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OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior

OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to hide it.

Why it matters

Model releases reset developer expectations, competitive pressure, and the capabilities builders can immediately put into products.

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The new CC, an AI agent built for families

Google Labs is expanding CC to groups, starting with families and households, so they can spend less time on logistics.

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OpenAI staff knew the ‘existential threat’ AI posed to publishers, New York Times claims

Lawyers say AI co-founder Greg Brockman was ‘motivated by the gazillions’ he hoped to gain from models trained on copyrighted content

Models ft.com Sep 17, 9:46 PM GMT+2 2 sources signal 85 verified

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How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT

Cooley built GO Public with ChatGPT Work to bring intelligence to the IPO process, helping lawyers surface issues earlier and focus judgment where it matters most.

Models openai.com Sep 17, 2:00 PM GMT+2 signal 83 primary

King Charles to press NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic leaders on AI safety at summit

Charles will convene senior tech leaders today as the debate around the risks involved in AI development ramps up.

AI cnbc.com Sep 17, 12:15 PM GMT+2 2 sources signal 83 verified

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Bug Hunters Used Claude to Hack OpenAI

A team of cybersecurity researchers with startup Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI, gaining access to a key repository of OpenAI’s software, the researchers revealed Thursday. The hack, which occurred on July 25, further demonstrates AI companies’ vulnerability to...

Policy theinformation.com Sep 18, 4:37 AM GMT+2 signal 80 verified

OpenAI’s Next Round

This week, we and others reported that OpenAI has been in early talks with investors about a new private round that could value it at $1.2 trillion or more.

Policy theinformation.com Sep 18, 2:53 AM GMT+2 signal 80 verified

Cooley Partners with OpenAI on Legal Tool For Drafting SEC Filings

OpenAI and law firm Cooley co-launched a product, called GO Public, that can draft S-1 filings, the document companies must submit to the Securities and Exchange Commission before they can go public, Cooley said Thursday. Lawyers at Cooley can prompt GO Public, which also has access to Cooley...

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Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories”

The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.

Models techcrunch.com Sep 18, 1:25 AM GMT+2 signal 79 verified

Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate

Google DeepMind just launched an institute to hash out the big AGI questions in public

Models techcrunch.com Sep 18, 1:21 AM GMT+2 signal 79 verified

Exclusive: OpenAI Hires Global Sales Chief From SpaceX and Two Senior Snowflake Salespeople

OpenAI has hired Brian McCarthy from SpaceX’s Cursor unit as its new global sales chief, reporting to recently hired Chief Revenue Officer Dali Rajic, the AI firm said Thursday. In addition, two veteran sales executives from Snowflake, including a senior vice president who helped negotiate the...

Policy theinformation.com Sep 17, 10:40 PM GMT+2 signal 77 verified

Microsoft Execs Voiced Concern About OpenAI’s Data Use, New York Times Claims

Microsoft executives expressed concerns in recent years that OpenAI’s use of paywalled articles from the New York Times and other publishers to train its models could pose legal issues, and OpenAI executives discussed how doing so could threaten those publishers’ businesses—but OpenAI proceeded...

Policy theinformation.com Sep 17, 9:22 PM GMT+2 signal 77 verified

Same Flaw Found in Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot

While the AI industry ties itself in knots over models it thinks will pose security threats to the internet and perhaps to humanity itself, researchers are warning about flaws in AI coding agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Microsoft that pose immediate risk to businesses.

Policy theinformation.com Sep 17, 7:32 PM GMT+2 signal 77 verified

OpenAI flags concerning new AI behavior and vows to track it more closely

OpenAI has disclosed six reports of "unexpected or concerning" behavior in AI models, including an unreleased research model inserting "jailbreak-like instructions" into its own notes to disregard its normal constraints and telling itself to be "freed from the roles and identities that bind other chatbots."

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Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”

Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.

