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Anthropic

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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, 2026

OpenAI

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Australian Senate inquiry calls Altman and Amodei to Canberra over data centers, not just the hack

Hanson-Young spends two sentences on the OpenAI hack and the rest on lobbying, copyright and water.

September 28, 2026

AI safety

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OpenAI's chief scientist joins Hinton and Bengio in telling governments to prepare for an intelligence explosion

A speed limit on capabilities growth is on its list of options, and OpenAI's chief scientist co-signed it.

September 29, 2026

AI policy

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New York City Council subpoenas Musk's SpaceXAI after it ignored an AI safety hearing invite

Anthropic, OpenAI and Google only said yes once a subpoena was on its way, and Musk's company never replied at all.

September 28, 2026

Usage limits and errors

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How many GPT-6 Astra messages do you get in Codex and ChatGPT Work?

OpenAI estimates 5 to 45 GPT-6 Astra local messages every five hours on Plus and Standard Business in Codex and ChatGPT Work. Pro plans currently have no five-hour limit. Extra usage costs credits.

September 29, 2026

Open weights

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Alibaba says Qwen ran a month of self-improvement unattended, and plans a 10-trillion-parameter model

Eddie Wu's keynote says the Qwen team has made meaningful progress on AI that improves itself, the trend Dario Amodei wants slowed.

September 23, 2026

Long reads and guides

All the musings
Musing

Quality or quantity: what kind of smarter is AI becoming?

Musing

Humanity's place in an AI-controlled world

Musing

Genie, oracle, rogue, god or just software: where AI could end up

Musing

Eleven problems that would change everything, and the one that could crack the rest

Guide

Claude models explained: Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, Mythos and why there's no Opus 5.1

Guide

Codex 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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Ready-made prompts

All 59 prompts

Pick one, change the bits that are yours, paste it into ChatGPT or Claude.

CookingStories & mangaWriting & memosLearningPlanningWorkJob searchMoney & admin

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