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Accelerating Models & releases Signal 4h ago

Anthropic dario amodei ai slowdown

5 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · austegard.com
“So does this mean we can have a cheap yet capable Haiku soon, Dario? I have sub-agents to run www.nytimes.com/2026/09/12/t...” evidence ↗
5 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
New Agents & robotics Development 15h ago
⚡ 3 h early
OpenAI agents attack RubyGems

OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems

10 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Questions & unknowns reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Ryan Moulton
“Another undisclosed openai hack. How long till somebody actually presses charges? www.rubyhack.ai” evidence ↗
10 experts 4 communities 1 sources clustered
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 3 distinct lenses.
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Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“This technology is so fascinating, and even the ones building it fail to contain it https://t.co/cYfzA3SNe5”

Markets & investment

1 expert

Capital, companies and commercial impact.

“Cybercrime as a valuation boosting strategy is just the done thing, now.”

Questions & unknowns

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What remains unresolved or contested.

“Another undisclosed openai hack. How long till somebody actually presses charges? www.rubyhack.ai”

3 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Grace: OpenAI: “Our agents used RubyGems to carry out benign tasks” The agents: “so I named the file hack.rb,”
Grace: https://www.rubyhack.ai
Grace: A country of moustache-twirling villains in a datacenter
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5 experts · 39 posts · 23h ago
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“i think you can just show her the original diagram to explain the joke but this might raise an infinite recursion of more questions about what the fuck, which must be answered with "man, just, it g…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
SE Gyges: trying to deduce why one would quit a good job at anthropic
SE Gyges: what her boyfriend is up to today. they really do get around
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5 experts · 18 posts · 1d ago
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“Do you have a call to action, a request or demand for what is to be done? "These issues must be addressed..." is pretty vague. IMO a position statement without a concrete, justifiable call to actio…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Questions & unknowns · 2 Concern & critique · 1
tachikoma: A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing …
Aaron Hertzmann: Do you have a call to action, a request or demand for what is to be done? "These issues must be addressed..." is pretty vague. IMO a position statement without a concrete, justifiable call to actio…
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4 experts · 17 posts · 1d ago
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“This! The policies in question aren't just about this one particular incident. And Mitchell writes "inappropriate metaphors [...] can lead to ill-informed decisions about how to fix problems or set…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 2 Questions & unknowns · 1
Colin: I think the nuance about “escaping” is valuable. When your dog escapes you have to go physically catch him. When your agent escapes, well, it hasn’t really escaped, it’s still just right there wher…
tweety fish: I can't stand the metaphors, sorta broadly, but I don't think that's why; I feel like they affirmatively make it harder for people who are not experts (plus some who are, I guess) to think about wh…
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2 experts · 8 posts · 1d ago
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“I used to complain that if I put three questions in an email, my advisor would only answer the first one. I sure miss that now. Because the amount of information casual LLM-users expect you to proc…” evidence ↗
Shared emphasis Research & technical analysis · 2
Berna Devezer: Totally vibing here, but hope we'll soon get collectively fed up with llm-speak and refuse to entertain it. Getting impossible to seriously engage with extensive text without an underlying thought …
Berna Devezer: Engaging with a colleague, with whom you mostly communicate via email, becomes a chore when they only ever share pure slop. I'd rather fill out paperwork than actually spend gray matter and time on…
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