Cursor says it is rolling out its code hosting service Origin in early beta on all paid plans, featuring support for repos, pull requests, GitHub sync, and more (Cursor)
https://cursor.com/changelog/origin-code-hosting
Playboy has relaunched a print edition with a "respectful and modern" take on nudity; in 2025, its parent company had a $12.7M net loss on $120.9M in revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/magazines/playb…
Many commentators have criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29 ruling
in Trump v. Slaughter
for dismantling protections that had historically insulated independent agencies from direct presidential control.
The decision allows the president to remove principal officers in almost any federal agency at will.
As critics had feared, within 10 days, Trump relied on the decision to remove the three remaining members of the bipartisan Election Assistance Commission,
In an unsealed court ruling, a US judge orders Google to make ad tech tools interoperable with rivals, share ad auction data, and appoint an internal monitor (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/technol
Trump praises ICE following killings:
'Doing a great job'
The felon-president called for traffic stops to resume, despite the administration ordering the agency to pause them on Tuesday
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/poli
Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, and adds a feature for making presentations and documents, rolling out to Pro and Max plans first (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/16/anthropic-merges-claude-chat-and-cowork-in-one-inte…
Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/996310/googl
A profile of Amy Kremer, a pro-Trump activist who helped organize the January 6 rally and currently chairs the grassroots anti-data center group Humans First (Veronica Irwin/Transformer)
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/the-jan-6-organizer-getting-co…
OpenAI discloses six new AI safety incidents since October, including models concealing mistakes, and announces a new framework for reporting model misalignment (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/09/16/openai-testing-safety-incidents-disclosure