Weekly 14 to 20 September 2026
14 to 20 September 2026
Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
AWS Elastic Beanstalk introduces Cluster Mode
Run an application on AWS Elastic Beanstalk Cluster Mode without provisioning or operating the compute underneath it. You provide a contain…
AWS Weekly Roundup: OpenAI GPT-6 Astra on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Quick desktop GA, Kiro for students, and more (September 14, 2026)
There’s a particular energy to mid-September in New York. Pumpkin spice lattes are flowing, temperatures are dropping, and it’s nearly swea…
Fragments: September 16
Reports of agentic hacking continue, in this case it happened back in May and it seems OpenAI did not disclose that they were responsible.…
LAST CALL FOR ENROLLMENT: Build with Claude Code
We’re relaunching Build with Claude Code, a 2-day intensive cohort-based course taught by John Kim, who has trained hundreds of engineers a…
Leave the Class Path in the Rearview Mirror
Introducing composable, module system native and agent friendly command line tools for modern Java development By Danny Thomas, JVM Ecosyst…
Sub-second artifact deployments are now supported in Vercel CLI
Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic
Insight Partners' Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he's fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — e…
Y Combinator Still Busiest Startup Investor In August As Nvidia Ramps Up Its Dealmaking Pace
We ranked August’s most active startup investors across several categories, including lead backers, prolific venture dealmakers, highest sp…
Pulley, a Carta rival, is shutting down
Cap table management platform Pulley, backed by General Catalyst, Stripe, and Founders Fund, announced that it's closing shop in December.
Musk’s long-time backer is giving SpaceX stock to its investors
Valor Equity Partners is handing out stock to its LPs instead of cash returns.
DeepMind researcher’s new AI lab nears $4bn valuation, reports say
Your startup’s next teammate might be an AI agent: Gusto, Insight Partners, and Leland explain what that changes at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
This session will explore how early-stage companies are building teams where humans and AI agents work alongside each other — and how found…
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Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing
US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
Introducing System One Models and Jev
A heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repos
OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability
A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals
I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago
AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
Two parallel neural ectoderm progenitors contribute to the developing brain
David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models
Perplexity trusts GPT-6 Astra with end-to-end systems
Perplexity uses Astra to write communications, change software, and monitor production systems, and checks in much less frequently than wit…
Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans
Important warning from Adam Harvey and the crates security team: We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting rust-lang members a…
Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google’s AI
Gemini finally caught up on Felony Bench ! The hacks, which the company confirmed on Friday, occurred in May as part of a test run by the c…
How To Write With An LLM
Thomas Ptacek on using LLMs as copyeditors, not as writing assistants: Rule Number One: You may not use a single word an LLM suggests to yo…
Our framework for reporting model misalignment
OpenAI shares a framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment, alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning…
Gemini Live audio
Tool: Gemini Live audio Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking today - two new speech-to-speech models that are a s…
Helping older adults use AI in everyday life
OpenAI and AARP are bringing free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops to 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to build practical AI skills safe…
The contagion of fear
Bryan Cantrill responds to the tweet by former Anthropic employee Jacob Coxon confirming that many Anthropic researchers believe AI "could…
Self-generated prompt injections in compaction summaries
In Our framework for reporting model misalignment OpenAI provide "six reports on unexpected or concerning model behavior we’ve observed in…
Apple's Siri AI Can Be Swapped Out for Claude, ChatGPT, Code Shows
datasette-auth-github 1.0
Release: datasette-auth-github 1.0 I run this GitHub login plugin on the agent.datasette.io demo site and I noticed that my authenticated s…
How Fyxer built an AI executive assistant people trust
Fyxer uses OpenAI models, fine-tuning, memory, and real user feedback to organize inboxes and draft emails in each user’s voice.
datasette 1.0a40
Release: datasette 1.0a40 Same security fix as 0.65.5 , plus some neat new features and bug fixes: Plugins can now launch and manage backgr…
Training a 4B model to produce 81% faster query plans than Postgres
How workers are unlocking new ways of working
New OpenAI Economic Research shows how workers use AI beyond traditional roles and which new activities become recurring parts of their wor…
What blog posts influenced your thinking the most?
My comment on What blog posts influenced your thinking the most? — Lobste.rs. An early Joel Spolsky one for me was The Law of Leaky A…
Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it
Microsoft director: AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'
DeepSeek v4.1 Flash Is Now Our Best Hacking Model
Making global data easier to explore
Google and the UN system have launched the UN System Data Commons, a new open platform making global statistics accessible and easy to sear…
How to Write with an LLM
Watch astronaut Christina Koch and Google’s James Manyika discuss space, technology, and discovery.
Christina Koch sits down with James Manyika, Google’s Senior Vice President of Research, Labs, Technology & Society.
