Anthropic's alignment science lead put the chance AI kills all humans within a decade above 10%1, on the same day Oracle held its fiscal 2027 capex line at $90B2 to $95B3 and Cognition shipped a coding model at 81%4 lower cost.
Released September 10 and post-trained from Kimi K3 at multi-trillion-parameter RL scale, SWE-2 scored 50.0%5 on FrontierCode 1.1 Main while beating SWE-1.7 with 58%6 fewer turns and 81%4 lower cost. A third-party benchmark put real savings closer to 35%7 to 39%8, with quality tradeoffs on harder jobs.
ChatGPT for Financial Services launched September 10 on GPT-6 Astra, with Morgan Stanley and Evercore as design partners and LSEG plus PitchBook premium data packaged inside the product. Meanwhile OpenAI paused new $2009 ChatGPT Pro signups as Astra demand strained capacity.
Houthi forces seized Perim island at the southern entrance to the Red Sea and a drone strike hit Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline. US diesel hit a record $6.055611 a gallon, with California at $7.9812, as Gulf disruptions feed through to refined fuel.
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Join the founding list →Evan Hubinger, Anthropic's Alignment Science Lead, said on Wednesday he personally believes there is a more than 10%1 chance AI could kill all humans within the next decade, adding that Anthropic does not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and is not clearly on track to. The post followed the...
Continue readingYemen's Houthis seized Perim island at the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint days after taking a coastal port city, while Riyadh said drones launched from Iraqi territory struck its East-West crude pipeline and Baghdad confirmed the launches.
Cognition's SWE-2, post-trained from Kimi K3 at multi-trillion-parameter RL scale, scored 50.0%5 on FrontierCode 1.1 Main while cutting turns 58%6 and cost 81%4 versus SWE-1.7, and came in roughly 64%15 cheaper than Claude Fable 5.1 in the cited comparison. One day later Cognition rolled out its Fusion CLI. A model built on a Chinese base undercutting a frontier US lab on price is the competitive story to watch.
The Houthi seizure of Perim island puts the southern Red Sea entrance under direct pressure while the drone strike on Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline hits the overland alternative. Gulf disruptions are already flowing into refined fuels: diesel averaged a record $6.055611 nationally and $7.9812 in California a day after crude crossed $10014. Diesel prices freight, farming and construction, so the pass-through to inflation data is direct.
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Evan Hubinger runs alignment science at Anthropic and put extinction odds above 10%1 within a decade, which is a statement about the inside of the building, not a poll of outside critics. On the same day Oracle reported $28.5 billion18 in quarterly capex against $8.5 billion19 a year earlier, held $90B2 to $95B3 for fiscal 2027, and got a 7%13 after-hours share pop for the steadiness. California answered with SB 813 and AB 1405, regulating who may perform an AI audit rather than mandating the audits themselves. Builders get the useful version of this tension today: cheaper coding agents, financial-grade deployments, and a compliance surface that is starting to have names and thresholds attached.
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