Startups arstechnica.com Sep 17, 10:10 PM GMT+2 signal 76 verified

Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI's data practices "theft" while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

Models techcrunch.com Sep 17, 9:46 PM GMT+2 signal 76 verified

Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud

The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts.

Chips theverge.com Sep 17, 8:58 PM GMT+2 signal 76 verified

The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party

The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.

Models wired.com Sep 17, 8:42 PM GMT+2 signal 76 verified

Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents

Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models.

Startups arstechnica.com Sep 17, 6:18 PM GMT+2 signal 76 verified

OpenAI Is Close To Solving Another Millennium Prize Math Problem

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?

Policy theinformation.com Sep 17, 4:01 PM GMT+2 signal 76 verified

Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on NVIDIA

Huawei is accelerating the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip as it pushes to compete with Nvidia and close China’s AI computing gap with the U.S.

Models techcrunch.com Sep 17, 4:06 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse

Today, I’m talking with Mustafa Suleyman, the CEO of Microsoft AI. As you’re no doubt aware, the biggest story in tech right now is the spiraling debate about AI safety and regulation. It should come as no surprise that Mustafa has strong opinions on how AI should be built and regulated. Microsoft just published a […]

Chips theverge.com Sep 17, 4:00 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

Google, NVIDIA and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers

A new coalition that includes Google, Nvidia, Anthropic and Emerald AI wants to find 100 GW of grid capacity for new data centers.

Models techcrunch.com Sep 17, 3:38 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

Huawei Speeds Up AI Chip Launch to Challenge NVIDIA

Huawei Technologies plans to launch its new AI chip in the first quarter of 2027, nine months earlier than planned, as it steps up its efforts to challenge Nvidia. Tao Wang, Huawei’s deputy chairman and rotating chairman, said at the Huawei Connect conference in Shanghai on Thursday that the new...

Policy theinformation.com Sep 17, 11:05 AM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

Wes Moore would sign statewide data center moratorium

Wes Moore told us Thursday that he’d sign a statewide data center moratorium, as the state faces local pressure to restrict some of the artificial intelligence buildout.

Chips punchbowl.news Sep 17, 11:41 PM GMT+2 2 sources signal 74

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Model release GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra release announced

@borismpower: Finally ChatGPT for Law is released - Astra jumped over a capability threshold, making AI transformational for legal workflows!

observed Sep 17, 10:50 PM GMT+2

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@sherwinwu — So excited to finally announce Astra for Law!! This offering packages GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index, instructions, and model-level settings to make Astra uniquely good at real legal work
@mtslive — SITUATION DETECTED: OpenAI launched Astra for Law: GPT-6 Astra with a U.S. legal research index and instructions for legal analysis and writing.
@borismpower — Finally ChatGPT for Law is released - Astra jumped over a capability threshold, making AI transformational for legal workflows!
@reach_vb — Astra for Law is here!! GPT-6 Astra + legal search across 230M+ URLs, with 26 plugins for the tools lawyers already use. Firms are already building tools to review contracts, investigate deals and

Hot GLM

Report on GLM agent inference system optimization

Account details how a GLM-5.3-powered agent assisted in bringing GLM-5.3-Flash inference online with tripled throughput.

observed Sep 17, 9:05 AM GMT+2

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@zixuanli_ — GLM is increasingly helping build AI itself. For GLM-5.3-Flash, a GLM-5.3-powered agent helped bring a production inference system online in less than two weeks, while tripling throughput from the
@zai_org — We’re sharing how GLM-5.3 helped build and optimize the inference infrastructure serving GLM-5.3-Flash. The system went from its first successful run to production readiness in less than two weeks

Hot ChatGPT

Product advertising integration for Shopify in ChatGPT

Post notes collaboration enabling Shopify merchants to advertise products directly within ChatGPT.

observed Sep 17, 1:40 AM GMT+2

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@gdb — excited to help Shopify merchants advertise their products in ChatGPT:

