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Issue #48  ·  September 14th, 2026
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The Brief

Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

Leading today: Everyone should slow down AI development except for me. Also in this issue: Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards; Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting. 15 stories in total, selected automatically from 34 candidates across the day's feeds.

Headline News
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xeiaso.net
Everyone should slow down AI development except for me

Xe Iaso (Trending on Hacker News (745 points, 434 comments))

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techcrunch.com
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards

Obama recently said that Democrats need to make artificial intelligence one of their “central agendas” and “have a very clear plan” to address concerns around the technology’s economic impact and safety.

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theverge.com
Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development.

New Today
vals.ai
Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher

Private, domain-specific benchmarks in legal, tax, and finance. (Trending on Hacker News (385 points, 157 comments))

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the-decoder.com
Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options

ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5 for its AI music generator. In a blind test with nearly 48,000 comparison pairs, listeners preferred the new version over its predecessor.

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marktechpost.com
AWS Introduces Pizza Bot: An Open Source Inbox for Background AI Agents

Pizza Bot is an open source, self-hosted inbox for AI agents built on DeepAgents and LangGraph.

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news.google.com
The Sequence Radar - Issue 932: Last Week in AI: DeepSeek V4.1-Flash, AlphaGenome Atlas, Meta Muse, and OpenAI’s Proposed Math Breakthrough

The Sequence Radar - Issue 932: Last Week in AI: DeepSeek V4.1-Flash, AlphaGenome Atlas, Meta Muse, and OpenAI’s Proposed Math Breakthrough    TheSequence | Jesus Rodriguez

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news.google.com
Groq vs Grok 4.6: Spec, Price & Speed Compared [2026] - tech-insider.org

Groq vs Grok 4.6: Spec, Price & Speed Compared [2026]    tech-insider.org

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news.google.com
Microsoft Announces Grok Rollout To Copilot Across Office 365 Apps In Multi-Model Push

Microsoft Announces Grok Rollout To Copilot Across Office 365 Apps In Multi-Model Push    NDTV Profit

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Research & Engineering
yoshuabengio.org
Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

A lot has been written about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways.

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the-decoder.com
Two-year university study finds banning AI from classrooms leaves students worse off

A law professor spent two years testing how an AI ban, unguided AI use, and structured training affect student performance. The group without AI finished last both years.

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agentsdock.net
AgentsDock: An IDE designed for agentic AI research

An IDE designed for agentic AI research. Run Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor on your own machine in one desktop and mobile workspace — from any device. (Trending on Hacker News (79 points, 32 comments))

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simonwillison.net
commit-rewriter 0.1

Release: commit-rewriter 0.1 I built this little web app the other day to help edit the commit messages for the Datasette security releases .

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simonwillison.net
shot-scraper 1.12

Release: shot-scraper 1.12 I've added WebP support to my shot-scraper screenshot automation tool.

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news.google.com
5 Reasons Why Users Ditch Claude

5 Reasons Why Users Ditch Claude    bgr.com

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