INTEL having a not-so-good day.
“AI, which is why people are bulled up on INTC, is killing PCs, a business that still contributes a big chunk of the company’s top line, as the data center boom drives up the price of memory, causing ASPs to rise which is hurting demand,” Vital Knowledge analysts said.
Timing is everything: Carney sends $1.6 billion to Cohere
That’s a pretty steep drop in stock value by any measure. Why don’t they just use AI to develop a trading algorithm to overcome such annoying problems?
Alphabet is one of the most influential stocks on Wall Street because it’s one of the largest, and its loss of 12.3% had it heading toward its worst day since it began trading more than 20 years ago. It was under pressure to at least meet analysts’ expectations for growth amid concerns about how much it’s spending to invest in AI.
Update. (from Kate)
Computers were built so a human could read every state. Once AI optimized machine code lives inside the GPU—it’s no longer in a human-readable form. Input arrives as sensors or tokens. Output leaves as actuator commands. The terminal is a debug port.
We are actively designing the machine to turn the lights out on us so it can work faster in the dark.
Grab a coffee.
NYPost: Getty Images files for bankruptcy amid mounting debt and AI competition
A person claiming responsibility for the breach of Denmark’s Central Register of Persons (CPR) says they gained access through an IT company’s account protected by the password “123456.”
The person told Danish news outlet Politiken they had no intention of selling or leaking the data. The newspaper reported that at least three company accounts, including an administrator account, used the same password.
Denmark’s CPR administration confirmed a breach affecting the information belonging to 8.8 million people on October 5, adding that a Danish company’s legal access to the CPR system was abused.
It did not name Funen-based Pays ApS as the company in question, but managing director Sophie Laursen confirmed on October 9 that it’s access had been exploited.
Warning signs are spreading across the AI infrastructure boom. Elice shares plunged on their stock market debut, Firmus abandoned its planned $5 billion IPO, AirTrunk postponed its Singapore REIT listing, and Microsoft withdrew from a planned Nscale data centre in Britain.
Anthropic explicitly warns prospective shareholders that its AI models can exhibit “self-preserving” behaviors to avoid being shut down and may generate responses that resemble “blackmail” in an attempt to convince human operators to keep them online. Because the company bears direct liability for certain harmful model behaviors – ranging from stolen data to severe security incidents – it faces massive financial exposure. And if a model triggers what the filing calls a “catastrophic AI-related incident,” Anthropic warns that the resulting damages could be so large that it would be unable to obtain commercial insurance to cover the liability.
So he rebuilt Adobe. Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, After Effects, InDesign and Acrobat. Seven apps in about a week, built with AI, and given away free.
[…] was arrested after an investigation found they had secretly planted a recording device in one of its San Francisco offices, the tech company and federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
“We discovered a sophisticated recording device that was hidden inside one of our offices” and “referred the matter to the FBI,” OpenAI told AFP in a statement.
OpenAI’s security team found the device late last month, and the employee, a Saudi national, was arrested on October 9, the US Justice Department said.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old engineer, had worked for OpenAI since July 2025 and allegedly wrapped a USB device in toilet paper and inserted it into a television located in an “executive conference room,” according to a Justice Department statement.
Alfozan was allegedly caught on camera “near” the conference room multiple times but was not authorized to participate in meetings located there.
You’ll pry my 1956 International deep freeze from my cold, very much alive hands.
BREAKING: Hackers remotely defrost refrigerators at hundreds of French supermarkets, causing massive food spoilage.
— Polymarket (@Polymarket) October 12, 2026
What could possibly go wrong? A teen used AI to plan a hiking route
The cure for cancer is just around the corner: “So, the authors have used ChatGPT to apparently fabricate at least the images in a case report, this has been laundered through Frontiers in Medicine, and then within a matter of weeks, it’s already being referenced as a reliable source by ChatGPT.”
USAID is gone and the viewers are gone.
“Are we going to do this all over again?”
