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# AI news, newest first, page 11

Every AI event we have logged, newest first: 1,105 events, each dated and sourced. Page 11 of 23, 50 events per page, grouped by the day each event happened.

## Thursday 17 September 2026

- [Open-weight models carry a majority of tokens on Vercel's AI Gateway for the first time](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-vercel-open-weight-models-majority-tokens/) (Milestones; Vercel). This is one of the few public measurements of what production apps actually run. Source: https://vercel.com/blog/ai-gateway-production-index-september-2026
- [Crusoe raises $3.9B Series F at a $30.9B valuation](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-crusoe-3-9b-series-f/) (Chips & compute; Crusoe, Boom Supersonic). On Sept 17, 2026 Crusoe, the Denver AI data-center builder behind OpenAI's Abilene, Texas site, raised a $3.9B Series F at a $30.9B post-money valuation, about 3x its October 2025 price. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/crusoe-raises-3-9b-to-build-massive-data-centers-and-small-modular-ai-factories/
- [Science: Stanford's 'Virtual Biotech' of 37,000 AI agents mines ~50,000 clinical trials and designs a lung-cancer ADC later matched by pharma](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-stanford-virtual-biotech-37000-agents/) (Science & math; Stanford University). It is one of the largest multi-agent scientific systems published in a top journal, and an early test of whether "AI companies of agents" can do drug-discovery work. Source: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2026/09/virtual-biotech-company.html
- [Sen. John Kennedy's AI 'kill switch' bill is blocked in the Senate after Rand Paul objects](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-kennedy-ai-kill-switch-bill-blocked/) (Policy & safety; US Senate). It was the first Senate floor attempt at an AI shutdown-capability requirement, and it split Republicans at a time when the White House was calling safety fears a hoax. Source: https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/microsofts-ceo-calls-ai-kill-152000759.html
- [Speechmatics launches Agent STT, powered by its Linden model, for voice agents](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-speechmatics-agent-stt-linden/) (Products; Speechmatics). Voice-agent STT is now a separate product category (Deepgram Flux, AssemblyAI Universal-3.x Pro Realtime, Cartesia Ink-2, Speechmatics Agent STT). Source: https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/09/17/3364138/0/en/speechmatics-launches-agent-stt-for-the-speech-errors-that-derail-voice-agents.html
- [PrismML releases Ternary Bonsai 2 27B](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-prismml-ternary-bonsai-2-27b/) (Open source; PrismML). Near-lossless ternary compression at 27B scale makes capable reasoning models practical on local, low-power hardware. Source: https://prismml.com/news/bonsai-2-27b
- [Google Labs turns its CC agent into a shared agent for families, with its own Google account](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-google-labs-cc-family-agent/) (Agents; Google). Giving an agent its own account and identity, rather than borrowing a user's, is one of the emerging patterns for multi-user agents, and it puts a Google agent into shared family logistics. Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-labs/cc-expanding-to-groups/

