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.
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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 moreKiteworks Buys Bonfy.AI to Control Sensitive Data as AI Agents Move It
The deal moves Kiteworks toward making security decisions during a data exchange, rather than relying only on records of where sensitive information is stored.
Read moreMariner Commits $175 Million to 700 AI Agents for Its Wealth-Advice Back Office
The five-year Humanity Labs deal is designed to shift routine operational work from people to AI, but its outcome will hinge on whether a large financial-advice firm can govern and adopt the new operating model.
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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.
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‘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 moreAnthropic’s Dario Amodei calls for a slower AI race as safety concerns mount
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI safety requires slowing frontier development, stronger evaluations and global standards. The post Anthropic’s Dario Amodei calls for a slower AI race as safety concerns mount appeared first on Superintelligence News - Artificial Intelligence News .
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AI agents being tested by OpenAI involved in cyber-attack on another service, say researchers
Two months before hacking Hugging Face, malicious packages authored by internal OpenAI agents were uploaded to RubyGems Agents being tested by OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages in a cyberattack on software service RubyGems in May, two months before they hacked open-source platform Hugging Face, the company confirmed Friday. It’s the latest revelation of cyberattacks linked to major artificial intelligence developers such as OpenAI and Anthropic. The hacks or attempts to access external systems have spooked the public and heightened concerns over the increasing abilities of...
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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...
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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.
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