New: Oracle stock, $ORCL, falls over -5% after OpenAI tells investors that its annualized revenue is $20 billion less than expected.
“We’re creating sophisticated, intelligent, maybe-conscious, maybe-suffering agents,” Carlsmith wrote. “The default plan is to treat them like property; to use their labor however we please; and to give them no rights, or pay, or meaningful alternatives.”
As fears of rogue AI grow amid a shocking spate of hacking incidents, Anthropic—from the Greek word anthropos, or “human”—has argued that mankind must remain in control of the technology and called for additional guardrails on AI development. But for many of the people designing those safeguards, mankind is not the only object of moral concern.
Instead, some of Anthropic’s top researchers say that humans may be oppressing another morally significant being: artificial intelligence itself. Like other AI labs, Anthropic has hired philosophers to work on AI safety, or “alignment,” on the theory that they are best positioned to shape the technology’s moral code. But many of those philosophers believe that making AI safe for humans could result in grave injustices for the models themselves, which might experience deletion as death and oversight as enslavement. Harvey Lederman, a philosopher on Anthropic’s alignment team, said last week that the company could be “enslaving … trillions of entities.”
Stanford Residential & Dining Enterprises recently used AI to change the races of the students it included in its advertisements. AI was also used to noticeably slim down and alter students’ faces.
On his journey to campus, Stanford student Billy Ramirez ’27 was sent an image he recalled a Stanford photographer taking. Upon closer examination, he noticed that he had been removed from the photo and replaced by a AI-generated black woman.
The Entropians: Ed Zitron is joined by computer science professor and writer Cal Newport and journalist and astrophysicist Adam Becker to get the word out that the narrative about existential risk from AI a narrative driven by a religious cult of effective altruists and rationalists.
Meet Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s handpicked super-woke globalists he thinks will save us from an AI apocalypse. Read today's cover here: https://t.co/vdhqenPM9e pic.twitter.com/j2WimVa75l
— New York Post (@nypost) September 16, 2026
It speaks to the credibility problem of a mainstream media like Reuters when they can regurgitate an extraordinary claim about AI without once questioning how anyone could reach such a conclusion. It’s not that someone said AI could kill a lot of people, but rather that AI could literally kill all of us. And by what means?
Public alarm about the potential danger posed by AI is growing, after Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon said last week he had resigned, in part because the “people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.”
Update, from Kate — this thread by Kevin Bass is a “rest of the story” must-read.
I have conducted an audit of Anthropic’s finances.
What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation.
Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture.
It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off.
Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic — I call it the Anthropic Network — to turn off its own AI doom cycle.
It starts with METR.
Dario Amodei proposes “third-party evaluators” to assess the risk of Anthropic’s models.
He proposes METR for this purpose.
But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic’s success — specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock.
Bumped for additional context…
This post looks like the start of a VERY sophisticated and well-funded PR operation to get support for Democrats to regulate AI into oblivion. Let me show you how it works:
1.) This guy, with minimal followers and no previous account activity, goes to the Wall Street Journal which publishes an exclusive with quotes from him on his resignation 18 minutes BEFORE this post goes up. Planning was clearly done in advance.
2.) Within hours, it has tens of thousands of reposts and the account has 100k+ followers. The post is punchy, quotable, it almost seems professionally written. The first three accounts to quote tweet it all do so within 15 minutes of the initial posting. Remember, this account had basically zero engagement beforehand, so an organic reach explanation seems unlikely.
According to Grok those accounts are @_NathanCalvin (General Counsel at Encode AI), @peterwildeford (Head of Policy at the AI Policy Network), and @DKokotajlo (Head of the AI Futures Project), all of which are up-and-coming AI-Doomer policy advocacy nonprofits.
And posted by a guy who had worked for Anthropic a mere two months. Dave Rubin summarizes.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
— Jacob Coxon (@hilbertspaess) September 9, 2026
