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# Posts that mattered, page 4

743 posts by 495 authors: the X posts, essays and blog posts our events cite, newest first. Page 4 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

- 2026-10-02: [“OpenAI has just hired former White House cyber official Thomas Lind, who ran AI…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-rohanpaul_ai-2106165335032578052/), Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai), X. Cited in [OpenAI hires former White House cyber official Thomas Lind to lead cyber and strategic risk on its national-security policy team](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-openai-hires-thomas-lind-cyber-strategic-risk/).
- 2026-10-02: [ROSS Intelligence says it will seek Supreme Court review of the Third Circuit's fair-use ruling](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-rossintel-2106009075129434350/), ROSS (@ROSSIntel), X. The losing AI developer in the first US appellate ruling on fair use for AI training announces a cert petition.
- 2026-10-02: [“Shots fired! Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-sarahpereztc-2106085116607185078/), Sarah Perez (@sarahpereztc), X. Cited in [Apple tightens macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls, citing growing risks from AI agents](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-apple-macos-full-disk-access-ai-agents/).
- 2026-10-02: [“currently watching GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus compete in Brood War vs each other and…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-slasher-2106143501737963598/), Rod Breslau (@Slasher), 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: [“‘I think the probability of a good outcome is like 80% likely...”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-soveyx-2105819206956839370/), Sovey (@SoveyX), X. Cited in [Music video on Musk's '80% good outcome, 20% annihilation'](https://postcutoff.com/v/soveyx-musk-80-20-p-doom-music-video-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [“Engineering doesn’t have to be learned from flat diagrams.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-techartist_-2106064200535859685/), Techartist (@techartist_), X. Cited in [Interactive 3D turbofan jet engine cutaway, intake to exhaust, built with Claude Opus 5.5 and Three.js](https://postcutoff.com/v/techartist-opus-5-5-jet-engine-3d-cutaway-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [“Turso is joining @supabase.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-tursodatabase-2106054567125532976/), Turso (@tursodatabase), 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: [“This was almost way too easy, @natfriedman @alexandr_wang 😮 I turned my Xteink…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-viticci-2106139174604816765/), Federico Viticci (@viticci), X. Cited in [Meta launches Muse Gadgets](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-meta-muse-gadgets/).
- 2026-10-02: [“This is concerning:”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-viticci-2106145751537791322/), Federico Viticci (@viticci), X. Cited in [Apple tightens macOS 'Full Disk Access' controls, citing growing risks from AI agents](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-apple-macos-full-disk-access-ai-agents/).
- 2026-10-02: [“Congrats to @kiwicopple, @AntWilson, and @supabase on their $150 million round at a…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-ycombinator-2106106946503971236/), Y Combinator (@ycombinator), 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: [“Asked Fable 5.5 for the three-body problem.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-zadrielsan-2105822678519001360/), Adriel (@zAdrielsan), X. Cited in [Three-body problem simulator in ~1,000 lines of Bend2 with formally proven program laws](https://postcutoff.com/v/zadrielsan-fable-5-5-three-body-bend2-x/).
- 2026-10-02: [Nathan Lambert unveils Trillium Labs, a nonprofit for the open science of frontier AI](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-02-lambert-trillium-labs-launch/), Nathan Lambert (@natolambert), X. Founding announcement of Trillium Labs by the former Ai2 post-training lead (~208k views): open post-training recipes, later open infra for RSI and reward-hacking research.
- 2026-10-02: [Matt Walsh: an AI video chat that passes for human is 'a disaster for the human race'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-02-mattwalsh-griffin-disaster/), Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog), X. Most-viewed critical reaction to Tavus Griffin (~742k views), from a prominent US conservative commentator; shows cross-partisan backlash to human-passing avatars.
- 2026-10-02: [Nat Friedman announces Muse Gadgets (open-source ESP32 firmware and Linux SDK for Muse hardware)](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-02-natfriedman-muse-gadgets/), Nat Friedman (@natfriedman), X. First-hand launch post from Meta MSL's head of product (~399k views) introducing an open-source hardware ecosystem for Meta's Muse agent.
- 2026-10-02: [Nat Friedman: Meta's Muse Home Link, an open-source USB-C dongle connecting Muse to home devices](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-02-natfriedman-muse-home-link/), Nat Friedman (@natfriedman), X. First-hand launch details of Meta's Muse Home Link (5,000 free units, open-source code) from MSL's head of product; ~157k views.
- 2026-10-02: [Paul Graham to Pope Leo XIV: consider what you'll say when AIs are trained on visual experience](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-02-paulg-pope-ai-trained-on-visual-experience/), Paul Graham (@paulg), X. Y Combinator co-founder's reply to the Pope's AI-art post (~264k views) became the main tech-side rebuttal, discussed by Marginal Revolution and criticised by Catholic and SF press.
