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Saturday, September 12, 2026
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★ Must ReadThe Extinction Risk Preference Cascade: Quotes

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.

No, Anderson Cooper, AI is not going to kill all humans by 2030
Gary Marcus

AI is already causing harms, there are are many real risks, but constant focus on absurd end-of-the-world fantasies has made the situation worse

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OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
Hacker News

Trending on Hacker News with 402 points and 231 comments.

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GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning

A Look at Recurrent Depth, Hidden Chains of Thought, and Recent Research on Looping Transformer Blocks

[AINews] not much happened today

Latent Space — [AINews] not much happened today

BREAKING: Two rays of hope

Gary Marcus — BREAKING: Two rays of hope

★ Must ReadDeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 552B Parameters, Lower Inference Costs

Kaitchup — DeepSeek V4.

★ Must ReadMy 20 Favorite Google Docs Features ❤️

The shortcuts I actually use.

Misleading Metaphors and Real Risks

What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency

[AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second ever Millennium Prize awarded

Overshadowing Cognition's $48B Series E, Mistral's $24B Series D, Meta's Muse agent, and GPT Image 2. 5. The most jam packed, feel the AGI day in the history of AI.

The Extinction Risk Preference Cascade: Quotes
Zvi Mowshowitz
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 552B Parameters, Lower Inference Costs
Benjamin Marie, Kaitchup
My 20 Favorite Google Docs Features ❤️
Jeremy Caplan, Wonder Tools
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