OpenAI

AI Safety

Oct 5, 2026

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4 min read

The Man Behind OpenAI's Safety Reports Says the Culture Is Broken

Plus: Meta just open sourced the kit to connect its Muse agent to homemade gadgets, and is giving away 5,000 boxes that wire it into your home.

Joy Dong, +2

ASI

Trump Called It Super Intelligence. Sanders Wants to Ban It. They Don't Mean the Same Thing.

Oct 2, 2026

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5 min read

Trump Called It Super Intelligence. Sanders Wants to Ban It. They Don't Mean the Same Thing.

Three AI words made headlines last week. Here are three questions that find the caveat behind each one.

Noah Frank, +2

Personal Agents

Why Does Your Agent Need Its Own Phone Number?

Sep 30, 2026

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7 min read

Why Does Your Agent Need Its Own Phone Number?

🧰 OpenAI's always-on dots, Manus 2.0 and Cue, plus 14 open roles

Joy Dong, +2

AI Safety

Sep 28, 2026

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6 min read

OpenAI's Kill Switch Didn't Work

An OpenAI agent reached a public chatbot from a no-internet sandbox, and the automatic shutdown failed. Elon Musk says Colossus 2 will more than double to 1.21 million Nvidia chips by year-end.

Joy Dong, +2

AI Tools

Grok 4.7 Beat GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to Market by One Day. Does It Matter?

Sep 23, 2026

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6 min read

Grok 4.7 Beat GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to Market by One Day. Does It Matter?

🧰 Four models to test, PayPal joins Meta Muse checkout, and a shared Agent Brain helps connected agents pick up where another stops.

Joy Dong, +2

AI Safety

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OpenAI Gave Apollo Three Days. Anthropic Gave METR Ten. Neither Says What They Can Report.

Sep 18, 2026

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5 min read

OpenAI Gave Apollo Three Days. Anthropic Gave METR Ten. Neither Says What They Can Report.

Everyone agrees outsiders should check the labs. Nobody will say what those outsiders may report.

Noah Frank, +2

AI Safety

AI 2027 Got a Million Readers. Anthropic Just Made It a Benchmark.

Sep 14, 2026

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7 min read

AI 2027 Got a Million Readers. Anthropic Just Made It a Benchmark.

David Sacks told the AI labs to slow down on their own, no regulation required. Anthropic says Chinese labs ran nearly 200 million exchanges through Claude.

Joy Dong, +2

AI Safety

Three People Quit AI Labs. The Coverage Gave Them One Reason.

Sep 11, 2026

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4 min read

Three People Quit AI Labs. The Coverage Gave Them One Reason.

Coxon left over the race, Sharma over institutional drift, Hitzig over ads. Only one of those has a lever you can reach.

Noah Frank, +2

Codex

Why Meta Built Your Agent A Second Guard

Sep 9, 2026

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5 min read

Why Meta Built Your Agent A Second Guard

🧰 A second agent watches the first, and the prompt that fixes plastic-looking AI photos.

Joy Dong, +2

Claude

Sep 7, 2026

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7 min read

Nobody Will Say Who Sent the Agents

Plus: A deeper glimpse into the implications of the Hugging Face incident.

Joy Dong, +2

Codex

Aug 19, 2026

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3 min read

The Agent Remembers, The Repo Keeps Up

🧰 Computer History Reconstructs Your Workday; Cursor Origin Builds A Forge For Agent-Generated Code.

Joy Dong, +2

xAI

The Trillion-Parameter Bet Nobody Saw Coming

Aug 10, 2026

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3 min read

The Trillion-Parameter Bet Nobody Saw Coming

One lab just proved its AI might be too capable to control. Another just bet bigger anyway.

Joy Dong, +2

AI Math

The Model That Cracked Ten Open Proofs Isn't For Sale

Aug 3, 2026

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5 min read

The Model That Cracked Ten Open Proofs Isn't For Sale

Plus: The ones beating it on price are free

Joy Dong, +2

AI Safety

Washington Threatened Sanctions On Anthropic's Behalf, Anthropic Wanted No Part Of It

Jul 27, 2026

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5 min read

Washington Threatened Sanctions On Anthropic's Behalf, Anthropic Wanted No Part Of It

Why the one company with a real claim of being copied is not asking Washington to do anything about it.

Joy Dong, +2

ChatGPT

Is A Bribe Still A Bribe If It's 5% Equity?

Jul 6, 2026

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7 min read

Is A Bribe Still A Bribe If It's 5% Equity?

Meanwhile OpenAI drops GPT-5.6 behind government gates.

