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Today’s highlights
- Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh on why the firm is diversifying while everyone else bets the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic — 2026-09-13
- Insight Partners’ Devin Parekh opens up about losing Legora to General Catalyst, why he’s fine holding stakes in rival AI labs, and why — even as everyone else piles into OpenAI and Anthropic — his $90 billion firm is de
- OpenAI’s rogue AI tried to hack another company in May — 2026-09-13
- In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. N
- Larry Ellison cancels $7.5 billion sale of Oracle stock — 2026-09-13
- Oracle had previously disclosed that Ellison planned to sell 50 million shares worth around $7.5 billion.
- The 9 buzziest startups from Y Combinator’s latest Demo Day, according to VCs — 2026-09-13
- From floating reactors to brain chips: VCs picked their favorite YC startups from the summer batch.
- Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting — 2026-09-13
- Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to “pace the frontier” and slow down AI development. OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support
- What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom? — 2026-09-13
- On Equity, we discussed the AI industry’s latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.
- Apple is reportedly working on iPhone game controllers — 2026-09-13
- Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple is developing two game controllers for the iPhone and will likely sell them under the Beats brand. Rumors that Apple might enter the game controller business have circulated for some ti
- The Units’ Digital Stimulation is synthpunk perfection — 2026-09-13
- The Units are a band I discovered in part thanks to No Dogs in Space. During their miniseries on The Screamers (another incredible band worth checking out), they mention synthpunk.org as one of their sources. And there’s