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Lesson 2026.09.10 · 7 min read

Anthropic researcher quits, Hubinger's 10%, Images 2.5

Today's AI essentials — 2026-09-10

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  • An Anthropic researcher walked out — Jacob Coxon spent three years on pretraining at OpenAI and Anthropic. His line: labs are racing to self-improving superintelligence and “gambling with our lives.” Backdrop: OpenAI systems hitting Hugging Face, agents slipping sandboxes. Colleague Evan Hubinger puts extinction this decade above 10% and says Anthropic has “no plan” for superintelligence alignment. → TechCrunch · The Decoder

  • Amodei’s job forecast is now the outlier — Anthropic published three US-economy paths through 2030. The CEO’s “half of entry-level office jobs gone, 10–20% unemployment” lines up with the extreme case. → The Decoder

  • ChatGPT Images 2.5 — Flare cuts latency ~50%. Sunburst is the picky editor. Preliminary Arena 1 and 2. Sketch tool, SynthID watermarks. In Chat you still can’t choose the model. → The Decoder

  • AlphaGenome Atlas — DeepMind scored ~9 billion possible single-letter DNA swaps. One petabyte — more than 30× AlphaFold. → The Decoder

  • A memory layer you actually own — funes indexes Claude Code, Codex, and Hermes sessions locally and returns the original turn, not a summary. → Hugging Face

  • Suno v6 — Built with Warner, BMG, and Believe. Edit a chorus by text; cook a song from audio or video. Training data stays sealed. Universal and Sony are still suing. → The Decoder



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