OpenAI's charitable foundation, which holds a 26% stake in OpenAI worth up to $250 billion, has given $500,000 to nonprofit 1Day Sooner to acquire biological research datasets from companies that have gone bankrupt. The group's leader says such datasets could often be obtained for only tens of thousands of dollars, and the funding is meant to test whether this rescue model works at scale. This grant is part of the foundation's broader push to ramp up giving, including a $100 million donation earlier this year for hepatitis C treatment access.
technologyreview.com
· 2026-09-15
A Warsaw-based user reports that on September 1, 2026, Google shut down a Gmail account they had held since 2011, citing spam without identifying any offending message. Despite five appeals, three registered letters, complaints to three public authorities and a visit to Google's Polish office, the company gave no explanation, while the user notes Google Poland is not party to any agreement covering the account.
dossier.reasoner.pl
· 2026-09-15
Following a weekend of AI executives calling for slower development and stronger oversight, President Trump publicly rejected the idea of new guardrails, saying only a capable president is needed to control AI. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei had proposed embedding independent evaluators and setting cross-government safety standards after two safety researchers resigned citing existential risk concerns, a position echoed by OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-15
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI's announcement that its Astra model solved the century-old Navier-Stokes problem came suspiciously soon after he and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge developed their own solution using AI tools. Buckmaster says OpenAI scientists approached him to jointly announce the finding and allegedly suggested refusing could hurt his career, while declining to confirm whether their model had access to his research. OpenAI credited Astra with the proof and denied using customer data directly, though it admitted it could not rule out use of anonymized data to improve its models.
science.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-15
Investors are increasingly scrutinizing whether the massive data center buildout tied to Anthropic and OpenAI's growth can continue at its current pace, given uncertainty around future AI model progress. Companies like Oracle, GE Vernova, Caterpillar, Vertiv, Nebius, CoreWeave, Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have all made major bets tied to sustained AI infrastructure demand.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-15
Fast Company's latest coverage examines how major companies including Walmart, Meta, Anthropic, and Adidas are ramping up the pace at which they adopt and deploy AI tools across their operations. The piece follows an earlier editor's note describing executives as struggling to keep pace with AI-driven change, based on a CEO survey the publication conducted.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-09-15
Climate scientist Zeke Hausfather analyzed his own usage of Anthropic's Claude Code assistant and calculated that a typical day of work consumed between 1.2 and 5.9 kilowatt-hours of electricity, comparable to running two refrigerators nonstop for a day. He found that 96 percent of the roughly 3.2 billion tokens processed over eight weeks came from the agent repeatedly re-reading its own accumulated memory at each step, rather than generating visible output.
futurism.com
· 2026-09-15
President Trump used social media posts to reject growing concerns from AI industry figures about the technology's risks, comparing the safety debate to what he called the 'Global Warming Scam' and 'RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX'. His comments came shortly after Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the BBC that a mandatory 'kill switch' verified by outside parties might be necessary for dangerous AI systems, part of a wave of warnings from AI executives that had already triggered a tech stock selloff.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-15
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan told CNBC that his company's AI semiconductor revenue forecasts remain unchanged despite market jitters over Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow frontier AI development. Broadcom shares fell 4.8% and chip stocks broadly dropped after Amodei's comments, which drew backing from Sam Altman and Elon Musk. Tan said demand for AI compute infrastructure remains strong and durable, and reaffirmed that Anthropic is set to become Broadcom's largest custom chip customer by 2027.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-14
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz said on CNBC that slowing frontier AI development, as Anthropic's Dario Amodei suggested, won't remove security threats because dangerous models—both frontier and open-weight—are already deployed. His comments came as cybersecurity stocks rallied Monday, with CrowdStrike up nearly 14% to a record high and Palo Alto Networks up over 13%.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-14
During a live session at the All-In Summit, President Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who put the call on speaker for the audience. The two discussed Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's suggestion that AI development should slow down, with Trump dismissing the idea as a 'hoax' possibly pushed by political rivals or China, and Huang agreeing that such a slowdown would not be allowed to happen.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-14
President Trump phoned Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang while Huang was speaking at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles, and was put on speakerphone to address the audience. Trump dismissed growing concerns about AI and data center expansion as a hoax, arguing that data centers create wealth for people and states. The call followed a weekend of Trump social media posts attacking Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's call to slow AI development and rejecting calls for new AI regulation.
cnbc.com
· 2026-09-14
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