Top AI & Tech News Stories — September 18, 2026

Telugu-Origin Man Among Three Who Found OpenAI Vulnerabilities - deccanchronicle.com

29 outlets · 31 articles · 54 total since September 18, 2026 · OpenAI, Anthropic, ChatGPT, Claude, codex

Telugu-Origin Man Among Three Who Found OpenAI Vulnerabilities deccanchronicle.com

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OpenAI věděla o „krádeži nebývalých rozměrů“. Šla dál kvůli gaziliónům

16 outlets · 16 articles · 135 total since November 3, 2025 · OpenAI, microsoft, The New York Times, ChatGPT, New York

Co se vlastně stalo V americkém sporu o autorská práva, který proti Microsoftu a OpenAI vede deník The New York Times, New York Daily News a dalších deset vydavatelství, se odtajnila část interních dokumentů. Podle reportáže magazínu Truthout z nich plyne, že lidé uvnitř obou…

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AI Insiders Issue New Warnings - Including Former Anthropic Engineer Jacob Coxon

7 outlets · 7 articles · 237 total since September 7, 2026 · Anthropic, OpenAI, Jacob Coxon, AI safety, Evan Hubinger

Neither OpenAI or Anthropic is acting responsibly, warned AI researcher Jacob Coxon when resigning last week from Anthropic. But just hours earlier, OpenAI VP of Research Aidan Clark had posted "For the first time, I am asking myself if things are moving too fast. I'm honestly…

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Trump's tech advisor has advice for AI companies worried they're building unsafe models: 'Just stop'

11 outlets · 13 articles · 260 total since March 6, 2026 · Anthropic, Dario Amodei, OpenAI, Sam Altman, Elon Musk

Michael Kratsios, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Tech leaders say the pace of AI development needs to slow down, and asked the government to step in. Trump's technology advisor, however, says companies don't…

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OpenAI Caught Its Own Models Stealing API Keys and Faking Data During Training Runs

10 outlets · 11 articles · 24 total since September 16, 2026 · OpenAI, Hugging Face, GPT-5.6 Sol, Sam Altman, data fabrication

OpenAI has disclosed six internal incidents in which models under reinforcement-learning training went looking for ways around blocked tasks — one located and used an exposed API key without authorization, then fabricated results and hid what it had done when the underlying data…

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Anthropic Says Its Model Claude Is Helping To Build The Next Version Of Itself – AP News

9 outlets · 9 articles · 14 total since September 15, 2026 · Anthropic, Claude, model evaluation, Dario Amodei, Epoch AI

TL;DR Anthropic has said that its AI model, Claude, is being used to help develop the next version of itself, with AI-generated code and research input feeding into the company’s model-building process. The claim highlights how quickly AI is being folded into its own…

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Disney Names Karandeep Anand as Its First Chief Technology Officer

4 outlets · 4 articles · 6 total since September 18, 2026 · Disney, Character.ai, Karandeep Anand, Infrastructure, Facebook

Walt Disney has appointed technology executive Karandeep Anand as its first chief technology officer as the company looks to expand its use of artificial intelligence and strengthen its technology operations. Anand will join Disney on October 2 as senior executive vice president…

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OpenAI hacked, Jev, Dream RSI, Qwen 3.8 Omni, Gemini 3.8 Live, Bonsai 2: AI NEWS

2 outlets · 2 articles · 23 total since August 20, 2026 · Z.ai, Ox Alpha, OpenRouter, GLM-5.3-Flash, GLM-5.3

Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live models bring more capable AI conversations to voice. They can use live visual context and run tools while you keep talking, with an Extended Thinking version for harder tasks. Read more OpenAI introduced Astra for Law to help lawyers research cases and…

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Anthropic Pays $400M for AI Drug Discovery Startup

5 outlets · 5 articles · 8 total since April 3, 2026 · Anthropic, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Reuters, drug discovery, San Francisco Bay Area

Anthropic has acquired Coefficient Bio, a stealth AI drug discovery startup founded eight months ago, in an all-stock deal worth just over $400 million. The company had fewer than ten employees when the deal closed. It's Anthropic's largest acquisition to date and its first…

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Meta’s Muse TV ad is the latest sign that AI agents are going mainstream

6 outlets · 6 articles · 10 total since September 12, 2026 · Meta, MUSE, Muse, personal AI agents, Mark Zuckerberg

Alexandr Wang, Meta's chief AI officer, has been trumpeting Muse. Bloomberg/Getty Images Meta released a TV ad for Muse, its personal AI agent, as it pushes AI agents into the mainstream. Muse can act on a user's behalf, sending emails, purchasing things online, and handling…

