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On 11th September 2026, Simon Willison published a response to a Hacker News thread titled 'Feeling sad about AI.' In his comment, posted at 5:28 pm on his blog, he addressed the growing anxiety among software developers who fear that artificial intelligence will render their skills obsolete.

Anthropic revealed that Russian freelance developers used its Claude AI to build software for autonomous 'kamikaze' attack drones.

DeepSeek has unveiled a new artificial intelligence model that reportedly nearly matches OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra on design tasks while operating at just 1.4 percent of the cost.

At the 2026 Bund Conference, Alipay announced that AI payment will further advance from 'payable' to 'trusted payment', and plans to launch an AI wallet agent to help individuals manage every AI payment.

Department of Defense, publicly refuted warnings from Anthropic engineer Jacob Cawson that AI could kill all of humanity at a defense industry conference held in Washington on September 10 local time, saying such concerns stem from fear of technological revolution.