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Archive September 11, 2026 15:07 UTC
Signal: Washington debates a slowdown while the Pentagon lends $5bn to build faster, the UAE buries its campus underground, and Claude writes missile software.
Altman Floats a Slowdown. Trump Says No.
Altman told an OpenAI staff meeting this week the company is open to slowing frontier development alongside rival labs, the President dismissed extinction fears the same day - and OpenAI has been asking Congress whether a coordinated slowdown would even be legal.
WIRED: OpenAI asked Congress whether an industry slowdown would break antitrust law Coxon walked from unvested Anthropic equity two months short of the cliff AP: Sanders drafts a bill to ban superintelligent AI outright
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Oracle Burns $28.5B to Book $664B
Cloud infrastructure revenue rose 121% to $7.4bn and contracted backlog reached $664bn - against $28.5bn of capital spending in a single quarter, negative $5bn free cash flow, and a $20bn share sale to help pay for it.
Pulse2: 300,000 GPUs shipped since May, 850MW switched on in one quarter Diginomica: the co-CEO says the capital 'does not have to be Oracle capex'
NEWIran Drew a Map. Stargate Goes Underground.
Reuters says the UAE is breaking its ten-square-mile Abu Dhabi campus into scattered sites, some underground behind air defences and blast concrete, after Iran's armed forces published a video naming Stargate a target beside a US air base.
Two AWS data centres in the UAE were damaged by Iranian fire in March
NEWPentagon May Lend a Startup $5 Billion
Tencent's Nvidia Rival Triples on Day One Enflame rose while the Star 50 index fell 1% the same session
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
NEWAgents Owned 11 Orgs in 26 Seconds
'The Game Is Up,' Says the Mathematician Mathathon's organisers concede the critics were right and rewrite the rules
Fields Medalist to Prove AI Safe
The WorkbenchTools and agents
OpenAI Opens the Codex Harness
NEWOpenAI's Voice API Talks While You Talk The Decoder: five cents a minute, and Yelp is already taking reservations on it
Cursor Hands Work to Subagents
The FightLaw, policy and power
In Yemen, Claude Wrote the Rocket's Software
Anthropic says a northern Yemen cell used Claude in place of human engineers - separate instances assigned missile guidance and flight control, tasks split across sessions so no single prompt gave it away - and appears to have test-fired the result, unsuccessfully.
Anthropic's report: seven harm areas, and Fable and Mythos in one case only CyberScoop: sophistication no longer signals who is behind an operation
California Puts a Clock on Teen Chatbot Time Washington Examiner: OpenAI backed the California bills while demanding national rules
Alibaba Ran 151 Million Claude Chats CNBC: Y Combinator's Garry Tan would 'do nothing' about distillation
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
OpenAI Aims ChatGPT at Junior Bankers Fortune: OpenAI calls it the canonical product it hopes the industry adopts
NEWAdobe's AI Line Hits $650M. Stock Falls. Finimize: AI demand is real, but not the step-change in sales the market wanted
NEWBankruptcy Court Is Now an AI Data Market
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Brin Runs Gemini From a Microkitchen He killed a chip project, then pushed staff toward recursive self-improvement
NEWChinese Startup: OpenAI Copied Us
Ghost Note A Helpline for AIs
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