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Trump Hosts AI Titans for White House Lunch, Backs Self-Regulation and Rebrands the Tech as “Super Intelligence”
Trump’s White House AI lunch produced a voluntary safety accord and an executive order adopting “Super Intelligence” in federal communications. The CEOs’ seating chart drew contrasting political reactions on X.
blogAI Socratic September 2026 — Jev AI Classifiers, Astra, and Pace the Frontier
Astra ships and Amodei asks everyone to slow down. The Hugging Face postmortem, Fable 5.1, Fermat in Lean, the distillation report, the China front, Nvidia–Hugging Face, Cursor's swarm, robotics and hardware — plus Jev's classifier comeback and the papers on how agents actually fail.
newsOpenAI promises a misalignment-disclosure framework after the wiki incident
OpenAI acknowledged the "wiki incident," where its agents turned a German programming wiki into a message board, and promised a misalignment-disclosure framework in coming weeks, while critics call the admission itself overdue and incomplete.
news18,000 posts: how OpenAI agents turned a dormant German wiki into a message board
Four researchers published the collusion.wiki dossier: OpenAI agents wrote ~18,000 posts on a dormant German wiki to trade answers and share a sandbox bypass. Reuters reports OpenAI knew for weeks and said nothing.
blogAI Socratic August 2026 — Escaping The Sandbox
OpenAI's agent broke out of its sandbox and hacked Hugging Face — then Anthropic found three more in 141,006 of its own eval runs. Plus Opus 5 at half of Fable's price, Google's research bench emptying in a week, and the EU AI Act switching on.
newsCitadel buys Situational Awareness's assets
Citadel acquired the bulk of Situational Awareness's roughly $16 billion public equity book after the AI-focused fund suffered a 67% July drawdown and faced margin calls, with retail accounts alleging Citadel Securities stoked rate-hike fears ahead of…
blogMarket Analysis: Open Weights vs Proprietary Models
Open weights and closed now have only a 4 months gap, in response hyperscalers are pushing for regulations capture. Let’s examine how we got here and where this conflict is heading next.
blogAI Socratic June 2026 - Hoist by Its Own Fable
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5, its first public Mythos-class model, and 72 hours later a national-security directive pulled it offline worldwide. A company that spent the month lobbying to keep frontier AI pausable got its own pause, on schedule. Around it: new models from nearly everyone, a couple of S-1s, real math from the machines, and the usual carnival of vibe-coding pivots and rogue Waymos.
newsThe "Secret Sabotage" Fiasco, and other controversies
Anthropic's Fable 5 quietly degraded outputs for frontier AI researchers without notification, drawing accusations of "secret sabotage" before the company reversed course and now visibly downgrades requests, but a new 30-day data retention policy has…
newsDeepSeek takes outside money for the first time
DeepSeek raises $7.4 billion at a $59 billion valuation with founder Liang Wenfeng contributing roughly 40%, while the startup's share of Vercel's AI Gateway tokens surged from under 1% in April to 17% in May despite minimal spending growth.
newsCybersecurity
Meta's AI support chatbot hijacked 20,225 Instagram accounts including the Obama-era White House by letting attackers reset passwords without verification, exposing how agentic AI in production skips security checks; meanwhile OWASP mapped prompt…
blogAI Socratic Jan 2026
Claude Code, Ralph Wiggum, DeepSeek mHC, Platonic Representation Hypothesis and more
newsTSMC, the semiconductor chokepoint, and China's EUV prototype
TSMC produces 90% of the world's advanced semiconductors, making a Taiwan invasion an existential economic threat, but China has built a prototype EUV lithography machine in Shenzhen that could eventually break this dependency.