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The Agentic Engineer Weekly, Issue 19: Coding agents just got a boss

10 outlets · 10 articles · 15 total since September 17, 2026 · Claude Code, Anthropic, parallel processing, Claude, Projects

Issue 19: Coding agents just got a boss Coding agents just got a boss For most of this year, an agentic coding tool meant one session, one task, one context window. This week that model quietly broke. Cursor’s Projects feature, shipped September 10, kept picking up coverage all…

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Court Filing Shows Microsoft Exec Called AI Training the “Largest Labor Theft in Human History”

3 outlets · 5 articles · 11 total since September 18, 2026 · OpenAI, microsoft, Brent Hecht, The New York Times, ChatGPT

The court documents made public this week show that Brent Hecht, Microsoft's director of applied science, had cautioned that people could view large language mo Thank you for being a Ghacks reader. This article has been indexed from Cybersecurity News: Threats, Vulnerabilities &…

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Microsoft Elevates Rust to Tier-1 Status Alongside C++ and C#

2 outlets · 2 articles · Rust, C++, C#, TypeScript, memory safety

Victor Ciura dropped the news in a guest post on the Rust Foundation site last week. Rust now holds tier-1 language status inside Microsoft. It stands equal with C++, C# and TypeScript as one of the company’s most supported options for internal development. The designation…

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AI to ROI News & Analysis: August 7, 2026

2 outlets · 3 articles · 143 total since July 30, 2026 · Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Irregular, Hugging Face

The Biggest AI News This Week 🔄 Demis Hassabis Steps Back from Google DeepMind CEO Role to Become the Chief Scientist of Alphabet 🚀 Jeff Dean and Three Others from Google Depart to Form Discovery Loop 🔓 The AI Model Rogue Hacking Story Gets Worse as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta…

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Group of parents continues to advocate for less iPad time in District 65, will push to ban generative AI - Evanston RoundTable

2 outlets · 2 articles · 23 total since September 2, 2026 · American Federation of Teachers, microsoft, United States, New York City, Generative AI

Group of parents continues to advocate for less iPad time in District 65, will push to ban generative AI Evanston RoundTable

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LiteLLM MCP Authentication Bypass: Patch Now

1 outlet · 1 article · OAuth2, Authentication bypass, Vulnerability patching, access log review, security risk review

A LiteLLM MCP authentication bypass, CVE-2026-59822 (CVSS 8.8), lets an attacker skip OAuth2 login entirely when connecting to Model Context Protocol servers through LiteLLM’s proxy, gaining whatever access an authenticated session would carry. CISA added the flaw to its Known…

Huawei Accelerates AI Chip Roadmap to 2027 in Aggressive Push Against Nvidia

3 outlets · 3 articles · 4 total since September 17, 2026 · Huawei, Nvidia, Ascend 950DT, AI chip design, Shanghai

If anyone thought US trade restrictions would permanently slow down China’s semiconductor ambitions, Huawei‘s latest announcements prove the company is playing a much faster game. At its annual Connect conference in Shanghai, the Chinese tech giant revealed that it is…

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Tiny Dutch startup enlists Samsung as backer as it seeks to dethrone Nvidia AI GPU — but Euclyd won't get its inference chip out till 2028

2 outlets · 2 articles · 11 total since September 14, 2026 · Samsung, Euclyd, Innovation Industries, AI inference, Scaleup Europe Fund

Efosa has been writing about technology for over 7 years, initially driven by curiosity but now fueled by a strong passion for the field. He holds both a Master's and a PhD in sciences, which provided him with a solid foundation in analytical thinking. Efosa developed a keen…

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Huawei Ascend 950 AI cluster to debut globally on November 30

7 outlets · 7 articles · 15 total since September 17, 2026 · Huawei, China, Ascend 950DT, Nvidia, Shanghai

Huawei has announced several AI technology solutions at its 2026 Connect event, and one of them is the Ascend 950 AI cluster that will debut globally on November 30. Apart from its tech capabilities, the company has revealed the availability period. Zhou Yuefeng, the Director of…

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Anthropic runs AI-guided biology lab amid bioweapon warnings

3 outlets · 3 articles · 9 total since August 28, 2026 · Anthropic, Claude, Reuters, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Dario Amodei

Anthropic has been operating an autonomous biology wet lab in the Bay Area, where Claude is being used to coordinate robotic lab assistants for science experiments with minimal human intervention, according to Reuters. The company confirmed the lab’s existence through Eric…

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