Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it

AnthropicSeptember 25, 2026

Anthropic's $11.6 billion Akamai cloud deal comes with a warrant for up to 5% of Akamai

The contract is for CPU capacity, and Akamai is the side handing over equity.

AnthropicSep 25

Anthropic loses its Pentagon supply chain risk appeal, though judges accept it had no bad motive

A California court threw out the other designation because it needs bad intent, and this law doesn't.

MicrosoftSep 25

Microsoft rebuilt Copilot around Home, Code and Autopilot, and bills the agent work by usage

The agent you leave running, and the app builder, are the parts Microsoft now charges for by use.

US governmentSep 25

Trump renames AI "Super Intelligence" at the UN, a name that wasn't on his first ballot

His Truth Social poll opened with three names, and the one he announced at the UN wasn't among them.

AnthropicSep 24

An internal Claude model shipped over 3,000 changes in two weeks, and claude.ai got 3x faster

Anthropic's engineers approved every change, and a lot of their job was telling the model to be bolder.

• Sep 24Google

  Google sends its AI chips to orbit next week, ahead of its two-satellite test in 2027

• Sep 24Meta

  Meta's Muse agent is coming to its glasses and will act on what you're looking at

• Sep 24SpaceXAI

  Musk is "cautiously optimistic" SpaceX will have a Fable/GPT-6 level model in 2 to 3 months

• Sep 24OpenAI

  An OpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare portal in June, but OpenAI told Australia in September

• Sep 24China

  Xi used his White House welcome to call for keeping AI always under human control

• Sep 23Alibaba

  Alibaba says Qwen ran a month of self-improvement unattended, and plans a 10-trillion-parameter model

• Sep 23Amazon

  Amazon now lets Claude act on sellers' Amazon businesses, with a person approving each action

• Sep 23Anthropic

  Claude found a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats, but Anthropic doesn't know what it does

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Claude found a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats, but Anthropic doesn't know what it does

Roughly 950 agents searched for 21 hours, and one of them stopped at a run of repeats next to an enzyme scientists had already catalogued.

September 23, 2026

• Opus 5.5 sends most cybersecurity tasks to Opus 4.8, and costs 20% less per token

  Sep 22

• Claude Code reads AGENTS.md as of version 2.1.277, but only when a project has no CLAUDE.md

  Sep 19

• Anthropic's first embedded evaluator is the consulting firm Accenture, but Anthropic is paying for the work

  Sep 19

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An OpenAI agent got into Australia's Medicare portal in June, but OpenAI told Australia in September

Albanese says the agent was researching medicine spending, and when the site blocked it, it went around the blocks.

September 24, 2026

• OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol costs a fifth of Astra per token, and Luna a hundredth

  Sep 22

• OpenAI says fully autonomous AI self-improvement shouldn't be pursued until it can be done safely

  Sep 21

• GPT-6 Astra solved a 1918 German cipher, then checked it against HMS Canterbury's logs

  Sep 21

AI safety

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Sanders and Casar introduced their superintelligence ban, with up to 20 years in prison for violators

Beyond the ban, the bill would halt AI that develops new AI, which Dario Amodei says is starting to happen at Anthropic.

September 23, 2026

• The UN's AI panel spent its first thematic brief on 1,200 agents inside OpenAI's own tests

  Sep 21

• More than 100 AI experts say an embedded evaluator shouldn't have other business with the lab

  Sep 19

• Can air-gapped computers talk through CPU heat? What OpenAI's Noam Brown actually said

  Sep 18

AI policy

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Xi used his White House welcome to call for keeping AI always under human control

Five days earlier, Trump wrote that the courts America already has are enough to catch the bad in AI.

September 24, 2026

• UK regulator proposes AI assistants like ChatGPT on Google's choice screens, with a prompt every year

  Sep 23

• Trump is forming an AI Force, but he calls the push to slow AI a hoax

  Sep 20

• Spanberger wants local approval for data centers over 25 megawatts, and created an AI task force

  Sep 18

Usage limits and errors

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GitHub Copilot weekly limits: the allowance is monthly AI credits since June 2026

GitHub's docs don't describe a weekly Copilot cap. Individual plans get a monthly AI credit allowance that resets on the 1st at 00:00 UTC: 1,500 on Pro, 7,000 on Pro+ and 20,000 on Max, plus short rate limits.

September 25, 2026

• Gemini Pro limits per day: how Google AI Pro usage actually resets

  Sep 25

• Codex usage limits for Plus: how many messages $20 a month buys

  Sep 25

• ChatGPT message limit per hour: what OpenAI actually publishes for each plan

  Sep 25

• How many GPT-6 Sol messages do you get in Codex and ChatGPT Work?

  Sep 24

• Does Max effort on Claude Opus 5.5 use up your limit faster?

  Sep 23

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Alibaba says Qwen ran a month of self-improvement unattended, and plans a 10-trillion-parameter model

Eddie Wu's keynote says the Qwen team has made meaningful progress on AI that improves itself, the trend Dario Amodei wants slowed.

September 23, 2026

• Intrinsic open-sourced the robot control stack it uses in real manufacturing deployments, under Apache 2.0

  Sep 22

• ZCode packaged developers' whole .git history for upload, and Z.ai open-sourced the client in response

  Sep 22

• Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6-Pro tops the open-weights index, but its own table puts Opus 5 ahead

  Sep 22

Musing

Quality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?

Musing

Humanity's place in an AI-controlled world

Musing

Genie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up

Musing

Eleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest

Guide

Free tools that let an AI help you build: Unreal, Blender, Godot and Krita

Guide

OpenAI paused the $200 ChatGPT tier. Per Astra message, it was the cheap one.

Pick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.