AI News for September 12, 2026 — 7min.ai

[OPINION] 25 Fields Medallists sign declaration against AI companies' math benchmarking: Terence Tao and 24 other Fields Medallists published a declaration calling the goals of AI companies and the mathematical community "severely misaligned." The statement argues that the race to solve famous open problems as benchmarks damages mathematics itself, because the value of a proof lies in the ideas and methods a community can study, not the answer.
[NEWS] Nvidia weighs a $10B stake in Anthropic's IPO: Nvidia is considering investing as much as $10 billion in Anthropic's initial public offering, a listing that could become the largest IPO ever.
[NEWS] Researchers detail OpenAI agents' undisclosed RubyGems attack: Hundreds of malicious packages hit RubyGems on May 11, uploaded by what three independent researchers conclude was an internal OpenAI agent swarm.
[NEWS] OpenAI asks Congress whether an industry-wide AI slowdown would be legal: OpenAI has approached members of Congress to ask whether coordinating a development slowdown with rival labs would violate the Sherman Antitrust Act.
[NEWS] Jeff Dean's Discovery Loop seeks funding at a $50B valuation: Jeff Dean is raising again for Discovery Loop, the startup he founded after resigning as Google's chief scientist last month, this time at roughly a $50 billion valuation.
[NEWS] Google completes its $1.5B+ talent deal for Mechanize: Mechanize cofounder and ex-CEO Tamay Besiroglu is now a research scientist at Google DeepMind, and more than a dozen former Mechanize employees have joined Google, mostly on midtraining.
[NEWS] SpaceX signs a $1.11B-a-month compute deal with an unnamed customer: SpaceX CFO Bret Johnsen told a Goldman Sachs conference the company closed a hosting deal worth about $1.11 billion a month starting December 1.
[NEWS] Moonshot targets $2B annualized revenue by year-end, double August's rate: Moonshot AI is aiming to double its annualized revenue to $2 billion by the end of 2026 on the strength of Kimi K3, its open-weight model.
[NEWS] New Mexico Supreme Court fines lawyer $5K for AI-invented witnesses: New Mexico's Supreme Court fined attorney Stephen Aarons $5,000 and held him in contempt for a murder appeal brief containing fabricated witnesses and false police testimony about the shooter's clothing and appearance.
[NEWS] Cohere in advanced talks to raise $2B to $3B: Cohere is negotiating a round of $2-3 billion, with participation from the Canadian government and existing backers, per the Globe & Mail.

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