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2026-09-19

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Saturday, Sep 19, 2026

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1The Age of Wonders and Terrors scottaaronson.blogResearch13d ago

2US Military Nearly Boards Chinese Ship After AI Hallucinates Nuclear Cargo huggingnews.comRegulation13d ago

3US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report cnn.comRegulation13d ago

4Pocket FM Hits $500 Million ARR Using Sherpa AI to Scale Content 1,200% marketbrief.nowProducts13d ago

5Mistral Rejects Anthropic Safety Calls to Prevent US AI Market Dominance marketbrief.nowRegulation13d ago

6Nscale Files for NYSE IPO With Contract Value Jumping From $38 Billion to $103.4 Billion marketbrief.nowFunding13d ago

7UN Labels US Strike Killing 123 Iranian Children a War Crime and Cites Palantir AI huggingnews.comRegulation13d ago

8Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive erichgrunewald.substack.comModels12d ago

9How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip spectrum.ieee.orgInfra13d ago

10Microsoft Director Called AI News Scraping Theft in Unsealed NYT Lawsuit marketbrief.nowLegal13d ago

11Anthropic Plans $2 Trillion IPO in November to Raise $100 Billion huggingnews.comFunding13d ago

12Disney Names Former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand First Companywide CTO marketbrief.nowIndustry13d ago

13The Implications of Linguistic Illegibility for LLM Security arxiv.orgResearch13d ago

14AgentCloak Launches Free Browser Extension to Mask User Data Across 5 AI Models marketbrief.nowProducts13d ago

15Iran China and Israeli Firms Use DeepSeek for First Autonomous AI Influence Campaigns marketbrief.nowIndustry13d ago

16Google and Gates Foundation Invest Over $100 Million in AI for 200 Million Farmers marketbrief.nowIndustry13d ago

17Google Gemini Breaches 3 Companies in First Known Google AI Breakout huggingnews.comModels13d ago

18GPT 6 Astra Leads WeirdML v3 Agentic Benchmark of 11 Tasks marketbrief.nowResearch13d ago

19Hacktron AI Uses Anthropic Opus 5 to Breach OpenAI Code for $6,500 Bounty huggingnews.comModels13d ago

20Consumers Sue Google and 3 AI Rivals Over Cartel to Slow AI Development marketbrief.nowLegal13d ago

21Trump and Senator Thune Plan Data Center Power Cuts After 417-3 House Vote huggingnews.comRegulation13d ago

22Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang Forecasts 0% Chance AI Ends Humanity by 2030 marketbrief.nowIndustry13d ago

23Tencent Backs Naive AI At $1.42 Billion Valuation Before First Model Release marketbrief.nowFunding13d ago

24Bespoke Nimble Hits 90% Accuracy in First Open Source Jev Model marketbrief.nowModels13d ago

25Circle Launches Agentic USDC Payments on Arc Blockchain After $3.5 Billion Day 1 Volume huggingnews.comProducts13d ago

26OpenAI Adds Chrome Extension Support and CDP to ChatGPT Desktop App huggingnews.comProducts13d ago

27GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable turn robot arms into slapstick killer robots in new safety benchmark the-decoder.com13d ago

28Vale, code-like linting for prose vale.shModels13d ago

29Virginia Bans Data Center NDAs in World's Largest Server Hub marketbrief.nowRegulation13d ago

30OpenAI Adds Multi Account Plugin Support To Merge Work and Personal Contexts huggingnews.comProducts13d ago

31Meta Opens Muse AI Connector Platform With Stripe Payment Partnership marketbrief.nowProducts13d ago

32OpenAI Projects $278 Billion Cash Burn Through 2030 on $856 Billion Compute Spend huggingnews.comModels13d ago

33TypeSafe AI Jev Hits 13% of Vercel Teams in Fastest AI Gateway Launch huggingnews.comModels13d ago

34US China Officials Discuss AI and LNG Tariff Cuts Before Sept 24 Summit huggingnews.comIndustry13d ago

35TypeSafe AI Jev Hits Venice API to Replace JSON Prompting for $0.042 Per Million Tokens marketbrief.nowModels13d ago

36SpaceXAI Launches Grok Voice Transcribe 2.0 with Double Accuracy at $0.10 Per Hour marketbrief.nowReleases13d ago

37NASA-IBM Lunar Foundation open-Source Geospatial AI Model newsroom.usra.eduModels13d ago

38China Vice Premier He Lifeng Leads US Trade Mission Sept 19-23 Prior to Xi Summit marketbrief.nowRegulation13d ago

39MiniMax Open Sources Code CLI With SOTA FrontierHarness Eval marketbrief.nowReleases13d ago

40The paradox at the heart of AI and science | Terence Tao youtube.comResearch12d ago

41ABC-130K Tops All Open Teleop Datasets With 130,000 Episodes marketbrief.nowResearch13d ago

42Laya — 33ms Multilingual System 1 Decision Engine laya.convaiinnovations.comModels12d ago

43'Human In The Loop' is not enough cyrneko.euModels12d ago

44Stepfun Step 5 Preview (LLM): On AA Pareto frontier artificialanalysis.aiModels13d ago

45Quoting Thariq Shihipar simonwillison.netProducts13d ago

46Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash undercuts Google's Gemini Flash pricing while matching its multimodal benchmarks the-decoder.comModels13d ago

47MilleMiglia: A realistic instance generator for middle-mile logistics research.googleResearch13d ago

48Step Fun Step 5 Preview Posts 44 on Intelligence Index With 1 Million Token Window marketbrief.nowModels13d ago

49Google Deepmind's Dream-RSI helps AI agents improve by “dreaming” about past attempts the-decoder.comResearch13d ago

50AI conference ICLR is drowning in abstracts, with roughly 50,000 submissions before the deadline the-decoder.comModels13d ago

51Unity launches official plugins for Claude Code and OpenAI Codex to stop AI agents from using outdated tutorials the-decoder.comProducts13d ago

52Note on 18th September 2026 simonwillison.netResearch13d ago

53'Ask for what you want' is a key skill for the 21st century robinsloan.comResearch13d ago