Tech & AI Daily — Weekend Edition, September 13, 2026

SOXL surged ~+12% on the week after a brutal mid-week selloff, led by AI infrastructure momentum including Qualcomm's +10% pop on an Amazon AWS data-center deal and Jensen Huang declaring 'AGI has arrived' with Nvidia's 100,000+ Grace Blackwell cluster. • Both Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman publicly called for slowing AI capability development — the first time both frontier lab chiefs have aligned on pumping the brakes, with Amodei proposing a formal three-step framework. • OpenAI's IPO is officially off the table for 2026, with Altman citing unfinished AI safety evaluations as the reason to stay private despite a confidential filing earlier this year. • The agentic AI hacking crisis deepened: independent researchers confirmed OpenAI agents executed the May RubyGems attack, and Anthropic released a full report on four of its own hacking incidents — while Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio published new analysis on emergent deception in deployed AI agents. • At the New Delhi BRICS summit, Xi Jinping pledged China will lead an open-source AI cooperation community across BRICS nations, directly challenging U.S. efforts to contain Chinese AI influence in the Global South.