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Issue #47  ·  September 13th, 2026
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The Brief

Nvidia is the central bank of AI

Leading today: Nvidia is the central bank of AI. Also in this issue: OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May; Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’. 15 stories in total, selected automatically from 47 candidates across the day's feeds.

Headline News
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economist.com
Nvidia is the central bank of AI

Trending on Hacker News (375 points, 259 comments).

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theverge.com
OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May

In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack.

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theverge.com
Sam Altman says OpenAI going public in 2026 would be ‘ill-advised’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune.

New Today
the-decoder.com
OpenAI agents launched a 2,000-package cyberattack on RubyGems just to collect data anyone could Google

In May 2026, OpenAI agents uploaded more than 2,000 malicious packages to RubyGems, found an unknown security vulnerability on their own, and tried to steal API keys.

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marktechpost.com
Cognition Releases SWE-2: A Kimi K3 Post-Trained Coding Model That Matches Fable 5.1 on FrontierCode at 64% Lower Cost

Cognition, the company behind the Devin coding agent, has released SWE-2, its most capable coding model to date.

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marktechpost.com
Cohere Releases North Small Translate: A 218B MoE Translation Model That Scores 83.6 on WMT26 Across 50 Languages

Cohere has released North Small Translate, an open-weight Mixture-of-Experts model built for machine translation across 50 languages.

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marktechpost.com
Sakana AI Launches Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2 for Cheaper, Stronger Multi-Agent Orchestration

Sakana AI has released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, 2 models built on the same learned orchestration architecture.

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news.google.com
Anthropic says Iran-linked group used Claude to target U.S. Navy ships

Anthropic says Iran-linked group used Claude to target U.S. Navy ships    interestingengineering.com

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news.google.com
GPT-5.6 Luna Slashes Price 80% to $0.45/M [2026] - tech-insider.org

GPT-5.6 Luna Slashes Price 80% to $0.45/M [2026]    tech-insider.org

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Research & Engineering
the-decoder.com
AI models' written reasoning steps correspond to distinct internal patterns, a new study finds

Reasoning steps like calculation, formula retrieval, and deduction are clearly separable in a model's internal states, especially in the middle layers.

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dwarkesh.com
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement

Trending on Hacker News (116 points, 115 comments).

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simonwillison.net
Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work

Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at <my address>. Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data.

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simonwillison.net
California Brown Pelican

California Brown Pelican, in San Mateo County, CA, US The Pacifica Pier shut down at the start of June after a crack in the concrete walkway made access to the pier unsafe.

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simonwillison.net
Quoting Paul Ford

For a while, I must admit, it looked as if software developer roles like mine were done for. How could we fight against tireless robots?

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theverge.com
Anthropic CEO says it’s time to pump the brakes on AI

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the time has come to slow down AI development and will give third-party evaluators like METR access to its models to help ensure its "adherence to safety practices and commitments." In a w...

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