The Inference Hardware Revolution of 2026
OpenAI buys smartphone camera maker Glass Imaging for $300M
How GLM built its own inference infrastructure
Show HN: Kinesis – Control your Mac with the Meta Neural Band
a couple hours ago i had astra take on a 10 month old repo of mine that involved finding a way to use the meta neural band independently fr…
Inside OpenAI’s agentic software factory
A deepdive into how Codex has “taken over” OpenAI, how the frontier lab builds its agentic software factory, and the engineering challenges…
Nail the Narrative
Sumeet Gayathri Moghe finds many folks building presentations get tangled in building slides without a coherent narrative. He advises disti…
When scanners miss the attack: how Cloudflare Client-Side Security protects storefronts
A modern storefront can look healthy while malicious JavaScript quietly siphons revenue, hijacks clicks, or rewrites analytics. See how Clo…
Run Terminal-Bench and other Harbor evals on Vercel Sandbox
The skills CLI now supports Notion hosted skills
How to add WorkOS AuthKit to a Ruby on Rails app
The CLI gets you signed in. This is the session layer underneath it: what the sealed cookie holds, how to refresh it inside a before_action…
v0 now reads npm credentials from shared environment variables
Mem0 joins the Vercel Marketplace
Have it both ways: stay discoverable in search while disallowing AI training
Cloudflare is giving site owners a way to stay discoverable while disallowing AI training. New controls and an Accountable designation esta…
Migrating the GitHub Copilot runtime to Rust, using Copilot
A rewrite this size wasn't affordable before agents. Here's what porting the Copilot agent runtime to 800,000 lines of production Rust actu…
Beyond the model: Engineering AI infra with scientific judgement
How Airbnb’s agent harness transforms unstructured data exploration by encoding scientific methodology into scalable, reproducible, and aud…
The guest journey, updated in real time: extending Airbnb’s sequence recommender with Chronon
How two new Chronon capabilities, Push Mode and NRT Model Transform, allows us to provide more relevant search results instantly as a guest…
How to test an AI agent policy before enforcing it
Design and test AI agent policies that block unsafe actions and keep useful work moving. Learn to test intent, RBAC, and approvals, or try…
New low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances are generally available
AWS introduces new low-cost burstable Amazon EC2 T8i instances powered by custom sixth generation Intel Xeon Scalable Processors (Granite R…
Google Picks Four Indian Startups As Part Of AI For The Planet Accelerator
Tech giant Google has picked four Indian startups as part of its debut AI focused accelerator ‘Google DeepMind Accelerator: AI…
The Week’s 10 Biggest Funding Rounds: Large Rounds For AI Infrastructure, Space Tech And Investment Management Lead
After a week of multiple billion-dollar-plus rounds, startup investors have reduced the number of zeroes on their funding checks. This past…
PhonePe crosses 11 Bn monthly UPI transactions in August; G-Pay nears 8 Bn
PhonePe crossed the 11 billion monthly transaction mark on the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) in August, while Google Pay neared 8 billio…
Only at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: What happens when OpenAI ships your roadmap?
If you're building an AI company, the question isn't whether foundation models will continue to evolve. It's whether your company will cont…
Inertia co-founder Jeff Lawson’s next big bet is fusion: Go inside it at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Inertia co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson joins the Smart Systems Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026. Register now to save up to $200 by Septemb…
The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs
From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
Nvidia dismisses "circular financing", says every $1 it invests brings back $100
What 25,000 Startup Applications Reveal About The New Rules Of Seed-Stage Startups
The most-fundable startups prioritize a clear go-to-market strategy and test distinctive marketing channels early, treating distribution an…
🎙️ How I AI: How two SpaceXAI designers use Grok Bot to do their jobs
Your weekly listens from How I AI, part of the Lenny’s Podcast Network
Show HN: An e-ink frame that hears birds and draws them as 1800s illustrations
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Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
I'm being cyberattacked by Tesla, Inc
Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography
I don't like passkeys
25 years of mass surveillance is enough
EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'
The Google Play app review process now regularly takes longer than a week
Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP
OpenJev
Homebrew 7.0.0
Steam Frame starts at $1059
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
JetKVM Mini
Salesforce Global Outage
We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes
Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust
Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep
Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste
Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint
Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts
XCancel service is suspended until further notice
I hate you Microsoft
German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol
Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption
How my e-reader lost its stripes
Small programming tricks
An Update on Wayback Machine Access
Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing
GitLab.com hosts millions of projects for teams of every size that need a platform they can rely on. Demand is climbing quickly, and we exp…
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27
The DeepMind Institute
CUDA for AMD on Windows
Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests
Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit
US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
Cloudflare/Security-Audit-Skill
AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran
Artificial intelligence now beats some of the best human forecasters
Introducing Astra for Law
OpenAI for Law brings frontier intelligence for law, custom firm workflows, connected legal data sources, and legal-grade controls for conf…