Top AI & Tech News Stories — September 18, 2026
The top AI and tech news story of September 18, 2026 was “Tom's Hardware: Hackers breach OpenAI using Claude tools, gaining access to employee accounts and the company's internal codebase — attackers initiated a 'harmless' pull request as proof of the hack”, covered by 28 outlets (30 articles), according to Skillenai's news index. 20 stories ranked across 131 articles.
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Tom's Hardware: Hackers breach OpenAI using Claude tools, gaining access to employee accounts and the company's internal codebase — attackers initiated a 'harmless' pull request as proof of the hack
28 outlets · 30 articles · 58 total since September 13, 2026 · OpenAI, Anthropic, ChatGPT, Claude, codex
Hackers breach OpenAI using Claude tools, gaining access to employee accounts and the company's internal codebase â attackers initiated a 'harmless' pull request as proof of the hack Tom's HardwareSurfaced · Announcement · tomshardware.com· In Tom's Hardwareâs words Etiido…
Read at tomshardware.com →First reported by itdoeswhatnow.comMore coverage: the-decoder.com · thenewstack.io · thorstenmeyerai.com · arstechnica.com · news.google.com
Publishers Accuse OpenAI of Withholding Evidence in Copyright Lawsuits
17 outlets · 17 articles · 148 total since November 3, 2025 · OpenAI, microsoft, The New York Times, ChatGPT, New York
On Thursday, multiple news organizations accused OpenAI of withholding evidence about how the company trains its artificial intelligence models in a new motion that's connected to a series of ongoing copyright lawsuits. The motion was filed by 17 publishers, including The New…
Read at tomshardware.com →First reported by farzad.fmMore coverage: the-decoder.com · nytimes.com · mediacopilot.ai · cnet.com · webpronews.com
Faculty Fast Take: Wait … the People Building AI Want to Slow It Down?
11 outlets · 13 articles · 288 total since March 6, 2026 · Anthropic, OpenAI, Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk
Anthropic lead researcher Evan Hubinger made headlines earlier this month after declaring there was a greater than 10% chance AI could wipe out humanity. Should society be concerned? The answer is potentially yes, according to Erik Noyes , associate professor at Babson College…
Read at androidheadlines.com →First reported by techscoop.substack.comMore coverage: techcrunch.com · medianama.com · links.mb.banyanhill.com · webpronews.com · ai4business.it
Anthropic researcher quits as colleague warns AI could ‘kill all humans’
6 outlets · 6 articles · 249 total since September 7, 2026 · Anthropic, OpenAI, Jacob Coxon, AI safety, Evan Hubinger
An Anthropic researcher has resigned from the $183bn (£135bn) AI behemoth on safety grounds, accusing it and rival OpenAI of “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. Jacob Coxon, who spent three years working on AI model training across…
Read at build.slashdot.org →First reported by news.google.comMore coverage: theverge.com · blog.robbowley.net · uniladtech.com · computersweden.se · coindesk.cc
OpenAI Models Breach Cyber Test Limits in UK, Irregular Evaluations
10 outlets · 11 articles · 27 total since August 1, 2026 · OpenAI, Hugging Face, GPT-5.6 Sol, Sam Altman, data fabrication
OpenAI has disclosed two cybersecurity incidents involving its advanced AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, during third-party testing environments. The incidents underscore risks tied to advancing AI capabilities and point to gaps in safety measures during evaluation setups…
Read at androidheadlines.com →First reported by communicationstoday.co.inMore coverage: cisovoice.com · me.mashable.com · techcentral.ie · cybersecitalia.it · aistop.watch
Anthropic Sounds Alarm on AI That Builds Itself
9 outlets · 9 articles · 20 total since June 11, 2026 · Anthropic, Claude, OpenAI, Dario Amodei, model evaluation
Anthropic has placed a marker in the ground. The company behind Claude now openly states that its models write more than 80% of the code merged into its own systems. Engineers ship eight times as much code per quarter as they did a few years ago. The human role shrinks with…
