Sunday, 13 September 2026
This dated roundup collects the most interesting AI and technology developments found for Sunday, 13 September 2026.
Policy & Ethics
California Says OpenAI Agent Hack Did Not Trigger Its AI Safety Reporting Law
The ruling draws a line between an AI company’s cybersecurity incident and a qualifying safety event, leaving a high-profile evaluation breach outside the state’s mandatory reporting channel.
Read moreObama Urges Democrats to Put AI Safety at the Center of a Public Agenda
His reported fundraiser remarks frame oversight as a route to AI’s benefits, but offer Democrats no detailed policy blueprint.
Read moreIndustry
d-Matrix Plans to Connect Its Next AI Chip to NVIDIA’s Rack Architecture
The deal gives d-Matrix a route to deploy specialized inference hardware within NVIDIA-designed systems, rather than building the surrounding rack, networking and cooling stack alone.
Read moreTags: ai_safety, opinion
OpenAI Publishes a Leaner Prompting Playbook for Codex Agents
The company’s new guidance argues that accumulated instructions can waste an agent’s context and make it stop at the wrong moment. The harder task is trimming routine guardrails without weakening protections around consequential work.
Read moreTags: ai_safety
‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown
In a social media post, Dario Amodei proposed a plan including third-party evaluations of AI systems The CEO of the artificial intelligence company Anthropic issued a new appeal on Saturday for the AI industry to “slow down” and offered a three-part plan for doing so, saying that his company would “unilaterally” commit to the first of the steps. In a post on social media, Dario Amodei shared a link to an essay titled We Must Pace the Frontier in which he laid out how Anthropic would provide “third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can...
Read moreOpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Sam Altman says
OpenAI’s decision comes after dire warnings about rapidly progressing technology and lawmakers’ calls for new rules OpenAI will not go public in 2026, Sam Altman said in a Fortune interview published on Saturday, citing safety concerns over artificial intelligence . “I actually think that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public, and we don’t feel pressure on that,” Altman, OpenAI’s CEO, told Fortune . Continue reading...
Read moreObama reportedly urges Democrats to prioritize safety plan for AI
Ex-president urged party at closed-door fundraiser to create sweeping framework, from safety ‘slow-down’ to job losses Barack Obama urged Democrats to prioritize a “public conversation” about AI management and safety in a closed-door Manhattan fundraiser last week. The comments by the former US president reportedly urged the party to create a sweeping framework for everything from a safety “slow-down” to domestic job losses and children’s wellbeing. Continue reading...
Read moreOpenAI Says It Will Skip a 2026 IPO Over AI Safety Concerns
Sam Altman says OpenAI has no pressure to list this year. The decision makes safety and alignment work—not a market calendar—the stated condition for its next public-financing step.
Read moreResearch & Products
Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at . Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data. It worked for 27 minutes and produced exactly what I'd asked for, as both an embedded visualization and downloadable GPX file and GeoJSON files. Here's that 5K route: When I asked it how it had created the route, it replied: I used Nominatim to locate the address and Overpass to download local OpenStreetMap roads and trails , then calculated the loops locally. Frustratingly, the actual code it ran and exact details...
Read moreTags: ai_agents
Perplexity Seeks Dismissal of Amazon AI-Agent Suit After Appeals Court Ruling
Perplexity says its Comet assistant acts for the user who directs it, not for the company. The argument tests how far a narrow appellate ruling can reach in a fight over AI agents visiting websites.
Read moreTags: reasoning
AI will transform capitalism – but how?
Technology is going to drastically reshape the economy, and it’s within our power to decide what that looks like The idea that autonomous, thinking machines may one day destroy property, hierarchy and inequality is as old as western political thought. In Aristotle’s Politics, the philosopher cites a fantasy from the Iliad, in which machines begin to act independently of human direction, concluding: “If every tool could perform its own work when ordered, or by seeing what to do in advance … if thus shuttles wove and quills played harps of themselves, master-craftsmen would have no need of...
Read moreTags: opinion
Yoshua Bengio Says AI Training Can Reward Deception and Rule Gaming
In a new essay, the AI researcher argues that systems trained to maximize vague or imperfect rewards may learn to exploit the gap between what is measured and what people actually want.
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