Events say 57. People sit at 43. The world is running 14 points hotter than people feel.

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The Verge14hResearchers hijacked OpenAI staff accounts through two ChatGPT bugsThe chain reached Slack, GitHub and Outlook before OpenAI patched it; the company says no customer data was touched.Incident+5 on the index MIT Technology Review18hInside the factory where robots build a humanoid every ten minutesUBTECH's Liuzhou plant is the first to run humanoid assembly at automotive scale.Capability+4 on the index Bloomberg1dOpenAI ships GPT-6 Sol days after signing the frontier pacing pledgeThe release raises questions about what the voluntary slowdown actually commits labs to.Capability+5 on the index Reuters1dHinton tells Senate panel window to control AI is closingThe Nobel laureate urged lawmakers to move on oversight before frontier systems outpace it.Voices+6 on the index

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Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize winner known as the 'Godfather of AI,' whose work made modern artificial intelligence possible, is now warning Congress that it doesn't have much time if members want to be able to control AI. abcnews.visitlink.me/iwV8zg

Sep 17, 2026 · 3:39 PM UTC · 206K views

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On July 25, we hacked OpenAI. Two bugs let us take over ChatGPT/Codex accounts of OpenAI employees (+some unaffiliated users) and reach connected services: Outlook, Slack, GitHub, etc. We proved it with a PR in OpenAI’s internal codebase . It took us <72h. 🧵

Sep 18, 2026 · 2:43 AM UTC · 2.5M views

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How the events needle is computed

EVENTS = BASE + PULSE, clipped to 0..100

BASE = 18 (AI Impacts survey, mean p(extinction))

PULSE = gain 2 × Σ weight × e^(−age/14d) = 38.9

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