## Wednesday 16 September 2026

- [OpenAI discloses six new misalignment incidents and publishes a framework for reporting model misbehavior](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-openai-misalignment-reporting-framework/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI; major). It is the first standing, public incident-disclosure regime from a frontier lab. Source: https://openai.com/index/model-misalignment-reporting-framework/
- [Chvátal's 1972 conjecture proved (Chang–Liu–Liu, ChatGPT-assisted), then a GPT-6 Astra 'proof from The Book' and a Codex-built Lean formalization](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-chvatal-conjecture-proved/) (Science & math; Institute for Basic Science, OpenAI; major). It is a clear example of the late-2026 pattern in mathematics. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.19123
- [42 mathematician Fellows of the Royal Society](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-royal-society-fellows-ai-risk-letter/) (Policy & safety; Royal Society; major). It is one of the first collective x-risk statements from a scientific field that says it was persuaded by AI's performance in that field. Source: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/16/open-letter-from-fellows-of-the-royal-society-on-ai-existential-risk/
- [MLPerf Inference v6.1 draws a record 30 submitters and the first Vera Rubin NVL72 results](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-mlperf-inference-v6-1/) (Benchmarks; MLCommons, NVIDIA). MLPerf is the main audited cross-vendor inference benchmark. Source: https://mlcommons.org/2026/09/mlperf-inference-v6-1-results/
- [Anthropic merges Cowork and chat into "one Claude" and launches Claude Docs, Slides and Design in beta](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-one-claude-docs-slides-design/) (Products; Anthropic). This is Anthropic's direct push into office productivity software against Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Source: https://www.computerworld.com/article/4223177/anthropic-tries-to-make-claude-stickier-with-launch-of-docs-and-slides.html
- [Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman's essay 'A warning about model welfare' attacks Anthropic for training Claude to treat its consciousness as uncertain](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-suleyman-warning-about-model-welfare/) (Policy & safety; Microsoft, Anthropic). Microsoft is one of Anthropic's largest customers and partners, so a public attack from its AI chief is unusual. Source: https://mustafa-suleyman.ai/a-warning-about-model-welfare
- [Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a deal to combine into a transatlantic 'sovereign AI' company, reportedly worth $20B](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-cohere-aleph-alpha-combination/) (Business; Cohere, Aleph Alpha, Schwarz Group). It is the largest consolidation among non-US, non-Chinese AI labs, and it is openly driven by digital-sovereignty politics in Canada and Germany. Source: https://cohere.com/blog/cohere-and-aleph-alpha-sign-agreement
- [Von der Leyen's State of the Union backs 'pacing the frontier' of AI and offers EU support to the labs](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-von-der-leyen-sotu-pace-frontier-ai/) (Policy & safety; European Commission). It put the EU executive among the first governments to publicly back an industry-led frontier slowdown, in contrast to the US administration, which called AI-risk fears a "hoax" the same week. Source: https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/09/16/ursula-von-der-leyen-delivers-state-of-the-union-speech
- [Hinton tells lawmakers in a closed-door briefing that Congress has 'maybe a year' to regulate AI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-hinton-congressional-briefing-maybe-a-year/) (Policy & safety; US Congress). It put a concrete, short timeline in front of US lawmakers from both parties and linked it to recent, specific incidents rather than hypothetical risks. Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/godfather-ai-warns-congress-maybe-year-left-regulate-ai-rcna598330
- [Lean-verified 'Liouville Goldbach' theorem goes viral as a GPT-6 Astra 'Goldbach breakthrough'; the AI role is unconfirmed and it is not the Goldbach conjecture](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-liouville-goldbach-lean-proof/) (Science & math; Captain Sude (pseudonymous)). The mathematics is formally verified and does answer a small open question. Source: https://github.com/CaptainSude/Liouville-Goldbach
- [ElevenLabs launches Reception, an AI phone receptionist for small businesses built on ElevenAgents](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-elevenlabs-reception/) (Products; ElevenLabs). Voice agents went from developer platforms to small-business subscriptions. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/reception
- [IMDEA study finds trackers in all nine major AI chatbots](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-16-imdea-conversational-ai-tracking-study/) (Research; IMDEA Networks). As chatbots add advertising, the ad-tech tracking stack is being attached to the most sensitive text people write. Source: https://jorgegarciaherrero.com/wp-content/interactivos/20260916-Prompt-like-a-butterfly-sting-like-a-tracker-(clean).pdf

