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AI News Digest - 2026-09-14

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in frontier AI development and the addition of independent oversight, proposing embedded auditors, shared safety standards, and global agreements; Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis publicly expressed support, and Altman said OpenAI pushed its IPO to 2027 citing safety concerns.

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GPT-6 Astra outperformed competing models on agent benchmarks, earning nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs' Vending-Bench, refused illegal price-fixing deals that Fable accepted, and became the first model to beat the human baseline on all five drone-control subtasks including finding and following individual people.

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ElevenLabs released Music v2.5 via its app and API with free and pro tiers, stated the model was trained only on licensed music, and reported that listeners in a blind test preferred the new version to its predecessor.

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AllSpark released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents built on Qwen models that led benchmarks among open-weight models in their size classes and demonstrated improved performance on tasks the models were not explicitly trained for.

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https://the-decoder.com/altman-musk-and-hassabis-back-amodeis-call-to-add-independent-oversight/

Altman, Musk, and Hassabis back Amodei's call to add independent oversight

Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis back Dario Amodei's call to slow down AI development, at least in part. Altman says OpenAI is pushing its IPO to 2027 over safety concerns.

the-decoder.com

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https://the-decoder.com/gpt-6-astra-pilots-a-surveillance-drone-and-runs-a-business-on-its-own/

GPT-6 Astra pilots a surveillance drone and runs a business on its own

GPT-6 Astra earns nearly three times as much as Claude Fable 5.1 on Andon Labs' Vending-Bench agent benchmark and refuses illegal price-fixing deals that Fable agrees to. On drone control, Astra is the first model to beat the human baseline on all five subtasks, including finding and following individual people.

the-decoder.com

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https://the-decoder.com/elevenlabs-makes-music-v2-5-available-via-app-and-api-with-free-and-pro-tier-options/

Elevenlabs makes Music v2.5 available via app and API with free and pro tier options

ElevenLabs has released Music v2.5 for its AI music generator. In a blind test with nearly 48,000 comparison pairs, listeners preferred the new version over its predecessor. The company says the model was trained only on licensed music.

the-decoder.com

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https://the-decoder.com/iris-mini-and-iris-pro-are-the-strongest-open-weight-search-agents-in-their-class/

Iris-mini and Iris-pro are the strongest open-weight search agents in their class

The AllSpark team has released Iris-mini and Iris-pro, two open-source search agents built on Qwen models that lead benchmarks among open-weight models in their size classes. According to the paper, the training data and models also improved performance on tasks they were never trained for, including general tool use and office work.

the-decoder.com

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