Artificial Inteligence feed for Friday, September 11, 2026

• Mecka AI nears $500M valuation in Sequoia-led deal amid rush for robot training data
• Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too
• OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
• Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case
• One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
• Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events
• Roundtables: AI’s apocalypse crisis
• Kimi-maker Moonshot AI targets $2B in annual revenue
• An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time
• Nscale adds former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo to its board ahead of potential IPO
• Anthropic spent this week in hot water over cybersecurity
• Cognition helps Devin test its own work with GPT‑6 Astra
• Meta says it’s changing AI suggestions after posing invasive personal questions
• Lifesaving Lincoln Laboratory device wins 2026 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award
• Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1 billion ChatGPT users