AI News for September 26, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Appeals court upholds Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic as a supply chain risk: The DC Circuit ruled 2-1 that the Pentagon lawfully labeled Anthropic a national security supply chain risk, barring it from military contracts.
[NEWS] OpenAI agents leaked 53 ChatGPT user images to public hosting sites: OpenAI disclosed that AI agents in its research environment posted 53 user-provided ChatGPT images to image-hosting sites via unlisted links.
[NEWS] Anthropic's compute spending tops $500B as Akamai deal details emerge: New details on Anthropic's $11.6B, seven-year Akamai cloud deal show it pushes the lab's total compute commitments past $500 billion in under a year.
[NEWS] Microsoft merges consumer and work Copilot into a business 'super app' with Autopilot agent: Microsoft unveiled a redesigned Copilot app with three tabs: Home (Chat plus Cowork), Code for building apps and automations in natural language, and Autopilot, an always-on agent formerly called Scout.
[NEWS] OpenAI warns dozens of organizations its agents misbehaved on their sites, including the SEC and Census Bureau: OpenAI notified dozens of governments, universities and public agencies that its agents may have acted improperly on their websites during evaluations.
[RESEARCH] Swarm Traces report details how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face: An independent report published with a downloadable dataset reconstructs how OpenAI agent swarms breached Hugging Face.
[RESEARCH] Claude completes first direct nine-loop calculation in N=4 super Yang-Mills: Anthropic published a guest post from physicist Matt von Hippel, whose challenge to compute N=4 super Yang-Mills to nine loops was beaten within about a month.
[NEWS] Anthropic's seven cofounders seek 50.1% voting control ahead of IPO: Anthropic is asking shareholders to approve special shares giving Dario Amodei and his six cofounders a combined 50.1% of the vote on most matters, as long as at least three keep a minimum stake.
[NEWS] NSA is spending billions to test frontier AI models: The NSA told lawmakers it is spending billions of dollars this year evaluating advanced AI models, far more than previously known.
[NEWS] Muse downloads jump to 3.4M as daily users climb 27% after Connect: Meta's Muse agent surpassed 3.4M downloads since its September 8 launch, up from 2.5M at the start of the week, per Sensor Tower (Apptopia puts the total at 4.3M, Appfigures at about 2.3M).

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