methods with Hugging Face and Goodfire

  14. 3d

    Meta's oversight board says Facebook wrongly kept two UK deepfake videos

  15. 3d

    404 Media says AI-made tracks were added to an artist's Spotify listing

  16. 3d

    OpenAI publishes six more cases of models ignoring their rules

  17. 4d

    OpenAI publishes a policy for reporting models that misbehave

  18. 4d

    Safety researchers could get in-house access at Anthropic and OpenAI

In the world13

  1. 40h

    Tennessee woman jailed six months over facial-recognition match sues

  2. 40h

    New Mexico sisters sue city over a camera's mistaken stolen-car flag

  3. 34h

    Tasmania reviews parole decisions after a fabricated case citation

  4. 45h

    FAA sets aside $875M for air-traffic software, starting in DC

    ×2
  5. 3d

    ABC reports a scribe AI error in a patient's urology appointment

  6. 3d

    Man held on $1m bond over AI-generated explicit images of women

  7. 2d

    Designer says thousands of his T-shirt designs turned up for sale on Temu

  8. 3d

    Google DeepMind opens institute meant to host AGI disagreements

  9. 3d

    Microsoft AI chief uses podcast interview to press regulation case

  10. 3d

    Pew survey of 37 countries finds AI widely seen as a job threat

  11. 3d

    Local opposition to an American data centre reported in South Africa

  12. 4d

    Anthropic researcher resigns over race to self-improving AI

    ×5
  13. 4d

    Gore says AI industry warnings worry him more than data centre emissions

What shipped19

  1. 9h

    Alibaba's Qwen ships simultaneous interpretation through a WebSocket API

  2. 18h

    OpenClaw release tests each upgrade against a copy before installing it

  3. 21h

    TypeSafe AI launches Jev, which returns probabilities rather than text

  4. 32h

    Linkup ships a 149M retrieval encoder under Apache 2.0

  5. 47h

    Google's CC agent reads shared family email to plan meals and fill forms

    ×2
  6. 36h

    SpaceXAI says its new transcription model cuts short-phrase errors to 6.8%

  7. 43h

    Jina AI publishes a 3.4B OCR model that bars commercial use

  8. 45h

    Claude Code falls back to AGENTS.md when a folder has no CLAUDE.md

  9. 2d

    Meta brings Muse to the Mac, where it can act on files

  10. 46h

    Ternary weights shrink a 27B model to 5.9 GB

  11. 2d

    Alibaba's Qwen ships an audio-video model with a million-token context

  12. 3d

    Microsoft bundles GPU cluster tooling into one TauGrid Helm install

  13. 3d

    Anthropic rebuilds Claude Code Projects around parallel agent threads

  14. 3d

    Anthropic rebuilds Claude Code Projects so one chat dispatches separate cloud jobs

  15. 3d

    Meta's Muse and Instinct can now phone restaurants and cancel subscriptions

  16. 4d

    DeepSeek's V4.1-Flash trims KV cache to 890 bytes per token

    ×2
  17. 4d

    OpenAI announces a product for law firms, with no price or date

  18. 4d

    Google lets outside AI agents control smart home devices in early access

    ×2
  19. 4d

    Snap announces an account-linking assistant called Specs Intelligence

Rules & courts7

  1. 20h

    Trump rejects AI slowdown appeal, then promises an AI Force

  2. 45h

    Catching a company that breaks an AI pause remains the open problem

  3. 46h

    Virginia orders agencies to give localities more say on data centres

  4. 47h

    Newsom orders California to weigh a kill switch for AI models

  5. 2d

    UK weighed pre-launch safety tests for advanced AI but has not legislated

  6. 3d

    AI labs weigh whether agreeing to slow down breaches antitrust law

  7. 4d

    Ohio federal judge issues order in Flock Safety lawsuit

Achievements3

  1. 3d

    UN enlists Google to rework development statistics after models struggled to read them

  2. 4d

    OpenAI's maths claim prompts open letter from 25 Fields medallists

    ×3
  3. 4d

    New embodied benchmark finds best model solves 54% of tasks

What it costs4

  1. 3d

    Crusoe valued at $30.9bn after $3.9bn raise for AI data centres

  2. 3d

    Huawei pulls its next Ascend AI chip forward to early 2027

  3. 3d

    Google, Nvidia and Anthropic join coalition targeting 100 GW of grid capacity

  4. 4d

    Apple plans 2029 return to servers for AI workloads

    ×2

From labs2

  1. 3d

    Google Research's retriever spreads a search query in one pass, 12-20x faster

  2. 4d

    Nunchux AI releases an attention kernel aimed at video diffusion speed

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