AISep 18, 2026TechCrunch
Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?
TechCrunch’s Equity podcast asks the operational question after Amodei’s “pace the frontier” essay: who defines slowdown, and who polices it?
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AISep 18, 2026TechCrunch
Automattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves?
Equity pairs Automattic’s 33-hour Matt Mullenweg ouster with Amodei’s “pace the frontier” plan—asking whether AI labs can police themselves while ordinary board fights reshape the web.
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.
AISep 18, 2026TechCrunch
Open or closed AI? Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes take on one of the decisions shaping next-gen startups at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Nvidia’s Nader Khalil and Sydney Sykes headline a Disrupt 2026 Builders Stage session on open vs closed models as a live business decision—not a philosophy seminar.
AISep 18, 2026TechCrunch
Meta’s Muse hits Mac, letting the AI take actions on your computer
Meta’s Muse reaches Mac with opt-in access to files, messages, calendar, notes, and mail—asking before sensitive actions in a crowded consumer-agent race.
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, 2026Google AI Blog
New experts join Google’s AI & Economy team
Google expands its AI & Economy program with Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion, Ajay Agrawal, and directors Anu Madgavkar and Daniel Rock—pairing ATLAS adoption data with heavier academic firepower on work, growth, and diffusion.
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 18, 2026OpenAI
Introducing the Australian Youth Safety Blueprint
OpenAI’s Australian Youth Safety Blueprint lays six pillars for teen AI use—and pairs them with ChatGPT for Teens rolling out as the default for ages 13–17 in Australia.
AISep 18, 2026MIT Technology Review
Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered.
MIT Technology Review’s Heaven and Huckins answer Roundtables questions on extinction risk, alignment, autonomy, and regulation—splitting on whether AI could kill everyone while agreeing present harms and fragile controls are already real.
AISep 17, 2026TechCrunch
Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
DeepMind Institute opens with Legg, Manyika, and Hassabis as directors—four essays on AGI economics, readable reasoning, flourishing, and a U.S.-led frontier standards body that could ratchet toward coordinated slowdowns.