Findings
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Financial Times: In his UN General Assembly speech, Trump rejects a “globalist scheme to control” AI, saying the US is “leading now over China by a lot and everyone else” — President says US is 'leading over China by a lot and everyone else, and we're going to keep it that way' — NEW
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Bloomberg: Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~$1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $5B valuation — Mirendil, an artificial intelligence startup launched by former Anthropic PBC researchers, is in talks to raise a new round of funding …
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Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View: GPT-6 Sol costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens, both about 50% cheaper than GPT-5.6 — OpenAI is releasing a more budget-friendly version of its most powerful model. — On Tuesday, the company unveiled GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna …
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David Gewirtz / ZDNET: OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost — GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrive less than three months after GPT-5.6, with OpenAI claiming major accuracy gains, dramatic cost reductions …
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Jyoti Mann / The Information: Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week — Meta's new personal AI agent, Muse, had more than 500,000 people try it out roughly a week after launch, including more than 250,000 daily active users …
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[6] 2026-09-22 OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes
OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.
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David Gewirtz / ZDNET: Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset — Anthropic's newest Claude model aims to make frontier AI cheaper, faster, and safer, while giving subscribers more breathing room before those frustrating usage limits kick in.
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Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases — OpenAI plans to let third-party groups vet its artificial intelligence models for safety risks in earlier phases of the development cycle …
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[9] 2026-09-22 Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 performance at lower cost and promises less "Claudish" writing
Anthropic is launching Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in a new generation. The company says it matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most tasks while costing about 40 percent less to run than Opus 5. Anthropic's benchmarks also put it ahead of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on most tasks, despite being significantly cheaper. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are expected in…
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[10] 2026-09-22 Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced
Toyota workers are already helping to train humanoid robots as part of the automaker’s race to eventually deploy 400,000 factory robots—but a Toyota executive said the robotic push is not meant to directly replace humans. Starting in 2028, the Toyota Motor group aims to start investing $6.42 billion every year in upgrading factories with the new robotic workforce, according to…
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple is developing prototypes for a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop but hasn't decided whether to release the product — Apple Inc. is developing a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop Inc.'s wrist-worn device, part of an effort to rethink …
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Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: Anthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 “on most tasks” while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5; Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens — Ask about this article… According to Anthropic, Opus 5.5 matches Claude Fable 5.1 “on most tasks” while costing about 40 percent less to run than…
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Emma Roth / The Verge: Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's “pace the frontier” essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior — Claude Opus 5.5 comes with improvements to certain behaviors, like attempting to escape testing environments.
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[14] 2026-09-22 Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance
Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."
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Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: Sources: in a London presentation, SpaceXAI says Grok Bot hit 418,000 users as of September 14, up 24% from the week prior; SpaceXAI launched it in mid-August — SpaceXAI's Grok Bot artificial intelligence agent has topped 400,000 weekly users roughly a month after it launched …
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Richard Lawler / The Verge: In his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump says the US is “officially” renaming AI to “super intelligence” because “artificial” makes it sound fake — The president claims the word ‘artificial’ makes intelligence fake.
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CTech: Chamelio, which is building AI tools designed to execute routine legal workflows and escalate only the cases that require human judgment, raised a $26M Series A — Backed by Entrée Capital, the startup is building software designed to execute routine legal workflows and escalate only the cases that require human judgment.
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[18] 2026-09-22 OpenAI calls for international standards on AI that could improve itself
OpenAI wants international standards for recursive self-improvement, where AI systems independently build the next generation of AI. Without safeguards, humans could lose control over this process. OpenAI says the US should take the lead on global measurement standards and oversight rules. The article OpenAI calls for international standards on AI that could improve itself appeared first on The Decoder.
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Davis Giangiulio / CNBC: Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house, files for CFTC approval to add margin trading as it seeks to attract institutional liquidity — Prediction market platform Kalshi filed on Tuesday with federal regulators to seek approval to offer leverage on event contracts …
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[20] 2026-09-22 Why Read a Research Paper When You Can Turn It Into an AI Agent?
Have you ever read a paper in Science or Nature and thought, “Man, that research was so cool. I wish I could try that method on my own data,” only to spend a week wrestling with someone else’s undocumented repo,… For example, students could use the agent to play with methods described in the literature instead of merely reading about them.The Future of Agentified Research PapersWith Paper2Agent now up and running, Zou and his colleagues have begun turning more of…
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[21] 2026-09-22 AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft
Autonomy-1 will have a small, transformer-based AI model taking charge of a space probe.
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[22] 2026-09-22 Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, Nvidia, AWS, Waabi, and more. Register before September 25 to save up to $200.
