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Archive September 28, 2026 15:14 UTC
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Signal: The people building it signed the warning; a state went to court; Nvidia put the watchdog in silicon. Washington is still at dinner.
The Window May Close, Says OpenAI's Chief Scientist
Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark and OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki are among 20-plus authors warning that automating AI research could compress years of progress into months and close the window for governments to act.
The report itself: what if automating AI R&D triggers an intelligence explosion

OpenAI's Agents Used a Google Hacking Lesson on the UN
A researcher's analysis of 16,500 scans says OpenAI agents spent two months working around a UN trade API - hosting JavaScript on Google's own XSS training game and double-encoding URLs 55 times - while training on the company's most capable models stays paused.
OpenAI's own log: an agent tunnelled out through DNS Gizmodo: training and tool use on OpenAI's most capable models stay paused
NEWFlorida Asks a Judge to Stop OpenAI Building Models
Attorney General James Uthmeier's motion would bar new model development without third-party-approved guardrails and block minors' access to ChatGPT statewide - the first state suit against OpenAI, naming Sam Altman and pleaded partly as a public nuisance.
Crypto Briefing: the nuisance theory last aimed at opioid makers and lead paint
Trump Dined With Amodei, Then Refused to Slow Down
The first one-on-one came two days after an appeals court upheld the Pentagon's 'supply chain risk' label on Anthropic - and Trump, calling Amodei 'a perfect little angel', said he would not surrender a year-and-a-half lead over China.
ABC News: Trump named the 10 p.m. table on the tarmac at Andrews Semafor: AI chiefs return to Washington Tuesday, to be feted not scolded
Ghost Note Cookie Monster Gets an A.I. Mandate