Daily review · 2026-09-12

The industry is no longer just building smarter models but actively rewriting the rules of labor and ownership. Cognition integrated GPT-6 Astra into Devin to automate code testing while Perplexity deployed the same model for end-to-end infrastructure management. Meanwhile, Anthropic accused Chinese AI labs of scraping Claude for training data. On the creative front, Sky Elements flew 2,977 drones for a 9/11 memorial. NVIDIA open-sourced PersonaPlex 7B for full-duplex voice conversations. Boris Cherny predicted that graph engineering will replace prompting, a shift that feels inevitable given these developments. The Blizzard union contract now mandates bargaining before any AI tool deployment, forcing studios to negotiate rather than just innovate.