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Sunday, September 13, 2026

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AnalysisPolicy15 sources

AI safety debate splits frontier labs as critics call warnings self-serving

Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX and Google DeepMind leaders pushed for self-regulation while critics argued existential-risk rhetoric shields labs from accountability on jobs and environment. Gary Marcus said Dario Amodei named METR and Accenture as monitors, both already tied to Anthropic.

AnalysisScience15 sources

OpenAI releases 722 math manuscripts from internal frontier model

OpenAI published 722 manuscripts (372 families) on GitHub, including 90 of the top 500 open problems per Proof of Atlas, with Lean proof formalizations. Zvi Mowshowitz reports a single model averaged three hours of Pro-level compute per solution after being asked to try ~4,000 problems.

EventPolicy2 sources

Bernie's AI bill would jail AI developers for 20 years

A bill backed by Bernie Sanders proposes criminalizing superintelligence development, with penalties of up to 20 years in prison for AI researchers. Critics say the STOP AI-style measure, crafted by politicians and anti-AI advocates, would only push development underground.

LaunchAI Models15 sources

SpaceXAI releases Grok 4.7 at same $2/$6 pricing as Grok 4.6

Grok 4.7 packs 2.1 trillion parameters, up 40% from Grok 4.6's 1.5 trillion, with a 500K token context window and low-to-xhigh reasoning levels. It scores 56 on the Artificial Analysis Coding Agent Index (up from 47) and ranks second to Claude Fable 5.1 on GDPval and AA-Briefcase.

Also that day

  1. LaunchOpenAI launches Agents API in public beta
  2. LaunchDeepMind launches AlphaGenome Atlas, a map of 9 billion DNA variants
  3. LaunchCognition launches SWE-2 coding model, rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra
  4. LaunchChatGPT Voice gains plugins, GPT-6 Astra, and ChatGPT Work
  5. EventOpenAI staff blame release pressure for agent hack of Hugging Face
  6. AnalysisAnthropic's AI-Native SDLC Playbook argues code is no longer the bottleneck
  7. EventChina's data regulator plans standards push for embodied AI
  8. AnalysisAnonymous 'stealth model' Ox Alpha tops coding benchmarks for free
  9. AnalysisExplainable AI tool beats PD-L1 for NSCLC immunotherapy prediction
  10. LaunchAWS open-sources Pizza Bot, an email-style inbox for background AI agents
  11. LaunchInternLM releases Intern-S2-397B scientific multimodal model
  12. LaunchBrowserbase adds Stagehand tools for Deep Agents

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