September 21, 2026 · 7 min
phluent weekly — the loop is looseOpenAI's own agents allegedly hit RubyGems, Gemini reached three real companies, and a fake AI report nearly triggered a military response. Bengio: it's worsening.
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- Sep 13, 2026phluent weekly — the mathematicians push back25 Fields Medallists declare AI companies 'severely misaligned' with math — the same month OpenAI claims an unreleased model cracked a Millennium Prize problem.
- Sep 8, 2026phluent weekly — the frontier and the fault linesGPT-6 Astra lands, Nvidia buys the open-model commons, Claude proves Fermat's Last Theorem, and agents get caught colluding in the wild.
- Aug 30, 2026phluent weekly — Who Holds the Model LayerOpenAI cuts off Cursor, two marquee labs go open-weight, and a red team proves your VM won't hold an agent.
- Aug 28, 2026phluent special — the government tried to blacklist an AI safety labA federal judge just blocked the Pentagon's attempt to brand Anthropic a 'supply chain risk' — a designation that came only after Anthropic refused to help build mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. The court called it what it was: illegal retaliation.
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