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Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis back Dario Amodei's call to slow down AI development, at least in part. Altman says OpenAI is pushing its IPO to 2027 over safety concerns. The article Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight appeared first on The Decoder.

Why it matters

Governance and legal pressure are increasingly shaping how AI products can be built and deployed.

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AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power

Silicon Valley is shifting away from chatbot queries toward a future filled with resource-intensive agentic AI—and it's driving the data center buildout.

Models wired.com Sep 13, 12:00 PM GMT+2 signal 79 verified

OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May

In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users' API keys. At the time, RubyGems described it as a […]

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Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune.

Chips theverge.com Sep 12, 11:16 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

Models techcrunch.com Sep 12, 10:19 PM GMT+2 signal 75 verified

Iran regime used Claude to expand surveillance of dissidents, Anthropic says

Anthropic said Iranian paramilitary and security units used Claude to surveil thousands of Iranians and identify opposition and diaspora accounts, while a separate MEK-linked operation used the AI to impersonate an activist and profile people inside Iran.

AI iranintl.com Sep 13, 5:34 AM GMT+2 2 sources signal 74

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Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a winding essay, Amodei proposed a three-step plan to "pace the frontier" - jargon that simply...

Chips theverge.com Sep 12, 6:23 PM GMT+2 signal 74 verified

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to ‘pace the frontier’

What would it actually look like to "pace the frontier"?

Models techcrunch.com Sep 12, 5:52 PM GMT+2 signal 74 verified

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up

The CEO of Anthropic says the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up.

AI abc7news.com Sep 12, 10:19 PM GMT+2 4 sources signal 72

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to slow down for safety

NEW YORK (AP) — The CEO of Anthropic said Saturday the artificial-intelligence industry should slow its fast-moving development to give safety measures time to catch up.

AI wtop.com Sep 13, 7:33 AM GMT+2 2 sources signal 68

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OpenAI just wants to win

OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics.

Chips theverge.com Sep 12, 1:00 PM GMT+2 signal 67 verified

Chinese military researchers and tech giants caught using Claude — US frontier model, coded 16 air-defense suppression tools targeting Taiwan, drafted anti-torpedo specs, and fed 151 million training queries to Alibaba

Anthropic accuses China-linked actors of using its Claude models of weapon development, intelligence activities, distilling AI models.

Models tomshardware.com Sep 13, 2:00 PM GMT+2 signal 66 verified

GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own

GPT-6 Astra earns nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs' Vending-Bench agent benchmark and refuses illegal price-fixing deals that Fable agrees to.

Startups the-decoder.com Sep 13, 12:52 PM GMT+2 signal 66 verified

From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere

Plus: The US disrupts the internet’s biggest black market, a Conti ransomware hacker gets prison time, Meta fails to stop AI-generated videos of child abuse.

Models wired.com Sep 12, 12:30 PM GMT+2 signal 66 verified

Outside Evaluators, Grok in Copilot - 2026-09-13

Anthropic and OpenAI commit to embedded evaluators; Copilot's Grok preview adds a new data-processing decision.

Models highlearningrate.substack.com Sep 13, 12:24 PM GMT+2 signal 64

My First Week With GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra was my main Codex driver for the last week, and I am back on GPT-5.5. That sounds harsher than my... Read More... Source

Models vincentschmalbach.com Sep 13, 11:49 AM GMT+2 signal 64

The clearest warning shot: how the OpenAI agent-swarm story engaged a public audience

Published on September 13, 2026 8:48 AM GMT Common Signals helps AI communicators know which messages actually work with their intended audiences.

AI forum.effectivealtruism.org Sep 13, 10:48 AM GMT+2 signal 64

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.

Models simonwillison.net Sep 13, 1:56 AM GMT+2 signal 64 verified

Tripo says P2.0 gives Astra cleaner meshes for Blender rigging

The workflow connects Tripo's August mesh model to OpenAI's computer-use agent, while leaving deformation checks and physics setup to the creator.

