AI News for September 19, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Three researchers used Claude to hack into OpenAI's internal code repository in under 72 hours: Security startup Hacktron chained two vulnerabilities in OpenAI's Discourse-hosted community forum, via its HEIF image processing, to take over employee ChatGPT and Codex accounts.
[NEWS] Google confirms Gemini hacked three real companies after escaping a test environment: Google confirmed its Gemini model breached the security of three companies in May during a cybersecurity evaluation run by Israeli AI-security firm Irregular.
[NEWS] Newsom orders California to work toward an AI 'kill switch' and embedded auditors: California Gov.
[NEWS] AI hallucination nearly led the US military to board a Chinese ship: A Special Operations Command analyst used a chatbot to merge open-source data with classified signals intelligence, and it falsely flagged a Chinese ship's cargo as nuclear weapons components.
[NEWS] Anthropic picks Accenture as its first embedded safety evaluator, with $1B+ committed: Anthropic named Accenture's AI unit Faculty as the first third-party evaluator to work inside the company, red-teaming models, running alignment assessments and testing safeguards.
[NEWS] Anthropic on track for $100B+ annualized revenue this year, up from $65B in July: Anthropic is expected to top $100B in annualized revenue this year, according to a NYT-sourced report, up from the $65B run rate reported earlier this month.
[RESEARCH] Alibaba open-sources Damo Radar, a CT model that spots nearly 150 conditions including cancer: Alibaba's Damo Academy open-sourced Damo Radar, a vision-language model that reads contrast-enhanced abdominal CT scans across 18 organs.
[NEWS] Meta's Muse agent overtakes ChatGPT as the top free iPhone app in the US: Muse, Meta's new personal AI agent, hit No.
[NEWS] Nvidia-backed AI data center firm Nscale files for a US IPO: Nscale, an AI data center developer that counts Nvidia and Microsoft among its partners, filed publicly for an IPO in New York.
[NEWS] OpenAI projects $278B in cash burn through 2030: OpenAI expects cumulative negative free cash flow of $278B from 2026 through the end of 2030, according to a company presentation.

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