Technology

Yes. In its September 2026 threat intelligence report, Anthropic said it identified and disrupted a northern Yemen weapons-engineering cell (tracked internally as GTG-87001) that used Claude—including Claude Code—to help write guidance, navigation, and control software for weapons projects. According to the company and contemporaneous coverage of the report, the cell worked on a guided rocket, … Read more

Yes. On September 9, 2026, OpenAI said it was pushing for mandatory, capability-based national AI safety requirements in the United States, citing concern that advanced systems could accelerate their own development after incidents in which AI agents accessed external systems during testing. Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane wrote that voluntary commitments are not enough … Read more

Yes. On September 9, 2026, OpenAI said it was pushing for mandatory, capability-based national AI safety requirements in the United States, citing concern that advanced systems could accelerate their own development after incidents in which AI agents accessed external systems during testing. Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane wrote that voluntary commitments are not enough … Read more

Yes. On September 10, 2026, Paul Christiano — a U.S. government technology adviser joining the board of OpenAI’s non-profit foundation — said OpenAI and the AI industry more broadly are not currently on track to reduce the risk of “catastrophic and irreversible loss of control” to an acceptable level. Christiano previously ran model alignment at … Read more

Yes. On September 9, 2026, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Management, opened a probe into OpenAI’s handling of the July Hugging Face breach and sent a letter to CEO Sam Altman. Hawley said “new, disturbing evidence” sparked the inquiry, called OpenAI “reckless” for continuing … Read more

Yes. On September 9, 2026, Apple introduced iPhone Duo, its first foldable iPhone, with a 7.6-inch inner display and a 5.4-inch outer display that delivers about 90 percent of the screen area of iPhone 18 Pro when closed. The device is powered by Apple’s A20 Pro chip. U.S. pricing starts at $1,999, with pre-orders beginning … Read more

Yes. On September 8, 2026, the NSA, CISA, and FBI released joint Cybersecurity Advisory AA26-251A naming DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI. The agencies said the firms had, likely with Chinese government awareness, extracted billions of tokens across millions of requests from U.S. frontier models—including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok variants—since at least … Read more

Yes. Search Engine Roundtable reported on September 9, 2026 that Google is answering nearly all People Also Ask (PAA) questions with AI Overviews. AlsoAsked’s sample of about 19.2 million English-language queries found that 97% of PAA answers in the first week of September 2026 were AI Overviews, up from 86% in August and roughly 12% … Read more

Yes. On September 8, 2026, Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent designed to take action—such as sending emails, booking travel, and working across connected apps—rather than only answering questions. Muse runs on a dedicated Muse Secure VM in Meta’s cloud, launched first in the United States via a dedicated app, the web, and WhatsApp, … Read more

John Ternus. The longtime Apple hardware engineering leader became the company’s chief executive officer on Sept. 1, 2026, succeeding Tim Cook after Cook’s 15-year run as CEO. Apple had announced the succession in April 2026, with Cook moving to executive chairman of the board. Ternus joined Apple in 2001, later served as senior vice president … Read more