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September 16, 2026 · Updated Sep 16, 1:45 PM PT
Satirical Zimbo cartoon of a TYPESAFE robot sorting crawling office workers on a conveyor belt into 'KEEP' and 'DISCARD' doorways, flinging one screaming employee down the discard chute as a coworker mutters 'I liked them better when they talked,' for TypeSafe's silent, non-chat System One models.

FROM THE SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 EDITION →

ZUCKERBERG: AI LABS ALREADY HAVE ENOUGH INCENTIVE TO BUILD SAFELY... MICROSOFT AI CHIEF TO ANTHROPIC: STOP TEACHING THE BOTS TO TALK LIKE THEY'RE CONSCIOUS... OPENAI EXPLORES ANOTHER ROUND. REPORTED PRICE TAG: MORE THAN $1.2 TRILLION...

EUROPE HITS THE BRAKES VON DER LEYEN BACKS A SLOWDOWN AND WILL INVITE FRONTIER LABS TO TALK RISKS... MEANWHILE OPENAI + ANTHROPIC + GOOGLE HAVE BEEN TALKING AI SAFETY FOR WEEKS...

TRUMP CALLS. JENSEN PUTS HIM ON SPEAKER. AI SLOWDOWN? ‘WE'RE NOT GOING TO LET THAT HAPPEN, SIR’... HUANG ON AI FEARS: ‘WHAT BETTER WAY TO CREATE DEMAND THAN TO CREATE A PROBLEM?’...

YEMEN CELL USED CLAUDE CODE TO BUILD GUIDANCE SOFTWARE FOR A 2,000+ KM MISSILE AND HYPERSONIC GLIDER... THE ROCKET FAILED. CLAUDE GOT THE DEBUGGING CALL WITHIN HOURS...