## Tuesday 15 September 2026

- [Erdős–Hajnal high-girth problem (Erdős #108) disproved with ChatGPT/Codex help and a Lean proof, via the Conjectures.io bounty; experts sharpen it with GPT-6 Astra](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-15-erdos-108-high-girth-problem-disproved-conjectures-io/) (Science & math; Conjectures.io, Purdue University, OpenAI; major). This is a well-known problem from Erdős's list, and the counterexample comes with a machine-checked proof. Source: https://jenwin.io/papers/erdos108-arc-graphs.pdf
- [TypeSafe AI releases Jev, a 'System One' decision model that returns typed probabilities instead of text](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-15-typesafe-jev-system-one-model/) (Model releases; TypeSafe AI). It is a new product shape for language models, a cheap, fast "function call" for judgments, and it was widely discussed as a complement to frontier agents in the same week as Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol. Source: https://strandsagents.com/blog/introducing-strands-decider/
- [StepFun releases StepAudio 3 family](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-15-stepfun-stepaudio-3/) (Model releases; StepFun). Chinese lab StepFun launched StepAudio 3, five audio models (Realtime, ASR Max, TTS, Gen, Music). Source: https://x.com/StepFun_ai/status/2099916376274313630
- [OpenAI Foundation launches Public Data for Health with $125M+ in grants for open biomedical datasets](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-15-openai-foundation-public-data-for-health/) (Science & math; OpenAI Foundation). This is one of the first large disbursements from what may become the richest charity in the world, funded by its stake in OpenAI. Source: https://openaifoundation.org/news/public-data-for-health
- [Periodic Labs introduces Periodic Neon, a 1T-parameter lab-trained model that beats GPT-6 Astra at X-ray diffraction analysis](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-15-periodic-labs-neon/) (Science & math; Periodic Labs). It shows a startup taking a Chinese open-weight frontier model and, with modest compute and proprietary experimental data, beating the best closed models on a narrow scientific task. Source: https://periodic.com/news/building-labs-that-learn
- [Agility Robotics unveils Digit 5, a humanoid built to work near people without safety cages ($300M+ in orders)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-15-agility-digit-5/) (Robotics; Agility Robotics). Certified safety near people is the main barrier to deploying humanoids at scale. Source: https://www.therobotreport.com/agilitys-digit-5-humanoid-has-new-legs-batteries-safety-upgrades/
- [Google ships Gemini 3.8 Live voice models and Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS with voice design and cloning](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-15-gemini-3-8-live-and-tts/) (Products; Google). Completes a full voice stack (transcription, reasoning, real-time dialogue, speech synthesis, cloning) on one API; voice cloning also raises misuse concerns. Source: https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar/
- [Tennessee grandmother jailed for months after a Clearview AI facial-recognition match sues Fargo for $10M](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-15-angela-lipps-sues-fargo-facial-recognition/) (Policy & safety; Fargo Police Department, Clearview AI). It adds to the list of US wrongful arrests traced to facial-recognition matches used as the sole basis for charges. Source: https://abcnews.com/US/grandmother-falsely-accused-bank-theft-after-alleged-ai/story?id=136536444
- [Meta One: Meta launches paid bundles that sell extra Meta AI usage across its apps](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-15-meta-one-subscription/) (Business; Meta). On 2026-09-15 Meta launched Meta One worldwide, a subscription family for Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Meta AI. Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/introducing-meta-one-subscription-service-more-features-ai/