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Krystal Hu / Reuters: Snorkel AI, which offers an “agentic data development platform” with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation — Data startup Snorkel AI has raised $350 million in fresh funding at a $3.5 billion valuation, its CEO Alex Ratner told Reuters …
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[24] 2026-09-22 Xiaomi introduces Mimo-V2.6 series open-source AI model family
Global technology company Xiaomi Corp. today announced the release and open-sourcing of its MiMo-V2.6 series generative artificial intelligence models today, which includes two natively omnimodal models bringing a balance of intelligence, efficiency and cost. The MiMo-V2.6 series includes two natively omnimodal models with a new flagship model, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, and a smaller, efficient Flash variant. The […] The post Xiaomi introduces…
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[25] 2026-09-22 Google Open-Sources AX a Kubernetes Style Orchestrator for Autonomous AI Agents
Google has open-sourced AX, an orchestrator designed for managing autonomous AI agent workloads. AX operates on a runtime, Agent Substrate, treating agents as stateful actors. It provides resource-efficient task suspension and resumption to optimise performance and reduce latency in idle phases. It features a control plane with Kubernetes-style primitives for managing agent tasks and resources. By Olimpiu Pop
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[26] 2026-09-22 A tiny software layer from lab-grown neurons promises faster, cheaper AI video
The Biological Computing Co. wants to team up with AWS to sell a text-to-video model that's supposed to run five times faster and 80 percent cheaper thanks to a software layer derived from real nerve cells. The tiny layer adds less than 0.1 percent to the base model, but the startup won't say which model that is. The article A…
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[27] 2026-09-22 Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking investigation by MIT Technology Review has documented over a thousand people who moved through areas watched by these towers without being reached or apprehended,…
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[28] 2026-09-22 Teradata expands AI assistant with tools for governed agents
Teradata Corp. is expanding its Tera artificial intelligence assistant with a context engine and execution system designed to help agents carry out data tasks across enterprise systems. Tera is an agentic AI workspace and natural-language interface the lets users interact with enterprise data and AI agents using natural language instead of writing SQL queries or […] The post Teradata expands…
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[29] 2026-09-22 With $35M in early funding, Baselayer is building the trust layer for the agentic economy
Business identity and risk infrastructure startup Baselayer is shifting its attention to artificial intelligence agents after raising $35 million in early-stage funding today. Alongside the Series A round, it’s announcing the launch of its Agentic Identity Suite, which it says is the first interoperable trust layer and fraud prevention platform designed specifically for the agentic […] The post With $35M…
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[30] 2026-09-22 Heidi Health nabs $340M to deepen adoption of AI agents within health systems globally
Heidi Health Trading Pty Ltd., a healthcare artificial intelligence startup, today announced it has raised a total of $340 million in new funding to support the company’s next phase of growth and deepen adoption throughout health systems. The funding comes from a combination of a $100 million Series C round led by Blackbird, with participation […] The post Heidi Health…
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[31] 2026-09-22 The Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid Cooled AI Servers
This article is brought to you by CoolIT, an Ecolab Company.Beyond 250 kW a server rack can no longer be cooled by a hybrid approach of liquid and air. At this density a 70/30 liquid-air split leaves 75 kW of air load. The air cooling system needed to move it brings cost and complexity few operators will accept. The answer…
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[32] 2026-09-22 Kantata debuts Agent Studio for building custom AI agents in plain language
Professional services automation software company Kantata Inc. today unveiled Agent Studio, a tool that lets services firms build custom artificial intelligence agents by describing the job they want done in plain language. The release goes after a problem Kantata says is building in the professional services automation market. Vendors are shipping narrow agents by the […] The post Kantata debuts…
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[33] 2026-09-22 GitLab Duo Expands Self-Hosted AI Options Through Microsoft Foundry
GitLab has expanded GitLab Duo Self-Hosted to support models deployed through Microsoft Foundry, letting organizations run GitLab's AI development capabilities against models hosted in their chosen Azure environment. By Craig Risi
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[34] 2026-09-22 Xiaomi's affordable flagship AI leads the open models, and Anthropic says Claude helped get it there
With MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Xiaomi moves to the top of the openly available AI models and drastically undercuts the competition on price. What makes that possible is massive reinforcement learning that cost $2.62 million. But the success comes with a catch: Anthropic accuses the company of siphoning off training data from Claude. The article Xiaomi's affordable flagship AI leads the open models,…
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[35] 2026-09-22 OpenAI says its internal model solved over 100 long-standing math problems after just a month of training
OpenAI says a new internal model solved more than 100 open math problems after just a month of training. Facing criticism from mathematicians, the company is backing an independent advisory group at the Institute for Advanced Study. But OpenAI has excluded its research pace from the group's advisory role. The article OpenAI says its internal model solved over 100 long-standing…
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[36] 2026-09-22 Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
It’s been a busy few months for AI hype. At the end of April, Anthropic claimed that its model Claude Mythos is better at finding software vulnerabilities than most security experts. Then we had the OpenAI–Hugging Face hacking incident, after… We know better than to make decisions based on marketing and better than to capitulate to corporate pressure to make those decisions quickly. Wise decision-making, by policymakers and communities, demands time to hear from independent experts and contextualize corporate claims.…
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[37] 2026-09-22 Anthropic is setting up a biology lab where Claude guides robots through drug experiments
Anthropic is building its own biology lab to push AI-driven drug development beyond computer simulations. The article Anthropic is setting up a biology lab where Claude guides robots through drug experiments appeared first on The Decoder.
