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In the wake of Jacob Coxon’s resignation, and the resulting preference cascade, things have escalated quickly.

OpenAI claims a Millennium Prize proof amid a feud with mathematicians, Anthropic's CEO calls to pace the frontier, extinction warnings spur a regulation push, and more!

This is our reality.

A lot of bad guys try to use Claude to do bad things.

The leaders of AI labs agree that the United States to act, and soon. But the president and the speaker of the House aren't interested

The first Millennium Prize, Navier-Stokes, has fallen to AI.

Astra is an excellent model.

CEOs of major AI labs, and employees of major AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, often say they plan to build superintelligence soon, as in within a few years create AIs that are superior to humans at essentially all cognitive tasks.

These are quotes from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google employees, in the wake of Jacob Coxon’s warnings, in which the employees confirm that they think AI might soon kill everyone.

Once a fringe obsession of Bay Area rationalists, existential risk is suddenly all anyone is talking about

The world of AI is inside my OODA loop.

OpenAI claims that Astra is ‘the most intelligent and most aligned [available] model’ in the world.

Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1, OpenAI Is About (already has) to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities, OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought

Frontier labs make for lousy messengers on AI safety — but it would be foolish to ignore them

OpenAI’s central message on Astra is that it is three things:

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki is dropping truth bombs.

GPT-6 Astra Is Here, Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board, Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 and says it’s up to 45 percent cheaper for agentic work, and more!

Plus, a machine hermeneutics story

I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage.

This is the weirdest situation in which to write a capabilities review.

At the time of its release Claude Fable 5.1 was, by a healthy margin, the most capable publicly available AI model in the world.

A third loss in antitrust court leads to ... very little. PLUS: GPT-6 Astra and 'the AGI era'

I am exhausted.

Oh, good.

Okay, so we who read blogs like this one have collectively realized there really is a lot going on right now.

The AI industry is begging for a slowdown. Maybe we should listen?

The consensus reaction to the OpenAI Technical Report is that it contains and confirms a lot of good information.

Plus, a live event with Robin Sloan!

Google announces Gemini 3.7 Flash, Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed, A Drone Killed Three Ukrainians. It Was Guided Entirely by A.I.

From the Hugging Face Incident to Twilight Factories

Yesterday I covered the OpenAI technical report on the HuggingFace hack.

OpenAI finally gave us a technical report on What Happened, as did METR together with Redwood Research.

Clara Shih on how AI will soon displace the first few rungs on the career ladder — and why she left Big Tech to do something about it

Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal model, as well as partial outside analysis from METR and Redwood Research.

The newsletter is finally back!

Differential acceleration of cyber, math, and AI

Scott Aaronson, while working at OpenAI, largely solved AI text watermarking together with Hendrik Kirchner.

Every CEO Dan Shipper on doubling headcount while automating everything, building an agent out of 30,000 copyedits, and the “dirty secret” of writing with AI

This was a week of quiet aftermath, an opportunity to process recent events and start to figure out the path forward.

OpenAI has some severe misalignment problems, and experienced total failures of its infrastructure and supervision.