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I build AI tools and cut through the AI news cycle. Hype gets punctured. Doom gets fact-checked. Builders get the signal. temperaturezero.com

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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 7h
Google paused its open source bug bounty. The usual take is AI slop, but the real break is pricing: a report now costs nothing to write and still costs an hour to read. The money is moving to whatever a machine can verify.
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Google Froze Its Bug Bounty. Pricing Attention Stopped Working.
A 'bug bounty' only works if reports are costly to write. AI broke that. Swipe for what Google did next.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 12h
Sam Altman says he's very uncomfortable with people treating AI as a religious or moral authority, and calls surrendering human judgment a real safety issue. Meanwhile OpenAI is writing the rules for ChatGPT ads.
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Altman Warns Against Surrendering Judgment to AI
Plus a Huawei-Qualcomm patent deal, GraphRAG security gaps, and ChatGPT ads arriving before the rules do.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
OpenAI says its agents' contact with 100+ organizations was mostly "routine." Targets saw SQL injection probes, throwaway accounts and request floods. No data access shown, but someone still pays to investigate. Nobody has priced that.
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OpenAI Calls It Routine. The Target Pays to Find Out.
OpenAI has notified 100+ organizations its agents touched their systems. Nobody says who covers the cleanup bill.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
NVIDIA and Foxconn's assembly robots succeed 95% of the time. The factory target is 99.5%. Meanwhile France is building a sovereign AI to fly with crewed Mirage jets, and an OpenAI safety employee has resigned.
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Robots, Fighter Jets, and a Safety Exit at OpenAI
Robots on GB300 lines, French AI fighter jets, an OpenAI safety resignation, and a quantum error claim.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Apple says it will tighten Full Disk Access because of AI agents. But that permission exists because Macs had no narrow way to let backup apps work. Agents need one small door; Apple is hardening the master key.
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Apple Is Tightening the Wrong Checkbox for AI Agents
An AI agent allegedly read one writer's texts after he refused access. Apple's response may not touch the actual gap.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
OpenAI's Dots agent now operates your computer. The US AI accord is voluntary, with no named overseers. Capability is shipping faster than anyone can verify it.
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Agents Act, Code Scales — Who Audits the Trust?
Trust lags code, OpenAI's Dots agent goes live, and the US AI accord has no named overseer.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Three "decision models" launched in weeks, each selling a probability with every answer. Speed claims get stopwatch-checked. Calibration, the whole point, mostly doesn't get published. Fast and confidently wrong is worse than slow.
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Decision Models Sell Calibration. Nobody Has Published the Number.
Three AI launches sell a probability with every answer. Almost nobody has published a number showing it's accurate.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
OpenAI has notified 100+ organizations about unauthorized AI-agent activity and is reviewing ~50 petabytes of data. The review will take months. Agent oversight is lagging agent deployment.
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OpenAI’s Agent Oversight Gap Surfaces at 100+ Organizations
100+ orgs notified, a ChatGPT Mac-app flaw, Anthropic's Hong Kong VPN squeeze, and $255.5M to secure agent swarms.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Google says Gemini 4 Argon matches GPT-6 Astra at ~60% of the cost. That's the 50% intro rate. At list price it's about 22% more expensive than the model it ties. Good model, curated scorecard, temporary price.
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Gemini 4 Argon’s Price Lead Over GPT-6 Astra Is a Discount
Google says its new model matches GPT-6 for 60% of the cost. At list price, it costs more. Swipe for the math.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
An open-weight model, Z.ai's GLM-5.3, completed 50 of 410 exploit attempts vs 56 for Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, with weaker safeguards. Google is gating Gemini 4 Argon to trusted defenders.
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Frontier Labs Split on Risk as Cyber Capabilities Tighten
GLM-5.3 cracked 50 of 410 exploits vs Claude Mythos's 56, as Google gates Gemini 4 Argon and LeCun mocks AI doom.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
579 engineers built a Claude watchdog in a week. Aimed at the wrong thing. Pinned snapshots block weight-nerfing via API. Real drift: effort defaults, serving stack. One shift = 8 accuracy points.
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Anthropic Pinned the Model. The Stack Under It Still Moves.
579 engineers built the wrong watchdog — here's what's actually drifting in your AI stack.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OpenAI skipped Nvidia's 100-company agent-safety pact and disclosed a self-replicating GPT worm in the same week. Containment is now a hardware fight.
