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September 18, 2026, 2:05 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
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:
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 …
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
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
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
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 …
More: PrismML News and RuntimeWire
X: @babakhassibi, @xcelestius, and @prismmlLinkedIn: Barron HanBluesky: @crumbForums: Hacker News
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
The US SEC unveils a five-year Innovation Exemption for platforms that offer tokenized stock trading, relieving them of many rules that apply to stock exchanges  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited exemption that will allow companies …
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.
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
The UN says it is working with Google on the UN System Data Commons, which lets users search for statistics from across UN agencies via natural-language queries  —  The United Nations on Thursday announced that it is working with Google to make its vast collection of global statistics easier for AI systems to access and use.
More: Google and Tech in Asia
Reuters:
Sources: Apple plans to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's credit cards; Axis Bank is the fourth-largest credit card issuer in India  —  Apple (AAPL.O) is poised to launch Apple Pay in India next month with Axis Bank's (AXBK.NS) credit cards, three sources familiar with the matter said …
Financial Times:
Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's EV platform for affordable models, set to launch as soon as 2028  —  Rollout would be most ambitious plan yet for autonomous ride-hailing on the continent  —  Lucid is partnering with ride-hailing platform Bolt …
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Meta launches a Mac app for Muse after releasing the AI agent on iOS, Android, and the web earlier this month, allowing it to manage files, pull from apps, more  —  Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.
Micah Barkley / Bloomberg:
Andrew Ng says renewed AI extinction warnings are “much more science fiction than science” and the latest “wave of PR” is probably intended to shape regulation  —  Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng said warnings about existential AI risks from researchers …
Axios:
OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a framework for reporting model misalignment  —  OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which its models concealed mistakes, sought unauthorized credentials …
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Source: OpenAI staff expect the Hodge Conjecture, a Millennium Prize Problem, to be solved relatively soon, after solving the Navier-Stokes equations  —  Remember when OpenAI landed in hot water earlier this month after mathematicians accused the company of trying to steal their thunder for solving an ultra-difficult math problem?
More: Gizmodo, Decrypt, and LiveScience
X: @andrewcurran_ and @amirBluesky: @timkellogg.meForums: r/accelerate
Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg:
Analysis: in the Bay Area, tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ workers in the 12 months to June and software engineer demand is down 42% since 2022  —  The enormous wealth generated by Anthropic and OpenAI is overshadowing layoffs and an uncertain job market in the city.

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