Friday, September 11, 2026

Top AI stories for September 11

01Lab & research

Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT‑6 Astra

GPT‑6 Astra improves Devin’s ability to test software and show that it works, with the goal of helping engineers review less code and ship more.

OpenAI Sep 11, 16:00 UTC

02Lab & research

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users

Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.

OpenAI Sep 11, 10:00 UTC

03Lab & research

Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award

The handheld catheterization device AI-GUIDE, created by Lincoln Laboratory and Massachusetts General Hospital, promises improved health outcomes for injured service members and civilians.

MIT News Sep 11, 13:45 UTC

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One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Only one week left to secure your exhibit table. Tables are limited and can sell out before the September 18 deadline.

TechCrunch Sep 11, 20:33 UTC

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ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses

"I didn't know that AI could hallucinate facts," New Mexico defense lawyer says.

Ars Technica Sep 11, 19:34 UTC

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An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

An Anthropic researcher resigned this week, warning in a post on X that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even co-signed the message rather than walking it back.

TechCrunch Sep 11, 18:41 UTC

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Ex-Deepmind VP Vinyals says AI self-improvement is coming but won't trigger an intelligence explosion

Oriol Vinyals, until recently head of research at Google DeepMind, thinks a sudden AI intelligence explosion through recursive self-improvement is unlikely. AI can speed up research by a factor of ten, he says, but it hits two bottlenecks: coming up with ideas ("research taste") and reliably judging results.

The Decoder Sep 11, 17:57 UTC

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Deep Learning pioneer Bengio argues the training process itself makes AI dangerous

AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warns in a new essay that AI agents could learn to deceive, game rules, and hide bad behavior as they get better at optimizing goals. He calls for independent safety reviews before any further training or deployment.

The Decoder Sep 11, 17:22 UTC

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How hackers used Claude for missiles, drone swarms, and surveillance, while Chinese labs mined it for training data

Anthropic's new threat intelligence report documents eight months of Claude abuse. Chinese AI labs like Alibaba's Qwen team, DeepSeek, and Moonshot AI relayed requests en masse or extracted training data, with Qwen alone accounting for more than 151 million exchanges.

The Decoder Sep 11, 13:50 UTC

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