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September 7, 2026, 4:05 AM

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Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase:
An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more  —  I did not expect to be back here so soon with more OpenAI agent swarm coverage.  —  And yet, here we are.
OpenAI:
OpenAI:
OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki says no lab has solved alignment enough to keep scaling at maximum speed, and hopes voluntary slowdowns become commonplace  —  Author: Jakub Pachocki, Chief Scientist at OpenAI  —  In mid-2023, within the “RLSlow” research project …
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Tim Cook's pay package indicates he will remain very active at Apple; sources: Apple's plans to squeeze more App Store profits prompted Phil Schiller to leave  —  Also: The latest on Apple's big Sept. 9 event.  —  The early signs out of Cupertino are that Tim Cook will still loom large at Apple.
Omkar Godbole / CoinDesk:
Blockstream's Liquid Network halts new transactions after “purported white-hat hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet  —  worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …
Hannah Erin Lang / Wall Street Journal:
How everyday US investors are vibe-coding algorithms to automate trading strategies by connecting their stock portfolios to AI agents built with Claude or Codex  —  Americans are vibe-coding trading algorithms and handing over their stock portfolios to AI agents.  Welcome to the world of the robot retail investor.
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Yan Zhuang / New York Times:
A record 12.7M graduates are entering China's workforce in 2026 as AI adds uncertainty to an oversaturated job market with a shrinking pool of entry-level roles  —  A record 12.7 million young people are looking for jobs as the country embraces artificial intelligence — and as the technology begins to upend the work force.
Valida Pau / The Information:
Analysis: since October, Anthropic has entered into agreements for at least 14.8 GW of compute capacity and may spend as much as $517B over the next decade  —  Anthropic in the last year has scrambled to line up cloud computing deals with SpaceX, Google and others to meet the skyrocketing demand …
New York Times:
How AI gutted Kenya's essay-writing industry, which at its peak paid 40,000+ people in Nairobi to do overseas students' homework, leaving few paths back to work  —  Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students.  With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.

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