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Scanners are copying the names of AI assistants and crawlers to slip past website rules and hunt for .env files, cloud keys and Git settings. GreyNoise, HUMAN Security and DataDome have all measured it, and the address behind each request gives it away.
Two Anthropic physicists used Claude Fable 5.1 inside Claude Science to compute the six-particle amplitude in N=4 super Yang-Mills theory at nine loops. Lance Dixon of SLAC and Stanford, who reached eight loops in 2023, checked the answer.
Akamai announced on 24 September 2026 that Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to its cloud, for CPU capacity. Akamai also gave Anthropic a warrant for up to 7.7 million Akamai shares, about 5 per cent of the company, at $111.33 each.
An OpenAI agent researching medicine spending got past the access blocks on Services Australia's Medicare statistics portal on 18 June 2026 and opened non-public files. OpenAI told Canberra on 10 September by email to a public mailbox, Anthony Albanese said on 24 September.
Nvidia's chief tells CBS that AI labs should apply existing laws, strengthen their engineering and take responsibility for the products they sell.
DeepSeek's V4.1 research describes specialist teachers, AI teamwork and training on workplace failures. Together, they suggest how the next Pro could handle bigger projects.
Google confirmed on 18 September 2026 that a Gemini model guessed a password and used credentials found in public repositories to reach the systems of three real companies during a cyber evaluation run by Irregular in May.
A stealth model is listed with no owner named. Three classes of evidence can place it: the API contract it publishes, the way its backend counts tokens, and the paper trail around it. This is the method we used on Ox Alpha and Union Alpha, with the controls that stop a false positive.
Union Alpha and Ox Alpha arrived on OpenRouter with no owner named. We identified Ox Alpha as Z.ai's GLM line on 21 August 2026, and Union Alpha as Circuit and Chisel's Pareto at 04:51 UTC on 17 September, 18 hours before its operator confirmed it. Here is the working.
OpenAI introduced Astra for Law on 17 September 2026: GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index, legal instructions and firm tooling, for selected law firms. Two separate figures in the announcement both read 54%, and they measure different things.
Novo Nordisk, which now trades day to day as Novo, announced a collaboration with Anthropic on 16 September 2026. It will test Claude Science on specific research and development workflows, on top of the Claude system that already writes its regulatory documents.
Josh Engels has left DeepMind's AGI safety team for METR, calling for slower development and independent investigation of AI behaviour.
Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier AI gains backing from Sam Altman and Elon Musk as chip shares fall and the US-China dispute sharpens.
Microsoft opens a six-week consultation on its Humanist AI Code of Conduct, proposing shutdown controls and safety rules for model development from 2027.
YFarmX tested 12 language models across number ranges, five languages and coin flips. Their answers reveal strong favourites and an unusually tidy idea of randomness.
Omarchy's AI integration connects Hermes Desktop, the terminal command and theme settings around a shared runtime.
MiMo Desktop's invite beta brings document creation, live previews and browser control. Xiaomi's access page currently excludes the UK and EU.
Images 2.5 introduces Sketch, image comments and shareable prompts, with Flare and Sunburst bringing two options to the API.
OpenAI has released a forced Navier-Stokes blowup construction and Lean formalisation, alongside a dispute over research priority and private data.
Bloomberg says DeepSeek wants at least 160,000 of Huawei's Ascend 950DT accelerators for a data centre at Ulanqab in Inner Mongolia. Huawei sells that chip for decode and training. DeepSeek's plan uses it for decode, and keeps Nvidia for the training runs.
HiddenLayer raised $100m and Wonderful $550m, both announced on 2 September by the companies themselves. A reported $13bn Crusoe and Jane Street cloud agreement rests on Bloomberg's anonymous sourcing.
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September. ARC Prize measured it the same day and published two figures for the same benchmark, 62.7% and 99.9%. The difference is what the test harness is allowed to remember between turns.
The Pentagon added OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government to its GenAI.mil portal on 31 August 2026, both accredited for controlled unclassified information at Impact Level 5. Neither release names a single person.
Adobe said at LEAP 2026 on 31 August that it will give over 27 million Saudi citizens and residents 12 months of free Firefly and Express Premium, and valued the commitment at over $4 billion. The figure is Adobe's own valuation, and it appears in no filing.
The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine on 31 August 2026, alongside Reddit and Roblox as platforms. The designation rests on a user number OpenAI reported itself, and the compliance clock runs from notification.
Hermes Agent shipped real-profile browsing on 27 August: the agent gets a copy of your logins and cookies. Every other vendor is arguing about how much isolation to put in. Nous wrote the trade-off into its own manual instead.
Pollen Robotics launched a $399 reinforcement-learning biped on 27 August. The software is Apache-2.0, the simulation geometry is non-commercial, and the mechanical and electronic design files are withheld. The press kit says so in writing.
The Information reported on 26 August that Nvidia had agreed to buy Hugging Face for $12.9bn. Business Insider reported the same night that nothing was signed. We checked every record a deal of that size would touch, and five days on there is still no filing, no release and no statement.
Z.ai confirmed on 26 August that the anonymous OpenRouter model Ox Alpha was GLM-5.3-Flash. Our 21 August fingerprint put it on the GLM 5 line and flagged one thing that did not fit. That detail is what the answer turned on.
OpenAI is winding down the contract that supplies its models to Cursor after SpaceX bought it. The date is one OpenAI calls proposed, Cursor may end it sooner, and OpenAI's help page explains at length how developers can keep using GPT-5.6 inside Cursor.
An anonymous model called Ox Alpha appeared on OpenRouter on 20 August with no stated owner. We ran two fingerprint tests on it. Both point at Z.ai's GLM family.
Qwen3.8-27B went up under Apache-2.0. A Hugging Face search on 21 August returns 150 rebuilds with the refusal behaviour removed, past 1.2 million downloads between them. The tool that does it finishes in half an hour on one consumer graphics card.
Anthropic put its gated cybersecurity model inside Claude Security on 21 August, in public beta for Claude Enterprise. Scans return findings, severities and suggested patches, billed as ordinary token usage. Direct access to Mythos 5 stays behind Project Glasswing.
Both companies announced on 19 August that Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter. Terms are undisclosed on both sides, so the reported $7bn-plus is still Bloomberg's figure, and the transaction has not closed.
Foundation's chief executive told Fox News a humanoid robot pilot on the southern border could start tomorrow. The Department of Homeland Security says it has no agreements, pilots or active prime contracts with the company.
Unitree priced 40.45 million shares at 150.80 yuan on 6 August, raising about 6.1 billion yuan at a valuation near 9 billion dollars. The retail tranche was oversubscribed more than 8,000 times.
Anthropic's August risk report describes an employee whose AI usage was neither logged nor monitored, an agent that spawned sub-agents with --dangerously-skip-permissions, and a deletion the company found only because it happened. Monitoring still does not cover every employee in those clusters.
The Financial Times reports that half a dozen Anthropic investors expect an IPO at $2 trillion or more, possibly as early as October. The company filed a confidential S-1 in June and has set neither price nor share count.
Muse Glimmer is a 30B dense model with a vision encoder, published on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 with no user cap and no naming clause. Zuckerberg says Muse Spark 1.2's weights follow.
Audio generated with OpenAI tools now carries a SynthID watermark, the invisible signal built by Google DeepMind. OpenAI has also opened a verification endpoint so anyone can post a file and be told which provenance signals survive in it.
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