AI News for September 18, 2026 — 7min.ai

[RESEARCH] Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its AI R&D, up from under 1% in March: Anthropic said Claude now "leads" 26% of its AI research and development work, meaning it completes most of a task from a high-level prompt while a human supervises.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI reportedly nears a Hodge conjecture proof, its second Millennium Prize Problem: OpenAI is reportedly close to solving the Hodge conjecture, one of math's seven Millennium Prize Problems.
[NEWS] Huang rebuffs King Charles' AI control plea, backs 'rigorous testing' over a pause: At the Dumfries House summit, King Charles III told AI executives "we need sufficient means of control before it is all too late," calling AI "both intriguing and deeply concerning." Attendees included Jensen Huang, Demis Hassabis, UK AI minister Kanishka Narayan, the head of MI6 and the pope's AI adviser.
[NEWS] Crusoe raises $3.9B at a $30.9B valuation for data centers and modular 'AI factories': Data center developer Crusoe raised $3.9B in a Series F that values it at $30.9B.
[TOOLS] Claude Code relaunches Projects to run parallel agent threads in the cloud: Anthropic rebuilt Projects in Claude Code so users describe a goal and a coordinator splits the work across parallel "threads." Each thread is a Claude Code cloud session on its own branch and repo copy, able to open pull requests, run tests and spawn subagents.
[NEWS] Jensen Huang expects Nvidia to sell twice as many chips next year: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said he expects the company to sell twice as many chips in the coming year, driven by AI spreading across industries.
[NEWS] Unsealed filings: Microsoft exec called AI scraping the 'largest theft of labor in human history': Newly unsealed filings in The New York Times' copyright case against OpenAI and Microsoft show Microsoft's Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht warning that scraping news for AI training was "an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions" and perhaps the "largest theft of labor in human history." He also wrote that the plan made "a complete mockery of the idea of 'fair use.'" OpenAI leadership reportedly called its models an "existential threat" to publishers.
[NEWS] DeepMind offshoot Emulate nears $700M seed round: Emulate, a UK AI startup founded by former Google DeepMind researchers, is in talks to raise $700M in a seed round.
[NEWS] OpenAI launches Astra for Law, taking on Anthropic in legal AI: OpenAI launched Astra for Law, its long-awaited product for legal work.
[RESEARCH] PrismML releases Bonsai 2 27B, shrinking Qwen3.8 27B to 5.9 GB: PrismML released Bonsai 2 27B, a compressed version of Alibaba's open-source Qwen3.8 27B that fits in 5.9 GB.

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