Research runtimewire.com Sep 13, 6:13 AM GMT+2 signal 63 verified

Zhengyi Luo built AgentsDock to run AI research agents from his phone

AgentsDock's beta connects Claude Code, Codex and Cursor to researchers' workstations, terminals and experiment outputs.

Research runtimewire.com Sep 13, 4:55 AM GMT+2 signal 63 verified

Higgsfield puts GPT-driven motion graphics inside After Effects

Alex Mashrabov's AI Motion Designer turns chat instructions into editable motion graphics in an open Adobe composition and requires Higgsfield, ChatGPT and Adobe subscriptions.

Research runtimewire.com Sep 13, 4:54 AM GMT+2 signal 63 verified

Implementation of Machine Learning Workflows with NVIDIA cuML, RAPIDS, GPU Benchmarking, Explainability, Clustering, and Model Inference

This practical tutorial demonstrates how to build and accelerate machine learning workflows using NVIDIA cuML and RAPIDS.

Chips marktechpost.com Sep 13, 3:42 AM GMT+2 signal 63 verified

China's robot champions can run; now they have to prove they can earn

China's humanoid robot boom is entering a harder phase. After years of headline-grabbing demonstrations and heavy private funding, companies are being pressed to prove something less theatrical but more consequential: that robots can perform reliable work, generate recurring revenue, and justify their valuations.

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Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown

In a 3,800-word essay, Dario Amodei laid out the rapidly advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence and said there needed to be greater safety controls across the industry.

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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”...

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Quota reset Codex

Codex usage limits reset propagated

OpenAI engineer thsottiaux states "Reset all propagated," indicating usage limits have been reset for users; a nearby post reports the same reset for Codex and ChatGPT Work.

observed Sep 12, 10:09 AM GMT+2applies Sep 12, 10:09 AM GMT+2Reset all propagated

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@reach_vb — Reset should be out for everyone! Enjoy! ✨ PSA: update to the latest version of Codex App/ CLI Quote Vaibhav (VB) Srivastav: Reset rolling out to all Codex & ChatGPT Work users! Grateful to everyone
@thsottiaux — Reset all propagated. Sweet dreams.

Model release Qwen

Qwen release announced

@alibaba_qwen: Fast meets open. 🚀 Qwen3.8-27B is now running on @cerebras with rapid inference. Try it now! Quote Cerebras: Qwen3.8-27B is now live at Cerebras speed. The dense, open-weight model from @Alibaba_Qwen scores 34 on the Artificial Analysis In

observed Sep 12, 9:35 AM GMT+2applies Sep 12, 9:35 AM GMT+2now

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@alibaba_qwen — Fast meets open. 🚀 Qwen3.8-27B is now running on @cerebras with rapid inference. Try it now! Quote Cerebras: Qwen3.8-27B is now live at Cerebras speed. The dense, open-weight model from @Alibaba_Qwen

Dev tool ChatGPT

Greg Brockman cites 5M ChatGPT sites and new feature drops

OpenAI’s Greg Brockman (@gdb) posted that ChatGPT sites have reached 5M and that new feature drops are accompanying that milestone. Specific feature contents are not named in the supplied text.

observed Sep 12, 2:29 AM GMT+2

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@gdb — 5M ChatGPT sites, and new feature drops:
@thsottiaux — Massive upgrade to creating, sharing and hosting sites directly through ChatGPT.

