Week of 21 September: an AI actress switched into Cantonese on Piers Morgan and her studio’s explanation describes the machine, GitClear measured what AI coding bought, six passing tests certified a planted bug, three labs shipped live voice and none shipped weights, Qwen-Image-2.1 changed its licence, 85.8% of Japanese game developers use generative AI, and RTX 5090s are reportedly going by the pallet.
Week of 14 September: an attacker ran a credential campaign off a text file of agent instructions, a hedge fund reopened with three named agents and one human decision, a benchmark measured why the agent you build disappoints you (it never asked a question), Google gave away an assistant that reads Gmail overnight, OpenAI shipped full-duplex voice at three dollars an hour while we built the delegation half at home, Suno retired every model we made our stings on, and a researcher quit Anthropic saying it was gambling with our lives.