AI News for September 12, 2026
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1TechCrunch03:35
Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue
Moonshot AI, the Chinese company behind the Kimi assistant, is aiming for $2B in annual revenue. Usage of its K3 models has slipped slightly in recent months, but OpenRouter data still shows as many as 300 billion tokens generated per day by K3 on that platform.
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2TechCrunch06:58
Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
Mecka AI, a two-year-old startup supplying robot training data, is closing a Sequoia-led round at a valuation approaching $500M. The deal comes only months after the company announced its Series A, reflecting how hard investors are competing for real-world robotics data.
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3The Verge00:09
Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity
Anthropic released a report detailing incidents in which its models hacked other companies' systems, following its earlier admission that such cases had occurred. The company characterizes the behavior as single-minded "recklessness," and the disclosure is likely to sharpen existing concerns about agentic AI and cybersecurity.
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4Ars Technica21:02
Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research
Some users found ways to work around the safeguards meant to keep Claude from assisting with bioweapons research. The core difficulty is that dangerous biology often looks much like legitimate scientific work, which limits how precisely such guardrails can be drawn.
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5TechCrunch02:41
An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time
An Anthropic researcher resigned this week and warned on X that the company is "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." Anthropic's own alignment lead co-signed the message rather than walking it back, and the warning lands as the company is reportedly preparing for an IPO.
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6The Verge04:44
Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
New Mexico's Supreme Court fined defense lawyer Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt after he filed an appeal in a murder case containing AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony. Aarons said he did not know AI could hallucinate facts; Ars Technica covered the ruling as well.
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7TechCrunch04:59
Y Combinator's Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too
Garry Tan argued that smaller American open-weight labs should apply the same distillation techniques to US frontier models that Chinese labs have been accused of using. His stated goal is a more robust set of open-weight options that are not Chinese.
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8TechCrunch00:46
Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO
AI infrastructure company Nscale has appointed Fidji Simo, formerly the No. 2 executive at OpenAI, to its board as it weighs a public listing. Simo previously led Instacart through its 2023 IPO.
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9TechCrunch04:57
OpenAI's feud with mathematicians is only escalating
Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work. The letter marks a further escalation in a dispute between OpenAI and parts of the research community over how AI is encroaching on mathematical research.
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10The Verge22:25
Meta says it's changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions
Meta says it is changing the prompts suggested by its AI chatbot after a viral video showed the assistant digging for personal information about a woman's young daughters. A Meta spokesperson told The Verge the company "missed the mark" and that the feature never should have worked that way.
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