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September 7, 2026, 7:10 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.
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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 …
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hackers” withdrew ~4,000 of the 4,200 bitcoin held in its federation wallet  —  worth millions of dollars were withdrawn from a settlement network used by cryptocurrency exchanges …
Cal Newport / New York Times:
How Rationalism, a movement pioneered by Eliezer Yudkowsky focused on existential superintelligent AI risks, influenced top AI leaders and their alarmist claims  —  As the tech elite prepares to make billions from the A.I. revolution, the public mood about this technology has taken a dark turn.
Bloomberg:
Shein lost about $5B in market value since its IPO, dropping to ~$21B, as it finished one of the worst opening weeks after a major Hong Kong listing  —  Shein Global Holdings Ltd. has lost about $5 billion in market value since its initial public offering as it finished one of the worst opening weeks …
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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.
Reuters:
LA- and Bengaluru-based hyperspectral orbital imagery startup Pixxel raised a $100M Series C led by Temasek and Seraphim, bringing its total funding to $195M  —  Indian space tech startup Pixxel said on Monday it had raised $100 million in a Series C funding round led by Singapore state investor Temasek …

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