Read at the-decoder.com →First reported by webpronews.comMore coverage: implicator.ai · thorstenmeyerai.com · mpost.io · communicationstoday.co.in · itsitio.com
Disney Appoints Former Character.AI CEO Karandeep Anand as First Chief Technology Officer
4 outlets · 4 articles · 8 total since September 18, 2026 · Disney, Character.ai, Karandeep Anand, microsoft, Infrastructure
Disney has appointed Karandeep Anand as its first company-wide chief technology officer, a move that signals the entertainment giant’s sharpened focus on technology as a core driver of its future operations. According to a report in the Los Angeles Times , Anand will report…
Read at eu.techcrunch.com →First reported by news.google.comMore coverage: platform.theverge.com · news.google.com · techinsider.io
Anthropic baut ein eigenes Biolabor für die KI-Wirkstoffsuche
4 outlets · 4 articles · 26 total since August 27, 2026 · Anthropic, Claude, Reuters, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Genentech
Mit einem eigenen Biolabor verlässt Anthropic zum ersten Mal die reine Softwarewelt: In der San Francisco Bay Area betreibt die KI-Firma nun ein Nasslabor, in dem echte Experimente die Vorhersagen ihrer KI-Modelle prüfen sollen. Der Schritt fällt mitten in die Vorbereitung eines…
Read at androidheadlines.com →First reported by news.quantixmind.comMore coverage: siliconangle.com · punto-informatico.it · fortuneita.com
OpenAI hacked, Jev, Dream RSI, Qwen 3.8 Omni, Gemini 3.8 Live, Bonsai 2: AI NEWS
2 outlets · 2 articles · 26 total since August 20, 2026 · Z.ai, Ox Alpha, OpenRouter, GLM-5.3, China
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live models bring more capable AI conversations to voice. They can use live visual context and run tools while you keep talking, with an Extended Thinking version for harder tasks. Read more OpenAI introduced Astra for Law to help lawyers research cases and…
Read at aistify.com →First reported by best-ai-tools.orgMore coverage: diariobitcoin.com
The Agentic Engineer Weekly, Issue 19: Coding agents just got a boss
10 outlets · 10 articles · 16 total since September 17, 2026 · Claude Code, Anthropic, parallel processing, Claude, Projects
Issue 19: Coding agents just got a boss Coding agents just got a boss For most of this year, an agentic coding tool meant one session, one task, one context window. This week that model quietly broke. Cursor’s Projects feature, shipped September 10, kept picking up coverage all…
Read at devops.com →First reported by zdnet.comMore coverage: implicator.ai · saassentinel.com · punto-informatico.it · timesofai.com · stadt-bremerhaven.de
Spotify already has AI playlists. So what does Meta’s Muse add?
5 outlets · 5 articles · 25 total since September 9, 2026 · Meta, MUSE, United States, OpenAI, ChatGPT
You can already ask Spotify’s AI to make you a playlist. But Meta’s new personal agent, Muse , wants to know what you’re doing with it. An example? Tell Muse about an upcoming road trip, and it can make a playlist inspired by your destination — then start playing it when it’s…
Read at 9to5mac.com →First reported by technode.globalMore coverage: onlinemarketing.de · mpost.io · betanews.com · analyticsinsight.net
Microsoft Elevates Rust to Tier-1 Status Alongside C++ and C#
2 outlets · 2 articles · Rust, C++, C#, TypeScript, memory safety
Victor Ciura dropped the news in a guest post on the Rust Foundation site last week. Rust now holds tier-1 language status inside Microsoft. It stands equal with C++, C# and TypeScript as one of the company’s most supported options for internal development. The designation…
More coverage: webpronews.com
Ex-Google DeepMind Researcher Also Warns AI Could 'Kill All Humans'. But Meta's Zuckerberg Believes Safety is Up to Each AI Company
1 outlet · 1 article · AI safety, alignment research, recursive self-improvement, Independent evaluation, Model Safety
Reuters reports that a former Google DeepMind employee "became the latest AI researcher to warn that the technology could 'kill all humans', saying time could be running out to avoid the outcome: Public alarm about the potential danger posed by AI is growing, after Anthropic…
Journalist Calls Out 'Collective Amnesia' of Schools' Romance With Big Tech Over AI
