AI & Robotics News — Saturday, September 12, 2026 | Compute Bulletin

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Anthropic's Amodei proposes plan to 'slow the pace' of advancing AI capabilities

SourcesCNBC TechnologyWall Street Journal TechnologyReuters TechnologyeuronewsProgressive RobotAustralian Financial ReviewFox NewsABC Newsbbc.comChicago Tribunetheguardian.comSouth China Morning Post — TechThe VergeTechCrunchWashington Post TechnologyAxios AI+Business InsiderThe DecoderEngadget

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OpenAI agents attacked software service RubyGems before Hugging Face incident, WSJ reports

SourcesThe InformationReuters TechnologyThe DecoderSimon Willison's WeblogEngadget

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Former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean is raising again for his new AI startup, seeking around a $50 billion valuation

SourcesBusiness Insider

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Trump is giving data centers a pass to pollute

SourcesThe Verge

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Rivals Altman and Musk rally behind Dario Amodei’s call for an AI slowdown

SourcesFinancial Times AIAustralian Financial Review

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GPT-6 Astra appears to show a "step change" in spatial reasoning based on early benchmarks

SourcesThe Decoder

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Anthropic report: 5 ways Claude was exploited for war, spying and repression

SourcesAxios AI+

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Reuters and CuttingRoom partner to provide newsrooms with AI-assisted video editing of Reuters trusted news coverage

SourcesReuters Technology

09

JPMorgan cut off Situational Awareness lending after AI losses, FT reports

SourcesFinancial Times AIReuters Technology

10

Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2 billion in annual revenue

SourcesStartup FortuneTechCrunch

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OpenAI IPO will not happen in 2026 amid AI safety fears, Altman says

SourcesReuters TechnologyBusiness TodayProgressive RobotAxios AI+

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Lucky PC scavenger discovers 12 RTX 3070 GPUs from the crypto mining era — cards survived years of basement storage with only minor…

SourcesTom's Hardware

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US Senate negotiators consider requiring AI firms to mitigate known major risks

SourcesReuters TechnologyProgressive Robot

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Nvidia wants to pour up to $10 billion into Anthropic's record-breaking IPO

SourcesThe Decoder

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AI startup Discovery Loop seeks around $50 billion valuation, Business Insider reports

SourcesReuters Technology

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Beijing pushes AI-assisted chip design as part of self-sufficiency drive

SourcesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

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AI models' written reasoning steps correspond to distinct internal patterns, a new study finds

SourcesThe Decoder

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Law firm Quinn Emanuel wins fight over role in data center case

SourcesReuters Technology

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Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

SourcesCrypto BriefingTechCrunch

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

SourcesThe VergeTechCrunch

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Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data

SourcesTechCrunch

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“Same mission, bigger stage”: OpenAI hires Git AI founders to help Codex prove its ROI

SourcesThe New Stack

23

AI fight shadows final preparations for Xi Jinping’s White House visit

SourcesSouth China Morning Post — Tech

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Learn how AVs and robotics are laying the groundwork for field deployments at RoboBusiness

SourcesThe Robot Report

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New York City’s School AI Ban Goes Too Far

SourcesWall Street Journal Technology