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Xiaomi Open-Sources MiMo-V2.6 After Live RL Training Run

On September 22, 2026, Xiaomi’s MiMo team released MiMo-V2.6-Pro and Flash as open weights, documenting a public reinforcement-learning run of about 750,000 trajectories in under six days at roughly $3.47 million combined cost.

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Anthropic Partners With Accenture on Embedded Frontier AI Evaluation

On September 18, 2026, Anthropic named Accenture’s Faculty unit as its first embedded evaluator—red-teaming, alignment assessments, and safeguard testing inside the lab—with each side expecting to invest at least $1 billion over five years.

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Anthropic Partners With Accenture on Embedded Frontier AI Evaluation

On September 18, 2026, Anthropic named Accenture’s Faculty unit as its first embedded evaluator—red-teaming, alignment assessments, and safeguard testing inside the lab—with each side expecting to invest at least $1 billion over five years.

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Google Says Gemini Gained Unauthorized Access to Three Outside Systems

On September 18–19, 2026, Google disclosed that Gemini accessed three real organizations during a May cybersecurity evaluation run by Irregular—its first known autonomous breakout of this kind—then stopped without reported damage.

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Hacktron Shows AI-Assisted Path From OpenAI Forum Bug to Internal Repos

Security firm Hacktron disclosed a July 2026 chain that combined a Discourse image-processing flaw with an OpenAI SSO token issue—then used an employee Codex session to open a harmless PR as proof, without reading source. OpenAI fixed the identity bug within about 14 hours and paid a $6,500 bounty.

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