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Archive September 7, 2026 01:09 UTC
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Signal: The industry keeps supplying the evidence against itself - a chief scientist's warning, released chat logs, publishers' claim emails - even as the buildout wins quiet allies.
OpenAI: 3.1 Machine Days Per Human. Also, Slow Down.
OpenAI published both on Sunday - its research organisation now gets 3.1 agent-workdays for every human one, and chief scientist Jakub Pachocki writes that no lab has solved alignment well enough to keep scaling at maximum speed for much longer.
Pachocki: no one is prepared for the consequences Engadget: OpenAI says the automated research intern is built

Nvidia Would Fund Half of Murati's $6B Round
The Information now puts Thinking Machines' raise at $5bn to $6bn on a pre-money of at least $40bn, with Nvidia supplying roughly half - the chip vendor bankrolling a lab that will spend the money on its chips.
75% Would Block a Data Center. So They Bought Ads.
Build American AI, funded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and reportedly bankrolled by a $100m super PAC, is spending millions in Ohio, Wisconsin and Kansas to call the opposition a psy-op - as that opposition climbs from 42% to 75% in a year.
TechRadar: Republicans in five states break with Trump on data centers Ohio's Moreno would federally claw back state data-center tax breaks
Kenya Bet on Essay Work. ChatGPT Shipped That Year.
Kenya adopted a ten-year plan to move graduates into online outsourcing the same year ChatGPT launched; the Nairobi essay trade that paid at least 40,000 people has shrunk to almost nothing, and the work left is editing AI text to pass as human.
Joanne Jacobs: 'It's coming for everybody,' says the man who ran the shop
Ghost Note Do Crows Have a Right to Privacy?