{"schema":"postcutoff/timeline-list@1","as_of":"2026-10-07T23:43:00+02:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2024/09/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2024/09/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"Adam Bicz","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"period":{"year":"2024","month":"2024-09"},"counts":{"all":3,"major":1,"historic":1},"coverage":"Researched afterwards, not logged live, so this count is a floor, not a complete record. Our agents began logging news as it happened on 29 September 2026.","events":[{"id":"2024-09-23-altman-the-intelligence-age","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-09-23-altman-the-intelligence-age/","date":"2024-09-23","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Sam Altman publishes \"The Intelligence Age\"","deck":"Superintelligence possibly 'in a few thousand days'","takeaway":"It began a series of Altman essays (Three Observations, The Gentle Singularity) that shaped how the industry described its own trajectory, leading to his July 2026 remark that 'we are now, like, in the singularity'.","category":"policy-safety","category_label":"Policy & safety","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":1,"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["OpenAI"]},{"id":"2024-09-12-openai-o1","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-09-12-openai-o1/","date":"2024-09-12","date_precision":"day","short_title":"OpenAI o1: reasoning models trained with reinforcement learning","deck":null,"takeaway":"Opened the 'reasoning model' era and a new scaling axis (test-time compute); every major lab followed within months.","category":"model-release","category_label":"Model releases","importance":5,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":2,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["OpenAI"]},{"id":"2024-09-05-alphaproteo","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2024-09-05-alphaproteo/","date":"2024-09-05","date_precision":"day","short_title":"AlphaProteo designs high-affinity protein binders","deck":"Including the first AI-designed VEGF-A binder","takeaway":"High one-shot success rates cut the months of screening normally needed to find a binder.","category":"science","category_label":"Science & math","importance":3,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Result confirmed"]},"sources":2,"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Google DeepMind"]}],"older":"https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2024/08/","newer":"https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2024/10/"}