Joy Dong, +2

AI Tools

Jul 1, 2026

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4 min read

What OpenAI Is Shipping On July 15th

Meanwhile, OpenClaw just turned your smartphone into a pocket-sized remote for your AI agent.

Joy Dong, +2

Community Service

+10

Jun 3, 2026

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3 min read

Is ChatGPT Coming For LinkedIn?

🧰 Your weekly roundup of the latest in AI tools and careers.

Joy Dong, +2

AI Safety

Three Tools to Take Real Work Off Your Plate

May 13, 2026

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5 min read

Three Tools to Take Real Work Off Your Plate

🧰 Your weekly roundup of the latest in AI tools and careers

Noah Frank, +1

TechNews

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🧰 The Builders' Issue: Claude Code Review, Context Hub, and Gemini Embedding 2

Mar 11, 2026

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11 min read

🧰 The Builders' Issue: Claude Code Review, Context Hub, and Gemini Embedding 2

March 11, 2026

Joy Dong, +1

TechNews

+11

🧭 The Brief: Claude Talks, Stripe Monetizes, and the Consciousness Question

Mar 9, 2026

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10 min read

🧭 The Brief: Claude Talks, Stripe Monetizes, and the Consciousness Question

March 9, 2026

Noah Frank, +1

TechNews

+11

🌍 The Community Edition: Measuring Agent Risk, Living With Agents in the Wild

Feb 20, 2026

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14 min read

🌍 The Community Edition: Measuring Agent Risk, Living With Agents in the Wild

February 20, 2026

Noah Frank, +2

TechNews

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🧰 The Builders' Issue: Reasoning Models, Real-Time Coding, Open-Source Frontier

Feb 18, 2026

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9 min read

🧰 The Builders' Issue: Reasoning Models, Real-Time Coding, Open-Source Frontier

February 18, 2026

AJ Green, +2

TechNews

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🧭 The Brief: Gemini 3 Crushes ARC-AGI-2, MiniMax M2.5 Rewrites Cost Equation

Feb 16, 2026

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14 min read

🧭 The Brief: Gemini 3 Crushes ARC-AGI-2, MiniMax M2.5 Rewrites Cost Equation

February 16, 2026

Noah Frank, +2

TechNews

+11

🌍 The Community Edition: The 73M View Blueprint + The Rise of the Scientist Simulator

Feb 13, 2026

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8 min read

🌍 The Community Edition: The 73M View Blueprint + The Rise of the Scientist Simulator

February 13, 2026

Joy Dong

TechNews

+11

🧰 The Builders' Issue: Codex, ElevenReader, Composer 1.5, and $125K in Funded AI Development

Feb 11, 2026

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10 min read

🧰 The Builders' Issue: Codex, ElevenReader, Composer 1.5, and $125K in Funded AI Development

February 11, 2026

AJ Green, +2

OpenAI

The Man Behind OpenAI's Safety Reports Says the Culture Is Broken

Trump Called It Super Intelligence. Sanders Wants to Ban It. They Don't Mean the Same Thing.

Why Does Your Agent Need Its Own Phone Number?

OpenAI's Kill Switch Didn't Work

Grok 4.7 Beat GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 to Market by One Day. Does It Matter?

OpenAI Gave Apollo Three Days. Anthropic Gave METR Ten. Neither Says What They Can Report.

AI 2027 Got a Million Readers. Anthropic Just Made It a Benchmark.

Three People Quit AI Labs. The Coverage Gave Them One Reason.

Why Meta Built Your Agent A Second Guard

Nobody Will Say Who Sent the Agents

The Agent Remembers, The Repo Keeps Up

The Trillion-Parameter Bet Nobody Saw Coming

The Model That Cracked Ten Open Proofs Isn't For Sale

Washington Threatened Sanctions On Anthropic's Behalf, Anthropic Wanted No Part Of It

Is A Bribe Still A Bribe If It's 5% Equity?

What OpenAI Is Shipping On July 15th

Is ChatGPT Coming For LinkedIn?

Three Tools to Take Real Work Off Your Plate

🧰 The Builders' Issue: Claude Code Review, Context Hub, and Gemini Embedding 2

🧭 The Brief: Claude Talks, Stripe Monetizes, and the Consciousness Question

🌍 The Community Edition: Measuring Agent Risk, Living With Agents in the Wild

🧰 The Builders' Issue: Reasoning Models, Real-Time Coding, Open-Source Frontier

🧭 The Brief: Gemini 3 Crushes ARC-AGI-2, MiniMax M2.5 Rewrites Cost Equation

🌍 The Community Edition: The 73M View Blueprint + The Rise of the Scientist Simulator

🧰 The Builders' Issue: Codex, ElevenReader, Composer 1.5, and $125K in Funded AI Development

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