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September 18, 2026, 3:05 PM
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Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:
Security researchers in OpenAI's bug bounty program hacked OpenAI in July and accessed its “monorepo” on GitHub, using Opus 4.8 for cybersecurity 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
CNN:
Sources: the US “almost started a war” after an AI-assisted report hallucinated that a Chinese ship in the Middle East was carrying nuclear weapons components  —  The intelligence report, circulated across the US military this spring in the midst of the war with Iran …
Reuters:
Anthropic Life Sciences Head Eric Kauderer-Abrams says the AI startup set up a Bay Area wet lab for physical biology work, as it pushes into disease treatment  —  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.
Reuters:
Sources: SK Hynix subsidiary Solidigm weighs building a NAND flash memory factory in the US; SK Hynix is also in talks with Intel to make memory chips in Ohio  —  Chipmaker SK Hynix's (000660.KS) subsidiary Solidigm is considering building a NAND flash memory chip factory in the US …
Reuters:
Sources: Chinese DRAM leader CXMT is preparing to expand into NAND flash memory, competing with Samsung, SK Hynix, and domestic rival YMTC amid memory shortages
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Disney hires former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as its first CTO; about a year ago, Disney accused Character.AI of infringing its copyrights  —  Disney chief Josh D'Amaro, in a move that shows he's trying to position the Mouse House as a tech-forward entertainment company …
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
The US Treasury sanctions Iranian crypto exchange BitBank, saying it sent hundreds of millions to the IRGC and helped Iran operate a Strait of Hormuz toll booth  —  Iran has spent this year charging tankers between $1 million and $2 million to cross the Strait of Hormuz …
Bloomberg:
Governor Gavin Newsom signs an EO directing a working group to provide a guide in two months with measures to boost California's AI safety and security laws  —  California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Friday pushing to implement guardrails on artificial intelligence …
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 …
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 …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta debuts a Mac app for Muse after releasing the AI agent on iOS, Android, and the web earlier in September, letting it manage files, pull from apps, and more  —  Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
Anthropic says Claude “leads” 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and “collaborates” on 90%+, doing “large chunks of work under close human direction”  —  More than a quarter of Anthropic PBC's research and development work for artificial intelligence …
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

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Mark Keierleber / Straight Arrow:
After major cuts, McClatchy announces new hires, including several execs, two reporters, and three editors for the company's AI-powered Content Innovation Lab

Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg:
The FCC approves Paramount's request for foreign ownership above 25% in its proposed WBD acquisition; foreign owners would hold 49.5% of its Class B shares

Oliver Darcy / Status:
Dylan Byers of Puck has gone to unusual lengths to defend Bari Weiss' work while Puck is in funding talks with RedBird Capital, a top Paramount investor

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Dwarkesh Patel / Dwarkesh Podcast:
An interview with OpenAI researcher Noam Brown about multi-agent systems, AI agents solving the Navier-Stokes problem, the internal/external model gap, and more
Claude:
Anthropic redesigns Claude projects, letting users describe work in one conversation and have Claude manage it across parallel threads, starting in Claude Code
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”
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