September 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
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Anthropic has sent only 1,900 of Claude Mythos's 23,019 vulnerability finds to outside reviewers
Claude Mythos flagged 23,019 candidate vulnerabilities across 281 open-source projects, but only 1,900 went to outside reviewers and 21,119 remain unchecked by anyone outside Anthropic. Where independent reviewers did look, they agreed with only one of Mythos's eight Critical-severity calls among 27 published CVE advisories, twice rating a flagged issue Low after finding the attacker prerequisites impractical.
Bailey warns that populism threatens central bank independence in an LSE speech
Andrew Bailey told the LSE Trium Anniversary Conference that populism threatens central banks' independence, casting institutions that block a political movement's will as an 'unrepresentative elite.' City AM tied the warning to a run of attacks on central banks, led by President Trump's campaign against former Fed chair Jay Powell that triggered a now-dropped Justice Department probe, and to President Erdogan's removal of Turkish central bank governors who opposed rate cuts, plus similar measures in Hungary and India.
DeepSeek lines up 160,000 Huawei Ascend chips for its Inner Mongolia data centre
DeepSeek wants at least 160,000 of Huawei's next-generation Ascend 950DT chips for a new Inner Mongolia data centre, running only inference on them while keeping Nvidia hardware for training. The chip's street price runs about 16,000 dollars, putting the order near 2.56 billion dollars, but memory shortages mean Huawei likely cannot deliver it inside a year.
DocuSign raises fiscal 2027 revenue guidance to 3.5 billion dollars as quarterly profit and shares rise
Docusign's board raised its fiscal 2027 revenue guidance to a range of 3.499 to 3.507 billion dollars, from an earlier 3.490 to 3.502 billion dollar range, after second-quarter revenue rose 9 per cent to 875.7 million dollars. Net income climbed to 77.72 million dollars from 62.97 million dollars a year earlier, and Docusign shares traded 3.06 per cent higher after hours, extending Thursday's 0.89 per cent gain.
Figure locks in a 3.5 billion dollar Nvidia compute pipeline through Nscale
Humanoid-robot maker Figure and AI cloud provider Nscale signed an initial 3.5 billion dollar compute agreement that the two sides plan to grow past 6 billion dollars, with Nscale taking a stake in Figure and becoming its preferred compute partner. Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said the two companies had 'activated the robotics flywheel,' training Figure's models on Nvidia hardware before they run in its humanoid robots. Deployment of the first Nvidia chips in Texas is targeted for the second half of 2027.
Flock trained police to aim license-plate cameras and drones at protests
A leaked Flock Safety webinar shows the company coaching police on using FlockOS to monitor "No Kings" protests alongside routine events, tying license-plate readers, drones and gunshot detectors into one real-time view used in more than 4,800 US cities. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has separately logged more than 50 cases of agencies searching Flock's data for protest-related activity.
France's 2026 summer, 3.6 degrees above normal, is its hottest since 1900
France's environment ministry said the country's summer of 2026 averaged 24 degrees Celsius, 3.6 degrees above normal and hotter than the 2003 record, when temperatures ran 2.7 degrees above normal. Météo-France counted 53 heat-wave days across the season, and burned forest area reached six times the 20-year average. The season also brought a nearly 40 per cent rainfall deficit, the second-driest summer on record, and wildfires that forced about 250,000 residents to evacuate near Bordeaux.
GLP-1 prescriptions for young children with obesity rose 310-fold but stayed rare
GLP-1 prescriptions for children aged 8 to 11 with obesity rose 310-fold between 2019 and 2026, an NYU Langone analysis of more than 3.5 million children's records found, though only 0.6 percent had ever received one. Prescribing concentrated in children with severe obesity or related illness and skewed toward higher-income communities, and the researchers say longer follow-up is still needed to clarify the medications' long-term risks and benefits in young children.
Google Photos gains Gemini Spark, an agent that edits albums without touching the originals
Google is connecting its Gemini Spark agent to Google Photos so it can search, edit and organize a user's library from a single prompt. Every edit saves as a new copy rather than overwriting the original file, and the agent can run recurring jobs such as a monthly highlight album. The feature is rolling out gradually to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US.
GPT-6 Astra scored 62.7 percent on ARC Prize's own test after OpenAI touted 99.9 percent
ARC Prize says only the 62.7 percent its Standard harness measured allows a fair comparison between vendors, while OpenAI's headline 99.9 percent came from a Provider Adapter setup that keeps Astra's reasoning between moves. Independent trackers Artificial Analysis and Epoch AI placed Astra anywhere from tied with its predecessor to clearly ahead, depending on which index is read.