Sunday, September 13, 2026

Models, benchmarks, the lab race. · 3 stories

1. 1GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own78
2. 2A Princeton Researcher Proposes Recurrent Looped Transformer (RLT) that Carries Decoder State across Every Token, Fixing 96 Blocks per Token with Unbounded Temporal Depth
3. 3Hierarchical NeRF with JAX3D for Volumetric Rendering, Novel-View Synthesis, and 3D Reconstruction

The AI products people actually use. · 4 stories

1. 1GitHub Copilot's Project HydraFusion Promises Frontier Level Performance Through Multi-Model Routing62
2. 2Meta Open-Sources Astryx, its Agent-Ready React Design System
3. 3Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options

Autonomous systems in the wild. · 5 stories

1. 1Supio’s long-horizon agents point to a new operating model for law firms72
2. 2Context Engineering Inside the Harness: 4 Mechanisms That Beat Context Overflow and Goal Loss on Long-Horizon Tasks
3. 3AWS Introduces Pizza Bot: An Open Source Inbox for Background AI Agents

Funding, M&A, valuations, earnings. · 3 stories

1. 1Anthropic tells investors it will be profitable for second straight quarter78
2. 2Z.ai shares tumble over 10% after $5 billion fundraising, its second major raise in two months
3. 3Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic

Silicon, racks, the compute buildout. · 3 stories

1. 1AI Agents Are Thirsty for Power72
2. 2US-listed Equinix faces challenge over South African hyperscale data centre
3. 3Cloudflare Tests Cache Transcoding to Reduce Storage Requirements

Jobs, industries, people & policy. · 11 stories

1. 1Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting68
2. 2Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off
3. 3FirstFT: Donald Trump rejects calls from tech leaders for an AI slowdown