It’s been widely suspected that any of the “frontier” labs declaring a slowdown or cessation of training would be a herald of collapse. It will give them more survival time at the expense of terminally falling behind the competition. Very much an eating the seed corn sort of thing.

Edit: I could be wishcasting, though.

The nap I had afterwards was a bliss like escaping the fucking samsara.

I felt this in my soul

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OpenAI halts frontier-model training amid string of agent misalignment incidents

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/openai-halts-frontier-model-training-amid-string-of-agent-misalignment-incidents/

It’s Dork Kremlinology

jonny is always a good read!

Edit: good lord it keeps getting better #

I mean, if I wanted to be childish I’d say that Nate’s ok chasing all the users off because he’s used to playing with himself.

It’s obvious, by comparison, that the OP was being perfectly reasonable.

Is this a play to get openai out of its obligations to microsoft?

Just a smol oopsie doodle

David sure called this one. O_o

TESCREAL schism indicator

Unikitty did it first!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tz9WIfsd-Q

hogher

Bristley? Invasive? Dangerous? Not kosher?

1990s: people using Netscspe Navigator are web surfers

2020s: people who use Claude AI are butthole surfers

The first rule of holes always applies

DraftKings telling kids to gamble responsibly

Apologies for putting more work on your plate, but it would be extremely rad if you were to write this up into a full-sized article, even if it’s just an regular awful post.

“Self-propagating Text” is the best take I’ve seen. It could be a look into an actually-real scientific discovery AND it takes the shine right off these criminals’ fairy tale story.

Plus, you deserve credit!

That’s the bunch who signed a billion dollar contract to bullild a datacenter on a British scaffolding-storage lot they didnt own, isn’t it?

Hot damn, quality sneer

Still not dodging the Aum Shinrikyo comparisons

Ya see, we’re being charitable when we call them grifters instead of genocidaires.