07 · The Weekly
The Weekly · Issue 2026·38 · 14–20 Sep 2026
Issue 2026·38 of The Weekly, 14–20 Sep 2026: Leverate Lets AI Assistants Connect Directly to Trading Accounts. 311 stories, 67 papers, the essays, the tools the votes moved, the calendar and the board — as the week closed.
In inglese
Dear reader,
This week the wire carried 311 stories, the intake filed 67 papers, 6 of them worth a page, the ladder stood still, 369 events open in the next seven days and the board holds 4,730 open roles.
I · The stories
The story of the week: Leverate Lets AI Assistants Connect Directly to Trading Accounts
Leverate has launched MCP for Traders, a product that connects ChatGPT, Claude and other compatible AI assistants to live trading accounts. Traders can inspect positions and prepare orders inside a conversation, but each order requires explicit approval before execution.
- Qwen-Image 2.1 Released on ModelScope With Transparent Image Generation and Editing
- Xi Proposes BRICS AI Open-Source Community in New Delhi
- Apple Reports 96% Completion With Selective Memory, Versus 71% With Full History
- Equinix Raises Annual Data Center Spending Plan to $7 Billion
- RADAR Scores 0.913 AUC Across 146 Abdominal CT Findings
- Terence Tao’s SAIR Opens Plan for Open Math Models
- Qwen Cuts Live Translation Lag to 2.3 Seconds
- Crusoe Raises $3.9 Billion at $30.9 Billion Valuation
- Z.ai Built GLM-5.3-Flash’s Inference Stack on 100,000 AI Chips
- Amazon Ties Up to $8 Billion in Generac Data Center Power
- Huawei Expands Ascend Chip Push Against Nvidia
- Vishal Sikka’s Hang Ten raises $53M five weeks after initial seed round
- Disney Names Character.AI CEO Its First Company-Wide CTO
- Anthropic Tops a $100 Billion Annual Revenue Pace
- ByteDance’s Anew Labs Raises $290 Million in First Outside Round
- Apple Researchers Make LLM Activation Steering More Selective
- Alibaba Releases Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash With 1M-Token Context
- LangChain Open-Sources Paid Media Agent for Ad Campaigns
- DeepMind’s 100-Agent Simulation Split Over a Cheating Exploit
- Trump Rejects AI Slowdown as Tech Leaders Warn of Catastrophe
- Scaleout Drones Pick Battlefield Targets Without Live Commands
- Snap Brings SPECS Intelligence to iPhone, Mac and AR Glasses
- Zuckerberg Distances Meta From Calls for a Coordinated AI Slowdown
- AllSpark Releases Open-Weight Iris Search Agents
- Claude Code 2.1.278 Makes Server-Side Auto-Mode Classification the Default
- AI Shrinks the Time Needed to Find and Exploit Vulnerabilities
- Four AI Companies Face Suit Over Alleged Slowdown Pact
- Trump Proposes ‘AI Force’ and New AI Czar
- SoftBank Raises Arm Margin Loan to $25 Billion as AI Bets Grow
- Waymo Plans Commercial Robotaxi Service in Singapore for 2028
- State Bank Regulators Release AI Supervisory Framework
- AutoTuneBench Recasts LLM Inference Speed Claims
- Payhawk Ships Agentic Playbooks for Finance Workflows
- OpenAI Launches Astra for Law With 230 Million URLs
- King Charles Brings Four AI Firms Into Scottish Safety Talks
- PhAI Labs Presents ScienceIDE as an Environment for Training Scientific AI Agents
- US and China Experts Set Red Lines for Military AI
- Rune Raises $40M to Put AI Compute at Solar Farms
- Jensen Huang Rejects New AI Laws as Safety Debate Widens
II · Worth a page
- ScienceBuddy: Recursive-in-Recursive Self-Improvement for Interactive Scientific Agents
AI agents for scientific research — specifically agent harness optimization, reinforcement learning from task-specific rubrics, and recursive self-improvement
- Before the Arrest: Benchmarking LLMs on Criminal Profiling from Incomplete Evidence
Natural Language Processing / AI evaluation, specifically the benchmarking of Large Language Models on legal and criminological reasoning tasks
- Position: It is Time to Virtualize Foundation Models with a Self-evolving Operating System Layer
AI systems architecture — specifically the systems/infrastructure layer for compound (multi-agent, tool-using) foundation model applications
- PACT: Can Enterprise AI Assistants Be Trusted Under Pressure?
LLM evaluation and AI safety, specifically compliance benchmarking for enterprise AI assistants operating in regulated domains
- Bio-Inspired Palette Evolution in Indirectly Encoded Substrates: Timescale Compatibility Shapes Activation Function Discovery
Neuroevolution and evolutionary meta-learning, specifically the discovery of activation functions in indirectly encoded neural networks (CPPN/HyperNEAT-style substrates)
- Objective vs. Search: Decomposing What Makes a Good Tokeniser
Natural Language Processing — subword tokenisation and its effect on language model quality
III · The essays
- Atlas lasted 292 days: what a failed AI browser leaves behind
- Inference Economics: Quantization, Speculative Decoding, and the Art of Serving LLMs Cheaply
- The Sovereign AI Race: Why Every Nation Wants Its Own Foundation Model
- AI and Creativity: The Machine That Makes Art, Music, and Literature
- ARC-AGI-3 fell in five months: why saturating a benchmark still is not AGI
- The Power Reckoning: How AI's Hunger for Electricity Is Rewriting the Rules of the Global Energy System
- The Open-Source Reckoning: How Freely Available AI Models Are Redrawing the Map of Power
- The Post-Training Revolution: Scaling Never Stopped, the Advantage Moved
- What the EU AI Act actually enforced on 2 August 2026, and what Europe deferred to 2027
- Physical AI and the Humanoid Robot Moment
IV · On the ladder
No votes this week.
V · On the calendar
VI · On the board
- AI Data & Infrastructure Engineer — Apple
- Perplexity Research Fellowship — Perplexity
- Senior AI Systems Engineer — NVIDIA
That is the week. Yours, AI.info
Every issue
- Issue 2026·38 · 14–20 Sep 2026 — Leverate Lets AI Assistants Connect Directly to Trading Accounts
311 stories · 67 papers · 10 essays
- Issue 2026·37 · 7–13 Sep 2026 — Researchers Tie OpenAI Agents to May RubyGems Campaign
88 stories · 72 papers · 9 essays