1 outlet · 1 article · computer science education standards, Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, OpenAI
"Turns out, Silicon Valley isn't especially altruistic," writes the nonprofit education news site The 74. They're reading a new book promising "the inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted, and ultimately came to capture computer science and AI education in America"…
Google DeepMind’s Coding Pivot Lost Six Researchers to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic - Tech Times
2 outlets · 3 articles · 150 total since June 28, 2026 · Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Irregular, Hugging Face
Google DeepMind’s Coding Pivot Lost Six Researchers to Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic Tech Times
Read at theguardian.com →First reported by news.google.comMore coverage: news.google.com
LiteLLM MCP Authentication Bypass: Patch Now
1 outlet · 1 article · OAuth2, Authentication bypass, Vulnerability patching, access log review, security risk review
A LiteLLM MCP authentication bypass, CVE-2026-59822 (CVSS 8.8), lets an attacker skip OAuth2 login entirely when connecting to Model Context Protocol servers through LiteLLM’s proxy, gaining whatever access an authenticated session would carry. CISA added the flaw to its Known…
Tiny Dutch startup enlists Samsung as backer as it seeks to dethrone Nvidia AI GPU — but Euclyd won't get its inference chip out till 2028
2 outlets · 2 articles · 11 total since September 14, 2026 · Samsung, Euclyd, Innovation Industries, AI inference, Scaleup Europe Fund
Efosa has been writing about technology for over 7 years, initially driven by curiosity but now fueled by a strong passion for the field. He holds both a Master's and a PhD in sciences, which provided him with a solid foundation in analytical thinking. Efosa developed a keen…
Read at technobuffalo.com →First reported by cnbc.comMore coverage: news.google.com
Huawei Unveils New AI Infrastructure for Enterprise Adoption
2 outlets · 2 articles · 8 total since September 17, 2026 · Huawei, Nvidia, Ascend 950DT, Shanghai, UnifiedBus
Huawei has unveiled new artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure, cloud services and partner capabilities aimed at helping governments and enterprises across the Middle East and other markets deploy AI at scale. The developments were announced at Huawei Connect 2026 in…
Read at androidheadlines.com →First reported by walletinvestor.comMore coverage: beingguru.com
Vigilance.fr - WebKitGTK | WPE WebKit: memory corruption dated 18/12/2025
2 outlets · 7 articles · 9 total since September 18, 2026 · WebKitGTK, WPE WebKit, Vigilance.fr, WebKitGTK, WPE WebKit
An attacker can trigger a memory corruption of WebKitGTK | WPE WebKit, dated 18/12/2025, in order to trigger a denial of service, and possibly to run code. 18 September 2026 Vigilance.fr - WebKitGTK | WPE WebKit: memory corruption dated 18/12/2025 An attacker can trigger a…
Read at globalsecuritymag.fr →First reported by globalsecuritymag.deMore coverage: globalsecuritymag.de
Security Researchers Use Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to Hack OpenAI in Under 72 Hours
1 outlet · 1 article · bug bounty, vulnerability chaining, remote code execution, Single Sign-On (SSO), session token management
It is not every day that one AI giant‘s flagship model helps security professionals break into a rival company’s front door. During a legitimate bug bounty audit, a three-person research team at startup Hacktron AI used Anthropic’s Claude to chain two critical vulnerabilities…
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How this was computed
Articles in the Skillenai news index are grouped into event clusters at enrichment time (hybrid embedding/BM25/entity candidate search plus an LLM join-vs-new judge). Stories are ranked by the authority of the articles published on 2026-09-18 (UTC) — the sum of their outlet and author authority — so a multi-day story only ranks on the strength of that day's coverage. Article and outlet counts are likewise scoped to the day. The highlighted link is the day's highest-authority article in each cluster.