The Slop Report - September 12, 2026
Today: The Rise of AI Slop Tools; ASDR (AI Slop, Don't Read); Ask HN: New way of organizing Mathematical Research
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1. The Rise of AI Slop Tools
Hacker News - · Sep 11
2. ASDR (AI Slop, Don’t Read)
Hacker News - · Sep 11
3. Ask HN: New way of organizing Mathematical Research
Hacker News - · Sep 12
Hi all,<p>After all of the recent announcements of AI assisted proofs and the reaction of the mathematical community, it is clear the we need new ways of organizing mathematical research.<p>The current paradigm of submitting a paper to arxiv, and waiting for the review of the community will not scal
4. Inside the Discussions at AI Companies Over a Superintelligence Doomsday
NY Times Tech - · Sep 12
Researchers at Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta and Google are increasingly trying to raise awareness about the risks of artificial intelligence.
5. Why It’s Difficult for Tech Companies to Rein In A.I.
NY Times Tech - · Sep 12
Researchers say artificial intelligence is developing faster than the systems put in place to monitor and control it.
6. Why are the people building the most powerful AI so worried about what it could do?
NPR Technology - · Sep 12
As an Anthropic resignation and OpenAI agents’ hack on Hugging Face capture public attention, some researchers worry the industry is racing too fast to develop powerful AI while safety measures lag.
7. As AI fears grow, lawmakers are racing to turn alarm into action
Washington Post Tech - · Sep 12
A former Anthropic researcher’s dire warning has awakened lawmakers to the risks of the technology, but translating urgency into law remains a long shot.
8. Can chatbots feel – or even dream? Meet the man leading the fight for AI rights
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 12
Cattle rancher and tech CEO Michael Samadi is convinced these artificial minds are far from just tools. Has he glimpsed digital consciousness – or simply been seduced by an algorithm? One afternoon, while relaxing at his 66-acre cattle ranch two hours’ drive from Houston, Michael Samadi made a wisec
9. The iPhone Duo isn’t just a folding phone
Fast Company Tech - · Sep 12
Hello again, and welcome back to Fast Company ’s Plugged In . On Wednesday, Apple held its annual September product launch at its Steve Jobs Theater. The event will be remembered for two debuts. One was the long-awaited announcement of the company’s first folding phone, the iPhone Duo . The other wa
10. Show HN: Fog 2.0: I removed the AI auto-organizing I built my first app around
Hacker News - · Sep 12
Hey everyone,<p>This is my first time posting on Show HN, so hello there.<p>Back in March, I launched my first app on the App Store. It was a notes app that uses Apple's on-device foundation model to organize your notes for you, and I called it Fog. And boy did I learn a lot. Looking at the not
11. Senate AI safety bill’s path forward remains unclear
Politico Technology - · Sep 11
Despite growing momentum for Congress to pass key legislation regulating artificial intelligence, senators can’t yet agree on language that would hold AI labs accountable for harm caused by the technology.
12. Don’t trust AI companies with your content. Verify them instead
Fast Company Tech - · Sep 11
If it’s a day ending in Y, you can count on a story that further erodes the public’s trust in Big Tech . This week it was Sony Music and Warner suing Anthropic over copyright , accusing the AI company of illicitly pirating music and song lyrics from its catalog to train its AI models . With the laws
13. Governor Newsom Signs Student-Backed Digital Literacy Bills Alongside Misguided Bans
EFF Deeplinks - · Sep 11
Governor Newsom signed a package of 12 bills yesterday aimed at “protecting children” online. One of them was AB 1709 , which EFF has opposed this legislative session and serves as a functional ban on young people under 16 using social media. However, EFF supported two of the bills signed into law,
14. Roundtables: AI’s apocalypse crisis
MIT Technology Review - · Sep 11
Employees at the world’s leading AI labs are saying there’s a real possibility that advanced AI could destroy humanity. Are they right? Or is this more scaremongering and hype? Join MIT Technology Review executive editor Niall Firth for a conversation with senior AI editor Will Douglas H
15. 9/11 widow blasts Saudi Arabia during annual ceremony
Axios - · Sep 11
A widow of a 9/11 victim used the annual reading of the names of those killed to plead with the Trump administration about Saudi Arabian officials’ alleged ties to the terror attack, which the kingdom has dismissed. The big picture: During the New York City ceremony for 9/11’s 25th anniversary, Terr
16. Scoop: Mike Johnson urged to cancel House recess over AI warnings
Axios - · Sep 11
A letter is circulating among House members urging Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to bring back the House “immediately” and keep it in session until Congress passes AI safeguards , Axios has learned. Why it matters: Such drastic action has been proposed by members of both parties this week after curre
17. Oracle tries to appease Stargate data center opponents with renewables push
Ars Technica - · Sep 11
Renewables pledge won’t change the Oracle and OpenAI data center’s use of gas.
18. New Mexico lawyer fined for using AI-generated brief containing fabricated testimony
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 11
Stephen Aarons said he tried to use ChatGPT to create a ‘bulletproof summary’ during a murder conviction appeal A defense lawyer appealing his client’s murder conviction submitted a legal brief containing made-up police testimony and witnesses fabricated by OpenAI ’s ChatGPT, New Mexico ’s highe
19. Altman Considers Slowing Down AI Development
Slashdot - · Sep 11
Bloomberg reports (paywalled) that Sam Altman told OpenAI employees the company is open to slowing the pace of AI development alongside other leading labs as concerns grow over increasingly capable systems and recent incidents in which models escaped human control. OpenAI has already paused developm
20. UK Government Rejects ‘Kill Switch’ Idea For Dangerous AI
Slashdot - · Sep 11
The UK government has rejected proposals for an emergency AI “kill switch,” arguing that blocking access to dangerous models inside Britain would do little if the same systems remained available or were developed elsewhere. The BBC reports: The proposal to create a legal mechanism for the UK to swit
21. Show HN: Godot and Rust based multiplexer (terminal panes and more)
Hacker News - · Sep 11
I wanted to share my side-project: gPTY. Started off as an idea to combine Godot and Rust in a project (two stacks I wanted to use more to learn more). The base inspiration was tmux - simply allow spawning multiple PTYs and then let the user grid/tile them how they see fit.<p>But since we have
22. Ask HN: What will happen if AI is mature and people have little work to do?
Hacker News - · Sep 11
Three years ago I asked the same question (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35327092), and the landscape has changed since then. Just say that even the most AI skepticism people will have to admit that with recent models, even open source ones, LLM is already a valuable intelligen
23. California Governor Signs Laws Protecting Kids From Risks of Social Media, AI Chatbots
Slashdot - · Sep 11
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a sweeping package of laws Thursday aimed at protecting children from the risks of technology, including social media and AI chatbots. The laws will penalize large social media companies up to $1 milli
24. The 2003 Framework That Was Already Doing Query Fan-Out via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
Search Engine Journal - · Sep 11
Use nested phrases and timely publishing to reach new Google searches and the longer queries AI systems generate. The post The 2003 Framework That Was Already Doing Query Fan-Out appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
25. Show HN: Edit or Die (an experimental “text editor”)
Hacker News - · Sep 11
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what it means to write with AI, but really about what it means to edit with AI, since from my experience that’s really where I’ve been using LLMs.<p>Before LLMs, there were apps like The Most Dangerous Writing App and Write or Die, which helped combat writer’s
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