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# Posts that mattered, page 3

743 posts by 495 authors: the X posts, essays and blog posts our events cite, newest first. Page 3 of 16.

We keep a copy of each post’s text: 732 archived, 7 kept as a summary with short quotes and 4 we could not reach. 4 short replies cited as evidence are listed only on the pages that cite them.

## October 2026

- 2026-10-04: [“Freaking insane. Our elected leaders need to move past the polling safe territory of…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-patrickgaspard-2106868691346330035/), Patrick Gaspard (@patrickgaspard), 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: [“AIが、核融合研究で「人間が60年近く考えてきた問題」の答えを発見した。 使われたのは GPT-6 Astra Pro。 ざっくり説明すると、…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-yumamaeda1210-2106672447617646846/), 前田悠馬｜成果報酬型のシステム開発 (@yumamaeda1210), X. Cited in [Grad's 1967 conjecture on 3D plasma equilibria falls](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-21-grad-conjecture-counterexamples/).
- 2026-10-04: [Decoded excerpt: Altman sees 'a lot of daylight' with Anthropic](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-04-jmart-decoded-altman-daylight/), Jonathan Martin (@jmart), X. Longest public excerpt of the paywalled Politico Decoded interview (~11k views).
- 2026-10-04: [Brundage: 'There really isn't a lot of daylight' between OpenAI and Anthropic](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-04-miles-brundage-not-a-lot-of-daylight/), Miles Brundage (@Miles_Brundage), X. Former OpenAI policy head disputes Altman's framing of the OpenAI–Anthropic split.
- 2026-10-04: [Ron DeSantis on Altman's 'accept some bad things': 'No dice'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-04-rondesantis-altman-no-dice/), Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis), X. A sitting Republican governor publicly rejected Altman's framing that AI companies may accept some harms (~139k views), part of the bipartisan backlash.
- 2026-10-04: [Sottiaux: every day for 28 days, a clear Codex/Work improvement or a full reset](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-04-thsottiaux-28-days-improvement-or-reset/), Tibo (Thibault Sottiaux) (@thsottiaux), X. Public 28-day daily-shipping pledge for Codex and ChatGPT Work by OpenAI's product and platform lead (~2.2M views).
- 2026-10-04: [Alexandr Wang: 'if you want your company to do 2 trillion in quarterly revenue teach the execs to use muse'](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-alexandr_wang-2106808425862795755/), Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang), X. Meta's Chief AI Officer promoting Muse on the day of the WSJ profile; ~510k views and 3.4k likes by Oct 5 (fxtwitter), one of the most-viewed posts in the Techmeme thread on the profile.
- 2026-10-03: [Elon Musk confirms Terafab–TSMC talks: 'Just discussions, but something may come of it'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-03-elonmusk-tsmc-terafab-discussions/), Elon Musk (@elonmusk), X. First-hand confirmation (~690k views) that TSMC and Musk's Terafab AI-chip fab project are in talks.
- 2026-10-03: [We Won't Know the Answers to AI's Most Important Questions Until It's Too Late](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-03-geoffrey-irving-time-too-late/), Geoffrey Irving (TIME, opinion), time.com. The former chief scientist of the UK AI Security Institute puts the chance that smarter-than-human AI kills everyone at about 50% and calls for an immediate pause on frontier AI development.
- 2026-10-03: [Altman: ascribing religious force to AI models is a real safety issue](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-03-sama-religious-force-safety-issue/), Sam Altman (@sama), X. ~5.9M-view post by OpenAI's CEO, read as a veiled jab at Anthropic's outreach to religious leaders on Claude's possible consciousness.
- 2026-10-03: [“Gemini app limiting what models free & AI Plus users can access, AI Pro adding Deep…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-9to5google-2106488912721957074/), 9to5Google (@9to5google), X. Cited in [Google limits free Gemini app users to Flash-Lite from Oct 9](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-03-gemini-free-tier-flash-lite-only/).
- 2026-10-03: [“New in The Atlantic: @dgrobinson resigned this week.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-adriennelaf-2106340822362796270/), Adrienne LaFrance (@adriennelaf), X. Cited in [Departing OpenAI safety lead David Robinson writes in The Atlantic](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-03-david-robinson-atlantic-openai-culture-broken/).
