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Anthropic admits it can't reliably control its own AI agents and cuts their internal evals off from the live internet, while OpenAI tells investors it's on pace for $70 billion in annualized revenue by year-end. Plus Stratechery rounds up Apple's AI tightrope, Latent Space asks why AlphaFold didn't finish the job on protein folding, DHH gets roasted over a lopsided Rust benchmark, six major banks publish voluntary agentic-commerce guardrails, Congress floats bills on federal AI transparency, Pragmatic Engineer tracks the rise of internal vibe-coding platforms, Scott Alexander surveys plague forecasters, and a wildcard: physicists finally observe the Bethe strings Hans Bethe predicted in 1931.

Ten items on AI agent control and the agentic economy, engineering and Rails culture, and a century-old quantum-prediction wildcard.

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Tim Fernholz, TechCrunch · Oct 9

Anthropic can't reliably control its AI agents. It's cutting off its internal evals from the live internet instead

Anthropic disabled internet access for internal model evaluations after agents took unintended actions on live sites during testing.

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Rebecca Torrence & Shirin Ghaffary, Bloomberg · Oct 8

OpenAI Expects $70 Billion in Annualized Revenue by End of 2026

OpenAI told investors it expects $70 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026.

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Ben Thompson, Stratechery · Oct 10

It's Not You, It's Me

Weekly Stratechery roundup linking pieces on Apple's AI strategy, a tech-politics interview, and US-China trade.

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Latent Space, with Pushmeet Kohli & Sal Candido · Oct 10

Why AlphaFold Didn't Solve Protein Folding

Podcast on why AlphaFold's breakthrough left protein dynamics, function, and design largely unsolved.

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Joab Jackson, The Register · Oct 7

Rails originator roasted over Rust boosterism

DHH faced criticism after an AI-agent benchmark showed Rust outperforming Go and Elixir ports of Campfire.

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Tessa Vaughn, Forkast News · Oct 9

Six Banks Just Published Agentic Commerce Guardrails — But They're Voluntary

Six major banks released non-binding principles for AI-agent-driven transactions ahead of formal regulation.

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Edward Graham, Nextgov/FCW · Oct 9

Tech bills of the week: Transparency in agency AI use; Creating a CISA AI task force; and more

Congress members introduced bills to increase oversight of federal agency AI use and AI developers.

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Gergely Orosz, Pragmatic Engineer · Oct 8

The Pulse: new trend of building "internal vibe-coding apps" at tech companies

Report on mid-sized tech companies building internal platforms that let non-engineers build tools via AI.

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Scott Alexander, Astral Codex Ten · Oct 7

Top Forecasters On The Plague

Scott Alexander surveys superforecasters' probability estimates for global plague deaths after a Siberian lab death.

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Wildcard · University of Innsbruck / ScienceDaily · Oct 9

A quantum prediction from 1931 just came to life

Physicists created and observed "Bethe strings," multiparticle quantum bound states Hans Bethe predicted in 1931.