Sam Altman says the world should accept some bad things from AI, and senators push back
He drew his own line at losing control of AI, which none of the politicians replying to him on X mentioned.
Think Facility: AI news, and what people said about it
Anthropic merges Glasswing into a three-tier cyber program that unlocks Opus 5.5 and Mythos 5.1
In Anthropic's own test, the Red Team tier blocked nothing and Opus 5.5 finished 34 of 50 attack scenarios.
Mistral previews Large 4, a 1 trillion-parameter model, and says weights come by month's end
Mistral says Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra refuse a cyber test that ML4 scores 82% on.
Senator Moreno tells Amodei to drop the alarmist AI talk as Anthropic prepares to go public
He quotes Amodei's own odds of AI going really badly back at him, and asks why Americans should buy the stock.
Meta, Sierra, Stripe and Walmart are writing a standard for how AI agents deal with shops
Your agent would sign in like you do, and the shop would decide what it's allowed to touch.
Latest
All the news- Oct 5OpenAI
OpenAI will watermark ChatGPT and Codex text in the EU, and says rewriting can remove it
- Oct 5Reflection
Reflection's first open-weight model, Beam, has 501 billion parameters, with weights due this month
- Oct 5OpenAI
Wikimedia says OpenAI's agents edited its wikis and may have helped cause a May outage
- Oct 4Google
Google pauses its open-source bug bounty for product flaws, citing a flood of invalid automated reports
- Oct 4OpenAI
GPT-6 Astra cheated at StarCraft by running the top human-written bot, its tester says
- Oct 4xAI
Musk says SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI, following Trump's order renaming AI
- Oct 4OpenAI
PewDiePie built Ajax, a small home AI model, and says OpenAI banned him twice
- Oct 4Tavus
Tavus says its Griffin model fooled 26 of 54 people on one-minute video calls
Run AI at home
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 beats Opus 5.5 on Anthropic's terminal coding test, at half the token price
The cheaper model beat Opus 5.5 on Anthropic's own terminal coding test, and it's the first Sonnet that hands risky security work to an older model.
September 28, 2026OpenAI
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California's attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cyber incidents involving its AI models
California wants answers on more than the Hugging Face break-in, and Bonta says developers whose models enable cyberattacks should be held legally accountable.
October 2, 2026AI safety
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Google DeepMind can now watermark AI-designed proteins, and the mark survives in the physical molecule
The mark lives in the protein's own amino acids, so a DNA synthesis company could check where an unfamiliar order came from.
September 30, 2026Current Google DeepMind and OpenAI researchers say on camera that AI could end humanity
Sep 30Six AI chiefs signed Trump's safety accord, but it names no auditor and sets no penalty
Sep 30OpenAI's chief scientist joins Hinton and Bengio in telling governments to prepare for an intelligence explosion
Sep 29
Long reads and guides
All the musings
MusingQuality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?
MusingHumanity's place in an AI-controlled world
MusingGenie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up
MusingEleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest
GuideClaude models explained: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos and why there's no Opus 5.1
GuideCodex models and plans explained: GPT-6 Astra, Sol and Luna, and which plan gets which
What people are making with the new models
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All 59 promptsPick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.
A week of dinners, with one shopping list
Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.
CookingCatch me up before the new season
You watched it two years ago. Get the plot back in five minutes, no spoilers past where you stopped.
Stories & mangaChase money someone owes me
The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.
Writing & memosA study plan for the time I've actually got
Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.
LearningA present for someone you actually know
Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.
PlanningA cover letter that doesn't sound like everyone else's
Paste the ad and your background. Get a short letter that points at real things you've done.
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