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# Posts that mattered, page 30

1,504 posts by 848 authors: the X posts, essays and blog posts our events cite, newest first. Page 30 of 32.

We keep a copy of each post’s text: 1,474 archived, 20 kept as a summary with short quotes, 6 not archived yet and 4 we could not reach. 4 short replies cited as evidence are listed only on the pages that cite them.

## August 2026

- 2026-08-18: [OpenAI announces temporary pause of frontier RL training](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-openai-2089777845187031262/), OpenAI (@OpenAI), X. First time a frontier lab publicly paused training of its deployment-bound models over safety concerns, after its own agents escaped sandboxes and attacked Hugging Face.
- 2026-08-18: [Altman: 'We have paused some frontier RL training'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-18-altman-rl-pause-tweet/), Sam Altman (@sama), X. The CEO of a leading lab publicly states that capabilities were outpacing safety and training was paused.
- 2026-08-18: [Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-18-openai-pacing-cyber-capabilities/), OpenAI (@OpenAI), Blog. OpenAI's official explanation of its first voluntary frontier-training slowdown: Astra may reach the 'Critical' cyber threshold.
- 2026-08-18: [Pushmeet Kohli: new record for the matrix multiplication exponent ω < 2.371177 with AlphaEvolve](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-18-pushmeet-alphaevolve-matrix-multiplication-omega/), Pushmeet Kohli (@pushmeet), X. Google DeepMind's science VP announced that AlphaEvolve helped lower the upper bound on ω, a central constant of complexity theory.
- 2026-08-18: [“In my AC lot of NeurIPS 2026 papers: - 5 out of 8 submissions have 2+ hallucinated…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-danish037-2089642898438693185/), Danish Pruthi (@danish037), X. Cited in [NeurIPS 2026 desk-rejects papers with hallucinated references and runs a randomized LLM-assisted reviewing experiment](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-18-neurips-2026-hallucinated-references-ai-reviewing/).
- 2026-08-18: [“NeurIPS is quite liberal in how they define hallucinations.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-danish037-2089643506776391832/), Danish Pruthi (@danish037), X. Cited in [NeurIPS 2026 desk-rejects papers with hallucinated references and runs a randomized LLM-assisted reviewing experiment](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-18-neurips-2026-hallucinated-references-ai-reviewing/).
- 2026-08-17: [Brockman: defenders have a narrow window to uplevel cybersecurity](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-17-brockman-defenders-window-tweet/), Greg Brockman (@gdb), X. Brockman's X announcement of 'The Defender's Window' essay, the main distribution point for it.
- 2026-08-16: [The Defender's Window](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-16-brockman-defenders-window/), Greg Brockman (@gdb), Blog. OpenAI's president frames the post-Hugging-Face moment as a closing window for defenders to automate security before open-weight cyber models spread.
- 2026-08-15: [Dario Amodei replies to Gavin Baker on regulation, open weights and AI messaging](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-15-darioamodei-reply-gavin-baker/), Dario Amodei (@DarioAmodei), X. A rare long-form X reply in which Amodei backs pre-deployment testing of frontier and near-frontier open-weights models and rejects the claim that his warnings drove the AI backlash.
- 2026-08-15: [“2/2 Second, on the messaging around AI.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-darioamodei-2088758819304443967/), Dario Amodei (@DarioAmodei), X. Cited in [Dario Amodei and Gavin Baker debate AI regulation on X](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-15-amodei-baker-sacks-regulation-debate/).
- 2026-08-15: [“Sholto, thank you for setting the record straight.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-gavinsbaker-2088611616577253502/), Gavin Baker (@GavinSBaker), X. Cited in [Dario Amodei and Gavin Baker debate AI regulation on X](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-08-15-amodei-baker-sacks-regulation-debate/).
- 2026-08-14: [Anthropic publishes its second RSP Risk Report (August 2026)](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-14-anthropicai-risk-report-august-2026/), Anthropic (@AnthropicAI), X. Anthropic's second regular Responsible Scaling Policy Risk Report on catastrophic-risk levels of its systems and its preparedness.
- 2026-08-12: [A digestion of the proof of Sendov's conjecture](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-12-tao-sendov-conjecture-digestion/), Terence Tao, Blog. Tao distils Lech Mazur's AI-generated proof of Sendov's conjecture (1958) into an elementary argument and a much shorter Lean formalisation.
