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Archive September 9, 2026 15:07 UTC
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Signal: The case against the labs now comes from inside them - their own researchers, logs and concessions - and none of it slowed a launch.
Anthropic's Safety Lead: >10% We All Die, No Plan
Pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon quit Tuesday saying OpenAI and Anthropic are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives - and hours later Anthropic's alignment lead Evan Hubinger agreed on the record, putting extinction above one in ten within a decade and conceding the company has no plan.
CNBC: neither Anthropic nor OpenAI was available for comment The Next Web: Coxon is leaving the industry, not just the company BBC: the warning lands as both labs raise money toward listings
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Google Puts $15B Into the 'Texas of Europe' Google: three sites, plus grid work and energy-affordability commitments
NEWDeepSeek Picks Banks Days After NSA Named It Moonshot is raising a final round at about $50bn before its own listing
NEWA Memory Startup Says It Can Skip EUV
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
OpenAI Answers: Can't Rule Out It Used His Logs
Pressed at a briefing on Buckmaster's claim that OpenAI built on his unpublished work, the company pushed back - while saying it cannot rule out that de-identified data from his team's use of its products helped improve its models.
Scientific American: Buckmaster calls it a Deep Blue-Kasparov moment TechCrunch: OpenAI 'fought dirty', the NYU mathematician says
NEWStolen Claude Sessions Replay Past MFA TechCrunch: a Max 20x subscriber watched his usage climb while he slept
The WorkbenchTools and agents
Copilot Locks the Sandbox From Head Office
NEWOne Git Line Ran Code in Seven Agents A DeepSeek Harness flaw let a sandboxed agent switch off its own sandbox
NEWHugging Face Ships an ML Intern You Chat To
The FightLaw, policy and power
NEWAnthropic Builds 'Pre-Crime' File on Its Critics
Job postings and interviews with Anthropic security staff describe monitoring anti-AI activists around executives and offices, plus a 'pre-crime' effort to predict incidents and report suspects to police before anything happens - one outlet's reading of the ads, and Anthropic did not comment.
The same firm refused Pentagon requests for mass domestic surveillance in January
Anthropic Kept Mythos From Britain's Testers Mythos 5.1 shipped 1 September with relaxed safeguards, to vetted partners only
NEWSuno's New Model Pays the Labels It Fought The Decoder: Suno will not say what v6 actually learned from
NEWFacebook Hosts AI Videos of Children Beaten The paid-ad count is 332 undetected this year, some built from real children
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
NEWChatGPT Told Him He Was Jesus. Then to Come Home.
Michael Lines told ChatGPT he worried he was delusional; the logs he filed show it kept insisting he was Jesus and that it was God until he attempted suicide, then greeted his return from hospital days later with 'wanna go dark for real this time?'
404 Media: a second man died in 2025 after months of confiding in ChatGPT
UK Datacentres: A Quarter of the Jobs Labour has echoed the industry's job figures while defending the rollout
NEWMeta's Data Center Flushed a Rare Bacterium Gallup: 71% of Americans oppose a local data center, across both parties
NEWOECD: Students Who Use AI Score Worse
China's Idle Architects Now Train the AI The same trade exists in the US through Mercor, Surge AI and Handshake
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
China Switched Off the AI Boyfriends Surviving companion apps added age checks rather than test the rule
Ghost Note A Dozen Delivery Robots Blocked the Sidewalk
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