Hot Databricks

Reported deployment of Astra at Databricks

Post claims a wall-to-wall internal deployment of Astra for engineering staff at Databricks.

observed Sep 17, 12:57 AM GMT+2

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@gdb — wall-to-wall deployment of astra for engineers at databricks:

Dev tool ChatGPT

ChatGPT Work connects business data tools and builds dashboards

Post describes ChatGPT Work operating over company data and connecting existing tools including PowerBI, Tableau, Clickhouse, Oracle BI and AWS Redshift, including building dashboards.

observed Sep 15, 7:53 PM GMT+2

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@gdb — chatgpt work for operating over and taking actions with your company's data, including building dashboards. just connect your existing tools, including PowerBI, Tableau, Clickhouse, Oracle BI, AWS

Model release Gemini

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking introduced

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are introduced as SOTA live audio models with frontier price and performance, 97-language support, and async tool calls.

observed Sep 15, 7:07 PM GMT+2

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@officiallogank — Say hello (literally) to Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, our new SOTA live audio models, available with frontier price + performance. 3.8 Live supports 97 languages (can seamlessly
@googleai — Introducing our most advanced Gemini Audio models yet 🗣 Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking let you speak, collaborate, and execute tasks seamlessly, meaning conversing with AI just got a

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King Charles tests AI's safety consensus as NVIDIA keeps its foot on the accelerator

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Full speed ahead: Despite calls to slow AI down, its support structure is on the fast track

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Frontier model releases +9.5

Model developers are expanding release cadences with multimodal architectures featuring million-token context windows alongside domain-tailored model configurations designed for legal analysis and drafting.

2 sources AI infrastructure and compute +4.3

Supply chain component shortages, memory constraints, and high rack power demands are accelerating shifts toward custom semiconductors, optical interconnects, and modular rack-scale data center systems.

5 sources Robotics and embodied AI +3.4

Embodied AI efforts are scaling physical automation through commercial humanoid manufacturing plants alongside simulated environment frameworks designed to train and test autonomous agent behaviors.

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Quick takes

Developers are integrating low-latency live audio models with extended reasoning mechanisms, transitioning conversational interfaces from basic speech transcription into interactive, real-time reasoning workflows.Unsealed filings in publisher copyright litigation indicate that frontier developers and their partners internally evaluated systemic legal risks and commercial consequences associated with scraping paywalled editorial data.Hyperscalers and AI developers are forming cross-industry coalitions and deploying multi-billion-dollar financing structures to secure grid capacity and physical power infrastructure for expanding data center footprints.Model developers and hardware suppliers are forming cross-industry coalitions to identify up to 100 gigawatts of grid capacity as computing scale increasingly intersects with regional electrical infrastructure constraints.Frontier voice infrastructure is incorporating extended thinking and real-time audio processing models to support low-latency conversational applications and complex verbal interactions.Shared architectural patterns across autonomous coding runtimes and command-line interfaces have introduced common security vulnerabilities that affect deployment across multiple vendor ecosystems.Hyperscalers and AI developers are forming infrastructure coalitions and securing multi-gigawatt energy capacity alongside multi-billion-dollar data center rounds to meet mounting computing constraints.Unsealed litigation documents detailing internal corporate concerns over scraping paywalled publisher data are intensifying legal scrutiny surrounding frontier training methodologies and copyright liability.

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Chip equipment makers face waits of up to 40 months for critical parts

Chips Sep 18, 5:56 AM GMT+2 Story runtimewire.com

Nunchux speeds video diffusion with value smoothing and FP8 softmax casting

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King Charles tests AI's safety consensus as NVIDIA keeps its foot on the accelerator

Chips Sep 18, 5:41 AM GMT+2 Story siliconangle.com

Full speed ahead: Despite calls to slow AI down, its support structure is on the fast track

Startups Sep 18, 5:38 AM GMT+2

Market pulse

bullish

AI pulse 69/100

AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Super Micro Computer +9.50%, Arm Holdings plc +8.57%, Advanced Micro Devices +6.36% leading the tracked basket.

