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AI News 28-Sep: AI’s Power Moves: AMD’s $8.2B Bet, Claude 5.5, NVIDIA’s Rogue-Agent Shield, and OpenAI’s Big Tease

The AI discussion on X on September 28, 2026, was led by a handful of major announcements from Anthropic, NVIDIA, OpenAI, and AMD, according to high-engagement posts from official accounts and broader community debate. Anthropic Releases Claude Sonnet 5.5 Anthropic and Claude’s official accounts announced the release

When AI Makes Mistakes: The Danger of Being Confidently Wrong

When AI Makes Mistakes: The Danger of Being Confidently Wrong

When we imagine AI screwing up, we usually picture something big: a completely made-up fact, a bizarre answer, or code that crashes the second you run it. But sometimes the mistake is much smaller—and that’s exactly what makes it so easy to miss. A while back, I

Excalidraw Generator: A Comprehensive Review of the AI-Powered Diagramming Skill

Overview Excalidraw Generator is an open-source Claude Code skill that transforms natural language descriptions into fully-formed .excalidraw diagram files. Developed by lexiaoyao20, the tool bridges the gap between conversational AI and professional diagramming by automating layout calculation, element placement, and style application—eliminating the need for manual drawing

How I Used AI to Catalog 100+ Magazines (and Where It Failed)

How I Used AI to Catalog 100+ Magazines (and Where It Failed)

A while back, I was trying to find a specific article in a physical magazine. I had over 100 of them, and Google was no help at all. So I figured I'd try something different: point AI at the covers and see if it could help me find

Cloudflare OS Review: The Security-First AI Workspace That Wants to Be Your Company's Operating System

Cloudflare OS is not a traditional computer operating system. It is an AI productivity environment—an "operating system for the company"—that originally ran inside Cloudflare's own walls before being open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 licence in August 2026. The project emerged from a

wigolo Review: A Local-First Web Intelligence Server for AI Agents

A deep dive into the open-source MCP server that promises zero-cost web search, fetch, crawl, and research — without API keys or cloud dependencies. wigolo is a local-first web intelligence server that gives AI coding agents a single surface for everything web-related. It runs as an MCP

AI Weekly Roundup: Safety Debates, Legal Battles, and Product Races (Sept 15–21, 2026)

The AI world packed a remarkable amount into a single week in mid-September 2026. From industry leaders publicly calling for a "slowdown" to a government suing an AI company, and from new model launches to a confirmed security breach, the tension between rapid capability gains and safety

The Complete Guide to CLAUDE.md: Best Practices, Examples, and Templates

The Complete Guide to CLAUDE.md: Best Practices, Examples, and Templates

Core Definition CLAUDE.md is a project-level configuration file that Claude Code automatically reads at the start of every session. It provides the AI with persistent project context, coding standards, and workflow instructions. Placed in the project root, it serves as Claude's "project memory"—you

How to Not Use AI in 2026: A Survival Guide for Engineers Who Still Want to Think

How to Not Use AI in 2026: A Survival Guide for Engineers Who Still Want to Think

Introduction: The Meat Proxy Problem In September 2026, a Reddit post on r/ClaudeAI struck a nerve. A senior engineer at a big company described a workplace where every artifact — specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, reports — was generated by Claude Code. Nobody read anything. Nobody resolved bugs. Nobody thought. Engineers

How to disable subagents in Claude Code

TLDR We can use the following methods to disable subagents in Claude Code: (1) Deny specific subagents (deterministic, recommended) { "permissions": { "deny": ["Agent(Explore)", "Agent(my-custom-agent)"] } } (2) Disable built-in Explore and Plan subagents CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_EXPLORE_PLAN_AGENTS=1

Manus AI Review: In-Depth Testing, Pricing & Verdict (2026)

Manus AI is an autonomous AI agent that plans and executes multi-step tasks inside a cloud-based virtual computer — browsing the web, writing code, analyzing data, and building apps without human hand-holding. Founded in 2024 by the team behind Monica.im, it went viral in March 2025, was

SKILL.md: How to Write Claude Skills That Actually Work (2026)

SKILL.md: How to Write Claude Skills That Actually Work (2026)

Agent Instruction Files 2026: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, SKILL.md & the Fight for the Agent's Context

Every serious AI coding agent now reads at least one markdown file before it touches your codebase. Some read two or three. A few come with their own proprietary formats layered on top. In 2026, the humble .md file has quietly become one of the most contested pieces of real

