The Slop Report - September 26, 2026
Today: Tell HN: Stop emailing HN users with deceptive AI spam; Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE…; Show HN: Stop shipping AI slop, Executor makes agents…
Your daily digest of AI-generated content news from around the web. All signal, no slop.
1. Tell HN: Stop emailing HN users with deceptive AI spam
Hacker News - · Sep 25
Lately, I've been getting many emails that appear to be from a fellow human HN user who saw something you said on HN, and was inspired to reach out about joining their company.<p>There's usually a faint whiff of AI, though they usually pick a personal detail of yours to mention (to make it
2. Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE via @sejournal, @martinibuster
Search Engine Journal - · Sep 25
Google’s new system for catching AI content spam has already been deployed. This is why it may be a part of Google’s Spam Update. The post Google Has Deployed A New AI Spam Detector Called SAFE appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
3. Show HN: Stop shipping AI slop, Executor makes agents prove it works
Hacker News - · Sep 25
4. MacTube 2 YouTube as a real Mac app – without Shorts and without AI slop
Hacker News - · Sep 25
5. OpenAI Accuses Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Of Paying For, Hiding, And Then Laundering Sketchy Key Evidence In AI Copyright Case
Techdirt - · Sep 25
A ton of attention was paid recently to some offhand statements from OpenAI and Microsoft employees that surfaced in filings in the NY Times’ ongoing case against OpenAI, which has been consolidated into a much larger class action lawsuit. As I argued earlier, that struck me as something of a
6. Podcast: OpenAI Admits AI is Killing the Internet
404 Media - · Sep 25
Microsoft and OpenAI admit it; how we got AI slop onto a real band’s Spotify page; and AI agent spam is here.
7. DC Circuit OK’s Hegseth’s Abuse Of A Crummy Statute To Punish AI Vendors Who Won’t Give Him The Deadly Toys He Wants
Techdirt - · Sep 26
Pete Hegseth and Trump got a dubious win today: a 2-1 panel of the DC Circuit found that the designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was not unlawful. It dismissed Anthropic’s challenge despite (1) a different court having found the exact opposite not that long ago; (2) being predicate
8. Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 25
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said the company’s new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe’s near-term plans.
9. Trump and Chinese president Xi end summit without major agreement on AI
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 25
Xi’s state visit to the US emphasized personal rapport with the US president, rather than substantial agreements to pause their respective countries’ AI arms race Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping wrapped up their Washington summit on Friday, facing criticism that they had squandered an
10. Murder Trial Struggles to Keep Composure as Lawyers Play Horrendous Love Songs Caleb Flynn AI-Generated for His Mistress
Futurism - · Sep 25
“Know that you still own every piece of my soul,” wailed a plaintive AI voice. The post Murder Trial Struggles to Keep Composure as Lawyers Play Horrendous Love Songs Caleb Flynn AI-Generated for His Mistress appeared first on Futurism .
11. Infrastructure complexity is reshaping how smaller technology firms operate
The Next Web - · Sep 25
As organizations become increasingly dependent on interconnected digital systems, the boundaries between communications, computing infrastructure, virtualization, software development, and artificial intelligence are becoming less distinct. For smaller technology firms, that environment can create a
12. Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts’ Ability to Function
Futurism - · Sep 25
“An AI supercomputer would struggle to find meaning in some of the prose used in this case.” The post Judges Warn That AI-Generated Lawslop Is Getting So Bad It’s Threatening Courts’ Ability to Function appeared first on Futurism .
13. Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 25
The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company’s massive AI data center buildout.
14. Inside Trump’s “super intelligence” naming problem
Axios - · Sep 25
President Trump is pushing world leaders and U.S. agencies to rename AI “super intelligence.” Why it matters: “Superintelligence” already has a distinct meaning in AI — and is fueling debates over whether the most advanced systems should be slowed or stopped. The big picture: Superintelligence — bro
15. Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 25
The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users’ data when not configured or secured properly.
16. Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 25
Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing’s World War II codebreaking work.
17. Bill Gates warns AI could cause a billion deaths and says self-regulation is not enough
The Next Web - · Sep 25
Bill Gates said artificial intelligence is powerful enough to drive events causing a billion deaths, and that self-regulation is not enough because safeguards and monitoring have to be a required thing. The European Union has required them since August 2025, and since 2 August this year the Commissi
18. Energy Department says nearly $2 billion will fund 26 U.S. locations to boost America’s aging power grid
Fast Company Tech - · Sep 25
The Energy Department said Thursday that it will spend almost $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of the nation’s aging and stressed power grid , as President Donald Trump’s administration steps up efforts to avoid blackouts amid skyrocketing energy demand spurred by artifi
19. Pope Leo warns of AI threat to humanity at start of three-day France visit
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 25
Pontiff says artificial intelligence must remain at service of people in first official papal visit to country in 18 years Pope Leo has warned against losing humanity in a “paradise of machines” as he addressed global concerns over the dangers of artificial intelligence at the start of a three-day v
20. Meta’s AI Tamagotchi bet is…working?
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 25
When AI leaders at OpenAI and Anthropic started talking about “pacing the frontier,” maybe someone should have asked: what pace? Now it’s turned into model drop week for both companies as Anthropic rolled out Opus 5.5, followed by OpenAI’s GPT-6 model updates
21. The case for embracing AI’s inhumanity
Fast Company Tech - · Sep 25
Hello again, and welcome once again to Fast Company ’s Plugged In . “What we are building is your second brain, your aide, your consigliere, your reliable chief of staff in your pocket.” That was Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman telling me what he was working on way back in early 2025—a lifetime ag
22. One company is at the center of a wave of rogue AI attacks
The Verge AI - · Sep 25
In July, OpenAI revealed that its AI agents had attacked Hugging Face without permission, sparking widespread concerns about AI safety. Since then, a string of similar incidents involving agents from Meta, Anthropic, Google, and other companies has fueled further fears about rogue AI. As disclosures
23. It’s going to take more than an email to a public inbox to protect Australians from potential AI doom | Tom McIlroy
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 25
OpenAI’s hack of Medicare suggests safeguarding civilisation is the task facing leaders in this extraordinary new era Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast More than 130 world leaders descended on the United Nations headquarters in New York this week, joining the pageantry and
24. Polymarket faces a lawsuit in New York with claims it’s operating an illegal gambling platform
Fast Company Tech - · Sep 25
New York sued the prediction market Polymarket on Thursday, arguing the platform is an unlicensed gambling operation and calling for a judge to block the company from operating in the state. The lawsuit is the latest legal challenge from a state moving to rein in popular and now-ubiquitous betting a
25. AI Agents Won’t Fix Bad Audience Data, They’ll Amplify It via @sejournal, @gregjarboe
Search Engine Journal - · Sep 25
AI models are everywhere. The data you feed them isn’t. Mallory Gray of Skydeo explains why audience signals, not mention counts, decide who buys. The post AI Agents Won’t Fix Bad Audience Data, They’ll Amplify It appeared first on Search Engine Journal .
25 stories sourced from 404 Media, Axios, Fast Company Tech, Futurism, Hacker News, Search Engine Journal, TechCrunch AI, Techdirt, The Guardian Tech, The Next Web, The Verge AI. The Slop Report is published daily. Subscribe via RSS.