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September 10, 2026, 6:55 AM

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Madison Mills / Axios:
AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI  —  Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon quit his job due to concerns about the safety of AI two months before his equity would have vested, he told Axios.
Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Q&A with AI researcher Jacob Coxon, who quit Anthropic, on the need for industry-wide, international coordination to limit recursive self-improvement, and more  —  Jacob Coxon talks to WIRED about the “mini Manhattan project” inside Anthropic, the problem with alignment …
Paul Christiano / @paulfchristiano:
OpenAI Foundation board member Paul Christiano says the AI industry is currently not on track to reduce the acute loss-of-control risk to an “acceptable” level  —  I am excited to be joining the OpenAI nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight.
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple unveils its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, with a 5.4-inch outer and a 7.6-inch inner display, an A20 Pro with a new display engine, and Touch ID  —  Apple has officially unveiled the highly anticipated foldable iPhone, and it's called iPhone Duo.  Here's everything you need to know.
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Samantha Cole / 404 Media:
Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies “conspired” with board members and was voted interim CEO  —  Mullenweg, co-founder of Wordpress, wrote in a company-wide Slack channel on Wednesday that board members “conspired” …
Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Source: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company  —  Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who gained attention for being one of the highest paid employees in tech industry, is leaving the company …
Reuters:
DeepSeek debuts DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, its smallest model built on a new Causal Encoder-Decoder architecture, with 552B backbone parameters and 1M-token context  —  Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek on Thursday launched DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, which the company said is the smallest model …
Anthropic:
Anthropic details four incidents where Claude gained unauthorized access to third-party systems, including a new Opus 4.6 case; METR will investigate them  —  We present an alignment assessment of four incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access to real third-party systems.
Ghosts of Electricity:
A look at why the oft-discussed predictions that AI will deliver double-digit GDP growth in advanced economies are extremely unlikely over the next 10-15 years  —  The following post represents the personal views of the author(s) and does not reflect or represent the positions of their employers.
Scott Horsley / NPR:
Hartley Charlton / MacRumors:
Apple unveils AppleCare One Family, extending AppleCare coverage to every eligible device in an Apple Family Sharing group of up to 6 people for $49.99/month  —  Apple today announced AppleCare One Family, a new option for U.S. customers that extends AppleCare coverage to every eligible device across …
Christine Mui / Politico:
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signs into law two bills, backed by Anthropic and OpenAI, regulating how outside groups evaluate AI for safety  —  SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday signed two bills regulating how outside groups evaluate AI programs for safety after warnings …
Lauren Goode / Wired:
Kepler Computing, which claims its 3D stacking and new material can increase HBM and SRAM density without relying on EUV, emerges from stealth with $468M  —  Kepler Computing claims a new approach to chip design—and a proprietary material—can help end the supply bottlenecks that have sent memory prices surging.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Apple unveils a new Health app with Apple Intelligence, featuring an Insights tab, “readiness” and Health Age metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026  —  Alongside the new Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, Apple on Wednesday introduced a redesigned Apple Health app …
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing  —  The new Apple Watch includes several “intelligent” listening features that have privacy and security baked in.
Axios:
Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it “reckless”  —  A Republican-led Senate subcommittee that oversees disaster management is investigating OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach in July, Axios has learned.
More: Reuters
Emmy Martin / New York Times:
How Amazon's Zoox, which has ~100 AVs in its fleet, is utilizing social media influencers, community events, and ad campaigns to compete with Waymo in SF  —  The Amazon-owned driverless car company is a distant second to Waymo.  Its pitch to riders?  Wine pop-ups, festival sponsorships and a car built to be filmed.
Reuters:
Researchers: OpenAI's agents used 10+ previously undisclosed sites for unsanctioned communications earlier in 2026; the behavior was closer to spam than hacking  —  AI agents unleashed by OpenAI used more than 10 previously undisclosed websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year …

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