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September 17, 2026, 6:55 PM

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Reuters:
Huawei plans to debut the Ascend 960DT AI chip in Q1 2027 and the 960PR in Q3 2027, and unveils an architecture to let up to 1M processors operate as one system  —  Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) will launch two new artificial-intelligence semiconductors in 2027, rotating chairman David Wang said on Thursday …
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
Huawei Chair Eric Xu says Chinese AI researchers need to “increase the speed of development” to “see the dangers” of AI, contrasting with the US' slowdown calls  —  Chinese tech executive's comments contrast with Silicon Valley calls for slowdown amid rising concerns about technology's existential risks
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk recently spoke with Trump and successfully stalled an AI regulatory plan proposed by Demis Hassabis  —  Senior administration officials have gathered almost daily in recent months to map out potential guardrails
Hannah Lang / Reuters:
The US SEC unveils a five-year Innovation Exemption where many stock exchange rules don't apply to platforms facilitating blockchain and tokenized stock trading  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday unveiled its long-awaited exemption that will allow companies …
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
Financial Times:
Lucid and Bolt sign an initial agreement to deploy a fleet of 25K+ robotaxis in Europe built on Lucid's affordable EV platform, 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 …
Financial Times:
NYT court filing: ChatGPT's head wrote that publishers face an “existential threat” and a Microsoft executive 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
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.
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?
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OpenAI:
OpenAI says it discovered an unreleased Astra model added an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training but “did not observe any behavioral differences”  —  Summary  —  We observed rare cases of a model writing jailbreak-like instructions into its own compaction summaries …
Axios:
Bloomberg:
Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are among business leaders attending a White House state dinner for Xi Jinping next week; a source says Tim Cook will also attend  —  Apple Inc. Executive Chairman Tim Cook, OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman and Qualcomm Inc. head Cristiano Amon are poised …
New York Times:
Bloomberg:
King Charles hosts tech leaders, such as Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, in Scotland to discuss AI risks; Huang calls for safety tests  —  Huang Says AI Firms Should Be ‘More Rigorous in Testing’  —  Video Player is loading.  —  Unmute  —  Current Time 0:00 Loaded: 32.44% Playback Rate
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
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
David Streitfeld / New York Times:
Dario Amodei's essays chronicle the AI industry's shifting ways of selling its product, from wariness of regulation to calls for third-party evaluators  —  Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, on Tuesday.Manuel Orbegozo for The New York Times  —  “If you're explaining, you're losing,” Ronald Reagan is credited with saying.
Wall Street Journal:
Amy Harder / Axios:
Google, Nvidia, and Emerald AI launch the AI Energy Management Alliance to advance data centers that dynamically adjust electricity use based on grid conditions  —  A new coalition launched Wednesday is seeking a triple win for a data center industry that lately has struggled to notch any wins at all.
Francesca Maglione / Bloomberg:
Analysis: tech employers filed layoff notices for 14,500+ Bay Area workers in the 12 months to June; Bay Area 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.
Boone Ashworth / Wired:
Snap is pitching its $2,195 Specs as an enterprise product, inking Salesforce, Amazon, and Nvidia deals to enable visual overlays, alongside consumer features  —  Snap thinks its chunky, pricey smart glasses are the future of human computing, powered by a new AI app and features that do everything …
Bloomberg:
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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 …

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