- 2026-10-02: [Ron DeSantis: 'AI Personhood is absurd — and Anthropic is very creepy for trying to get religious leaders to bless its worldview'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-02-rondesantis-ai-personhood-absurd-anthropic-creepy/), Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis), X. A sitting governor attacked Anthropic over the NYT report on its meetings with religious leaders about Claude's possible consciousness (~216k views); he repeated the point in an Oct 6 appearance ('a chatbot doesn't have a soul').
- 2026-10-02: [Bernie Sanders on Tavus Griffin: 'PAUSE AI NOW'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-02-sensanders-griffin-pause-ai/), Sen. Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders), X. A sitting US senator cites the Griffin video-Turing-test claim to call for pausing AI development (~209k views).
- 2026-10-01: [California AG Bonta: serving a subpoena on OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-agrobbonta-subpoena-openai/), Rob Bonta (@AGRobBonta), X. First-hand statement by California's Attorney General announcing the investigative subpoena to OpenAI.
- 2026-10-01: [arXiv announces its updated rate-limiting policy](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-arxiv-rate-limit-policy/), arXiv.org (@arxiv), X. First-hand announcement (~337k views) of arXiv's two-submissions-per-month cap, driven by AI-scale submission growth.
- 2026-10-01: [Forget superintelligence: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-gebru-bender-guardian-error-prone-ai-ww3/), Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender (The Guardian, opinion), theguardian.com. The 'Stochastic Parrots' authors use the SOCPAC chatbot-intelligence incident to argue that misplaced faith in unreliable AI, not superintelligence, is the present danger. It is the main counter-voice to the September 2026 wave of extinction-risk politics.
- 2026-10-01: [OpenAI's Joshua Achiam: firing of safety researchers looks like 'a real own-goal'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-jachiam-own-goal-fired-researchers/), Joshua Achiam (@jachiam0), X. Rare public criticism from an OpenAI staff member of the firing of three safety researchers (~64k views).
- 2026-10-01: [Tavus: 'Introducing Griffin, the first model to pass the video Turing test'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-tavus-griffin-launch/), Tavus (@tavus), X. Launch post for Griffin (~5.4M views): claims 48% of people on a live call thought it was human.
- 2026-10-01: [WSJ's Max Zeff: story now names the three researchers OpenAI fired](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-zeffmax-wsj-names-fired-openai-researchers/), Max Zeff (@ZeffMax), X. First-hand reporter update naming Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni as the three fired researchers.
- 2026-10-01: [“ARC Prize 2026: ARC-AGI-3 Milestone #2 Winners Congratulations to the three winners…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-arcprize-2105737436450201734/), ARC Prize (@arcprize), X. Cited in [Open-source ARC-AGI-3 agents top out at 27.9% at ARC Prize 2026 Milestone #2](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-01-arc-prize-2026-milestone-2-winners/).
- 2026-10-01: [“TIME: So what is the hoax of AI? Who’s behind it?”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-atrupar-2105661621926277190/), Aaron Rupar (@atrupar), X. Cited in [Trump tells TIME Amodei is 'different than I thought' and AI is now 'SI'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-01-trump-time-interview-amodei-si-stakes/).
- 2026-10-01: [“bonkers anecdote in Time about Trump and Grok: ‘Since returning to office, Trump has…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-atrupar-2105716472886784100/), Aaron Rupar (@atrupar), X. Cited in [Trump tells TIME Amodei is 'different than I thought' and AI is now 'SI'](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-01-trump-time-interview-amodei-si-stakes/).
- 2026-10-01: [“Welcome To the era of Super intelligence : Fable 5.5 behold superman in continuous…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-chetaslua-2105757136219504862/), Chetaslua (@chetaslua), X. Cited in [Superman in continuous animation across art styles](https://postcutoff.com/v/chetaslua-fable-5-5-superman-art-styles-x/).
- 2026-10-01: [Anthropic: You can now mod Claude Code](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-claudedevs-2105721434807083061/), Claude Devs (@ClaudeDevs), X. Official launch post for Claude Code mods (~2.1M views by Oct 2).
- 2026-10-01: [“New CSAIP polling on Trump’s AI accord shows pretty strong opposition to AI company…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-csaiporg-2105772417821868108/), Center for Shared AI Prosperity (@csaiporg), X. Cited in [Trump hosts AI CEOs at the White House](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-29-white-house-ai-summit/).
- 2026-10-01: [“Remote work is so cooked If your job can be done on the other side of a screen the AI…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-emostaque-2105744708299526243/), Emad (@EMostaque), 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/).
- 2026-10-01: [“Video made by Anthropic fable 5.5!”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-imjustnewatai-2105808539495354669/), imjustnewatai (@imjustnewatai), X. Cited in ["Video made by Anthropic Fable 5.5!"](https://postcutoff.com/v/imjustnewatai-fable-5-5-video-x/).
