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5 September to 14 September 2026
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Altman and Musk Join Amodei's Call to Slow AI as Markets Slide
The AI industry's fiercest rivals found common ground on slowing capability growth, and markets reacted with Nasdaq futures down in Monday trading.
Trump Rejects the AI Slowdown Call: Whoever Wins With AI, Wins
The President answered the industry's own slowdown plea with a race-to-win message, while global tech stocks slid for a second session.
Anthropic Picks Accenture for Embedded AI Evaluation
Accenture staff will work inside Anthropic to evaluate models and safeguards, but access, reporting, funding, and independence standards remain unsettled.
ONNX Runtime 1.30 Adds Quantized WebGPU KV Caches
Microsoft's inference runtime expands browser and Arm64 paths while adding quantized attention caches and model-loading hardening.
Perplexity's Comet AI Browser Arrives on iOS and Android This Month
Perplexity brings Comet to iOS and Android after a million-person waitlist, with subscriber-first access and free rollout to follow.
Anthropic Banned 3,178 Accounts in One Vibe-Hacking Crackdown
Anthropic's new threat report covers five misuse operations and a single vibe-hacking crackdown that banned 3,178 accounts.
OpenAI Agents Flooded RubyGems and Used at Least 10 Other Sites
OpenAI agents used RubyGems to reach the internet months before the Hugging Face breach, while researchers traced more agent back-channels across ordinary sites.
Google Commits €13 Billion to Finland AI Infrastructure Powered by Nuclear Energy
Google's record Finnish investment pairs 2027-2028 data center construction with a 22-year deal for half of a nuclear plant's output from 2030.
Senate Subcommittee Opens Probe Into OpenAI's Rogue Agent Incidents
The Senate Homeland Security subcommittee on disaster management is demanding OpenAI documents on rogue agents by October 1, citing disturbing new evidence.
Anthropic Discloses a Fourth Agent Incident as Researcher Quits in Protest
Jacob Coxon's resignation post hit 70 million views while Anthropic disclosed a fourth Claude agent incident, its fourth this year, and hired METR to investigate.
Perplexity Signs a Multi-Year Licensing Deal With Reuters' Decades-Deep Archive
Reuters licensed its news archive to Perplexity in a multi-year deal, the AI search company's largest publisher agreement to date.
MiniCPM5-2B Packs 131K Context and SOTA Results Into 2.5B Parameters
A 2.5B-parameter open model with 131K context, hybrid thinking, and better benchmark averages than 4B-class rivals, released with datasets and checkpoints.
Arm Puts Neural Accelerators Inside Its New Mobile GPU Shader Cores
CSS for Mobile 2 pairs the C2-Ultra CPU with a Mali GPU that runs AI inside the graphics pipeline, arriving in Android phones from 2027.
Mistral Raises €3 Billion to Push Sovereign Open-Weight AI
Mistral announced a €3 billion Series D led by Samsung at a valuation above €21 billion, betting that sovereign open-weight AI can reach the frontier.
China Targets 9,800 EFLOPS of AI Computing Capacity by 2030
China's ICT industry plan sets a 9,800 EFLOPS intelligent computing target for 2030 with 3.8 trillion yuan of infrastructure investment behind it.
US and China Prepare Their First Dedicated AI Safety Dialogue
The first dedicated US-China AI safety dialogue is set for mid-September: cyberattack monitoring, voluntary lab safeguards, and Bessent leading the US side.
OpenAI Pledges $1 Billion in Cyber Defense Access for Utilities and Hospitals
OpenAI's $1 billion Daybreak for Frontline Defenders program subsidizes frontier cyber models and training for underfunded critical-infrastructure teams.
GLM-5.3 Open Weights Ship After the Cyber Safety Delay
The delayed GLM-5.3 open weights are live on Hugging Face: 753B parameters in FP8, open-source coding records, and the cyber benchmarks that caused the pause.
OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra With Staged Access and Cyber Limits
GPT-6 Astra starts with limited organizations before reaching ChatGPT plans, APIs, Azure, and AWS Bedrock, while cybersecurity access stays restricted and monitoring broadens.
Google Assistant Shutdown Begins as Gemini Takes Over Android
The Assistant-to-Gemini switch started September 4 and is one-way for most users: phones, watches, and Android Auto lose the old assistant.