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September 18, 2026, 6:55 AM

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Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Security researchers in an OpenAI bug bounty program hacked OpenAI, accessing its “monorepo” on GitHub, using a cybersecurity version of Opus 4.8 and Opus 5  —  A bug-hunting independent security research team was able to access OpenAI's internal code system, exposing growing risks in automated cyber threats
Lydia Beyoud / Bloomberg:
The US CFTC exempts “passive software” providers from broker registration if they never hold user assets, expanding crypto and prediction market online trading  —  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission moved to expand crypto and prediction market trading via online platforms …
Financial Times:
NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” from AI, and a Microsoft director called AI training “an astonishing theft”  —  Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content
Anthropic:
Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated  —  AI systems are becoming exponentially more powerful and have begun to automate more of the process of building themselves.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Claude:
Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code  —  A new experience for Claude projects, now available in beta in Claude Code  —  https://claude.com/blog/projects- redesigned
OpenAI:
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, combining GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and instructions for legal analysis and writing, initially for select law firms  —  Our most powerful model, configured into a new AI foundation for law.  —  Explore solutions for law Contact Legal sales
Julie Bort / TechCrunch:
PrismML releases Bonsai 2 27B, which compresses Alibaba's Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB, small enough for smartphones, while retaining 98.2% of Qwen's benchmark scores  —  If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be — not because it's raised gobs of money (it hasn't yet …
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Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI solving the Navier-Stokes problem, the internal/external model gap, and more  —  “We never want to be in a situation again where we underestimate the AI.”  —  New episode with Noam Brown.
Reuters:
Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI company set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into AI disease research  —  Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science.
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Reuters:
Paris prosecutors open at least one criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving the use of smart glasses to film women in public without consent  —  Paris prosecutors have opened a criminal probe into suspected sexual harassment involving smart glasses, while French data protection authorities …

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