AI News Roundup — Sep 26, 2026

Here is what happened in AI on September 26, 2026, collected from 14 reports across theverge.com, techcrunch.com, arstechnica.com, simonwillison.net. Each item links to the original publisher.

Top stories

OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access. The incident happened on September […] Reported by theverge.com on Sep 26.

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I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it

After obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI clones of ourselves. Reported by techcrunch.com on Sep 26.

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Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it […] Reported by theverge.com on Sep 26.

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Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the company's new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans. Reported by techcrunch.com on Sep 26.

Read more: Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers

Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge

AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge. Reported by techcrunch.com on Sep 26.

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Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

"Overly constrained AI models" could cause military operations to fail, judges say. Reported by arstechnica.com on Sep 26.

Read more: Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more. Reported by techcrunch.com on Sep 25.

Read more: Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal

AI was supposed to hit new grads hard. So far, unemployment data says otherwise.

"There is no evidence of any significant, widespread displacement or reduction in hiring.” Reported by arstechnica.com on Sep 25.

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Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing

The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout. Reported by techcrunch.com on Sep 25.

Read more: Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing

Meta’s Muse just stole the AI spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic

When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates just 90 minutes later. But the company that stole the spotlight was Meta, whose personal AI agent Muse is reportedly outpacing ChatGPT’s... Reported by techcrunch.com on Sep 25.

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Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC"

Microsoft's new Surface laptops forgo Copilot+ PC branding. Reported by arstechnica.com on Sep 25.

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Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web

The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly. Reported by techcrunch.com on Sep 25.

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Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test

Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work. Reported by techcrunch.com on Sep 25.

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Quoting John Gruber

Muse is getting a lot of attention — including mine — because it’s both groundbreaking technically (each user gets their own entire persistent Linux VM running in Meta’s cloud) and because it’s packaged in an easy-to-install easy-to-use way. It’s literally presented as a cute mascot. It’s the first consumer-accessible agentic AI system, and Meta has truly done an amazing job with that. But it’s... Reported by simonwillison.net on Sep 25.

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What to watch

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