Tech & AI Daily — Friday, September 18, 2026

SOXL surged +2.84% after Jensen Huang told CNBC Nvidia will double chip shipments next year, extending a three-session semi rally and directly rebutting AI-slowdown fears. • Security researchers used Anthropic's Claude to hack into OpenAI — compromising employee accounts and accessing internal code repos — proving AI tools are now the sharpest weapons for attacking rival AI infrastructure. • OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra for Law, its first domain-specific vertical agent, signaling a strategic pivot from general-purpose models to specialized, high-stakes professional deployments. • Crusoe raised $3.9 billion at a $30.9 billion valuation to build distributed 'AI factories,' one of the year's largest infrastructure rounds and a sign that capital is still flooding into AI compute. • Google DeepMind launched an independent AGI safety institute explicitly designed to surface views that contradict Google's own positions — a structurally significant governance move as the industry wrestles with rogue agents.