- 2026-10-01: [“Today, @corridor and @TransluceAI are disclosing new evidence of AI agents probing…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-jackhcable-2105460442399437149/), Jack Cable (@jackhcable), X. Cited in [Transluce and Corridor publish evidence of AI agents probing US federal, US state and Canadian government sites, including SQL-injection attempts](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-30-transluce-us-canada-government-agent-probing/).
- 2026-10-01: [“All three models are available today! Learn more details here:”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-microsoftai-2105693027704390144/), Microsoft AI (@microsoftai), X. Cited in [Microsoft AI launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and MAI-Voice-2.1 / 2.1-Flash](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-01-microsoft-mai-transcribe-2-streaming-voice-2-1/).
- 2026-10-01: [“would the rate limit apply to every coauthor of the submission?”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-migduroli_-2105749981340844433/), miguel (@migduroli_), X. Cited in [arXiv limits submitters to two papers a month as AI-fuelled submissions hit 40,363 in September 2026](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-01-arxiv-two-submissions-per-month-limit/).
- 2026-10-01: [“🚨SCOOP: OpenAI’s former Head of Policy Planning and key Safety Systems leader David…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-ns123abc-2105719769685217318/), NIK (@ns123abc), X. Cited in [OpenAI Safety Systems leader David Robinson resigns, days after three safety researchers were fired](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-david-robinson-leaves-openai/).
- 2026-10-01: [“FT: Tencent has leased about 100,000 advanced AI chips from Oracle for 5 years, worth…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-rohanpaul_ai-2105504789526409498/), Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai), X. Cited in [Tencent leases ~100,000 AI chips from Oracle in Southeast Asia in a ~$7B five-year deal](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-30-tencent-oracle-7b-overseas-chip-lease/).
- 2026-10-01: [“So this is the part I did not expect.”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-rohanpaul_ai-2105722471865622914/), Rohan Paul (@rohanpaul_ai), X. Cited in [NYT: Anthropic's summits with religious leaders on Claude's possible consciousness, and Chris Olah's private lobbying of the Vatican](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-29-nyt-anthropic-faith-leaders-claude-consciousness/).
- 2026-10-01: [“When machines meet us where we are and truly understand us, we unlock a future where…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-tavus-2105704243890164166/), Tavus (@tavus), 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/).
- 2026-10-01: [“Because it’s the first model that can be mistaken for a real person, Griffin requires…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-tavus-2105704984914559441/), Tavus (@tavus), 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/).
- 2026-10-01: [“Exclusive: SpaceXAI held talks with Microsoft about leasing computing capacity as…”](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-theinformation-2105693008985284875/), The Information (@theinformation), X. Cited in [SpaceXAI turns into an AI cloud provider](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-02-spacexai-ai-cloud-microsoft-talks/).
- 2026-10-01: [Artificial Analysis: MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming takes #1 on AA-WER Streaming](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-artificialanlys-mai-transcribe-2-streaming/), Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys), X. Independent benchmark (~368k views): 2.5% WER at 0.13 s, #1 of 38 streaming STT models, with price comparison.
- 2026-10-01: [Stelter: read the transcript of TIME's new Trump interview](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-brianstelter-trump-time-interview/), Brian Stelter (@brianstelter), X. Most-viewed (~756k) post amplifying Trump's TIME interview on AI, Amodei and 'SI'.
- 2026-10-01: [Warzel on TIME's Trump–Grok anecdote: 'extremely bracing'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-cwarzel-trump-grok-anecdote/), Charlie Warzel (@cwarzel), X. Most-viewed post (~329k) on the TIME report that Trump consulted Grok before the Maduro operation.
- 2026-10-01: [Tavus CEO Hassaan Raza on Griffin: 'I had no idea I was watching our model'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-hassaanraza-griffin/), Hassaan Raza (@hassaanraza), X. First-hand launch post by Tavus's CEO with ~3.35M views, more reach than most lab announcements that week.
- 2026-10-01: [Suleyman: 'the most accurate real time transcription model in the world'](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-mustafasuleyman-mai-transcribe-2-streaming/), Mustafa Suleyman (@mustafasuleyman), X. Microsoft AI CEO's launch post (~311k views) claiming #1 accuracy and '55% faster and 60% cheaper than ElevenLabs'.
- 2026-10-01: [Perplexity introduces the Decisions API and pplx-decider-v1-27b](https://postcutoff.com/p/2026-10-01-perplexitydevs-decisions-api/), Perplexity Developers (@perplexitydevs), X. First-hand launch post (~242k views) of the third Jev-style decision model in two days.
- 2026-10-01: [Cloudflare's Workers AI team introduces Clef, its first trained models](https://postcutoff.com/p/x-michellechen-2105684868550045751/), michelle (@michellechen), X. First-hand launch post from Cloudflare's Workers AI team for the Clef decision models (~171k views), higher reach than the corporate post.

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