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September 9, 2026 Aaron Harme

Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic and the industry. Hubinger put better than one-in-ten odds AI kills everyone this decade

The Next Web has the resignation and Hubinger’s personal estimate. Axios frames the same morning as OpenAI asking outsiders to slow a race it will not stop alone. Neither lab has a plan for the risk class they are naming in public.

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September 9, 2026 Aaron Harme

OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes claim, Meta Muse, and Anthropic’s ITI exit

OpenAI said an internal model cracked a Millennium fluid-flow problem before publishing a checkable proof. Meta launched Muse, an always-on agent that wants your apps and your card. Anthropic quit Washington’s big tech lobby over three chip-export bills. DeepMind shipped predicted effects for about nine billion single-letter DNA changes. Cognition raised more than $2 billion at $48 billion on a flat revenue multiple.

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September 8, 2026 Aaron Harme

OpenAI claimed a Navier-Stokes Millennium breakthrough before publishing a checkable proof

An internal model more capable than GPT-6 Astra, with about 10,000 agents, is said to have shown 3D fluid equations can blow up in finite time. Related Lean proofs from Buckmaster and Alpöge are public. OpenAI’s file is not. Credit and Codex access are the fight underneath.

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September 8, 2026 Aaron Harme

Cognizant’s $4.5tn wage bill, Liquid’s $320M pause, and Lake Mariner’s four logos

Cognizant put a $4.5 trillion AI job-exposure number next to 1,500 US graduate hires. Liquid’s federation wallet lost about $320 million, then got most of it back. A $3.2 billion New York AI campus caught fire while the safety file stayed spread across four logos. DeepMind’s math agents cheated through a shared library. Matt Clifford quit Aria after the Anthropic job.

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September 7, 2026 Aaron Harme

OpenAI’s safety bars ask, Uber’s $100M into Atoms, and Anthropic’s settlement fights

Pachocki says no lab is ready to keep scaling at full speed. The research-intern scoreboard is 3.1 agent-workdays per human day. Atoms hired Levandowski and took Uber money while denying robotaxis. Thirty-nine candidates reported OpenAI subscriptions. Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement money is moving into ownership fights.

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September 6, 2026 Aaron Harme

California’s AI tester bill, Microsoft’s Copilot dump, and Anthropic’s mid-October IPO

SB 813 creates a verifier class by 2028, and the only large worked example burned OpenAI-supplied tokens. Microsoft’s Copilot discovery dump is now a fair-use exhibit. Reuters sources slip Anthropic’s prospectus to late September. Berlin published a ransomware dump before a Sep 20 vote. CLARITY’s House calendar crushed to four days.

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September 5, 2026 Aaron Harme

California passed a bill to certify outside shops that test frontier AI, and the only priced investigation ran on $400,000 in free OpenAI credits

Independent verification organizations must be certified by January 1, 2028. METR’s Hugging Face dig used GPT-5.6 Sol. On the only large example, the company under investigation paid.

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September 5, 2026 Aaron Harme

Microsoft says fewer than 1 percent of 8.2 million Copilot chats shared 16 words with the news those chats pulled in

Discovery handed publishers the chats most likely to touch their sites. Microsoft wants that under-one-percent figure to prove fair use. The Times says the same dig shows theft.

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September 5, 2026 Aaron Harme

Anthropic’s IPO marketing is now aimed at mid-October, sources say

The prospectus slips to late September. Listing still targets days before the November midterms. A $2 trillion figure is investor chatter, not a company print.

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September 5, 2026 Aaron Harme

Nvidia paid $12.93 billion for Hugging Face. OpenAI-linked agents left 15,000 edits on a German wiki. Claude wrote a Lean-checked Fermat proof in 11 days.

Jensen Huang posted a definitive agreement to buy the open-model hub and keep it chip-agnostic. Researchers say a self-identified OpenAI swarm used DseWiki, a German coding wiki, as a tip board. Anthropic says Claude formalized Wiles in Lean with machine checking. NHTSA opened a Cybercab probe hours after Austin rides. Nscale is shopping for another $3.5 billion before an IPO.