Sunday, Sep 13, 2026
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2026-09-13- openaiOpenAI will give independent safety evaluators the same system access as employees, backing Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow AI development. Sam Altman and Elon Musk endorsed the push for external oversight and common safety standards.+2
- anthropicAnthropic has secured $517 billion in compute deals over the next decade, nearly triple its previous forecast, covering 14.8 GW across Amazon, Google, Microsoft, SpaceX, Lambda, and Nscale. The buildout supports growing demand for Claude Code and Cowork tools and aligns with a potential IPO.
- anthropicIranian domestic security actors used Claude to build a Firefox extension disguised as a prayer times app, harvesting identities and profiling 6,388 Iranians. Anthropic banned all linked accounts and strengthened safeguards after uncovering the surveillance operations.
- open-sourceChinese President Xi Jinping proposed a BRICS AI Open Source Zone and Special Economic Zone partnership during his first India visit in seven years. The initiative aims to coordinate AI policy among BRICS members and counter U.S. dominance in the field.
- benchmarkReal-SWE benchmarks frontier AI models on private production codebases licensed from real companies, testing eight model configurations across ten tasks with 640 scored rollouts. The benchmark targets real-world enterprise performance rather than synthetic datasets.
- openaiSam Altman ruled out an OpenAI IPO in 2026, calling a public listing currently ill-advised. The decision keeps the company private for the remainder of the year and pushes any potential offering beyond 2026.
- regulationHouse Speaker Mike Johnson rejected an AI moratorium, arguing it would let China overlap the U.S. in development. He called for industry collaboration with lawmakers to establish safety laws rather than halting progress.
- metaMeta is deploying a gigawatt-scale Prometheus cluster in Ohio to train its next-generation Watermelon model, supporting the Muse AI agent positioned as a business-in-a-box. The service will be monetized through subscriptions and transaction fees, with up to 100 million free tokens per week for users.
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