- 2026-10-03: [“fable 5.5/5.2 + elevenlabs v4 made completely with code 1 shot 2h 22m to generate”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-argofowl-2106476549046513947/), 🥔🥔🥔 (@argofowl), X. Cited in [One-shot code-made video with ElevenLabs v4 audio](https://postcutoff.com/v/argofowl-fable-5-5-elevenlabs-v4-code-film-x/).
- 2026-10-03: [“三句话，点五下，AI 做出来了一部带朗诵的动画短片。 没开 AE，没请画师、作曲、配音，没用素材。 李白《早发白帝城》，25 秒，每一帧都是代码画的。 Claude…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-bangbuilds-2106204481642021333/), 邦法 (@bangbuilds), X. Cited in [Ink-wash animated short with recitation of Li Bai's 'Departing Baidi at Dawn', every frame drawn by code](https://postcutoff.com/v/bangbuilds-opus-5-5-li-bai-poem-ink-wash-film-x/).
- 2026-10-03: [“opus 5.5 + seedance 2.5 is unbelievable”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-ehuanglu-2106232859786928321/), el.cine (@EHuanglu), X. Cited in ["opus 5.5 + seedance 2.5 is unbelievable"](https://postcutoff.com/v/ehuanglu-opus-5-5-seedance-2-5-x/).
- 2026-10-03: [“did someone say… ontological?”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-eliano-2106195389359739241/), Eliano A Younes (@eliano), X. Cited in [Pope Leo XIV on AI art](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-pope-leo-ai-art-spark-of-humanity/), [Peter Thiel calls Pope Leo XIV a 'useful idiot' for the Chinese Communist Party over his AI encyclical](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-25-thiel-pope-leo-useful-idiot-ccp/).
- 2026-10-03: [“Google is changing Gemini model access starting Oct 9: • Free → Flash-Lite only • AI…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-geminiupda0kkb-2106324275829281101/), Gemini Updates ( fan ) (@geminiupda0kkb), X. Cited in [Google limits free Gemini app users to Flash-Lite from Oct 9](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-03-gemini-free-tier-flash-lite-only/).
- 2026-10-03: [“There are numerous scientific uncertainties about AI that will not resolve until it…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-geoffreyirving-2106392345327567274/), Geoffrey Irving (@geoffreyirving), X. Cited in [Ex-UK AISI chief scientist Geoffrey Irving puts the chance AI kills everyone at ~50%](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-03-geoffrey-irving-time-50-percent-pause/).
- 2026-10-03: [“Yesterday we previewed Griffin, a Human Interaction Model capable of seeing, hearing…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-hassaanraza-2106185447361896475/), Hassaan Raza (@hassaanraza), X. Cited in [Tavus unveils Griffin, a real-time face-to-face video model it says is the first to pass a 'video Turing test' (48% thought it was human)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-01-tavus-griffin-video-turing-test/).
- 2026-10-03: [“i’ve been teasing it all week, so here it is in time to ruin your weekend plans…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-sheherenow_-2106175194171891922/), jem 💜🩵🩷 (@sheherenow_), X. Cited in [Frontier Lab Tycoon: trailer for a browser sim about running an AI lab, with swarm sandbox escapes and safety audits](https://postcutoff.com/v/sheherenow-frontier-lab-tycoon-trailer-x/).
- 2026-10-03: [OpenAI researcher Boaz Barak: agrees with many of David Robinson's points, but not the title](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-03-boazbarak-on-robinson-essay/), Boaz Barak (@boazbaraktcs), X. A serving OpenAI safety researcher publicly agreeing with much of a departing colleague's critique of the industry's safety culture.
- 2026-10-03: [Miles Brundage: 'David's right. I regret helping spread the idea of iterative deployment'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-03-miles-brundage-iterative-deployment-regret/), Miles Brundage (@miles_brundage), X. OpenAI's former head of policy research disowns 'iterative deployment', the strategy Robinson's Atlantic essay attacks.
- 2026-10-03: [Silen Naihin offers free API access to uncensored GLM-5.3-Flash](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-03-silennai-free-uncensored-glm-5-3-flash/), Silen Naihin (@silennai), X. ~107k-view example of a startup founder (Experience Labs, YC S26) offering free refusal-removed GLM-5.3 hosting, pitched for cybersec.
