Tech news, September 12, 2026
Saturday: 7 pieces the paper read from primary sources, by section, newest first. Each links to its source; the line under it is the source's own opening.
New Models
1 piece.
- Open model: yandex/AliceAI-Foundation-80B-A3B-Base
Trending on the Hugging Face Hub.
Columns
5 pieces.
- Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work
Here's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at <my address>.
- Joy & Curiosity #99
Interesting & joyful things from the previous week
- OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems is a new bombshell report from Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx - three of the four authors of the repo…
- P(doom)
This week some flavor of “AI is going to kill us all” went viral.
- Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
Research
1 piece.
- The week the AI freakout went mainstream
CSET’s Jessica Ji shared her expert insight in an article published by Vox.