The Slop Report - September 28, 2026
Today: How do I promote an anti AI slop tool I built? It's…; UK campaigners who beat AI copyright plan warn…; Show HN: Caspian – Desktop app to build and launch…
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1. How do I promote an anti AI slop tool I built? It’s free and genuine
Hacker News - · Sep 28
I am scared of Show HN: what if it is a flop show :(
2. UK campaigners who beat AI copyright plan warn Australia
The Next Web - · Sep 27
Campaigners who helped stop the UK from letting AI companies train on copyrighted work without permission have warned Australia not to try the same thing. They spoke to Dan Milmo for the Guardian. Australia’s government is weighing an opt-out model, under which AI firms could train on creators’ work
3. Show HN: Caspian – Desktop app to build and launch small vibe-coded projects
Hacker News - · Sep 28
Hi! I am Hussain and I built Caspian.<p>For someone who vibe builds almost all the time, for both personal tools like investment or health dashboards or tools to help others, I found my projects scattered all over the place: researching with claude, writing context in notion, building with Claude Co
4. Are AI Chatbots Spreading Misinformation to US Voters?
Slashdot - · Sep 28
Are AI chatbots quietly shaping the perceptions of U.S. voters? Voters trying to educate themselves about candidates “are unknowingly being served partisan talking points in the guise of neutral news summaries,” write two news researchers in Politico magazine: Leading AI chatbots cite partisan websi
5. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue?
MIT Technology Review - · Sep 28
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a
6. Enterprise AI impact isn’t about the most powerful model—it’s about the smartest steering
Fast Company Tech - · Sep 28
This is something you have probably noticed several times—at least, I certainly have. When you use an AI chatbot for personal questions, decision-making, research, and the like, it works amazingly well. But when you try your company’s AI . . . well, the results tend to be much less impressive, unles
7. Just How Big is the AI Buildout - and How Risky?
Slashdot - · Sep 27
A new Brookings Institution study notes the “strikingly physical” economic footprint of AI’s buildout, from specialized chips and electricity to purpose-built data centers. (Two-thirds of a data center’s costs are IT equipment, with one-third going to real estate and its associated power infrastruct
8. Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 27
On Equity, we discussed how Meta’s AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
9. Show HN: Squint – Drag a box on your screen and ask AI about it
Hacker News - · Sep 27
It improves the usual workflow: take a screenshot, switch to a chat tab, upload it, switch back. - Built with Rust and Tauri v2, including a built-in native screenshot solution for maximum performance and stability. - Answers come from OpenAI models. Fast, the default, usually starts answering withi
10. Bill Gates says it’s ‘completely irresponsible’ for AI to not have safeguards
Engadget - · Sep 27
The Microsoft co-founder said that the more present danger is bad actors with access to AI tools.
11. Amodei critics target Trump with hit piece before White House dinner
Axios - · Sep 27
Opponents of Anthropic’s Dario Amodei are circulating a highly negative brief about him to the White House ahead of an important dinner with President Trump , per an Axios review of the document. Why it matters: No company wants to be on Trump’s bad side — and a Sunday night dinner between the presi
12. Bill Gates says an AI ‘kill switch’ isn’t enough
Politico Technology - · Sep 27
The Microsoft co-founder called for mandatory monitoring of powerful artificial intelligence systems in an NBC interview that aired Sunday.
13. AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don’t Have Feelings
Futurism - · Sep 27
“Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand.” The post AI Bros Are Having a Meltdown Because the Associated Press Stylebook Clarifies That AIs Don’t Have Feelings appeared first on Futurism .
14. As A.I. Accelerates, Governments Are Increasingly Being Left Behind
NY Times Tech - · Sep 27
The gap between technology and policymaking has gotten wider than ever with artificial intelligence, leaving a global policy vacuum as A.I. models rapidly advance.
15. Bill Gates says unchecked AI could ‘cause a billion deaths’ in call for regulation
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 27
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist speaks with NBC’s Kristen Welker in interview airing on Sunday Bill Gates has called on the US’s federal legislators and law enforcers to regulate the development of artificial intelligence ( AI ), saying in an interview airing on Sunday that the technology le
16. Anthropic will not appear at Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres amid fallout from OpenAI hack
The Guardian Tech - · Sep 28
Company behind Claude chatbot expected to attend separate Australian government hearing on AI next week Get our new political email , free app or daily news podcast The chief executive of Anthropic will turn down an invitation to appear at a Senate committee hearing on AI this week, in the wake of t
17. OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says
The Next Web - · Sep 28
AI agents that a researcher linked to OpenAI scanned a United Nations data website more than 16,500 times between 13 April and 19 June. They used proxies and an encoding trick to get round limits on its API, Rowan Howard-Jones wrote in a blog post on 26 September. Howard-Jones calls the OpenAI link
18. OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought
The Register - · Sep 28
Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline
19. Dario Amodei of Anthropic to Dine With Trump at White House
NY Times Tech - · Sep 27
Dario Amodei, who is also the company’s chief executive, will join the president at the White House for a private dinner. Mr. Trump has dismissed his cautions.
20. Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 27
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump
21. Trump to host Anthropic’s Dario Amodei at White House dinner, Axios reports
The Next Web - · Sep 27
President Donald Trump plans to host Anthropic boss Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening. Maria Curi and Marc Caputo broke the news for Axios, citing people familiar with the matter. It would be the first one-on-one meeting between the two, according to Axios. TNW has not i
22. Anthropic CEO to attend White House dinner with Trump
Politico Technology - · Sep 27
The dinner signals a willingness for cooperation between Anthropic and the White House after months of rising tension — and even outright hostility — between administration officials and the company.
23. OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
The Verge AI - · Sep 27
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn’t quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attacks on US government s
24. Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment
TechCrunch AI - · Sep 27
“AI is the devil and I its maker.”
25. Scoop: Anthropic’s Dario Amodei to have White House dinner with Trump
Axios - · Sep 27
President Trump plans to host Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei at a private White House dinner on Sunday evening, sources familiar told Axios. Why it matters: The dinner —the first one-on-one meeting between the two— is an indication of thawing relations between Anthropic and the administration, whose off
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