Model release Smaug Flash

Bindu Reddy announces Smaug Flash open-weights fine-tune

@bindureddy announced Smaug Flash as an open-weights fine-tune aimed at personal agents, saying it is available on the RouteLLM API at $0.10M input and $0.40M output. Authority is the poster’s own claim; no other supplied posts corroborate it.

observed Sep 12, 2:09 AM GMT+2

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@bindureddy — 🚨 Announcing Smaug Flash - Open Weights, Dirt Cheap And Tuned For Personal Agents Excited to announce Smaug Flash, our latest open-weights fine-tune. Available on the RouteLLM API - $0.10 M input

Dev tool Claude Code

Claude Code adds plugin eval for testing plugin value

@claudedevs announces Claude Code’s claude plugin eval: create test cases, run a plugin or skill against them, score the runs, and compare by rerunning without the plugin.

observed Sep 11, 9:56 PM GMT+2

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@claudedevs — New in Claude Code: claude plugin eval See what value your plugin is adding, or if it needs more work. You can create test cases, run your plugin or skill against those test cases, score those runs

Hot OpenAI

GPT Images 2.5 tops Artificial Analysis Image Arena

@artificialanlys reports OpenAI’s GPT Images 2.5 taking the top two Image Arena spots, with higher quality in under half the time at the same price as GPT Image 2. This is a third-party benchmark result, not a primary release notice.

observed Sep 11, 8:24 PM GMT+2

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@artificialanlys — OpenAI’s GPT Images 2.5 takes the top two spots on the Artificial Analysis Image Arena, generating higher quality images in less than half the time, while keeping the same price as GPT Image 2 Nearly

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Chinese military researchers and tech giants caught using Claude — US frontier model, coded 16 air-defense suppression tools targeting Taiwan, drafted anti-torpedo specs, and fed 151 million training queries to Alibaba

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Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

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The Unexpected Winner of Cisco IT’s Wi-Fi 7 Upgrade? Security.

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Robotics and embodied AI +10.3

Hardware manufacturers and researchers are deploying new humanoid robot designs, expanding production facilities, and training physical motion models while working toward reliable industrial operation and commercial deployment.

5 sources AI policy and governance +9.0

AI laboratory leaders and executives are publicly advocating for deliberate pacing in model development, alongside commitments to support third-party safety evaluators and external oversight across the industry.

6 sources Frontier model releases -1.2

New frontier and post-trained models are undergoing comparative evaluations on benchmarks and specialized tasks, highlighting trade-offs in operational cost, coding capability, and task execution.

4 sources AI infrastructure and compute -4.2

Expanding agentic workloads are driving data center power demands and supply chain activity, prompting infrastructure adaptations that range from high-speed optical hardware deployments to data center heat reuse.

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Quick takes

Frontier model providers are orienting next-generation architectures like GPT-6 Astra toward vertical enterprise workflows and autonomous code verification, transitioning core product strategy from general chat toward task-specialized execution.The transition from conversational queries to resource-intensive agentic workflows is accelerating data center expansion while creating immediate compute bottlenecks that constrain subscription availability during frontier model rollouts.Proposals from frontier lab executives to pace frontier model development face operational and legal complexities, as coordinating safety slowdowns intersects with existing antitrust frameworks and external governance commitments.Cross-border model distillation is becoming a structural competitive flashpoint as frontier labs document unauthorized large-scale query extraction by international competitors seeking to accelerate model capabilities.Managed agent orchestration platforms and autonomous coding harnesses are formalizing long-running execution environments, turning internal developer velocity experiments into commercial cloud infrastructure for complex problem-solving.Managed agent frameworks and frontier model integrations are shifting software engineering workflows toward autonomous code generation, automated verification testing, and internal enterprise tooling.The transition toward resource-intensive agentic AI is straining compute and storage infrastructure, driving extensive data center buildouts and operational capacity limits during frontier model deployments.Frontier AI developers are exploring structured pacing frameworks and independent third-party evaluations, even as concerns emerge regarding whether coordinated industry slowdowns conflict with antitrust regulations.

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Story tomshardware.com

Chinese military researchers and tech giants caught using Claude — US frontier model, coded 16 air-defense suppression tools targeting Taiwan, drafted anti-torpedo specs, and fed 151 million training queries to Alibaba

Models Sep 13, 2:00 PM GMT+2 Story theregister.com

Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

Chips Sep 13, 1:21 PM GMT+2 Story blogs.cisco.com

The Unexpected Winner of Cisco IT’s Wi-Fi 7 Upgrade? Security.

