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Monday, September 14, 2026
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★ Must ReadTrump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting

Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei's proposal.

“Two cheers (out of three) for Dario Amodei”
— Gary Marcus

A partial endorsement of his essay “We Must Pace the Frontier”

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“David Sacks: OpenAI and Anthropic Don't Need Regulations to Pace Frontier Models”
— Hacker News

Trending on Hacker News with 279 points and 207 comments.

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★ Must ReadGarry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to 'distill' frontier models, too

Trending on Hacker News with 365 points and 200 comments.

The Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer — and How To Do the Job Right

Before co-founding Kepler, Vinoo Ganesh led Spark at Palantir and built Project Frontline — a pioneering program for Forward Deployed Engineers. He takes us through the best practices of FDEs.

Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in the next six months?

Gary Marcus — Could rogue agent swarms take over the entire internet in th...

★ Must ReadMy 20 Favorite Google Docs Features ❤️

The shortcuts I actually use.

DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: 552B Parameters, Lower Inference Costs

Kaitchup — DeepSeek V4.

ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

Simplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal.

[AINews] DeepSeek v4.1-Flash: 763B-P8B-D16B novel causal Encoder–Decoder architecture with vision marks the Return of the Whale

We agree with Sebastian: this should have been DeepSeek v5

“Trump and Mike Johnson think the AI industry is overreacting”
— Terrence O’Brien, The Verge AI
“What’s behind the AI industry’s latest warnings of doom?”
— Anthony Ha, TechCrunch AI
“Brand New AI Solves a Millennium Prize”
— Zvi Mowshowitz
SIGNAL — September 14, 2026 | SIGNAL