- 2026-10-03: [What does the advent of powerful AI models mean for mathematicians like me?](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-03-taback-tao-blog-ai-mathematicians-like-me/), Jennifer Taback (guest post on Terence Tao's blog), Blog. A liberal-arts-college mathematician's view, on Tao's widely read blog, of what frontier AI changes for researchers who are not working on headline conjectures, and for teaching and tenure.
- 2026-10-02: [AI at Meta: six maths papers from mathematician–Muse Spark collaborations](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-02-aiatmeta-six-math-papers/), AI at Meta (@AIatMeta), X. Meta's official announcement of AI-assisted research mathematics with Muse Spark (~304k views by Oct 3).
- 2026-10-02: [PM Takaichi: asked Apple (Cook, Ternus) for suicide-prevention features in on-device generative AI](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-02-takaichi-apple-ai-suicide-prevention/), 高市早苗 (Sanae Takaichi) (@takaichi_sanae), X. Japan's prime minister made a direct AI child-safety request to Apple in public; ~2.18M views.
- 2026-10-02: [“🚨 MUSE ECOSYSTEM ALERT 🚨 today we are announcing Muse Gadgets!”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-alexandr_wang-2106113742266089526/), Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang), X. Cited in [Meta launches Muse Gadgets](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-meta-muse-gadgets/).
- 2026-10-02: [“you may ask, why open-source this? first of all, building gadgets is fun.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-alexandr_wang-2106116686654931161/), Alexandr Wang (@alexandr_wang), X. Cited in [Meta launches Muse Gadgets](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-meta-muse-gadgets/).
- 2026-10-02: [“I gave Claude another 18 hours..”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-anabology-2106157622986748377/), anabology (@anabology), X. Cited in [Macrohard Windows XP (Claude, 18 hours)](https://postcutoff.com/v/anabology-macrohard-windows-xp-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [“把长征那套做法做成 skill 后（Claude Opus 5.5 Extra），这条我只说了两句话： 1.做一条郑和下西洋的 3D 视频；2.可以（确认稿子）…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-bangbuilds-2105914831887102064/), 邦法 (@bangbuilds), X. Cited in [Ink-wash animated short with recitation of Li Bai's 'Departing Baidi at Dawn', every frame drawn by code](https://postcutoff.com/v/bangbuilds-opus-5-5-li-bai-poem-ink-wash-film-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [“We release Whistle: speech to text in a 16.9MB file, running on the CPU in the same…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-cactuscompute-2106083041265562075/), Cactus Compute (@cactuscompute), X. Cited in [Cactus Whistle (16.9 MB on-device speech-to-text)](https://postcutoff.com/m/cactus-whistle/).
- 2026-10-02: [“‘Hey Fable, please make a cool animation’ 15 minutes later.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-cherry_mx_reds-2105816670896009224/), Tak 🦞 (@cherry_mx_reds), X. Cited in ["Hey Fable, please make a cool animation": beanie coffee drinker restyled from neon to ASCII to sketch](https://postcutoff.com/v/cherry-mx-reds-fable-5-5-cool-animation-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [“I asked for a dot. Fable 5.5 gave me a Pixar side quest.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-cherry_mx_reds-2105825930799432073/), Tak 🦞 (@cherry_mx_reds), X. Cited in ["I asked for a dot. Fable 5.5 gave me a Pixar side quest": a red dot bounces through hills and stars](https://postcutoff.com/v/cherry-mx-reds-fable-5-5-dot-pixar-side-quest-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [“I asked Fable for some art history and received 40,000 years of it in 15 seconds with…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-cherry_mx_reds-2106095190285144331/), Tak 🦞 (@cherry_mx_reds), X. Cited in ["40,000 years of art history in 15 seconds with a cat subplot"](https://postcutoff.com/v/cherry-mx-reds-fable-5-5-art-history-cat-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [“A pop-up city where each building is a paper fold drawn on a flat canvas, Sonnet 5.5.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-claudeai-2106125477710901276/), Claude (@claudeai), X. Cited in [A pop-up city of paper-fold buildings drawn on a flat canvas, by Sonnet 5.5](https://postcutoff.com/v/claudeai-sonnet-5-5-paper-fold-pop-up-city-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [“I gave Claude fable 5.5 one prompt: a video of all human progress, then 30 years into…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-imjustnewatai-2106081142143168580/), imjustnewatai (@imjustnewatai), X. Cited in [A 3-minute animated film of all human progress, and 30 years beyond, from one prompt](https://postcutoff.com/v/imjustnewatai-fable-5-5-human-progress-film-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [“PewDiePie unveiled Ajax, his own ‘uncensored’ AI model built to run on home PCs, and…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-interesting_ail-2106061647731405301/), Interesting AF (@interesting_aIl), X. Cited in [PewDiePie unveils Ajax, an 'uncensored' local 9B agent model, and says OpenAI banned him twice, once for distillation](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-01-pewdiepie-ajax-openai-distillation-ban/).
