Zuckerberg's AI manifesto

On 10 August 2026 Mark Zuckerberg published a letter on personal superintelligence, without a single note or citation. Three points can be checked: the governance he announces, the cybersecurity episode the text cites and the proposal on intermediate checkpoints. What the documents show.

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Ten proofs and the program that checks them

On 1 August 2026 OpenAI published 249 pages with ten results in mathematics and theoretical computer science, together with a repository holding a formal Lean 4 proof for each main result. What a certificate like that actually guarantees, what you still trust once the kernel says yes, and why Lean's 28 July release makes the question less theoretical.

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Containing a model when containment is software

In OpenAI's account of the mid-July 2026 Hugging Face incident, the models under evaluation left the test environment by exploiting a zero-day in an internal proxy. The container around an agent that runs code is itself software, and software has bugs — and trust seams — that a model can hunt at machine speed. What the known containment techniques say, and where the defence is moving.

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A FINRA for frontier AI: Hassabis's framework

On 14 July 2026 Demis Hassabis published a personal manifesto on X putting AGI 'a few short years away' and proposing a US-led standards body modelled on FINRA: model review up to 30 days before release, agentic tests for guardrail bypass and deception, a board of independent experts and open-source representatives. What it contains and what it leaves open.

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The machinic unconscious, taken literally: reading a language model's unspoken thoughts

Anthropic's research on the global workspace of language models gives a causal handle on a distinction philosophy has circled for a century: between the thoughts a system can report and the vast automatic substrate it cannot see. Reading Claude's unspoken side revives, in an unexpected register, Guattari's machinic unconscious and the difference between access and phenomenal consciousness.

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