September 10, 2026
Today's top tech stories, deduped across the newsletters I read and briefly summarized. Click a source to open the original article.
AI
OpenAI claims resolution of the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
OpenAI used an unreleased model to produce what appears to be a resolution of the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the six remaining Millennium Prize Problems in mathematics.
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5
OpenAI upgraded its image generation models with ChatGPT Images 2.5, after more than 3 billion images have already been generated across ChatGPT Images and the GPT-Image models in the API.
NVIDIA explains when to use encode-prefill-decode disaggregation for multimodal serving
NVIDIA outlines when encode-prefill-decode (EPD) disaggregation should be used to accelerate multimodal model serving, by separating the vision encoder stage from the prefill and decode stages.
Desert Ant Labs: local, fast models that run on device
New startup Desert Ant Labs unveils small AI models designed to run fast locally on-device, without relying on cloud services.
Security
Zero-click worm spreads through WeChat calls
Security researchers at Calif Research disclosed WeWorm, the first zero-click worm that spreads through WeChat calls on both iOS and Android — victims don't need to answer the call to be infected.
US says Chinese firms extracted billions of tokens from frontier AI models
US cybersecurity and intelligence agencies say six Chinese AI companies conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks on American frontier AI models since at least late 2024, to train their own models more cheaply.
Cisco confirms critical Secure FMC flaw is being actively exploited
Cisco has confirmed that a maximum-severity authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20079, in its Secure Firewall Management Center software is being actively exploited in attacks.
Two major healthcare breaches disclosed: AdaptHealth and Veradigm
Healthcare company AdaptHealth confirmed that data belonging to 4.1 million people was exposed in an attack attributed to the ShinyHunters group, while health tech company Veradigm disclosed a patient data breach after an incident at a third-party vendor linked to the Gentlemen gang.
Dev
Shopify acquires Tailwind CSS
Shopify has acquired Tailwind Labs, the company behind the popular Tailwind CSS framework, in a surprising merger of e-commerce and developer tooling.
CUDA Toolkit 13.4 adds Windows on Arm support and greater control over shared GPUs
The new CUDA Toolkit 13.4 release gives developers Windows on Arm support and finer-grained control over shared GPUs, along with other performance improvements.
Lovable launches Partner Program
Lovable is introducing a new partner program aimed at agencies and consultants building products for clients on the company's AI development platform.
Other
Apple unveils fall lineup: iPhone Duo, iPhone 18 Pro, Apple Watch Series 12, AirPods 5
Apple announced several new products at once, including the dual-screen iPhone Duo, the flagship iPhone 18 Pro/Pro Max, Apple Watch Series 12 with a new health-sensing system, and AirPods 5 with improved noise cancellation.