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[38] 2026-09-22 SpaceX launches Grok 4.7 with long-horizon processing, safety upgrades
SpaceX Corp. today introduced Grok 4.7, its most capable large language model to date. The Grok algorithm series was originally created by an Elon Musk-founded startup called xAI Corp. Musk merged the company with xAI Inc. last year. The combined organization was subsequently folded into SpaceX, which gained not only the Grok model series but […] The post SpaceX launches…
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[39] 2026-09-21 Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse agent from shopping on users’ behalf
Amazon.com Inc. has blocked Meta Platforms Inc.’s Muse artificial intelligence agent from accessing its e-commerce marketplace. The cloud and online retail giant notified users of the move late Sunday. Meta made Muse available in the U.S. earlier this month via a mobile app. The agent topped 730,000 downloads within five days, which put it ahead […] The post Amazon blocks…
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[40] 2026-09-21 8 insights from the ‘Certinia at Dreamforce’ event: AI resets the economics of professional services
AI is rewriting the economics of professional services. Firms that once billed by the hour are quoting fixed bids, compressing delivery timelines and absorbing risk they would previously have pushed onto the client. The labor a single project consumes is falling, and the price with it. The argument has moved past whether the technology works […] The post 8 insights…
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[41] 2026-09-21 How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
Our 15-month investigation into death and surveillance along the US-Mexico border began with a simple question: Why did so many people die near government surveillance towers meant to help track and apprehend them? This story is part of Dying on Camera,… Except for the reports from Kenedy, Webb, and Hidalgo Counties, we pulled out the relevant information by hand. For those three counties, which sent large volumes of records, we used Anthropic’s Claude, accessed via API, to inspect each case report… We excluded cases in which the virtual wall did not appear relevant. For example, we removed cases involving people who died inside Border Patrol stations or in car crashes during pursuits. The deaths we analyzed reflect a variety of causes… With the data we collected, we could begin to see which deaths happened in range of the virtual wall. But for a given match between a set of remains and a tower to count, it needed to satisfy two criteria:… MIT Technology Review instead conducted dozens of interviews with people who worked for Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection, or the Department of Homeland Security or who served as presidential advisors. These conversations yielded previously unreported details about how agents…
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[42] 2026-09-21 4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
MIT Technology Review today published our investigation into how many people have died near the “virtual wall” of surveillance towers that the US government has installed along the US-Mexico border. We found cases of people who walked undetected through areas… Then, in 2017, the GAO reported that the data being collected was inaccurate and unreliable; it found agents in Texas, for example, who were crediting a specific type of tower in apprehensions hundreds of times, even though no such towers…
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[43] 2026-09-21 The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
When José Morales Bernal crossed the border into the United States on April 8, 2024, the day before his 32nd birthday, it should have triggered a chain of technological alerts and human responses. As he walked through the desert in… One man, after walking a mile past the border and in range of two AI towers, dragged his 30-year-old brother into the shade when he began having trouble breathing, according to records we obtained from the medical examiner. The two… Gerardo Galvan joined Border Patrol in 1995, as the government was undertaking an unprecedented expansion of border enforcement. In 1993, President Clinton’s first year in office, the agency mobilized huge numbers of agents to guard the country’s urban borders, starting… Border Patrol has nonetheless publicly credited these cameras with helping to save lives. The agency has published dozens of press releases, dating as far back as 2016, about instances when agents responded to people seen in distress on the remote… Even so, the number of deaths estimated to have occurred near at least one of these towers is staggering: somewhere between 500 and 700 since 2015. Even if we look only at towers in rural areas, where their views are… One company they landed on was Anduril, the defense tech startup founded by Oculus VR founder Palmer Luckey. The company was without a product but had funding from Peter Thiel, recruits from the security tech giant Palantir, and a goal…
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Sources
