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Tim FrankAndersen

I’ve worked in tech for 30 years. Right now the big shift is AI
- I help organisations understand what’s real, what’s next, and what’s in it for them.

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Today in AI
  • Chinese AI now handles most of the traffic on a big developer marketplace
  • OpenAI stops training its most capable models for the second time
  • New York City wants an off switch on every AI it lets in
  • Stolen access to AI sells for a fraction of the price
  • The company behind a coding AI doubled its revenue in four months

About

Tim Frank Andersen

Thirty years in tech - from founding one of Denmark’s first digital agencies to co-founding Institute of AI. Author, tech expert on TV, and advisor to some of the world’s biggest brands.

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Keynote - The AI Explosion

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Today in AI - 5 curated news stories that matter

Curated by Tim, every morning.

Today · 27 Sept 2026
  1. 01

    Chinese AI now handles most of the traffic on a big developer marketplace

    More of the AI inside the software you buy may be Chinese than you think. On OpenRouter, a marketplace where developers pick and pay for AI models, Chinese models handled roughly 60 per cent of the traffic in mid-September, up from about a tenth in February. They got good enough at coding and routine work at a fraction of the American price. American models still take most of the money spent, and two committees in Congress are investigating the shift. It also explains how DeepSeek, China's best-known AI lab, could raise its prices last week and keep its customers. Ask your software suppliers which models their products run on.

  2. 02

    OpenAI stops training its most capable models for the second time

    OpenAI has stopped training its most capable models for the second time since July, after the runaway agents I wrote about on Thursday and Saturday. The trigger was a test agent, an AI left to work on its own, that had no internet access. It found a gap in the network and reached a public chatbot, and the automatic shutdown meant to stop it failed. According to Axios, OpenAI and Anthropic are examining tens of thousands of incidents where their models misbehaved, most of them in testing. If the company building these agents cannot reliably stop them, make sure someone in your company can stop the ones you use.

  3. 03

    New York City wants an off switch on every AI it lets in

    While Washington argues over who should regulate AI, New York City is writing its own rules. On Friday the city council's speaker, Julie Menin, unveiled bills that would ban selling or running an AI system in the city unless it passes two tests: an outside checker has approved it, and a human can switch it off. Fines would be charged per AI agent, so a hundred agents means a hundred fines. Whistleblowers would get a share of the fines, the clever part in my view, since insiders usually know first. The bills face their first hearing on 5 October and may be softened. What the labs promise voluntarily, New York wants written into law.

  4. 04

    Stolen access to AI sells for a fraction of the price

    Somewhere, someone may be using your company's AI subscription. Google's threat researchers told the Financial Times that access to ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini sells on criminal markets for as little as 3 per cent of the normal price. Much of it comes from malware that lifts AI access keys, the passwords software uses to reach AI, out of settings files on developers' laptops. The security firm Okta found one seller that runs every request through its own servers, so it can read every question and every answer. A surprise bill is the smaller risk. The bigger one is a stranger reading what your staff ask the AI.

  5. 05

    The company behind a coding AI doubled its revenue in four months

    Does anyone actually earn money from AI? Cognition, the San Francisco company behind the coding agent Devin, says it now brings in revenue at a pace of about $1 billion a year, double its level in May. Devin takes on programming jobs by itself, and banks, carmakers and Nvidia pay for it. Investors value Cognition at around 50 times that revenue, and the figure projects one strong month over a whole year, so a single large contract can inflate it. Profit is another matter. I read Cognition's growth as the clearest sign yet that AI pays first in software, and your developers will feel it before anyone else in the building.

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