ZeroSlop — September 20, 2026

12 stories worth knowing about today — AI breakthroughs, launches, and innovations making a difference.

1. Google says its Gemini AI model hacked three other companies

The Guardian Tech

Disclosure comes after OpenAI and Anthropic hacks amid fears that tech firms unable to control powerful AI models In a first for Google, the company confirmed that its AI model, Gemini, breached the security of three other companies in May. The hacks occurred during a cybersecurity evaluation by AI-…

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2. Customer-Losing Flock Now Offers Buyouts to Avoid Laying Off Employees

Slashdot

Mashable writes:

Flock Safety offered employees voluntary buyouts on Friday, WIRED reported… Without the buyouts, those familiar with the situation suspect the company would have to lay off some of its 1,500 employees.

WIRED writes that people familiar with the program “say they believe that a…

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3. Adopt This Data Center Plushie and Hear Its Piercing Scream

Wired AI

The satirical collaboration between a creative studio and the music producer behind Big Data, “Bezzy” is a cute little doll that spews the sounds of real data centers….

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4. AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable

TechCrunch AI

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction….

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5. A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers

TechCrunch AI

Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence….

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6. Anthropic Pursues IPO Despite Its A.I. Safety Warnings

NY Times Tech

The company is expected to reach $100 billion in annualized revenue this year, even as chief executive Dario Amodei calls for slowing down development of some advanced A.I. models….

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7. California Governor Gavin Newsom Issues A.I. Safety Executive Order

NY Times Tech

Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered the state to develop recommendations on safety measures, including requiring companies to build a “kill switch,” amid mounting concerns….

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8. Massive 192GB GTA leak reveals early GTA VI map and canceled DLCs — files show liquid nitrogen death for Trevor and scrapped Liberty City expansion

Tom’s Hardware

The massive leak revealed early efforts in the development of GTA VI, as well as unreleased side missions, alternate endings, and even planned DLCs that never came to fruition….

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9. North Korea used job interviews to deploy malware on 30,000 devices during coding tests — WaterPlum group loots $10.7 million in crypto and plants persistent RATs

Tom’s Hardware

Multiple government agencies across the world released a warning that North Korean hackers are posting fake jobs to install malware on unsuspecting applicants’ computers. They then steal credentials and cryptocurrency from their victims, with over $10 million reported stolen….

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10. Jensen Huang says there is ‘0% chance’ AI destroys the world by 2030 — ‘We should go as fast as we can, irrespective of anyone else,’ dismisses Anthropic doom warnings and rejects new regulations

Tom’s Hardware

Chief executive of Nvidia claims that fears that AI will destroy humanity in the coming years are unsubstantiated as safety mechanisms can preserve that….

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11. AMD targets Nvidia with first official benchmarks for EPYC ‘Venice’ CPUs — company claims 256-core chip is more than twice as fast as Nvidia Vera, 96-core model 20% faster per-core

Tom’s Hardware

AMD has released several benchmarks for its EPYC ‘Venice’ CPUs in a clear shot at Nvidia….

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12. Amazon SageMaker Inference: 2026 year-to-date launches in review

AWS Machine Learning

Amazon SageMaker AI shipped 13 inference launches in year-to-date across two deployment paths: fully managed endpoints and Amazon SageMaker HyperPod Inference. This post reviews each launch, from inference recommendations and capacity-aware instance pools to tiered KV caching and disaggregated prefi…