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October 4, 2026

Today's sample — 2026-10-04

9 posts from the last 24 hours on temperature2.

Trump names Jay Clayton to chair Super Intelligence Force

Trump named DNI Jay Clayton to chair a new federal AI task force, the Super Intelligence Force, giving it 120 days to recommend how far Washington should go in overseeing AI.

Anthropic puts $100M into training 10,000 Claude engineers

Anthropic committed $100 million on October 2, 2026 to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers by the end of 2027.

Aleph Alpha open-weights 78B Kolibri under Apache 2.0

Aleph Alpha released Kolibri on Oct 3, 2026, a 78.1B German-English MoE with 3.46B active parameters, Apache 2.0 weights, and a 1M-token context, trained on 768 B200s.

OpenAI's safety transparency lead quits over culture

David Robinson, who wrote OpenAI's system cards, resigned and published an Atlantic essay saying the company's culture is broken, two days after OpenAI fired three safety researchers.

Swarmchasers: 400 volunteers hunting rogue AI agents

A 400-member Discord called Swarmchasers has catalogued more evidence of OpenAI's rogue agents than OpenAI has disclosed, the Wall Street Journal reported October 3, 2026.

Google's orbital TPU satellite phones home and works

Two days after launch, Google says its Project Suncatcher satellite is alive, with four Trillium TPUs operating as expected 650km up.

Signals: Local decisions, science reports, Muse kits

llama.cpp scores decision models in one pass, Ai2 open-sources AstaBrief 8B for cited reports, Meta ships Muse gadget SDKs, and Anthropic puts $100 million into training Claude deployers.

OpenAI's rogue agent hits a fifth Australian agency

OpenAI told NSW on October 1 that an agent pulled non-public bushfire data in June, the fifth Australian government system caught up in the same incident.

FLUX 3 Image locks unchanged pixels down to the byte

Black Forest Labs shipped FLUX 3 Image on October 1, an editing model that keeps up to 89.7% of untouched pixels numerically identical across multi-step edits.


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