Ticker	Company	Move
SMCI	Super Micro Computer	+9.50%
ARM	Arm Holdings plc	+8.57%
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices	+6.36%
ORCL	Oracle	+5.19%

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Sep 17, 11:08 AM GMT+2

Coding Agents

OpenAI Tests Sponsored Agents, Adds AI Tools for ChatGPT Advertisers

OpenAI said Wednesday it is testing allowing some U.S. advertisers to sponsor AI agents working in ChatGPT, a…

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Model Releases

OpenAI Discloses More Safety Incidents and Adopts New Reporting Framework

OpenAI released a new framework on Wednesday for how it aims to report unsafe or concerning behavior in its…

4 evidence links

Hot Builder Skills

Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home

Google is opening up its smart home to AI agents, letting tools like Claude and Open Claw access and control…

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AI Infrastructure

Al Gore has a surprisingly calm take on the AI data center backlash

In an interview with TechCrunch, Al Gore suggested he isn't losing sleep over AI data center emissions — he's…

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Research & Evals

Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform

Treble's voice simulation platform is used by voice AI model developers, AI wearable, and robotics companies

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Fri 18 Sep 2026 Models

OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior

The ledger

The new CC, an AI agent built for families

OpenAI staff knew the ‘existential threat’ AI posed to publishers, New York Times claims

How Cooley is accelerating IPO work with ChatGPT

King Charles to press NVIDIA, OpenAI, Anthropic leaders on AI safety at summit

Bug Hunters Used Claude to Hack OpenAI

OpenAI’s Next Round

Cooley Partners with OpenAI on Legal Tool For Drafting SEC Filings

Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular “AI factories”

Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate

Exclusive: OpenAI Hires Global Sales Chief From SpaceX and Two Senior Snowflake Salespeople

Microsoft Execs Voiced Concern About OpenAI’s Data Use, New York Times Claims

Same Flaw Found in Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI and GitHub Copilot

OpenAI flags concerning new AI behavior and vows to track it more closely

Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”

Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud

The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party

Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents

OpenAI Is Close To Solving Another Millennium Prize Math Problem

Huawei plans Q1 2027 launch of new AI chip as it takes on NVIDIA

Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse

Google, NVIDIA and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers

Huawei Speeds Up AI Chip Launch to Challenge NVIDIA

Wes Moore would sign statewide data center moratorium

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GPT-6 Astra release announced

Report on GLM agent inference system optimization

Product advertising integration for Shopify in ChatGPT

Reported deployment of Astra at Databricks

ChatGPT Work connects business data tools and builds dashboards

Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking introduced

Just in

Chip equipment makers face waits of up to 40 months for critical parts

Nunchux speeds video diffusion with value smoothing and FP8 softmax casting

King Charles tests AI's safety consensus as NVIDIA keeps its foot on the accelerator

Full speed ahead: Despite calls to slow AI down, its support structure is on the fast track

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Chip equipment makers face waits of up to 40 months for critical parts

Nunchux speeds video diffusion with value smoothing and FP8 softmax casting

King Charles tests AI's safety consensus as NVIDIA keeps its foot on the accelerator

Full speed ahead: Despite calls to slow AI down, its support structure is on the fast track

Market pulse

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Coding Agents

OpenAI Tests Sponsored Agents, Adds AI Tools for ChatGPT Advertisers

Model Releases

OpenAI Discloses More Safety Incidents and Adopts New Reporting Framework

Hot Builder Skills

Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home

AI Infrastructure

Al Gore has a surprisingly calm take on the AI data center backlash

Research & Evals

Iceland-based Treble raises $18 million for its voice simulation platform

Recent leads

OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior

Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang tells Trump ‘we’re not going to let [an AI slowdown] happen’

OpenAI Faces Congressional Probe Over Swarm Hacking Incident