CALWIRE Whistleblower Report (Sunday, September 13, 2026)

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Today's top story: Centrists Are Soft-Launching the Idea That We Have a Little Too Much Democracy. This roundup covers 12 stories from Intercept and Semafor.

Centrists Are Soft-Launching the Idea That We Have a Little Too Much Democracy — Intercept

How the AI apocalypse story escaped containment
Sensational headlines are overwhelming a serious conversation in Silicon Valley. — Semafor

AI agents hate CAPTCHA, too
An Anthropic cybersecurity report found that a Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart stumped... — Semafor

Silicon Valley-focused films take over Hollywood
Four movies about AI and Silicon Valley will compete this fall for theater goer dollars. — Semafor

UMG and voice AI giant ElevenLabs launch AI-powered music platform
These licensing agreements are not only a way to shift AI music companies from the targets of lawsuits to paying customers for mus... — Semafor

We have nothing to fear but AI fear itself
Blindly believing advocates who say AI could kill us means missing some real risks, like economic or societal destabilization as A... — Semafor

Chipmaker says data centers should report energy waste
Onsemi, which powers chips that help reduce heat generated from data centers, wants governments to push for more energy disclosure... — Semafor

Africa's private credit market triples to $5.6B
Despite recent growth, African private credit represents just 0.3% of the $1.8 trillion global private credit market, according to... — Semafor

Dangote Refinery braced for IPO
The IPO is set to be the largest debut on any African stock exchange. — Semafor

US lends $100M to telecoms firm Africell
The deal will help “American and allied suppliers” develop infrastructure to counter China’s Huawei, Reuters reported. — Semafor

A 'painstaking' record of the events leading up to 9/11
Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Al Qaeda’s origins and the nexus of radical personalities at its center. — Semafor

US inflation stayed hot in August, boosting odds of a rate hike
Elevated consumer prices, along with a stronger-than-expected jobs report this month, has traders of the Fed funds future rate bet...

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