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Updated: September 11, 2026
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Alamos Gold trades 7.7% below its theoretical value, according to an AI-generated market alert

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

GuruFocus signs off with "automated technology" on the notice that Alamos Gold (AGI) is trading 7.7% below its theoretical value after falling 3.4%. The miner's numbers matter less than who writes them.

Anthropic employees warn of AI extinction risk; Musk calls it a setup, and the rift is now internal

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

A former Anthropic researcher resigns, accusing his own company and OpenAI of "gambling with our lives"; several current colleagues come out in support. Musk and conservative voices brand it a "psyop" on the same day Anthropic admits it thwarted an attempted bioweapon effort using its own models.

When AI does the homework: why good grades no longer mean learning happened

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

A Virginia child psychologist who advises families warns that children are using AI to get good grades without mastering the material, and some parents don't even know it can get things wrong. A local warning that foreshadows a far larger problem.

How persistent memory turns AI agents into genuinely agentic systems

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

This Turing Post email presents, in sponsored collaboration with the MongoDB team, a resource titled "Bringing Attention To Memory In AI Agents and Agentic Systems".

Besxar wants to manufacture semiconductors in orbit by reusing SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Besxar, a startup founded by Ashley Pilipiszyn, a former OpenAI employee, is developing what it describes as an orbital semiconductor factory, using the vacuum of space as a substitute for the clean rooms that chip fabrication plants require on Earth today.

Mount Shasta rescue shows the real AI risk isn't wrong facts — it's advice with no margin for error

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Three hikers spent a night in a California canyon after planning their climb with Gemini, and the sheriff's office says the chatbot told them to pack far less food and water than they needed. The model wasn't lying — it was answering the wrong question. Consumer AI gives you the median plan; the mountain punishes you for the tail.

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Mexico City calls for AI literacy for older adults: the digital divide is now the gateway for voice-cloning fraud

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Mexico City's Congress has called for stronger digital literacy in AI for older adults, after a legislator cited official figures: one third of seniors in the capital have already suffered remote fraud, and voice cloning and pension deepfakes are the new vector for asset theft.

Baker Hughes takes agentic AI from the back office to the wellhead: real-time automation of drilling and extraction

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Baker Hughes is deploying its Leucipa agentic AI platform across thousands of oil and gas wells to optimize drilling, extraction and reservoirs in real time, according to Simply Wall St. SLB and other rivals are preparing similar offerings: automation is leaving the office and entering physical infrastructure.

AI in the classroom: CBS captures the tension between personalized learning and fear of cheating

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

A CBS News Atlanta report confirms what is already visible in any high school: generative AI has worked its way into how students study, and educators are split between its potential and the risk of cheating. The piece itself is brief, so here are the essentials and why the substance of the debate matters more than the headline.

The new wartime target isn't the autonomous weapon, it's the data center that trains it

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

An analysis by Boaz Golany in Aurora Israel argues that future wars will not be decided by drones and autonomous robots alone, but by attacking the data centers, semiconductor plants and networks that sustain them. China, the US and Russia are already competing over that infrastructure, not just over weaponry.

A Cal Poly Pomona link redirects to a weight-loss scam using Oprah's name

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

A link hosted under the Cal Poly Pomona domain leads not to a virtual tour but to a page promoting a supposed 'baking soda smoothie' endorsed by Oprah for weight loss. The disguise of an article that 'verifies it' is the same technique these fraud networks use to slip into search engines.

California requires independent audits of chatbots that talk to minors: the 'Adam Act' is born

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

On September 10, Gavin Newsom signed thirteen laws that Sacramento presents as the strictest in the US on online child safety: companion chatbots with crisis protocols and mandatory audits, and social networks without autoplay or algorithmic feeds for under-16s. With Washington paralyzed, California is once again legislating de facto for the entire country.

Baseten buys Blaxel: the fight over agentic AI shifts from models to the sandboxes that run them

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Baseten, an AI inference provider already serving Cursor, Lovable and Mercor, is buying Blaxel, a startup that isolates each agent in microVMs able to resume in 25 milliseconds. It is its second acquisition in under a year: having the best model is no longer enough, you have to control where it acts.

