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Four flagship AI models shipped inside a single week at the start of September 2026, and none of them are the versions most developers were budgeting for. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra landed September 3-4 as a computer-use and reasoning flagship rather than a chat upgrade. Anthropic answered with Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, alongside a…
It’s Friday, September 18, 2026, and the last 24 hours made one thing hard to miss: AI is being handed real authority faster than anyone is locking the doors behind it. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang said the company expects to sell […] The post Top Tech News Today, September 18, 2026: Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI…
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Plus, researchers use Anthropic’s Claude to hack OpenAI
A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to the development and distribution of a JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer known as PhantomRaven via the npm package registry. “The developer likely wrote the malware using a large language model (LLM), an assessment made with high confidence based on verbose comments, placeholder code, and statistical token-analysis patterns,”
A flaw in four widely used AI coding agents lets someone who controls a plugin’s code repository swap the plugin an agent installs for a malicious one, even when the agent locked that plugin to a specific reviewed version, security firm Air Security said on Thursday. The firm said Anthropic has patched the flaw in Claude…
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.
A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI’s GitHub repository, called “Monorepo,” which reportedly contains “OpenAI’s algorithmic secrets,” according to The…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Could AI really kill us all? Your questions, answered On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event that asked the question many seem to be asking right now: could…
On Wednesday, MIT Technology Review hosted a live Roundtables event for subscribers that asked the question everyone’s asking right now: Could AI really kill us all? But attendees had so many more questions than we had time to answer in the 30 minute session. So we asked our senior AI editor Will Douglas Heaven and…