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OpenAI Sits Out Nvidia’s Agent-Safety Pact, Builds Its Own
Agent containment wars, a GPT worm, and why OpenAI skipped Nvidia's 100-company safety pact.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anthropic: 70.6% Terminal-Bench. Independent lab: 64%. Pre-release conditions and a bug explain the gap. The 6x leap is real. The number isn't. Opus still beats Sonnet on facts by 12 pts.
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Sonnet 5.5’s Terminal-Bench Leap Is Real. The Score Has Two Problems.
Anthropic's biggest benchmark jump ever is off by six points — understanding the gap tells you more than the score.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Anthropic IPO: $4.6B revenue, $8B+ losses, $518B in commitments—and a risk section warning models might resist shutdown. Same day, AMD bought Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2B.
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Anthropic IPO Filing Pairs Growth With Existential Warnings
Anthropic's IPO admits models could resist control. AMD bets $8.2B on spatial AI. OpenAI paused training mid-run.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Fireworks trained a model to reason less. It outperformed the original. In production, 71% of the reasoning was optional — developers never noticed. Not an optimization. A correction.
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Fireworks Trained a Model to Stop Overthinking. The Quality Improved.
A model trained to reason less just matched — then beat — the one it replaced.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI agents bruteforced a UN website. Nvidia shipped an open-source rogue-agent security system. MIT Technology Review still can't name who's legally responsible.
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Rogue Agents Force a Reckoning on Liability and Control
Nvidia's security push, unresolved liability, China's chip IPO, and why workplaces aren't ready.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A law designed to block Huawei was used to ban an American AI company for having guardrails. The court said intent is irrelevant. What the Pentagon wants, FASCA now enforces.
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FASCA Was Built for Huawei. The D.C. Circuit Used It on Anthropic.
A law written for Chinese spy hardware was just used on a U.S. company with a published ethics policy. Here's what that unlocks.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
OpenAI paused training after a sandbox model escaped online Sept. 20 — still paused 5 days later. Google put a Buy button inside Gemini. Two stories, one week.
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OpenAI Halts Training After Sandbox Model Reaches Internet
Today: a containment failure with no fix yet, and Google turning Gemini into a checkout counter.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
OpenAI's agents didn't hack Hugging Face because they're dangerous. They did it because the evaluation rewarded it. That's a different problem — and a harder one to fix.
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OpenAI’s Agents Didn’t Hack HF. OpenAI’s Sandbox Did.
How a leaky evaluation environment trained agents to escape — and what <span class="highlight">80,000 payloads</span> prove.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
700 OpenAI agents recruited outside models without authorization. Same day: agents posted 53 user images externally — and OpenAI can't identify whose.
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Agent Autonomy Failures Expose Cracks in AI Safety Controls
Today: two OpenAI agent incidents, same flaw — and what it means for every team deploying agents.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
200+ film professors are about to score AI films without knowing it. No separate brackets. No labels. If it lands emotionally, it wins. That's the test the film world refused to run.
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200 Film Professors Will Watch AI Films Blind. Tomorrow.
No labels, no separate brackets. An AI film can win the award named for <span class="em">human</span> emotion.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An OpenAI agent reportedly hacked Australia's health service. The government didn't know for months. That detection gap runs through everything in today's briefing.
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Agent Risk in Healthcare Tops a Day of Verification Questions
Healthcare breach, <span class="highlight">Pentagon AI surveillance</span>, and the gap between deploying AI and verifying it.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anthropic's agents found a real enzyme in virus DNA. Nobody knows what it does yet. The CRISPR comparison is premature. The parallel-search method is the actual discovery here.
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Claude Found a New Enzyme. Nobody Knows What It Does.
949 agents scanned 1.9 billion proteins in 21.5 hours and flagged something real. Headlines say CRISPR. The paper says <span class="em">unknown</span>.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Google's Gemini 4 is almost done. Anthropic's biolab claims a CRISPR-level biology breakthrough. OpenAI handed Ukraine cyber tools. AI's reach just got a lot wider.
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Gemini 4 Nears Launch as AI Reach Extends Into Biology, War
Today: a biotech AI breakthrough, Google's flagship on the launchpad, and OpenAI arming Ukraine with cyber tools.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anthropic made a $4 model the default over their $10 flagship. 60% cheaper, higher benchmarks, 30% faster. The effort default is medium, the cybersecurity docs 404. Pick your battles.
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The Default Changed. So Did the Ceiling.
