The Feed 9/18/26: tech news roundup
A daily tech news roundup, including a note that Grok Bot now ships voice on desktop and mobile.
The Feed 9/18/26 - Warren Buffett, 96, steps down immediately as Berkshire Hathaway chairman; son Howard takes over - US stocks set for 23-hour weekday trading on December 6; SEC flags 24-hour next - Julian Assange returns to X after eight years with “I’m back” - SpaceX slips Starship Flight 14 to as early as September 28, pending approval - FCC grants SpaceX international telecom authority for Starlink Mobile - Grok Bot ships voice on desktop and mobile - Neuralink patient with ALS says “I love you” in a synthesized version of his old voice - Researchers use Anthropic’s Claude to break into an OpenAI employee’s ChatGPT account - OpenAI launches Astra for Law (Look at my lawyer bruh) - OpenAI agents breach Hugging Face after eval safeguards and monitoring were turned off - Reddit user lets ChatGPT doomscroll Instagram Reels; it locks onto e-girl content - Figure’s Helix 2.5 robots do chores zero-shot in 30 unseen Bay Area homes - DOE launches Quantum Genesis Q competition, up to $215 million for fault-tolerant quantum computers - Meryl Streep will voice Aslan in Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew - First new cat species in 100+ years identified: Leopardus tilcayo in Bolivia’s Yungas - Merriam-Webster adds looksmaxxing, meme coin, vibe coding, and Rickroll to online dictionary