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OpenAISeptember 17, 2026
OpenAI will publish its models' misalignment incidents before it has explained or fixed them

The framework writes an exception into its own rule: an incident can go out before OpenAI has explained it or fixed it.

Pew Research CenterSeptember 17, 2026
Democrats are now more worried about AI than Republicans, and it's partly because Republicans relaxed

Pew has asked the same question since 2021, and the party lines have finally crossed: Republican concern is falling while everyone else's climbs.

SnapSeptember 17, 2026
Snap's new AI assistant runs on iPhone and Mac, but the anticipatory part is invite-only

Connect a Google account and it reads your mail and your calendar, then decides what you need to see before you think to ask.

EUSeptember 17, 2026
Von der Leyen backs slowing self-recursive AI and will invite the frontier labs in

The European Commission's president repeated the AI industry's own phrase for slowing down, then offered the labs a meeting rather than a new law.

AI researchSeptember 16, 2026
Wang and Christie say four fly neurons learn by rewiring, but they haven't published the work

Peter Wang says four cell types in a fly's fan-shaped body learn by changing synapses, and the researchers who watched those cells in live flies saw persistent firing instead.

OpenAISeptember 16, 2026
Scott Aaronson says he's been told AI labs are sitting on solutions to major problems.

The same post lists seven results he credits to AI in the last month, and four of them sit on problems he has worked on himself.

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A week of dinners, with one shopping list

Seven dinners that share ingredients, so nothing rots in the drawer.

Cooking

Catch 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 & manga

Chase money someone owes me

The message to send today, and what to do when they ignore it.

Writing & memos

A study plan for the time I've actually got

Works backwards from the date, and tells you what to drop when you fall behind.

Learning

A present for someone you actually know

Tell it what they're really like. Get ideas that aren't a gift guide for their demographic.

Planning

A 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.

Work