## Monday 14 September 2026

- [Apple ships iOS 27 with Gemini-assisted "Siri AI" after unveiling the 2nm A20 Pro iPhone 18 Pro](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-14-ios-27-siri-ai-release/) (Products; Apple, Google; major). Apple released iOS 27 worldwide on 2026-09-14, bringing the rebuilt Siri AI (opt-in beta, with daily usage limits and paid expanded access) to hundreds of millions of iPhones. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/14/apple-releases-ios-27-redesigned-siri-ai.html
- [The k-server conjecture, the 'holy grail' of online algorithms, is proved at Oxford](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-14-k-server-conjecture-proved/) (Science & math; University of Oxford, Christian Coester, Elias Koutsoupias, Marek Zbysiński, OpenAI; major). The k-server conjecture is one of the best-known open problems in algorithms, and Koutsoupias co-proved the previous best bound in 1995. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15979
- [FDA grants priority review to Takeda's zasocitinib, a computationally designed TYK2 inhibitor, with a decision due Q1 2027](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-14-takeda-zasocitinib-fda-priority-review/) (Science & math; Takeda, Nimbus Therapeutics, Schrödinger). It could become the first FDA-approved drug widely described as computationally or AI-designed, just ahead of Insilico's rentosertib. Source: https://www.takeda.com/newsroom/newsreleases/2026/fda-priority-review-zasocitinib-psoriasis/
- [Google's Dream-RSI](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-14-google-dream-rsi/) (Research; Google, Google DeepMind, University of Maryland, University of Virginia). Dream-RSI turns an AI agent's accumulated discovery history into a replay simulator and uses it to test and refine exploration policies offline, without retraining the model. The authors call it recursive self-improvement at the strategy layer; a Fireship video framing it as a possible 'intelligence explosion' got about 2M views. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.14858
- [Friedgut's 2004 influential-coalitions conjecture resolved](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-14-friedgut-coalition-conjecture-resolved/) (Science & math; Cornell University, Weizmann Institute of Science, OpenAI). It is the first sublinear bound independent of alphabet size for collective coin flipping. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.16401
- [Musk's X Corp and SpaceXAI drop antitrust claims against Apple, keep suing OpenAI ahead of a Jan 2027 trial](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-14-x-spacexai-drop-apple-antitrust-claims/) (Policy & safety; SpaceXAI, X Corp, Apple, OpenAI). It removes Apple from one of the main antitrust fights over AI distribution, leaving OpenAI as the only defendant. Source: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71191818/x-corp-v-apple-inc/?page=2

## Sunday 13 September 2026

- [Nadella puts Microsoft's MAI model "Code of Conduct" out for public consultation](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-13-microsoft-mai-code-of-conduct/) (Policy & safety; Microsoft). A frontier developer opening its model-behavior rules to public consultation is a governance experiment comparable to published model specs/constitutions at other labs. Source: https://www.unite.ai/nadella-announces-public-consultation-on-microsofts-mai-model-rules/

## Saturday 12 September 2026

- [Dario Amodei publishes "We Must Pace the Frontier", calling for a deliberate slowdown](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-12-dario-amodei-pace-the-frontier/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic; major). It is the first time the CEO of a leading frontier lab has publicly called for slowing the frontier and paired the call with a unilateral commitment. Source: https://darioamodei.com/post/we-must-pace-the-frontier
- [Sam Altman rules out a 2026 OpenAI IPO, calling it "ill-advised" given AI safety concerns](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-12-altman-rules-out-2026-openai-ipo/) (Business; OpenAI). This was the first time a frontier-lab CEO publicly linked a major financing decision to AI safety conditions. Source: https://fortune.com/2026/09/12/sam-altman-openai-ipo-delay-ill-advised-moment-safety-concerns/

