The day in AI and tech
Saturday 12 September 2026
33 events from 19 outlets. Each line is one event: the headline, then who reported it. Days are UTC.
Artificial Intelligence26 events
- Cognition Releases SWE-2: A Kimi K3 Post-Trained Coding Model That Matches Fable 5.1 on FrontierCode at 64% Lower Cost — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic Says ‘We Owe It to Humanity’ to Slow Down AI — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026 — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab), The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Fly Language Model (FLM) Wires the Full Fruit Fly Connectome Into a Frozen 1.2B LLM, and Its Own Controls Show the Wiring Does Not Help — MarkTechPost (opens MarkTechPost's report in a new tab)
- Anthropic CEO calls for AI race to slow down. Musk and OpenAI's Altman agrees — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- AI Is Running Laps Around Our Political System — The Atlantic (opens The Atlantic's report in a new tab)Read on The Atlantic (opens in a new tab)
- Elon Musk backs Anthropic’s call to slow down AI progress before rogue bots take over the entire internet — MarketWatch (opens MarketWatch's report in a new tab)Read on MarketWatch (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic CEO Calls For Slowing Down AI Development, Warns Of “Swarm” Taking Over Internet In 6-12 Months — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Kling AI’s TIFF Market Panel Illuminates Tech Challenges and Human-Led Solutions in AI Filmmaking: ‘The Script Is Still the Blueprint’ — Variety (opens Variety's report in a new tab)Read on Variety (opens in a new tab)
- GPT-6 Astra Users Say OpenAI's Newest Model Got Dumber. It Happened Before, Too — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- Ditching bonds for bitcoin: How crypto can tackle the AI-heavy portfolio dilemma — CoinDesk (opens CoinDesk's report in a new tab)Read on CoinDesk (opens in a new tab)
- Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down — BBC (opens BBC's report in a new tab)Read on BBC (opens in a new tab)
- AI Agents Test the Limits of Human Control — Bloomberg (opens Bloomberg's report in a new tab)Read on Bloomberg (opens in a new tab)
- ChatGPT Images 2.5 vs Nano Banana 2: Which One is Better? — Decrypt (opens Decrypt's report in a new tab)Read on Decrypt (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI just wants to win — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- From AI FOMO to AI hangover: corporate America is taking a long, hard look in the mirror right now — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- When the Whole Company Adopts AI: What It Does to Your SOC — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Steve Jones on the pros and cons of AI datacentres – cartoon — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- After a decade of failed bills and three years of resignations, Washington finally discovers it cares about AI safety — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- 4 things you can do to protect yourself from the rising threat of AI — Fast Company (opens Fast Company's report in a new tab)Read on Fast Company (opens in a new tab)
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta bet that AI would shrink its management ranks. Now it’s quietly rebuilding them — Fortune (opens Fortune's report in a new tab)Read on Fortune (opens in a new tab)
- AI may be denting computer science graduates’ job prospects, UK data shows — The Guardian (opens The Guardian's report in a new tab)Read on The Guardian (opens in a new tab)
- How AI is changing PhD programmes: join our free webinar — Nature (opens Nature's report in a new tab)Read on Nature (opens in a new tab)
- ‘The View’s Sunny Hostin Defends AI As “New Art Form” Amid “Gatekeeping In Hollywood Around Black & Brown Creative Content” — Deadline (opens Deadline's report in a new tab)Read on Deadline (opens in a new tab)
Computing & Chips2 events
- Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute — The Verge (opens The Verge's report in a new tab)Read on The Verge (opens in a new tab)
- Maryland Under Pressure as Local Moratoriums Supercharge Opposition to Data Centers — Inside Climate News (opens Inside Climate News's report in a new tab)Read on Inside Climate News (opens in a new tab)
Robotics & Autonomy1 event
Cybersecurity4 events
- CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
- Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests — TechCrunch (opens TechCrunch's report in a new tab)Read on TechCrunch (opens in a new tab)
- Dutch NCSC: Critical Check Point VPN flaws exploitation is imminent — BleepingComputer (opens BleepingComputer's report in a new tab)Read on BleepingComputer (opens in a new tab)
- OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers — The Hacker News (opens The Hacker News's report in a new tab)
Events are grouped automatically, by matching the publishers' headlines and times; no person reviews the grouping. An event reported by several outlets has its own page listing who reported what and when.