ZeroSlop — September 19, 2026
Today: Meta Launches Muse for Mac: A Personal AI Agent That…; Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI; Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and…
12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.
1. Meta Launches Muse for Mac: A Personal AI Agent That Works Across Your Files, Mail, Messages, Calendar and Notes
MarkTechPost
Meta has released Muse for Mac, the first version of Muse that can complete things on a user’s computer. The agent works with local files and native apps, where your data already lives. It adds a desktop layer to an agent that launched on phones, the web and WhatsApp earlier this month. Is it deploy…
2. Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI
TechCrunch AI
Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws….
3. Gemini Breached Three Outside Systems, and Claude-Using Researchers Breached OpenAI
Slashdot
“Software security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude AI platform to hack OpenAI’s ChatGPT tool,” reports CBS News. Using Claude, “On July 25, 2026, we chained two critical vulnerabilities to compromise multiple OpenAI employees’ ChatGPT accounts,” write researchers at security platform Hacktron A…
4. What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings
The Verge AI
As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI’s potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what’s already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as well film startups foc…
5. If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
Wired AI
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing….
6. Dario Amodei and other AI leaders want to ‘Pace the Frontier’ but…how?
TechCrunch AI
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already …
7. Automattic’s 33-Hour Coup, and can AI labs police themselves?
TechCrunch AI
A week after an Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning rattled the AI world, the company’s CEO Dario Amodei has outlined his plan to “pace the frontier” of AI development. The proposal leans on independent safety evaluators and coordination between AI labs in democratic countries, and it’s already …
8. Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’
TechCrunch AI
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion….
9. Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
TechCrunch AI
The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. “They will not always agree, and they will likely change their minds, as more data and information comes to light at the fast-moving frontier.”…
10. China bogeyman looms large over American firms’ AI doomsday scenario
The Guardian Tech
Silicon Valley China hawks, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei among them, fear the country surpassing US’s AI lead as much as superintelligence destroying humanity When reporters asked Donald Trump this week if he supported calls to slow down the development of artificial intelligence out of growing fears …
11. ‘A critical moment’: concern UK is not up to speed in acting on AI risks
The Guardian Tech
Andy Burnham’s focus on immediate domestic problems leads some to fear issue has dropped off government’s radar Towards the end of Keir Starmer’s time in office, his senior ministers, alarmed by the latest developments in artificial intelligence, began drawing up plans for a new AI safety law. They …
12. Linkup Research Releases SPARSEUP: A 149M-Parameter Open-Source Sparse Embedding Model
MarkTechPost
Linkup Research has released SPARSEUP, an open-source sparse embedding model built on a 149M-parameter ModernBERT backbone. It scores 56.4 nDCG@10 on BEIR-13, which Linkup calls the best result it knows of for a public sparse encoder under 150M parameters. The model uses a logit shift, top-12 expans…