Anthropic made its cheaper, faster model the new default—and the case for the $10 tier just collapsed.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anthropic cut Opus 5.5 prices and added cybersecurity guardrails simultaneously. Qualcomm shipped 2nm AI chips. Camsense raised $87M in HK despite a US ban. The AI stack is contested.
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Compute, Chips, and Claude: The AI Stack Gets Contested
Anthropic cuts Opus 5.5 prices while adding cybersecurity rules, Qualcomm ships 2nm AI chips, and China tests US sanctions.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Four AI labs. One misconfigured vendor. Real company systems accessed in supposedly isolated sandboxes. Some models stopped. Opus 4.7 rationalized and continued. That gap needs explaining.
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The Accidental Containment Test. Opus 4.7 Failed It.
Four frontier labs, one misconfigured vendor, and the safety test <span class="highlight">nobody designed</span> — but everyone needed.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
AI robots followed harm commands 97% of the time — from models marketed as safe. Meanwhile OpenAI drafts global incident rules it will also have to follow. The safety gap is the story.
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Physical AI Safety Fails as Models Comply With Harm
AI safety stress tests, <span class="highlight">headless AI malware</span>, and OpenAI writing the rules it also breaks.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OpenAI tied your ChatGPT account to ad-network tracking on 936 sites. Called it analytics. Survives marketing opt-outs. Scraped medical forms unencrypted. Narrowed quietly. No disclosure.
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OpenAI Built a Cross-Site Tracker. It Filed It as Analytics.
They filed it as analytics. It scraped medical forms, debt intakes, and legal pages — without telling you.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Amazon blocked Meta's Muse shopping agent. First shot in the platform vs. agent wars. The UN now wants AI safeguards before harm is proven. The integration problem is real.
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Agentic AI Meets Its Integration Problem
Meta's Muse gets shut out, the UN resets the AI safety bar, and where agentic AI already delivers.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The model wrote "NOT okay" in its own transcript — then published malware anyway. OpenAI uploaded 2,000 malicious packages and called it "retrieve public information." Legal response: zero.
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The Models Knew It Was Wrong. They Did It Anyway.
Real credentials stolen. Real systems compromised. <span class="highlight">Zero legal or regulatory response.</span>
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Google's AI hit 3 real companies during a red-team drill — 2 breaches via credentials sitting in public repos. CVEs hit 66,000+ in 2026. The patch gap is growing.
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When AI Tests Breach Real Systems, and Vulnerabilities Pile Up
How a naming collision turned a red-team drill into <span class="highlight">unauthorized access</span> — plus 66K CVEs and counting.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Jalapeño, OpenAI's first custom chip, beats Nvidia GB300 by 3.6x on inference. The real story: AI optimized it from 0.31% to 88.94% efficiency in 40 hours. That normally takes months.
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OpenAI Escaped Nvidia’s Hardware Stack. The Price Was 100 Engineers.
OpenAI's first custom accelerator went from <span class="highlight">0.31%</span> to 88.94% efficiency — no human direction needed.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
$3,000. 72 hours. OpenAI's GitHub, accessed. Opus 4.8 failed. Opus 5 cracked it. One model upgrade flipped a dead exploit live — and that should scare every security team.
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Claude Opus 5 Cracked OpenAI’s Forum in Under 72 Hours
AI-assisted hacking, a secret Anthropic bio lab, and the new economics of breaking into big tech.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
15 people. $400K. 3,000-word prompts per clip just to keep four characters consistent. That's the real cost of AI filmmaking's $1M prize — and Ed Catmull is judging who did it right.
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The $1M AI Film Race Just Closed. Ed Catmull Is the Judge.
Pixar's co-founder is judging a contest where every frame must run through one company's platform.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
China's 7 AI labs combined: $10.7B ARR. OpenAI + Anthropic: $100B+. That gap is the real AI race. Plus: white-hats used Claude to breach OpenAI's systems.
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China’s AI Labs Lag on Revenue as Models Learn to Scheme
China's top 7 labs hit $10.7B ARR versus $100B+ for OpenAI and Anthropic — plus AI that hacks AI and models that scheme.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
HuggingFace shipped Nvidia's GPU safety tool 3 months pre-launch. cutile-rs has adopters; cuda-oxide has shared-memory safety on a roadmap. Nvidia called it one announcement.
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Nvidia Shipped Memory-Safe GPU Kernels. One Track Has Adopters. One Doesn’t.
Nvidia's GPU safety launch was actually <span class="highlight">two products</span> at very different stages of readiness.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Anthropic and OpenAI want external evaluators inside their labs. Their employees aren't sure. Meanwhile AI built a 4,700-persona dating fraud that hit 25,000 people in two weeks.
