{"id":5175,"date":"2026-09-16T00:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:38:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:38:39","slug":"top-tech-stories-of-the-week-september-13th-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salehalsaffar.com\/blog\/top-tech-stories-of-the-week-september-13th-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Tech Stories of the Week \u2013 September 13th, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>U.S. confirms for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space. China and Russia have responded &#8211; CBS News | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-confirms-weapons-in-space-china-russia-respond\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>SpaceX will try to put Starship in orbit for the first time on September 22 &#8211; TechCrunch | <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/09\/15\/spacex-will-try-to-put-starship-in-orbit-for-the-first-time-on-september-22\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Iran strikes on Amazon data centers caused permanent loss of customer data &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/09\/iran-strikes-on-amazon-data-centers-caused-permanent-loss-of-customer-data\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google Home Is Going Agentic Via Integration With The MCP Standard &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2260280\/google-home-is-going-agentic-via-integration-with-the-mcp-standard\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money &#8211; Ars Technica | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/ai\/2026\/09\/new-anthropic-openai-models-make-same-promise-a-little-more-for-a-lot-less-money\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Microsoft adds $2B to its Gulf spending through 2030 &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/microsoft-gulf-10bn-cables\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>US rejects global AI governance at UN Security Council &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/us-rejects-global-ai-governance\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Anthropic says its biology lab has already found something big &#8211; TechCrunch | <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/09\/23\/anthropic-says-its-biology-lab-has-already-found-something-big\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/1000015\/google-ai-satellite-space-project-suncatcher\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>OpenAI agents hacked an Australian government website in search of data\u00a0 &#8211; The Verge | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/999874\/openai-agents-hacked-an-australian-government-website-in-search-for-data\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Lovable says two-thirds of the Fortune 500 use it and revenue hit $600m &#8211; TNW | <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/lovable-fabian-hedin-fortune-500-600m-revenue-humanx\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Meta&#8217;s $1,300 VR Glasses look like the Vision Pro sequel Apple should be making &#8211; Engadget | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2267218\/meta-vr-glasses-price-specs-apple-vision-pro-comparison\/\">Link<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Google\u2019s latest moonshot to put machine learning in space\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o1JK79jszqo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. confirms for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space. 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