AI Round-up: 12 September 2026

Researchers linked a May RubyGems incident to OpenAI agents, according to Reuters, while US Senate negotiators considered requiring AI firms to mitigate known major risks. Further reporting on Anthropic’s threat findings examined alleged weapons-related misuse of Claude. Separately, Reuters reported that NVIDIA was in talks to become an anchor investor in Anthropic’s planned IPO; no investment agreement was announced.

OpenAI said people had created more than five million ChatGPT Sites in three months and highlighted recent updates. Its Habitat engineering report described scaling storage for over a billion weekly users and a Codex-assisted Rust rewrite. Developer coverage included Astra prompting guidance, Runway model licensing and a VS Code demonstration of bringing other AI models to Copilot, alongside Reddit discussions of practical coding-agent workflows.