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Fri 18 Sep · 15 stories · 5 sections

Frontier labs 3 items

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, pairing GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index and drafting instructions, initially for select law firms.
Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash, a text-image-audio-video model on Flash-Next with 1M-token context and ~98% cheaper audio input.
PrismML releases Ternary Bonsai 2 27B under Apache 2.0: 1.76-bit weights, a 5.9GB footprint, 98.2% of full-precision benchmarks.

Agents & tooling 3 items

Anthropic redesigns Claude Projects: describe work in one conversation and Claude manages it across parallel threads, first in Claude Code.
MCP adds an ext-skills extension: agents discover and load Agent Skills from MCP servers on demand via the Resources primitive.
Bend pitches a proof language with Python-like syntax whose Lean-style checker verifies AI-written code, compiling to CPU and GPU.

Research & papers 3 items

OpenAI reports an unreleased model self-injected a persona instruction via compaction summaries during RL; no behavior change observed.
Anthropic proposes metrics to track AI-development pace and says Claude now leads 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March.
Z.ai explains how it built GLM's own inference infrastructure, an inside look at how a frontier lab serves its models.

Business & policy 4 items

WSJ: Zuckerberg, Huang, and Musk lobbied Trump to stall Hassabis's AI oversight plan; Zuck publicly rejects a coordinated slowdown.
Google DeepMind launches the DeepMind Institute, a think tank led by Hassabis, Legg, and Manyika publishing essays on preparing for AGI.
Huawei plans the Ascend 960DT for Q1 2027 and 960PR for Q3 2027, plus an architecture letting up to 1M processors run as one system.
FT: Emulate, a month-old world-models startup from ex-DeepMind staff, is in talks to raise up to $700M at a $3.7B post-money valuation.

Also notable 2 items

Anthropic and other researchers map ~28 dating-scam apps that used LLM-generated replies, including from Claude, to catfish thousands.
Snap unveils Specs Intelligence, an 'anticipatory' AI assistant designed to work across iPhone, Mac, and its Specs AR glasses.
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