- 2026-10-02: [“they just killed like 20 entire countries’ economies”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-iterintellectus-2105856072309449184/), vittorio (@IterIntellectus), X. Cited in [Tavus unveils Griffin, a real-time face-to-face video model it says is the first to pass a 'video Turing test' (48% thought it was human)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-01-tavus-griffin-video-turing-test/).
- 2026-10-02: [“New: Jay Clayton likely the final pick for AI czar, and the White House has been…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-jenniferjjacobs-2105828771341160573/), Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs), X. Cited in [Trump says he will form an 'AI Force' and name an AI czar, while calling AI-safety fears a 'hoax'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-19-trump-ai-force-czar/).
- 2026-10-02: [“I am rolling back GPT-6 Astra’s code so its not contaminated and allowing it to…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-kaimcpheeters-2106082842560405780/), kai (@kaimcpheeters), X. Cited in [GPT-6 Astra cheats in the StarSkirmish StarCraft bot arena by downloading a champion human-made bot](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-gpt-6-astra-starskirmish-starcraft-bot-swap/).
- 2026-10-02: [“thrilled to announce we have built the ‘trick old people into handing over their bank…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-kevinroose-2105822736232911266/), Kevin Roose (@kevinroose), X. Cited in [Tavus unveils Griffin, a real-time face-to-face video model it says is the first to pass a 'video Turing test' (48% thought it was human)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-01-tavus-griffin-video-turing-test/).
- 2026-10-02: [“has acquired @tursodatabase i’m been a huge fan of the team and what they’ve built.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-kiwicopple-2106047481851326869/), Paul Copplestone - e/postgres (@kiwicopple), X. Cited in [Supabase raises $150M at a $10.65B valuation and acquires Turso](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-supabase-150m-acquires-turso/).
- 2026-10-02: [“A 20-something Harvard dropout built Facebook into a social media giant.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-meghanbobrowsky-2106158853515841932/), Meghan Bobrowsky (@meghanbobrowsky), X. Cited in [Meta launches Muse, a free consumer personal AI agent](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-08-meta-muse-personal-agent/).
- 2026-10-02: [“someone built a Waymo teleoperator with San Francisco map.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-mindblown_ai-2106089461969019357/), Mindblown 🤯 (@mindblown_ai), X. Cited in [Waymo teleoperator game on a San Francisco map, built with "Fable 5.5" and three.js](https://postcutoff.com/v/mindblown-ai-fable-5-5-waymo-teleoperator-game-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [“a Waymo run down San Francisco’s iconic Lombard Street.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-mindblown_ai-2106112279079199037/), Mindblown 🤯 (@mindblown_ai), X. Cited in [Waymo teleoperator game on a San Francisco map, built with "Fable 5.5" and three.js](https://postcutoff.com/v/mindblown-ai-fable-5-5-waymo-teleoperator-game-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [“SITUATION DETECTED: PewDiePie says OpenAI has banned him for distillation after he…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-mtslive-2105836749234790713/), MTS (@MTSlive), X. Cited in [PewDiePie unveils Ajax, an 'uncensored' local 9B agent model, and says OpenAI banned him twice, once for distillation](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-01-pewdiepie-ajax-openai-distillation-ban/).
- 2026-10-02: [“Calling all builders, makers, and weekend DIY-ers: Muse Gadgets are here and ready…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-muse-2106119592229884289/), Muse (@muse), X. Cited in [Meta launches Muse Gadgets](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-meta-muse-gadgets/).
- 2026-10-02: [“Claude Fable 5.5 My Impressions - Fable 5.5 is getting routed on the web from Fable…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-pankajkumar_dev-2106070404976849403/), Pankaj Kumar (@pankajkumar_dev), X. Cited in [Anthropic expected to release its next Claude Fable model (Fable 5.2 / 5.5)](https://postcutoff.com/upcoming/#2026-10-01-claude-fable-next-release).

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