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Wednesday, September 30, 2026
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★ Must ReadAI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’

"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research, which says it's a nonprofit studying AIs' capabilities and motivations, collected and launched the interviews on frominside.

“OpenAI connects the Dots”
— Platformer

With safety questions still swirling, the company introduces a more business-focused take on agents

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“Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe”
— The Verge AI

For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. "We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had this surge forward in capability, and we see more of that ahead of us, we have got to be able to make confident safety claims," Altman said Tuesday during a Q&A with reporters after his DevDay keynote.

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★ Must ReadBREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face incident

Gary Marcus — BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face ...

Jeeves. Reasoning improves Jev-like decision models

Trending on Hacker News with 232 points and 88 comments.

Hot take on a weak White House Accord on “Super Intelligence”

Gary Marcus — Hot take on a weak White House Accord on “Super Intelligence...

★ Must ReadQwen3.8 Flash Next GGUF Benchmark: Q4 to Q1 Accuracy and Token Efficiency

Kaitchup — Qwen3. 8 Flash Next GGUF Benchmark: Q4 to Q1 Accuracy and Tok...

How AI Agents Evolved: From AutoGPT to Claude Code

The real shift from AutoGPT loops to coding agents you can review

2026 in LLMs (so far)

Plus Claude Opus 5.

From Trees to Granite

Interconnects — From Trees to Granite

“The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view,”
— Stevie Bonifield, The Verge AI
“BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face incident”
— Gary Marcus
“OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack”
— Lily Hay Newman, WIRED AI
SIGNAL — September 30, 2026 | SIGNAL