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September 9, 2026, 10:05 AM

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Amrith Ramkumar / Wall Street Journal:
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control  —  Concerns are rising inside AI labs that competition is pushing tech companies to race toward self-improving models that risk spiraling out of human control
Evan Hubinger / @evanhub:
Anthropic's Alignment Science lead says there is a “>10%” chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade and is worried about recursive self-improvement  —  Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
Ina Fried / Axios:
Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses  —  Meta on Tuesday announced Muse, a personal AI agent built on the latest generation of models developed under chief AI officer Alexandr Wang.
Riley Griffin / Bloomberg:
Meta's personal AI agent Muse is powered by Muse Spark 1.3 and is free for up to 100M tokens per week; users can get more compute via $20 and $100 monthly tiers  —  Meta Platforms Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence agent designed to carry out tasks on a user's behalf …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta says Muse users can connect their apps to send emails, book travel, turn recipe Reels into grocery lists, make purchases thanks to Link by Stripe, and more  —  Less than two weeks after Meta agreed to a massive $18 billion multistate settlement in a lawsuit over social media's consumer harms …
OpenAI:
OpenAI says, while unlikely, it “cannot rule out that de-identified data derived” from Buckmaster's and Alpöge's use of its products helped improve its models  —  Read the paper Link to Lean formalized proof  —  We're sharing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence …
Madison Mills / Axios:
OpenAI says an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours  —  OpenAI says its AI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, a potentially historic breakthrough shadowed …
Joseph Howlett / Scientific American:
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's first foldable phone will be called iPhone Duo, with prices starting at ~$2,000 for 256GB of storage and sales starting as early as October  —  Apple Inc. is set to debut a roughly $2,000 foldable iPhone Duo on Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging product event …
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record ~972 vulnerabilities, taking its total flaws patched in 2026 so far to 2,760, more than double from 2025  —  Microsoft's patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold.
Reuters:
The NSA, the FBI, and CISA issue a joint warning that Chinese AI companies like DeepSeek, Moonshot, and Alibaba are doing distillation “at an industrial scale”  —  The U.S. government on Tuesday accused Chinese artificial intelligence companies of maliciously copying technology …
Bloomberg:
Google plans to invest €13B+ in Finland over two years, its biggest investment in Europe to date, to build three new data centers and expand an existing one  —  Alphabet Inc.'s Google is spending €13 billion ($15.1 billion) on artificial intelligence infrastructure in Finland …
Ina Fried / Axios:
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT  —  OpenAI is launching ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday, the company shared first with Axios. … - The new model can generate images up to 50 percent faster, OpenAI says.
Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times:
AI sales and marketing startup Clay raised $115M led by Wellington Management at a $7.1B valuation, up from $3.1B when it raised $100M in August 2025  —  The round was led by Wellington Management, a firm known for investing in start-ups on the path toward potential initial public offerings.
Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal:
Block says it has submitted an application to US regulators to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank called Builders Bank & Trust  —  The financial technology company is seeking to establish a federally regulated, uninsured national trust bank  —  Block wants to build a bank.

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