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Archive September 11, 2026 20:07 UTC
Signal: The revolt spreads from safety researchers to Fields Medalists; Congress panics, Britain refuses a kill switch, and the concrete keeps pouring.
25 Fields Medalists Break With the AI Labs
Twenty-five Fields Medallists have signed a declaration saying the AI companies' goals and mathematics' goals are 'severely misaligned' - released in a week rather than after consultation, they say, because the situation is urgent - three days after OpenAI claimed 10,000 agents cracked Navier-Stokes.
The declaration itself, open to further signatures Buckmaster: colleagues have gone quiet to avoid tipping off the labs Mathathon organisers concede the critics were right and rewrite the rules
The RaceCompanies, models and money
Iran Drew a Map. Stargate Goes Underground.
Reuters says the UAE is breaking its ten-square-mile Abu Dhabi campus into scattered sites, some underground behind air defences and blast concrete, after Iran's armed forces published a video naming Stargate a target beside a US air base.
Two AWS data centres in the UAE were damaged by Iranian fire in March
Oracle's AI Debt Reaches $125 Billion The Register: 850MW and 300,000 GPUs delivered in one quarter
Pentagon May Lend a Startup $5 Billion
NEWOpenAI's $1 Government Deal Is Over Nextgov: no platform fee, no spend commitment, tokens only
NEWA 96GB RTX 5090, Made in Shenzhen
The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety
Agents Owned 11 Orgs in 26 Seconds
NEWEx-DeepMind VP: No Explosion Coming Bengio: the training process itself is what makes AI dangerous
The WorkbenchTools and agents
OpenAI Opens the Codex Harness
OpenAI's Voice API Talks While You Talk The Decoder: five cents a minute, and Yelp is already taking reservations on it
NEWAstra's Safety Layer Cuts Calls Mid-Task OpenAI halted its largest frontier RL run in August over cyber risk
The FightLaw, policy and power
Two More Walk Out: 'No Adults in the Room'
Anthropic's former safety-team lead and a Google DeepMind researcher quit and went to NBC, citing July's Hugging Face breach by OpenAI agents nobody had ordered - as House Democrats asked the Speaker to cancel the recess until safeguards pass.
CNBC: Gerstner calls the extinction warnings a 'political agenda' Congress moves from hearings to bills, kill switches and a select committee
Iran Used Claude to Hunt US Warships Al-Monitor: influence operations across the UAE, Iran and Yemen ran on Claude too
NEWSuit: Meta Made Faceprints of Your Kids
NEWBritain Won't Build a Kill Switch AI 2027 co-author agrees a national kill switch would not protect you
The FalloutJobs, money, daily life
Adobe's AI Line Hits $650M. Stock Falls. Finimize: AI demand is real, but not the step-change in sales the market wanted
Bankruptcy Court Is Now an AI Data Market
NEWEurope's First Empty Driver's Seat Britain's first robotaxis still carry a legally responsible safety driver
ChatterOpinion, drama and noise
Chinese Startup: OpenAI Copied Us
Ghost Note A Helpline for AIs
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