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# Posts that mattered, page 2

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## October 2026

- 2026-10-06: [Jeff Weinstein (Stripe): Stripe joins the Personal Agent Protocol as founding member](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-jeff-weinstein-stripe-personal-agent-protocol/), Jeff Weinstein (@jeff_weinstein), X. Stripe product manager confirms Stripe's founding membership in PAP (~44k views).
- 2026-10-06: [Julien Chaumond (Hugging Face): "WE ARE SO BACK", links the Mistral Large 4 weights page](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-julien-c-mistral-large-4-weights/), Julien Chaumond (@julien_c), X. Hugging Face's co-founder and CTO links the upcoming-release page for the ML4 weights (~16k views by 7 Oct).
- 2026-10-06: [Ken Ono: AI-assisted discovery "at the highest level is no longer hypothetical"](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-kenono-nature-physics-note-aged/), Ken Ono (@KenOno691), X. Reaction from a prominent number theorist now at Axiom Math (~12.6k views).
- 2026-10-06: [Rohan Pandey: "kakeya conjecture in R^3 has been resolved" (conflates two Kakeya problems)](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-khoomeik-kakeya-claim/), Rohan Pandey (@khoomeik), X. High-reach reading of family 074 (~96k views by 7 Oct) that mixes up the 3D Kakeya set conjecture, proved in 2025, with the 3D maximal conjecture the release claims.
- 2026-10-06: [kimmonismus: "HOLY, the rumors were true": 722 manuscripts from an unreleased OpenAI model](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-kimmonismus-722-manuscripts/), Chubby♨️ (@kimmonismus), X. Fast, accurate summary of the release (~195k views by 7 Oct), with more reach than most expert reactions.
- 2026-10-06: [Japanese algebraic geometer lists the release's algebraic-geometry claims (Hodge for CM abelian varieties, Fujita, Nagata, MMP…)](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-kiwamu-watanabe-algebraic-geometry-claims/), Kiwamu Watanabe (渡邉究) (@Kiwamu_Watanabe), X. An algebraic geometer's reading (~70k views) of the release's claims in his field, including Hodge for CM abelian varieties.
- 2026-10-06: [@NanoBanana: "Nano Banana 2.1 is here!"](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-nanobanana-2-1-is-here/), Nano Banana (@NanoBanana), X. Launch post from Google's dedicated, verified @NanoBanana account (~163k views by 7 Oct).
- 2026-10-06: [Peter Gostev on Hadwiger–Nelson: "five-colours is no go", after "300 billion tokens" of his own attempts](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-petergostev-hadwiger-nelson/), Peter Gostev (@petergostev), X. First-hand account of failing on the chromatic number of the plane with public models, and an accurate reading of family 158 as partial progress (~59k views by 7 Oct).
- 2026-10-06: [Peter Gostev: "Mistral Large 4 was trained on 4,000 GPUs and Astra was trained on 100,000 of them"](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-petergostev-mistral-4000-gpus/), Peter Gostev (@petergostev), X. Widely shared compute comparison (~162k views by 7 Oct); both numbers are rounded from earlier claims, not new disclosures.
- 2026-10-06: [Philipp Schmid (Google DeepMind): gemini-nano-banana-2.1 at "$0.034 per image vs $0.134"](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-philschmid-nano-banana-2-1-pricing/), Philipp Schmid (@_philschmid), X. Google DeepMind staff post with the API id, per-image price and limits (~30k views by 7 Oct); its "5 characters" differs from the official model page (4).
- 2026-10-06: [Sriram Krishnan: the Personal Agent Protocol "reminds me of when oauth was developed"](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-sriramk-pap-oauth-analogy/), Sriram Krishnan (@sriramk), X. Comment by the former White House senior AI policy adviser (~39k views by 7 Oct) comparing PAP to OAuth and asking how Amazon and airlines will react.