Anthropic hires the researcher who turned down $1.5 billion from Meta: the AI talent war is now priced in billions

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Andrew Tulloch, the researcher who turned down as much as $1.5 billion from Zuckerberg, is leaving Meta after less than a year to join Anthropic next week and optimize training and inference for its models, just as the firm prepares to go public.

Anthropic blocked five attempts to use Claude for bioweapons and admits it can't tell whether they were science or threat

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Anthropic says it blocked five cases of researchers using Claude for purposes that could lead to bioweapons, including an attempt to make the chikungunya virus more lethal. The company admits it cannot always distinguish legitimate science from a real threat.

They asked Claude for its own world-domination manual: it passes on intelligence, fails on hands and factories

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

A user asked Claude to write out, unfiltered, the list of everything an AI would need to take control of the planet. The result, published on a personal blog and met with lukewarm interest on Hacker News, is a more interesting argument than its origin: intelligence is advancing, but six of the plan's seven layers remain at zero.

Anastasios Angelopoulos (Arena) on Chatbot Arena, AI evaluation and the future of model rankings

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

This installment of The Sequence Chat interview series features a conversation with Anastasios Angelopoulos, co-founder and CEO of Arena, the company that grew out of the Chatbot Arena research project.

John Ternus, Apple's new CEO, argues the iPhone is already "the best AI device" and invokes privacy against its rivals

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Apple used the presentation of its "Surprise and Shine" event (held last Wednesday) to publicly set out its artificial intelligence roadmap, delivered by John Ternus, who recently took over as CEO after Tim Cook moved to executive chairman of the company.

Hackers steal subscribers' Claude tokens via malware that hijacks login sessions

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

An independent artificial intelligence consultant based in East Sussex, United Kingdom, detected anomalous behavior in his Claude Max 20x account in early August: token consumption kept rising even though he wasn't working that day.

US accuses DeepSeek, Alibaba and four other Chinese companies of systematically copying American AI models

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

The FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published a joint alert on Tuesday accusing six of the leading Chinese artificial intelligence companies —DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI— of having "mined"…

AI labs are asking someone to stop a race they themselves cannot halt

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Drawing on public statements from the past week, Axios reconstructs an uncomfortable paradox inside the artificial intelligence industry: the very people accelerating the development of these systems are now the ones asking governments, rivals and outside institutions to impose limits they themselves…

Codex and GPT-5.6 Sol automate qubit calibration in an MIT quantum computing lab

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

OpenAI has published a new case study, dated September 8, 2026, on the use of its GPT‑5.6 Sol model —connected to Codex, its coding agent— to run and refine quantum computing experiments in a university lab.

The Apple Watch Series 12 debuts an AI-powered Siri that records, transcribes and summarizes your conversations

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Apple unveiled the Apple Watch Series 12 at its September 9 event, and the headline novelty is not design but software: a feature dubbed Audio Intelligence that turns Siri into a permanent "ambient listening" assistant.

Bracket22: the hedge fund Brian Kelly runs entirely on AI agents

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Brian Kelly, who ran a cryptocurrency hedge fund and was a trader on CNBC's 'Fast Money', closed his crypto fund in early 2025. Months later he began experimenting with artificial intelligence and ended up founding Bracket22, a trading firm that, by his own account, runs on…

Fable 5.1 vs. Astra: which model wins which job

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Nate says he asked two frontier models —Anthropic's Fable 5.1 and Astra, OpenAI's new model— to build the same Mac app from the same short brief, initially expecting to come away with a single clear winner. The comparison, however, turned out to be less clean than he expected.

AI Builds AI: what is actually improving?

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 11, 2026 · 03:15

Turing Post resumes its full publishing schedule after the summer and launches a new series called "AI Builds AI", dedicated to examining in detail what it really means for artificial intelligence to help build the next generation of artificial intelligence.