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What's Happening in AI

A dated briefing of five stories from the week. Field evaluations of tools stay on the research index; this desk does not review models for their own sake.

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Five stories · 23 September 2026

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  • Claude found a new enzyme system in phages, Anthropic says
  • Epoch AI says the price of a given level of AI performance is falling fast
  • Newsom names four advisers as California studies an AI emergency shutoff
  • OpenAI publishes a benchmark of mental-health conversations, emergencies included
  • Epoch AI tests whether models can spot mistakes in IKEA assembly