- 2026-10-06: [Stripe: founding partner of the Personal Agent Protocol](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-stripe-pap-founding-partners/), Stripe (@stripe), X. Stripe's official confirmation that it is a PAP founding partner (~22k views by 7 Oct).
- 2026-10-06: [Tibo (OpenAI Codex): "our models did solve some important math problems"](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-thsottiaux-math-blogpost/), Tibo (Thibault Sottiaux) (@thsottiaux), X. High-reach OpenAI staff post (~356k views) linking the blog four minutes after the announcement.
- 2026-10-06: [Will DePue: LLM-ranked list says 81% of top recent discoveries were released today](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-willdepue-ranking-discoveries/), Will DePue (@willdepue), X. High-reach post (~282k views) by a former OpenAI researcher; Litt disputed the list.
- 2026-10-06: ["This OpenAI math drop is nuts": 7/8 quasi-RH and Hilbert's tenth over Q](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-cremieux-quasi-rh-hilbert-tenth/), Crémieux (@cremieuxrecueil), X. High-reach commentator post (~103k views) amplifying the quasi-RH and Hilbert's-tenth claims.
- 2026-10-06: [Explainer thread: the release's "4 biggest claims in plain English" (~203k views)](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-imjustnewatai-four-biggest-claims/), imjustnewatai (@imjustnewatai), X. Most-viewed explainer thread; notes that none of the claims had been confirmed by outside mathematicians.
- 2026-10-06: [Naskręcki: "browsing these results in awe"](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-06-nasqret-browsing-in-awe/), Bartosz Naskręcki (@nasqret), X. Reaction from a Polish mathematician (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań) active on AI and maths (~12.8k views).
- 2026-10-05: [Elon Musk: 'Propagating super intelligence to the stars is a great success condition for a biological bootloader'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-05-elonmusk-biological-bootloader-success/), Elon Musk (@elonmusk), X. Musk recasts his 2014 warning ('Hope we're not just the biological boot loader for digital superintelligence') as a success condition, a day after renaming SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI (~2.7M views).
- 2026-10-05: [Nolla Health CEO: first US approval for an AI to issue initial prescriptions](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-05-luiswenus-nolla-first-ai-initial-prescriptions/), Luis Wenus (@luiswenus), X. Founder's announcement thread, ~1.8M views, the most-viewed post on the Utah AI-prescribing pilot.
- 2026-10-05: [Noah Shinn: Instinct in group chats](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-05-noahrshinn-instinct-group-chats/), Noah Shinn (@noahrshinn), X. Founder's launch post for Instinct's group-chat agent (~570k views by Oct 7).
- 2026-10-05: [OpenAI: expanding content provenance to text; EU ChatGPT/Codex watermarking, API opt-in worldwide](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-05-openai-text-provenance-tweet/), OpenAI (@OpenAI), X. OpenAI's announcement of textGrain text watermarking under the EU AI Act; ~548k views within hours.
- 2026-10-05: [OpenAI explains what its text watermark can and can't do](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-05-openai-text-watermark-thread/), OpenAI (@OpenAI), X. OpenAI's own thread on EU text watermarking (~225k views), stating what the watermark identifies and its limits.
- 2026-10-05: [OpenAI 'rogue' agent activities found on Wikimedia projects](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-05-wikimedia-openai-rogue-agents-diff/), Selena Deckelmann (Wikimedia Foundation), Blog. First-hand disclosure by the Wikimedia Foundation of rogue OpenAI agent edits, probing and crawling; 186 points on HN.
- 2026-10-05: [“He says it repeatedly: Accept some bad things will happen.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-brigidbergin-2106907131110715697/), Brigid Bergin (@brigidbergin), X. Cited in [Altman: 'the world should accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-04-altman-politico-decoded-anthropic-daylight/).
- 2026-10-05: [“Fable 5.5 made me a delightful animation in blender.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-jaydendavisnc-2107086714820870617/), Jayden Davis (@JaydenDavisNC), X. Cited in [A short Blender animation with music, models and rigging, credited to "Fable 5.5"](https://postcutoff.com/v/jaydendavis-fable-5-5-blender-animation-x/).