Jev by Type-Safe AI: A New Class of Decision Models

Discover how TypeSafe AI's Jev delivers typed decisions with calibrated confidence — 193.6x faster and 444.6x cheaper than LLMs for automation workflows. TypeSafe AI has introduced Jev, the first public System One Model — a new class of AI built specifically for decisions inside software. Unlike large language

$1.9 Million, Nine Restarts, and Zero Hiding: Xiaomi's MiMo V2.6 Live Dashboard

$1.9 Million, Nine Restarts, and Zero Hiding: Xiaomi's MiMo V2.6 Live Dashboard

Xiaomi did something this week that no frontier lab has attempted: it streamed its reinforcement learning run to the public. The MiMo team, led by former DeepSeek researcher Luo Fuli, launched a live dashboard on September 16 showing real-time training metrics for two unreleased models: MiMo-V2.6-Pro

AI News Daily: September 16, 2026

AI News Daily: September 16, 2026

Safety Takes Center Stage as OpenAI Discloses Model Mishaps, US-China AI Race Heats Up Wednesday, September 16, 2026, was a day that captured the AI industry at a crossroads. On one hand, frontier labs pushed hard on transparency and product velocity; on the other, the geopolitical fault lines of

Why You Keep Getting ChatGPT Verification Codes You Didn't Ask For

Why You Keep Getting ChatGPT Verification Codes You Didn't Ask For

Lately, a lot of people have been reporting a strange email landing in their inbox: "Your temporary ChatGPT verification code." It contains a six-digit code. The odd part? Many recipients have never signed up for ChatGPT — or never used that email address to register. Some people report

When ChatGPT Gets It Wrong: A LibreOffice Case Study in AI Errors

When ChatGPT Gets It Wrong: A LibreOffice Case Study in AI Errors

ChatGPT errors happen—even with simple software questions. See how a LibreOffice mistake unfolded, why AI gets things wrong, and how to spot and avoid ChatGPT errors.

2026-09-15: The Day AI Leaders Asked the World to Slow Down -And the World Said No

2026-09-15: The Day AI Leaders Asked the World to Slow Down -And the World Said No

Top AI news from the last ~24–48 hours: * AI leaders call for slowing frontier development * colliding with market * political * and competitive realities 1. The core event: A rare "pacing consensus" among AI leaders Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy essay, "We Must Pace the Frontier,

i-have-adhd Review — The Tiny Skill That Stopped Claude From Burying the Answer

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i-have-adhd Review — The Tiny Skill That Stopped Claude From Burying the Answer

i-have-adhd is a free, open-source Claude Code and Codex skill that enforces ten ruthless output rules on your coding agent. No preamble. No “Great question!” No buried answers. Just the next action, numbered steps, and a concrete next step. It’s one of the simplest, most effective

The New AI Leaderboard: Astra, Fable, Gemini 3.8 and the Collapse of the "One Best Model"

The New AI Leaderboard: Astra, Fable, Gemini 3.8 and the Collapse of the "One Best Model"

September 2026 — If you haven't checked the AI model leaderboard in a few weeks, it's out of date. The first week of September alone brought three major releases: Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 on September 1, Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash on

Claude’s Bonus Reset Problem: Why a "Free" Gift Is Pushing Paying Users to OpenAI

Claude’s Bonus Reset Problem: Why a "Free" Gift Is Pushing Paying Users to OpenAI

For Anthropic’s paying subscribers, the weekly Claude usage reset is a familiar rhythm. But in 2026, that rhythm started to feel rigged. Users noticed a curious pattern: whenever Anthropic quietly added a bonus usage reset—an unannounced top-up of their quota—it almost always landed on a Thursday

Week That Changed AI - The AGI Era Begins? GPT-6 Astra, NVIDIA's $12.9B Hugging Face Deal

Week That Changed AI - The AGI Era Begins? GPT-6 Astra, NVIDIA's $12.9B Hugging Face Deal

September 6, 2026 — If you weren't paying close attention to AI last week, you missed what may go down as one of the most consequential seven-day stretches in the industry's short history. From OpenAI declaring the start of the "AGI era" to NVIDIA

GPT-6 Astra Review & Performance Tests

GPT-6 Astra Review & Performance Tests

Summary: GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI's most capable reasoning model, and it performs like it — when you can afford to run it. At $10/$50 per million tokens, it's positioned as a premium frontier model that undercuts Anthropic's Opus on price while delivering comparable

'AI Apocalypse' Happened on Sept 3—But Here's the Full Breakdown

Good news first: everything is back to normal. A major, simultaneous outage hit several top AI services on Thursday, September 3, 2026. The press had a field day calling it an "AI apocalypse." But as of today (September 4, 2026), official status pages and live monitors confirm that