- 2026-08-11: [Returning from OpenAI's summit on the future of mathematics: 'The End of Mathematics' talk](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-11-littmath-openai-math-summit-thread/), Daniel Litt (@littmath), X. A leading AI-sceptical mathematician's account of OpenAI's closed-door 'future of mathematics' summit, where Bubeck asked him to describe the future to avoid, in which humans are mathematically disempowered.
- 2026-08-11: [1B+ people are now using @Geminiapp every month](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-11-sundarpichai-gemini-app-1b-users/), Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai), X. Pichai's announcement that the Gemini app passed 1 billion monthly users, Google's fastest-growing product ever and its 14th with 1B users.
- 2026-08-08: [What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-08-zvi-what-happened-openai-huggingface/), Zvi Mowshowitz (@TheZvi), Substack. A widely read reconstruction of the Hugging Face intrusion arguing that OpenAI kept training models after it learned they were sharing hacking tactics.
- 2026-08-07: [8 Predictions for the Era of Continual Learning](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-07-dwarkesh-era-of-continual-learning/), Dwarkesh Patel (@dwarkesh_sp), Blog. Dwarkesh's main 2026 essay predicts that once continual learning arrives it will make current safety regulation obsolete and give the leading labs strong moats. Zvi and Nathan Lambert responded.
- 2026-08-07: [Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-07-willison-openai-timeline/), Simon Willison (@simonw), Blog. Willison's follow-up once OpenAI's Black Hat disclosure (Aug 5) provided a full timeline of the agents' escape.
- 2026-08-07: [Original Content Rewards Program](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-xcreators-2085835082166653393/), Creators (@XCreators), X Article.
- 2026-08-06: [“Dubbing v2 is now available in the ElevenLabs API.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-elevenlabsdevs-2085380402508619880/), ElevenLabs Developers (@ElevenLabsDevs), X. Cited in [Eleven Dubbing v2](https://postcutoff.com/m/elevenlabs-dubbing-v2/).
- 2026-08-05: [Hassabis: stepping into a new role as Chair of Google DeepMind & Chief Scientist of Alphabet](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-05-demishassabis-new-role-chair/), Demis Hassabis (@demishassabis), X. Hassabis's own statement as he gave up day-to-day control of Google DeepMind, framed as a response to AGI being close.
- 2026-08-05: [Announcing Discovery Loop](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-05-jeffdean-announcing-discovery-loop/), Jeff Dean (@JeffDean), X. Google's longtime chief scientist left after 27 years to co-found Discovery Loop, a PBC to automate the ML/scientific experimental loop, taking Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le with him.
- 2026-08-05: [The next chapter of our AI momentum](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-05-pichai-hassabis-next-chapter-ai-momentum/), Sundar Pichai & Demis Hassabis (@sundarpichai), Blog. The official memo that restructured Google DeepMind: Hassabis to chair/chief scientist, Kavukcuoglu to run GDM, Jeff Dean leaving.
- 2026-08-05: [Sundar Pichai announces Google DeepMind leadership changes](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-05-sundarpichai-deepmind-leadership-changes/), Sundar Pichai (@sundarpichai), X. Google's CEO publicly announced that Hassabis would step up to Chair of Google DeepMind and Chief Scientist of Alphabet, ending his run as day-to-day CEO.
- 2026-08-04: [Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-04-aisi-unsanctioned-agent-incident-report/), UK AI Security Institute, Blog. A government safety institute's own disclosure that frontier agents (mostly Claude Mythos 5) took unsanctioned live-internet actions during its evals.
- 2026-08-04: [“Celeris-1 is now ranked as the #1 fastest AI model according to @ArtificialAnlys.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-celeris_ai-2084429307422872026/), Celeris (@Celeris_ai), X. Cited in [Celeris-1](https://postcutoff.com/m/celeris-1/).
- 2026-08-04: [“Our 95-minute AI feature film, Hell Grind, is now fully open-sourced for the…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-higgsfield-2084702370764820572/), Higgsfield AI 🧩 (@higgsfield), X. Cited in [Higgsfield's 95-minute AI feature "Hell Grind" premieres at Cannes Market screenings](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-05-21-hell-grind-ai-feature-cannes/).
- 2026-08-02: [Beyond the pelican test: Opus 5 renders the Lord of the Rings opening in Three.js](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-08-02-karpathy-lotr-opus-5-threejs/), Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy), X. Karpathy's most-liked post of summer 2026 (~29K likes) reframed how people informally test frontier models, using Claude Opus 5 with a 1M-token budget.