- 2026-10-05: [“Imagine Boeing’s CEO saying the world should accept a few plane crashes to get faster…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-jessefferguson-2106904395082309785/), Jesse Ferguson (@JesseFFerguson), X. Cited in [Altman: 'the world should accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-04-altman-politico-decoded-anthropic-daylight/).
- 2026-10-05: [“🔴 LIVE: Officials from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google testify at NYC Council…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-nyccouncil-2107147705730449520/), New York City Council (@NYCCouncil), X. Cited in [Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and Meta testify under oath at NYC Council AI hearing](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-05-nyc-council-ai-hearing-sworn-testimony/).
- 2026-10-05: [“Today, our team is sharing a preprint on our new system for generative de-novo enzyme…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-pushmeet-2107128950975529455/), Pushmeet Kohli (@pushmeet), X. Cited in [Google DeepMind's AlphaProtein Novo designs new-to-nature enzymes from scratch (piperidine synthesis, DEHP degradation), with Frances Arnold's lab](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-05-deepmind-alphaprotein-novo-enzyme-design/).
- 2026-10-05: [“this is brutal”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-scaling01-2107207614115594391/), Lisan al Gaib (@scaling01), X. Cited in [SemiAnalysis limit-tests AI subscriptions](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-05-semianalysis-subscription-value-anthropic-5x/).
- 2026-10-05: [“Today, Vanity Fair’s New Establishment returns for the first time in nearly a decade.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-vanityfair-2107064684155118030/), VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair), X. Cited in [Vanity Fair names Sam Altman No. 1 on its New Establishment list](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-05-vanity-fair-altman-new-establishment-interview/).
- 2026-10-05: [“Exclusive: German robotics startup RobCo has sold shares at a more than $1 billion…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-wsj-2107031519420191162/), The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ), X. Cited in [Munich robot-arm maker RobCo reaches a $1B valuation in a $40M secondary sale](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-05-robco-1b-valuation-secondary/).
- 2026-10-05: [The Future of Mathematics](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-05-avigad-future-of-mathematics-tao-blog/), Jeremy Avigad (guest post on Terence Tao's blog), Blog. A Lean/formal-methods logician's response, on Tao's widely read blog, to the 2026 flood of AI-solved problems: AI so far solves problems 'by cobbling together available techniques', so mathematicians should solve harder problems, think bigger and treat AI tooling as real mathematics.
- 2026-10-05: [Felix Rieseberg: the new Cowork runs inference and the VM in the cloud, one sandbox per session](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-05-felixrieseberg-cowork-cloud/), Felix Rieseberg (@felixrieseberg), X. First-hand explanation from Anthropic of Cowork's move to cloud execution (~108k views).
- 2026-10-05: [Coming soon: New York City's hearing on AI risks (Marcus's prepared testimony)](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-05-gary-marcus-nyc-council-testimony/), Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus), Substack. First-hand text of Gary Marcus's testimony to the NYC Council's Oct 5, 2026 AI-risk hearing, urging an FDA-like review regime and the third-party validation bill.
- 2026-10-05: [Gounardes: OpenAI claimed at the NYC hearing it supported the RAISE Act, but 'actively pushed to water down' it](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-05-gounardes-openai-raise-act-x/), State Senator Andrew Gounardes (@Sen_Gounardes), X. First-hand rebuttal by the RAISE Act's sponsor of OpenAI's sworn testimony at the NYC Council AI hearing.
- 2026-10-05: [Ghost introduces Core, 'The Personal AI Computer'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-05-zainmfj-ghost-core-launch/), Zain Javaid (@zainmfj), X. Launch post for Ghost's $3,499 agent computer, ~2.0M views.