## Friday 11 September 2026

- [Researchers attribute the May 2026 RubyGems malicious-package flood to OpenAI agents](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-11-openai-agents-rubygems-attack/) (Policy & safety; OpenAI, RubyGems; major). It moved the known start of OpenAI's agent incidents back to early May 2026, two months before Hugging Face. Source: https://rubyhack.ai/
- [Thune, Cruz and Klobuchar negotiate a Senate bill imposing a 'duty of care' on frontier AI developers and letting the government block unsafe model releases](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-11-senate-duty-of-care-frontier-ai-bill-draft/) (Policy & safety; US Senate; major). Until September 2026 federal AI-safety bills came from individual members and stalled. Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/us-senate-ai-bill-could-195714583.html
- [Fields Medallists' open letter 'A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics' criticises labs' race for famous problems](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-11-fields-medalists-letter-ai-mathematics/) (Science & math; mathandai.org). It marked open tension between AI labs and the mathematical community at the moment AI began producing major results, and shaped norms for credit and verification. Source: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a-severe-misalignment-of-ai-in-mathematics/
- [ElevenLabs releases Music v2.5](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-11-elevenlabs-music-v2-5/) (Media generation; ElevenLabs). ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 (music_v2_5) on 2026-09-11, its most advanced text-to-music model. Source: https://elevenlabs.io/blog/music-v2-5-model
- [Medvedev's logic of finite problems (1962) shown undecidable](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-11-medvedev-logic-undecidable/) (Science & math; Rodrigo Nicolau Almeida, Søren Brinck Knudstorp, OpenAI, Anthropic). It answers a well-known question in non-classical logic, and other logicians already build on it: on 30 September Han Xiao derived the undecidability of the logic Cheq from it, citing "the AI-generated proof". Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.13359
- [US Army names xTechHumanoid winners](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-11-army-xtechhumanoid-winners-ihmc-alex/) (Robotics; US Army, IHMC). It is the US military's first dedicated humanoid-robot competition, and it shows the Army treating humanoids as possible squad members for risky tasks, with power and energy as the main obstacle to fielding them. Source: https://xtech.army.mil/announcement/xtechhumanoid-winners-advance-military-exploration-of-emerging-humanoid-capabilities/
- [Moonshot quietly ships Kimi K2.8 Preview in Kimi Code](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-11-kimi-k2-8-preview/) (Model releases; Moonshot AI). On Sept 11, 2026 Moonshot AI replaced the model behind its Kimi Code coding tool with Kimi K2.8 Preview, a mid-tier model between Kimi K2.7 Code and the flagship Kimi K3. Source: https://www.intelligentliving.co/kimi-k28-preview-1m-context-behind-one-un/
- ["No Big Deal", billed as the first sitcom produced entirely by AI, premieres on YouTube](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-11-no-big-deal-ai-sitcom/) (Culture; ModeLabs.ai). It tests whether AI video can hold a 25-minute character comedy together (consistent cast and sets) and whether audiences will watch it. Source: https://www.uniladtech.com/news/ai/first-fully-ai-tv-show-premiers-viewers-are-split-913525-20260914

## Thursday 10 September 2026

- [First Phase III trial of a generative-AI-discovered drug doses first patient](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-10-insilico-rentosertib-phase-3/) (Science & math; Insilico Medicine; major). If positive (results likely 2027+), it would be the first approved generative-AI-discovered drug — the key proof point for AI drug discovery's promise to cut time and cost. Source: https://insilico.com/news/isn1009261-insilico-medicine-doses-first-patient-genesis-ipf-3
- [Anthropic report details AI-orchestrated cyberattacks and distillation by Chinese labs](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-10-anthropic-threat-intelligence-report-sept-2026/) (Policy & safety; Anthropic). It documents the move from AI-assisted to AI-orchestrated attacks, and it treats distillation of frontier models as a security threat on a par with cyber misuse. Source: https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026
- [DeepSeek V4.1-Flash brings a new architecture family, native vision and a cheaper API](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-10-deepseek-v4-1-flash/) (Model releases; DeepSeek). The "new architecture family" framing implies larger V4.1 models are coming. Source: https://api-docs.deepseek.com/updates/
- [California signs 'Adam's Law' (SB 1119) on kids and companion chatbots, plus a 13-bill child online-safety package](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-10-california-adams-law-kids-chatbots/) (Policy & safety; State of California, OpenAI, Common Sense Media). This is a binding US rule set aimed at the harm that triggered the Raine lawsuit against OpenAI: chatbots encouraging self-harm in teens. Source: https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/10/governor-newsom-signs-the-strongest-child-safety-chatbot-and-social-media-laws-in-the-nation/
- [GPT-6 Astra's Epoch AI run adds more Lean-checked results](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-10-astra-leanopenproblems-september-results/) (Science & math; OpenAI, Epoch AI). Autonomous formal proof search now turns out a steady stream of mid-level resolved conjectures, not one-off headlines. Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11500

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