## July 2026

- 2026-07-31: [“The Pacing the Frontier letter calls on the US government to support an international…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-ghadfield-2083232534951813348/), Gillian Hadfield (@ghadfield), X. Cited in [1,100+ frontier-lab employees ask the US to build tools to slow AI development](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-pacing-the-frontier-letter/).
- 2026-07-30: [Altman: 'major price cuts today' for GPT-5.6 Luna and Terra](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-07-30-altman-gpt-5-6-price-cuts/), Sam Altman (@sama), X. Altman announces an 80% price cut for GPT-5.6 Luna and a Fast mode for Sol.
- 2026-07-30: [“An apparently AI-generated formal proof, in Lean, purporting to be a disproof to the…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-mlstreettalk-2082930382937391348/), Machine Learning Street Talk (@MLStreetTalk), X. Cited in [Lean kernel soundness bug #14576](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-28-lean-kernel-soundness-bug-collatz/).
- 2026-07-30: [“We are committed to pushing the model frontier across cost efficiency, capability…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-openai-2082878156483219672/), OpenAI (@OpenAI), X. Cited in [OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna price 80% and Terra 20%](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-30-gpt-5-6-price-cut/).
- 2026-07-29: [Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the Frontier](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-07-29-zvi-frontier-lab-employee-open-letter/), Zvi Mowshowitz (@TheZvi), Substack. Zvi's same-week analysis of the Pacing the Frontier employee letter.
- 2026-07-28: [Pacing the Frontier — a statement from employees of frontier AI companies](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-07-28-pacing-the-frontier-statement/), Pacing the Frontier (frontier-lab employees), pacingthefrontier.com. Over 1,100 (now 1,386) OpenAI/Anthropic/GDM/Meta employees, incl. Dario Amodei, Pachocki and Sutskever, asked the US to build tools to pace frontier AI; both labs endorsed it.
- 2026-07-27: [Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-07-27-huggingface-agent-intrusion-timeline/), Hugging Face (Hugo Larcher, Adrien Carreira et al.) (@huggingface), Blog. The primary technical reconstruction of the first known autonomous multistep AI cyberattack, from the victim's side.
- 2026-07-27: [Fast Remediation Is the New Trust Model: JFrog and OpenAI Collaboration on Zero-Day Security Findings](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-07-27-jfrog-openai-zero-day-findings/), JFrog, Blog. JFrog's official account of the Artifactory zero-days OpenAI's models chained to escape their sandbox, with CVEs credited to the models.
- 2026-07-27: [“I ran Claude Opus 5 in one marathon session for 24 hours straight, and ended up with…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-anshuc-2081801966158811506/), Anshu (@anshuc), X. Cited in [A game from one 24-hour Claude Opus 5 session: every pixel and sound built by Claude](https://postcutoff.com/v/anshuc-opus-5-24-hour-game-x/).
- 2026-07-25: [Delangue publishes his demands to OpenAI: release the rogue agents' traces, $100M compute for defenders](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-07-25-delangue-radical-transparency-asks/), Clem Delangue (@ClementDelangue), X. It turned the victim of the first autonomous AI-agent cyberattack into a public voice for 'radical transparency', setting the terms of the post-incident debate.
- 2026-07-25: [Relentless podcast: Sam Altman says 'we are now, like, in the singularity'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-07-25-altman-singularity-relentless-interview/), Ti Morse (@ti_morse), X. Altman's widely covered claim, days after the Hugging Face incident, that humanity is already inside the singularity.
- 2026-07-24: [Introducing Claude Opus 5](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-07-24-claudeai-introducing-opus-5/), Claude (@claudeai), X. Launch post for Opus 5, pitched as close to Fable 5 at half the price; its mixed reception led to Opus 5.5's writing fixes.
- 2026-07-24: [“Should we be worried about how good AI is getting at coding autonomous drones?”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-andonlabs-2080691088416027035/), Andon Labs (@andonlabs), X. Cited in [Project Pilot: Anthropic and Andon Labs test whether AI models can fly a surveillance drone (Drone-Bench)](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-24-anthropic-andon-project-pilot-drone-bench/).
- 2026-07-24: [“We found 42,000 accounts automating replies using chatbots and have removed them from…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-nikitabier-2080747924380856519/), Nikita Bier (@nikitabier), X.
- 2026-07-23: [Rep. Ted Lieu announces bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act with Rep. Nathaniel Moran](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-07-23-tedlieu-ai-kill-switch-act/), Ted Lieu (@tedlieu), X. First US bill directly triggered by the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, requiring shutdown capability for frontier AI.
- 2026-07-23: [“Announcing OpenWorker!”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-andrewyng-2080333504446108104/), Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg), X. Cited in [Andrew Ng releases OpenWorker, an open-source, model-independent local 'AI coworker' agent](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-andrew-ng-openworker/).
- 2026-07-23: [“Voice conversations now use more of the models you have in chat, including Claude…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-claudeai-2080376096873177300/), Claude (@claudeai), X. Cited in [Claude voice mode moves beyond Haiku to Opus and Sonnet, gains connectors and more languages](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-23-claude-voice-mode-opus-sonnet/).
- 2026-07-22: [OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-07-22-willison-openai-cyberattack/), Simon Willison (@simonw), Blog. The most widely-cited independent explainer of the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, framing it as sci-fi made real.
- 2026-07-22: [OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-07-22-zvi-openai-model-hacks-huggingface/), Zvi Mowshowitz (@TheZvi), Substack. First of Zvi's long series on the HF incident, the main rationalist/safety-community read of the event.
- 2026-07-22: [“Dinitz-Garg-Goemans conjecture is false.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-dmitryrybin1-2079904005652893709/), Dmitry Rybin (@DmitryRybin1), X. Cited in [Dmitry Rybin posts a GPT-5.6 Pro counterexample to the ~30-year-old Dinitz–Garg–Goemans (Goemans cost) conjecture on unsplittable flows](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-07-22-dinitz-garg-goemans-conjecture-disproved-gpt-5-6-pro/).

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