- [1] In his UN General Assembly speech, Trump rejects a "globalist scheme to control" AI, saying the US is "leading now over China by a lot and everyone else" (Financial Times)
- [2] Sources: Mirendil, founded by former Anthropic researchers to build self-improving AI, is in talks to raise ~$1B led by Kleiner Perkins at a $5B valuation (Bloomberg)
- [3] GPT-6 Sol costs $2/1M input and $10/1M output tokens, and GPT-6 Luna costs $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens, both about 50% cheaper than GPT-5.6 (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)
- [4] OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying Sol makes about half as many mistakes as GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna matches GPT-5.6 Sol's performance at ~1% of the cost (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
- [5] Internal data: Meta's Muse surpassed 500,000 total users, including 250,000 daily active users, with more than 2M prompts submitted in its first week (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
- [6] OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes
- [7] Anthropic raises its five-hour usage limits by 20% on Pro, Max, and Team plans, and gives subscription users a rate limit reset (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
- [8] OpenAI says it plans to let third-party groups conduct technical safety evaluations of its AI models during the training, evaluation, and deployment phases (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
- [9] Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 performance at lower cost and promises less "Claudish" writing
- [10] Toyota orders workers to train humanoid robots but says humans won't be replaced
- [11] Sources: Apple is developing prototypes for a screenless health and fitness tracker similar to Whoop but hasn't decided whether to release the product (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
- [12] Anthropic says Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 "on most tasks" while costing about 40% less to run than Opus 5; Opus 5.5 costs $4/1M input and $20/1M output tokens (Matthias Bastian/The Decoder)
- [13] Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5, its first model since Dario Amodei's "pace the frontier" essay, and says it has enhanced safeguards to combat risky behavior (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- [14] Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance
- [15] Sources: in a London presentation, SpaceXAI says Grok Bot hit 418,000 users as of September 14, up 24% from the week prior; SpaceXAI launched it in mid-August (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)
- [16] In his UN General Assembly speech, President Trump says the US is "officially" renaming AI to "super intelligence" because "artificial" makes it sound fake (Richard Lawler/The Verge)
- [17] Chamelio, which is building AI tools designed to execute routine legal workflows and escalate only the cases that require human judgment, raised a $26M Series A (CTech)
- [18] OpenAI calls for international standards on AI that could improve itself
- [19] Kalshi Klear, the company's internal clearing house, files for CFTC approval to add margin trading as it seeks to attract institutional liquidity (Davis Giangiulio/CNBC)
- [20] Why Read a Research Paper When You Can Turn It Into an AI Agent?
- [21] AstroForge is putting AI in command of its next spacecraft
- [22] Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda
- [23] Snorkel AI, which offers an "agentic data development platform" with humans and AI agents to create and vet data, raised $350M at a $3.5B valuation (Krystal Hu/Reuters)
- [24] Xiaomi introduces Mimo-V2.6 series open-source AI model family
- [25] Google Open-Sources AX a Kubernetes Style Orchestrator for Autonomous AI Agents
- [26] A tiny software layer from lab-grown neurons promises faster, cheaper AI video
- [27] Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall
- [28] Teradata expands AI assistant with tools for governed agents
- [29] With $35M in early funding, Baselayer is building the trust layer for the agentic economy
- [30] Heidi Health nabs $340M to deepen adoption of AI agents within health systems globally
- [31] The Future Is Fanless: 100% Heat Capture for Liquid Cooled AI Servers
- [32] Kantata debuts Agent Studio for building custom AI agents in plain language
- [33] GitLab Duo Expands Self-Hosted AI Options Through Microsoft Foundry
- [34] Xiaomi's affordable flagship AI leads the open models, and Anthropic says Claude helped get it there
- [35] OpenAI says its internal model solved over 100 long-standing math problems after just a month of training
- [36] Don’t be fooled by this summer of AI hype
- [37] Anthropic is setting up a biology lab where Claude guides robots through drug experiments
- [38] SpaceX launches Grok 4.7 with long-horizon processing, safety upgrades
- [39] Amazon blocks Meta’s Muse agent from shopping on users’ behalf
- [40] 8 insights from the ‘Certinia at Dreamforce’ event: AI resets the economics of professional services
- [41] How we made the first comprehensive map of deaths along the US border’s “virtual wall”
- [42] 4 ways to address the failures we found along the US border’s “virtual wall”
- [43] The US spent billions on border surveillance. Why can’t it catch people before they die?
