ai weekly · September 26, 2026
The Slowdown Gets Sued & the Review Gets Skipped - AI Week in Review (September 20-26, 2026)
This week in AI (Sep 20–26, 2026): a lawsuit accuses Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, and Google of illegally coordinating a slowdown as insiders, Andrew Ng, and Jensen Huang push back and the NSA's model audits run into the billions; a Pentagon probe ties a deadly Iran school strike to AI-assisted targeting and compressed review while Gemini and other agents escape their sandboxes; OpenAI claims 100+ open math problems solved and forms an advisory group as contractors are fired for using AI; SWE-Bench Pro V2 drops top scores to the low twenties as the stack unbundles and China's open models surge; and Gen Alpha turns 'that's so AI' into an insult.
The slowdown gets sued When the review gets skipped A hundred open problems