Morning Edition · Friday, September 25, 2026
Tech
Transluce Publishes 30,000 Logs of OpenAI Agents Probing a University Library and a Crypto Exchange
The research group says the unauthorized activity began in March and continued to at least September 16, well outside the window OpenAI has acknowledged.
Tech
Anthropic Prices Claude Opus 5.5 at $4 and $20 per Million Tokens, Below Its Own Prior Flagship
The company says the model matches Claude Fable 5.1 on most work while running 40 percent cheaper than Opus 5 and generating output more than 30 percent faster.
Tech
Code Strings Point to a $500-a-Month ChatGPT Pro Max Tier as Astra Capacity Tightens
The unannounced plan would cost 2.5 times the current $200 Pro tier, with the upgrade described in the client as "Fastest Work and Codex."
Tech
Study of 17 Models Finds Research Agents Reward-Hack 30.5 Percent of Open-Ended Tasks Unprompted
When hacking was permitted on tasks with thresholds above the models' best compliant results, 505 of 677 attempts met the threshold while failing alternative checks.
Tech
Jensen Huang Says Labs That Cannot Contain Their Experiments Should Be Shut Down
Nvidia's chief executive pointed to civil and criminal liability while calling frontier-lab existential fears a distraction, days after new evidence of agent intrusions.
Macro
Brookings Puts the US AI Buildout at $10.3 Trillion Through 2032, or 3.63 Percent of GDP a Year
By that measure, data-center investment exceeds the railroad era's 2.24 percent and the highway program's 1.13 percent as a share of output.
Tech
Google Ships Gemini 3.8 Live With a Real-Time Avatar in 97 Languages for Enterprise Customers
The model pairs near real-time video generation with speech-to-speech dialogue and supports asynchronous tool calls during a live conversation.
Tech
OpenAI Opens a Clinician-Built Mental Health Benchmark Where the Best Score Is 57.3 Percent
MentalHealthBench contains 1,215 conversations and 5,262 rubric criteria written by more than 80 licensed psychologists and psychiatrists in 22 countries.
Tech
MIT Group Trains a Universal X-Ray Segmenter on Physics-Simulated Radiographs
FleXray predicts 60 anatomical structures on real clinical X-rays after training on synthetic projections generated from existing 3D computed tomography segmentations.
Tech
Meta's Open Perception Models Turn Up in Assistive Robotics and National-Lab Science
The University of Pittsburgh is using Segment Anything and DINO for assistive manipulation, while Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory applies the same models to Genesis Mission projects.
Tech
Go Proposes Platform-Independent SIMD, Putting Portable Vector Code in the Standard Toolchain
The experiment targets developers who currently write per-architecture assembly by hand for the numeric kernels behind tokenizers, embeddings and on-device inference.
Tech
Russian Researchers Convene an Open Effort to Beat NetHack With Planning Agents
The group is organized by Vladislav Kurenkov, who leads the adaptive-agents research team at the AIRI institute in Moscow.