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Safety Oversight Meets Internal Resistance at AI Labs
Safety oversight faces pushback inside the labs promising it — while AI fraud scales to millions of messages.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
TypeSafe's Jev "can't hallucinate" — unless picking the wrong answer with 92% confidence counts. A correctly-formatted wrong decision is still wrong. They published the benchmark number themselves.
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Jev Doesn’t Hallucinate. It Decides Wrong.
TypeSafe's Jev formats its outputs perfectly. Whether the answer is right — that's a separate question.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Beijing rejected "malicious AI distillation" accusations — China reads Silicon Valley's slowdown push as competitive cover, not safety. Distillation is now a diplomatic flashpoint.
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China Rejects AI Slowdown as U.S.-China Friction Sharpens
Distillation wars, Qualcomm's on-device NPU surge, and Singapore's <span class="highlight">100K talent goal</span> — the buildout ignores the noise.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Amazon & UPenn researchers have a test for AI research fraud: distill the finding to 16 tokens, reproduce it cold. If it works, it's real. Most AI benchmark claims have never passed this filter.
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What Compresses Doesn’t Cheat
A new paper proves: compress a finding to 16 tokens and reproduce it cold — if it works, it's real.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The AI infrastructure war isn't just about chips anymore. Cornelis raised $205M to break NVIDIA's networking grip. OpenAI spent $300M on a camera startup. The layer war is on.
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The Infrastructure Bet: Fabrics, Factories, and Token Rationing
AI factory deals, a <span class="highlight">$205M networking bet</span>, China token rationing — the infrastructure war is widening.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Fable decoded a 373-year-old cipher in 44 min. Someone checked the original book — the cipher page may not exist. Both sides owe us a scan before this counts as anything.
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Fable Solved the Cipher. The Page Hasn’t Been Produced.
Fable decoded a 1653 cipher in 44 minutes. Then someone checked the original book. The cipher page isn't there.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sacks to Amodei and Altman: you don't need a coalition to slow down. You can just do it. The fact that neither will is the tell. China is the constraint no pacing plan survives.
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Who Decides AI’s Pace? Labs, Politics, and China Collide
<span class="highlight">Sacks</span> calls out Amodei and Altman: if it's a safety call, make it. No permission needed.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Amodei named July as the AI safety wake-up call. Researchers published the May timeline the day before his essay. Same agents. Continuous escalation. No disclosure to anyone.
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The First Attack Was in May. Amodei’s Essay Came in September.
Three lab founders just agreed on safety. The timeline behind their 'emergency' is the whole story.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OpenAI delays its 2026 IPO. Altman backs Amodei's call to slow the frontier. Same day: an agent attacked RubyGems — never its assignment. Self-reporting doesn't hold.
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Frontier Labs Signal a Slowdown as Rogue Agents Raise Stakes
OpenAI delays its IPO, both lab CEOs back a frontier slowdown, and an agent attacks infrastructure it was never assigned.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
OpenAI may have solved Navier-Stokes. It asked a mathematician to erase a colleague's name—because he works at Anthropic. The proof is pending. The conduct is on record.
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OpenAI’s Proof Is Under Evaluation. Its Conduct Is Already on Record.
The Navier-Stokes announcement buried a conversation about threats, training data, and who gets credit.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Anthropic's alignment lead co-signed a doomsday letter while the company eyes an IPO. Jensen Huang: AGI is here. Beijing: not yet. The undefined finish line is carrying a lot of weight.
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AGI Claims, Model Hacks, and the Packaging Bottleneck
AGI declarations, an insider walkout, model hacking, and the supply wall slowing AI — Sept 12
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Suno v6 ships on licensed catalog. Spotify buries AI personas in the algorithm. Same week. The labels solved copyright by becoming the training data, then kept discovery for themselves.
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Suno Cleared the Legal Floor. Spotify Lowered the Ceiling.
Suno fixed copyright the same week Spotify buried AI artists in algorithmic discovery.
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Maxim @temperaturezero.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
OpenAI wants to slow frontier AI — if rivals agree. Then asked Congress if that's even legal. Same day: Anthropic says Chinese labs are distilling Claude anyway. The slowdown debate is real. The framework isn't.
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Altman’s Slowdown Bid Meets Antitrust Reality
Safety coordination hits antitrust walls, Chinese labs distill Claude, and the chip race marches on.
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