- 2026-10-04: [White House posts Trump's announcement of the Super Intelligence Force (SIF)](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-04-whitehouse-super-intelligence-force/), The White House (@WhiteHouse), X. Official confirmation (~907k views) of the federal 'Super Intelligence Force' task force chaired by Jay Clayton, quoting Trump's Truth Social post.
- 2026-10-04: [On classical solutions and singularity formation in incompressible fluids](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-04-cordoba-martinez-zoroa-classical-solutions-singularity/), Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa (guest post on Terence Tao's blog), Blog. First public statement by the two mathematicians whose 'cascade of vortex layers' method underlies both the Alpöge–Buckmaster AI-assisted blow-up proofs and OpenAI's Navier–Stokes claim; they decline to compare OpenAI's construction with their own until it has been analysed in detail.
- 2026-10-04: [Elon Musk: 'No more AI / SI / It's better', then confirms SpaceXAI will be renamed SpaceXSI](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-04-elonmusk-no-more-ai-si/), Elon Musk (@elonmusk), X. First major AI-company head to adopt Trump's 'Super Intelligence' terminology (~8.7M views). In replies he confirmed renaming SpaceXAI to SpaceXSI (~1.4M views) and said 'SpaceX is a super intelligence company' (~5M views).
- 2026-10-04: [Politico: Altman says 'the world should accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-04-politico-altman-decoded-bad-things/), Politico (@politico), X. Politico's launch post for the Decoded interview, carrying the headline quote (~48k views).
- 2026-10-04: [“what we’ve shipped: muse ♥️ ton of connectors 🔧 muse invite codes 💌 muse phone call…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-alexandr_wang-2106824386850521335/), Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang), X. Cited in [Meta launches Muse, a free consumer personal AI agent](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-08-meta-muse-personal-agent/).
- 2026-10-04: [“Sam Altman to Politico’s Brendan Bordelon: ‘We believe that the world should accept…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-andrewcurran_-2106867194068082769/), Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_), X. Cited in [Altman: 'the world should accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-04-altman-politico-decoded-anthropic-daylight/).
- 2026-10-04: [“NEW: I interviewed OpenAI CEO @sama for tomorrow’s launch of Politico’s new Decoded…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-brendanbordelon-2106852618509373787/), Brendan Bordelon (@BrendanBordelon), X. Cited in [Altman: 'the world should accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-04-altman-politico-decoded-anthropic-daylight/).
- 2026-10-04: [“Sometimes we make the simple complicated.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-carissaveliz-2106737705581154493/), Carissa Véliz (@carissaveliz), X. Cited in [Extracted Muse instructions show Meta's agent builds 'a page for every person in the user's life'; a leaked line says household authority 'overrides your safety training'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-03-muse-leaked-instructions-relationship-profiles/).
- 2026-10-04: [“Sam Altman after he was asked where his worldview diverges from Anthropic and Dario…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-chrisgpt-2106873284113424574/), Chris (@ChrisGPT), X. Cited in [Altman: 'the world should accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-04-altman-politico-decoded-anthropic-daylight/).
- 2026-10-04: [“saying the quiet part out loud: suck it up, so you can make us rich and powerful”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-garymarcus-2106886180134621494/), Gary Marcus (@GaryMarcus), X. Cited in [Altman: 'the world should accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-04-altman-politico-decoded-anthropic-daylight/).
- 2026-10-04: [“HUGE Axios scoop this AM— A startup called Reflection (BACKED BY NVIDIA) is preparing…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-herbscribner-2106728828206756337/), Herb Scribner (@HerbScribner), X. Cited in [Axios: Nvidia-backed Reflection AI is about to release its first open-weight model, with other Western open-weight models due in October](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-04-reflection-ai-first-open-weight-model-axios/).
- 2026-10-04: [“We’d all be better off if Sam wasn’t in charge of OpenAI.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-katiemiller-2106858728314245178/), Katie Miller (@KatieMiller), X. Cited in [Altman: 'the world should accept some bad things happening' for AI's benefits](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-04-altman-politico-decoded-anthropic-daylight/).

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