September 13, 2026

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Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests: Revolut said it notified affected customers and alerted the relevant government agency, law enforcement, and financial regulators. Read More

Tesla says it will finally unveil the second generation Roadster on October 1: Tesla’s halo sports car was first announced in November 2017. Read More

Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development: Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like? Read More

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Sunday Must-Reads

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. Read More

OpenAI’s Sam Altman says it would be 'ill-advised' to go public in 2026: While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman. Read More

Automattic confirms Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted ouster by board: Automattic says Mullenweg is back as "chairman and CEO of Automattic, with full support of the board." Read More

Fusion power startups find new partners in the defense world: Fusion startups are inking defense-related deals, reigniting the relationship between fusion and national security that might have gone dormant, but never completely disappeared. Read More

Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data: The round for the two-year-old startup is coming together months after Mecka announced its Series A. Read More

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Last but Not Least

Y Combinator's Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too: Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese. Read More

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