AI News Brief Roundup: 2026-09-06

AI News Brief: today roundup

• Authors are disputing efforts by book publishers and agents to take a larger portion of Anthropic settlement payouts.
• H Company released NeoMME, a single-tower multimodal encoder family that processes text and raw image patches in one Transformer.
• OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay calling for global safety benchmarks and voluntary slowdowns across AI labs.
• Writers are challenging publishers and talent agents who seek to extract shares from Anthropic legal settlement funds.
• Meta FAIR introduced AI Research Preference Models to rank candidate machine learning experiments prior to consuming expensive GPU compute.
• Amazon announced it will permanently shut down its pioneer crowdsourcing platform, Mechanical Turk, on September 30, 2026.
• OpenAI announced its automated research interns now perform over three times more daily work than human researchers inside the company.
• OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki authored a post highlighting AI alignment challenges and advocating for stronger safety safeguards worldwide.
• Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick signaled that his latest startup, Atoms, may expand into the competitive robotaxi sector.
• OpenAI shared internal data detailing how autonomous coding agents are accelerating experimental velocity and task execution.

Sources

• Authors push back as publishers and agents make claims on Anthropic settlement
• H Company Releases NeoMME: A Family of 260M and 800M Single-Tower Multimodal Encoders That Drop the Vision Tower and Causal Decoder
• In “An Alien Mind,” OpenAI’s Jakub Pachocki Urges Shared Safety Bars
• Authors push back as publishers and agents seek share of Anthropic settlement
• Meta FAIR Introduces AI Research Preference Models (RPMs): Ranking ML Experiments Before Spending GPU Hours
• Amazon Sets Final Closure of Mechanical Turk, Its Crowdsourcing Marketplace
• OpenAI Hits Goal of Building an ‘Automated Research Intern
• An Alien Mind
• Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business
• Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI