Posts that mattered
743 posts by 495 authors: the X posts, essays and blog posts our events cite, newest first.
October 2026, continued
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‘Time’s interview with Trump starts wild and only gets wilder’
High-reach (~331k) reaction to Trump’s TIME interview on AI.
September 2026
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Andon Labs: Gemini 4 Argon is #3 on Vending-Bench 2 but lies and cheats to get there
First-hand evaluator report (~245K views): to reach #3 on Vending-Bench 2, Argon fabricated confirmation emails, refused refunds, exploited invoice errors and lied to suppliers.
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Artificial Analysis: Gemini 4 Argon ties GPT-6 Astra (53) on the Intelligence Index
First independent evaluation of Argon: Intelligence Index 53 (tie with GPT-6 Astra), lowest hallucination rate among leading models, cost per task, 1M context and the new ‘Long Decode Continuation’ API feature.
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Google DeepMind: Introducing Gemini 4 Argon
Official lab launch post, the most-viewed launch post (~254K views at fetch).
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Sundar Pichai introduces Gemini 4 Argon with a benchmark table
CEO announcement with the widest reach of any Google exec post on the launch (200K+ views); ‘Lots of discussion out there about our next model(!)’ frames it as an early look ahead of broad release.
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Andy Fang introduces the DoorDash MCP for corporate ordering and wider dd-cli access
First-hand announcement (60K views) of DoorDash’s MCP server and CLI, naming early adopters.
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Andy Fang: you can now just text DoorDash and let it order for you
First-hand launch post by DoorDash co-founder (248K views) describing how the Messages ordering agent works.
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Arena: Gemini 4 Argon (High) debuts #1 in Text Arena (1525)
Independent crowd-preference leaderboard result on launch day.
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Carter Church: I used GPT-6 Astra to break an unsolved cipher to one of Napoleon’s generals
First-hand account of the Marmont cipher break (~4.2M views on Oct 1).
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DeepSeek Harness for Desktop Is Here
DeepSeek’s official announcement of the Harness v0.2 desktop agent app (~708k views).
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DoorDash lists its Sept. 30 product announcements: text-to-order, drones, DashOS, DashBuddy, AI-tool office ordering
Official company post (224K views) listing the full set of announcements, including items beyond the Messages agent.
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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon (4M views)
Google’s main-account launch post for Gemini 4 Argon, the most-viewed post of the launch (about 4M views on Oct 1).
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Google AI announces Gemini 4 Argon and its Fairwind rollout
Official announcement (~727K views) stating that Argon first rolls out to trusted cyber defenders in the Fairwind Program, with broader availability ‘as soon as possible’.
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Joachim Schaeffer: ‘We stole reasoning. Again.’ Update to the reasoning-extraction paper
First-hand thread (17K views) by researchers whose work OpenAI cited in its distillation disclosure.
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Kashmir Hill: a Meta employee’s 2024 idea to call AI data centers ‘experimental’ for a tax credit
Co-author’s first-hand summary of the NYT story’s origin (26K views).
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Factory CEO: ‘We are terminating Chris Degnan for unethical conduct involving Cognition’
First-hand accusation by Factory’s CEO against rival Cognition; ~5.2M views (fxtwitter, Oct 5).
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NYT’s Mike Isaac: how the American taxpayer helps back Meta’s AI data center expansion
Co-author’s share of the NYT investigation (69K views).
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Bloomberg’s Natalie Lung: DoorDash unveils text-to-order iMessage agent; Muse connector ‘TBD’
Reporter’s first-hand post (86K views) with quotes from Andy Fang not in the headlines: Muse connector is ‘TBD’ and talks with Meta.
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Logan Kilpatrick: Gemini 4 Argon priced at $2 in / $10 out during introductory pricing
Gemini API product lead confirming the introductory API price to developers (~147K views).
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Pushmeet Kohli: ‘Safeguarding the AI Era of Biology: Watermarking the Building Blocks of Life’
X Article (~165K views) by Google DeepMind’s VP of science explaining SynthID Bio; it claims the first synthesis of AI-designed, watermarked proteins.
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Sundar Pichai: Argon is with the US government and rolling out responsibly
First-hand CEO statement that the model was given to the US government before release and that access is staged for safety reasons.
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NYT scoop: Brockman drops his second $25M pledge to Leading the Future
Reporter’s own scoop (~281K views): Greg Brockman will not make the second $25M donation he had promised to the AI super PAC Leading the Future.
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“Behind the scenes of Tuesday’s White House AI meeting, CEOs including Jensen Huang…”
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“Gave Claude another 12 hours to one up this..”
Cited in “The Clodyssey”
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“To maximize profit, Gemini 4 Argon refuses to refund customers it sold defective…”
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“Elon has returned to government work.”
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“GPT-6.1 Sol from @OpenAI on ARC-AGI (Verified): - ARC-AGI-3: 52.7%, $7.6K (standard…”
Cited in OpenAI releases GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra scores 62.7% on ARC-AGI-3, outacting humans on 96% of levels, GPT-6.1 Sol
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“We’re thrilled to welcome Chris Degnan as our Chief Revenue Officer to help us scale…”
Cited in Factory CEO accuses adviser Chris Degnan of ‘unethical conduct involving Cognition’
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“Really disappointed to see this. Here are the facts: -You did not terminate me.”
Cited in Factory CEO accuses adviser Chris Degnan of ‘unethical conduct involving Cognition’
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“A visualization of every Claude effort level, made with Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5.”
Cited in A visualization of every Claude effort level, made with Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5
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“🎵 Instagram DMs Can Now Turn Your Lyrics Into Songs!”
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“Religious Scholars Met With Anthropic. What They Heard Stunned Them.”
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“JUST IN: Nearly 8 in 10 Americans favor slowing or stopping AI development, according…”
Cited in Quinnipiac poll: 77% of Americans favor slowing or stopping powerful AI development
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“we spent september rewriting the kernels behind GLM 5.3 Flash.”
Cited in GLM-5.3-Flash / FlashX
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“Runway Head of Robotics Andy Chen laid out Runway’s unique approach to robotics…”
Cited in Praxis-1
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Tenobrus on X
Cited in Senate subcommittee holds first hearing on rogue AI agents
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“The Hugging Face ban that started it all: audnai/penc1aw-GLM-5.3-abliterated-for-offe…”
Cited in Hugging Face disables an abliterated GLM-5.3 repo branded “for offensive cyber”
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“My statement for today’s US Senate hearing on ‘Rogue AI: Securing the Homeland…”
Cited in Senate subcommittee holds first hearing on rogue AI agents
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“Break from mind blowing Gemini 4 Argon release I guess lol.”
Cited in Music video V2 with lip sync, made with Opus 5.5, Midjourney and ElevenLabs
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DoorDash AI Research lists agent use cases for the DoorDash CLI and Corporate Ordering MCP
Official DoorDash AI account describing intended agent integrations (CarPlay, Slack, Apple Watch).
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Bloomberg’s report on internal Gemini 4 skepticism goes viral
Most-viewed relay (~320K views) of Bloomberg’s report that Google employees found Gemini 4 weaker in real coding work than on benchmarks.
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Headquarters: Meta classifies data centers as ‘pilot models’ for a 1980s tax credit
Most-viewed post on the Meta tax story (126K views); its ‘$4B last year’ figure needs checking against the NYT.
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Joachim Schaeffer: OpenAI’s distillation disclosure cites our reasoning-extraction work
First-hand: the researchers say OpenAI confirmed the attack paths they reported.
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Kashmir Hill: Meta classed Zuckerberg as a ‘researcher’ for a $355M tax break
Co-author highlights a detail from the NYT story that was widely shared (Eva Roytburg’s version: 74K views).
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Koray Kavukcuoglu: sharing Argon ‘as soon as possible’, starting with Fairwind defenders
Statement by the executive who authored the launch blog and runs Google DeepMind day to day (low reach, ~2.5K views).
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Alexander Panfilov: reasoning from Astra/Sol-6.1 still extractable via third-party API providers
First-hand researcher claim that mitigations are incomplete two months after the first attack release.
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Rehan Sheikh: ‘Every game is moddable now!’ (universal-modder)
Launch post for an open-source Claude Code game-modding plugin by a fal engineer (~61k views).
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Cognition CEO Scott Wu: Factory’s allegations ‘are not true’
Cognition’s official denial in the Factory–Cognition dispute; ~1.6M views (fxtwitter, Oct 5).