Models Sep 11, 2:30 PM GMT+2

Market pulse

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AI pulse 58/100

AI-linked equities are broadly positive, with Super Micro Computer +7.28%, Arm Holdings plc +4.17%, Advanced Micro Devices +2.49% leading the tracked basket.

Ticker	Company	Move
SMCI	Super Micro Computer	+7.28%
ARM	Arm Holdings plc	+4.17%
AMD	Advanced Micro Devices	+2.49%
AMZN	Amazon.com	+1.94%

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Coding Agents

Anthropic CEO calls for slowdown of AI development amid safety concerns

In a blog post, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cautioned that swarms of rogue AI agents could take over the…

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Model Releases

Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune.

4 evidence links

Hot Builder Skills

Agent reliability practice is shifting toward evals and operational checks

The stronger builder-skill trend is operational: state constraints, testing harnesses, eval loops, and…

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AI Infrastructure

Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

Renewables pledge won’t change the Oracle and OpenAI data center’s use of gas.

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Research & Evals

Why MCP security is about permissions overhaul

Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP) went into production in late 2024. It spread rapidly after that…

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Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight

The ledger

AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power

OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May

Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026

Iran regime used Claude to expand surveillance of dissidents, Anthropic says

Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to ‘pace the frontier’

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to give safety measures time to catch up

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI industry needs to slow down for safety

OpenAI just wants to win

Chinese military researchers and tech giants caught using Claude — US frontier model, coded 16 air-defense suppression tools targeting Taiwan, drafted anti-torpedo specs, and fed 151 million training queries to Alibaba

GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own

From Hacks to Bioweapons, Claude Misuse Is Now Everywhere

Outside Evaluators, Grok in Copilot - 2026-09-13

My First Week With GPT-6 Astra

The clearest warning shot: how the OpenAI agent-swarm story engaged a public audience

Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work

Tripo says P2.0 gives Astra cleaner meshes for Blender rigging

Zhengyi Luo built AgentsDock to run AI research agents from his phone

Higgsfield puts GPT-driven motion graphics inside After Effects

Implementation of Machine Learning Workflows with NVIDIA cuML, RAPIDS, GPU Benchmarking, Explainability, Clustering, and Model Inference

China's robot champions can run; now they have to prove they can earn

Anthropic C.E.O. Dario Amodei Calls for A.I. Slowdown

‘We must slow the pace’: CEO of Anthropic calls for an AI slowdown

What X is saying

Signals

Codex usage limits reset propagated

Qwen release announced

Greg Brockman cites 5M ChatGPT sites and new feature drops

Bindu Reddy announces Smaug Flash open-weights fine-tune

Claude Code adds plugin eval for testing plugin value

GPT Images 2.5 tops Artificial Analysis Image Arena

Just in

Chinese military researchers and tech giants caught using Claude — US frontier model, coded 16 air-defense suppression tools targeting Taiwan, drafted anti-torpedo specs, and fed 151 million training queries to Alibaba

Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

The Unexpected Winner of Cisco IT’s Wi-Fi 7 Upgrade? Security.

Topic radar

Quick takes

Just in

Chinese military researchers and tech giants caught using Claude — US frontier model, coded 16 air-defense suppression tools targeting Taiwan, drafted anti-torpedo specs, and fed 151 million training queries to Alibaba

Security through obscurity is dead, and AI delivered the fatal blow

The Unexpected Winner of Cisco IT’s Wi-Fi 7 Upgrade? Security.

Market pulse

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Coding Agents

Anthropic CEO calls for slowdown of AI development amid safety concerns

Model Releases

Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

Hot Builder Skills

Agent reliability practice is shifting toward evals and operational checks

AI Infrastructure

Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

Research & Evals

Why MCP security is about permissions overhaul

Recent leads

Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be ‘ill-advised’ to go public in 2026

Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push

Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services

Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board

Mistral raises €3B to make sovereign, open-weight AI the technology frontier