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Sunday, September 13, 2026

18 stories · 5 min read

★ Must ReadAnthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier. " What would that actually look like?

TechCrunch AI· Anthony Ha· 2 min· 9d agoSource →

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LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'

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A Design Space Exploration of Async/Await

Trending on Hacker News with 428 points and 123 comments.

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A misalignment of AI in mathematics

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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.

The Verge AI · 2 min

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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.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min

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PERSPECTIVE A

“Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?”

— Gary Marcus

Gary Marcus — Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in th...

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PERSPECTIVE B

“Nvidia is the central bank of AI”

— Hacker News

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★ Must ReadReal-SWE: Benchmarking AI models on private, real-world, enterprise codebases

Trending on Hacker News with 139 points and 69 comments.

Hacker News· 1 min· 9d agoSource →

[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale

We agree with Sebastian: this should have been DeepSeek v5

Latent Space· 3 min· 10d agoSource →

[AINews] not much happened today

Latent Space — [AINews] not much happened today

Latent Space· 3 min· 12d agoSource →

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My 20 Favorite Google Docs Features ❤️

The shortcuts I actually use.

Wonder Tools· Jeremy Caplan· 2 min· 10d agoSource →

Misleading Metaphors and Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

AI Guide· Melanie Mitchell· 2 min· 11d agoSource →

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 552B Parameters, Lower Inference Costs

Kaitchup — DeepSeek V4.

Kaitchup· Benjamin Marie· 2 min· 10d agoSource →

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★ Must ReadThe Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right

Before co-founding Kepler, Vinoo Ganesh led Spark at Palantir and built Project Frontline — a pioneering program for Forward Deployed Engineers. He takes us through the best practices of FDEs.

Latent Space· Vinoo Ganesh· 3 min· 10d agolong readSource →

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“Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development”

— Anthony Ha, TechCrunch AI