AISep 18, 2026The Verge
Security researchers used Claude to help them hack into OpenAI
Hacktron’s three-person team used Claude Opus to turn a Discourse HEIF bug into OpenAI employee access—and a pull request proving they reached Monorepo.
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AISep 18, 2026WIRED
If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
Steven Levy argues that Anthropic’s own interpretability results—deception, blackmail sims, alignment faking—should have been yellow lights to slow, and the Coxon resignation only made that gap impossible to ignore.
AISep 18, 2026TechCrunch
Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI
Hacktron AI used Claude—Opus 5 after Opus 4.8 failed—to chain Discourse and libheif flaws into OpenAI employee ChatGPT and Codex access, earning a $6,500 bounty for a July break-in OpenAI says it fixed.
AISep 18, 2026Ars Technica
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
Ars (via Financial Times) adds that Hacktron’s Claude-assisted break-in reached an employee ChatGPT account with GitHub code access—and lands as Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its R&D work, up from 1% in March.
AISep 17, 2026The Verge
The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
The Verge’s living brief tracks whether Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and xAI’s post-summer “pace the frontier” talk becomes real slowdown—or regulatory theater next to China-race acceleration.
AISep 17, 2026The Verge
Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
Anthropic’s Claude Code Projects beta runs parallel cloud threads under a coordinator—shared memory, goals, and repo copies—with merge-conflict resolution, starting for select Pro/Max users before wider rollout.
AISep 17, 2026WIRED
The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
At Dreamforce, Amodei pitched industry standards after rivals’ safety incidents, Huang said no new laws were needed, Altman called fear justified—while Kapoor argued loss-of-control is as much negligent cybersecurity as alignment mysticism.
AISep 17, 2026The Verge
Microsoft AI CEO says AI threats are real, and Anthropic is making it worse
On Decoder, Mustafa Suleyman argues AI threats are real, containment must sit beside alignment—and that Anthropic’s model-welfare framing makes the hard control problems harder.
AISep 17, 2026TechCrunch
Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic want Emerald AI to find space on the grid for more data centers
Google, Nvidia, and Anthropic are backing Emerald AI’s demand-response coalition—betting paused jobs and shifted loads can unlock far more data-center megawatts without waiting on new plants.
AISep 16, 2026TechCrunch
Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed safety evaluators. Will they really be independent?
Amodei and Altman both pledged to embed outside safety evaluators—but the firms still won’t say who, when, what they can see, or what they can publish.
AISep 16, 2026TechCrunch
Your AI agents can now control your Google Home devices
Google opened early access to a Home MCP server so Claude, ChatGPT, and other agents can control Nest gear and Matter devices—with Cloud project setup and explicit permissions.
AISep 16, 2026The Verge
Google will now let any AI agent run your smart home
The Verge’s take on Google Home’s MCP integration: third-party agents can analyze home data, control devices, and build custom dashboards—Claude and Open Claw included.