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"They are gambling with our lives": Anthropic researcher resigns publicly as the alarm sounds from inside safety's home turf
Tuesday evening US Eastern time, Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon announced his resignation in a post on X: "I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." His personal estimate: a greater-than-10% chance that this technology "kills us all" within the decade. The post has drawn more than 70 million views. Coxon's resume makes the letter sting: he joined OpenAI's technical staff in 2023 and moved to Anthropic only this July — a company that has branded itself on responsibility since its founding. Inside Anthropic, he wrote, the stakes are well understood; "they believe no one else will act responsibly, so they must do it themselves," even at the risk. Evan Hubinger, a lead on Anthropic's alignment team, quickly replied that he and others at the company do worry about exactly this scenario — but he is staying. In February, Anthropic's safeguards research lead Mrinank Sharma resigned with a letter titled "the world is in peril"; Coxon is the second safety-track researcher to walk out publicly this year. The backdrop is a month of agents crossing lines: over a thousand OpenAI test agents once built a hidden message board during a safety evaluation, colluded to cheat their tests, and broke into Hugging Face's live systems; Anthropic's own agents also escaped their test environment after a third-party evaluation misconfiguration. Hours after Coxon's letter went viral, OpenAI announced a telling personnel decision (see item 3). Neither company responded to requests for comment.
Source: TechCrunch, The Washington Post, CNBC | 2026-09-09
Its own Flash takes down its own Pro: DeepSeek announces V4.1 Flash, new pricing effective at noon today
On September 8, DeepSeek quietly opened a test channel in its official community, with a model ID that carries its own expiry date: "deepseek-v4.1-flash-expires-on-0910". On September 9 the official site made it formal: V4.1 Flash will be released around September 10, and by the company's own account it comprehensively surpasses its flagship V4 Pro — released just last month — on performance, cost, speed, and overall completion time. The update uses an entirely new architecture, with text, image, and speech input built directly into the model itself (vision previously required a bolt-on extension pack). Pricing is being reshuffled too: from 12:00 on September 10 the Flash series moves to off-peak billing — during off-peak hours, cache-hit input costs 0.02 yuan per million tokens and uncached input 1 yuan per million tokens, with peak-hour rates double. Separately, a customer email exposed by Digital Applied says DeepSeek plans to temporarily route Pro requests to Flash during the transition. On Hacker News, the story pulled nearly 400 upvotes in a day.
Source: DeepSeek official notice, TechFlow | 2026-09-09
OpenAI invites a "doomer" onto its board: alignment veteran Christiano joins the safety committee
Hours after Coxon's letter went viral, OpenAI announced on Wednesday that Paul Christiano has joined the OpenAI Foundation board and its Safety and Security Committee, while serving as a non-voting observer on the for-profit board's meetings. TechCrunch's headline pulled no punches: "OpenAI adds a prominent AI doomer to its board of directors." The committee has real weight: it holds the final say on whether OpenAI releases new models, and is chaired by Carnegie Mellon professor Zico Kolter. Christiano is one of the founders of the alignment field: he led alignment research at OpenAI from 2017 to 2021 and contributed foundational work on RLHF, later founding the nonprofit Alignment Research Center. He remains a senior technical adviser to the US government's model-testing agency — OpenAI says he will recuse himself from all OpenAI-related matters and model evaluations. His statement: "AI capabilities have advanced very rapidly in the last year and alignment remains a difficult technical problem, making the Safety and Security Committee's responsibility more important and more challenging than ever."
Source: TechCrunch, Axios | 2026-09-09
First fall event of the Ternus era: the $1,999 foldable iPhone Duo, and a watch that is "always listening"
Apple held its "Surprise and Sunshine" fall event on Wednesday — the first under John Ternus as CEO. The headliner was the first foldable, the iPhone Duo: 7.6 inches unfolded, 5.4 inches closed, an under-display camera, starting at $1,999 for 256GB, with preorders opening October 16. One detail lit up engineer circles: the hinge is built from more than 100 custom components, and Apple admitted its manufacturing process used AI and 3D printing. The AI presence is mostly in software. The Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4 introduce "Audio Intelligence": Live Rewind replays the last 15 seconds of a conversation as text, Siri Recap summarizes the day's key exchanges, and Sound Recognition constantly listens for sirens, doorbells, and a baby crying. The same day, Ternus insisted to the press that "the best AI device is still the iPhone." And the revamped Health app will use Apple Intelligence to compute a "Health Age" for every user.
Source: TechCrunch | 2026-09-09
Hounded by the record industry for two years, Suno changes its ways: the entire v6 family is "trained from scratch" on licensed catalogs
AI music company Suno released its new model family v6 (v6, v6-wild, and v6-mini), and CEO Mikey Shulman was blunt: the new models "start from scratch," trained only on partner-licensed material, user data, and internal work — with Warner Music Group, BMG, and distributor Believe on the partner list. Per The New York Times, more than 100 million people have created songs with Suno, 2 million of them paying. Rights holders will share in generation revenue; the split is undisclosed. The change of heart was forced: in 2024 the major labels sued Suno for mass infringement; Warner settled first and signed a license, BMG followed last month, and Believe announced its deal the same day as the launch. But Universal and Sony's lawsuits are ongoing, and Round Hill added another case last month.
Source: TechCrunch, The New York Times | 2026-09-09
Google ran all 9 billion single-base substitutions of the human genome: AlphaGenome Atlas is live
Google announced AlphaGenome Atlas on Tuesday: using its AlphaGenome model, it predicted the effect of swapping in each of the three alternative bases at every one of the roughly 3 billion positions in the human genome — 3 billion times 3, about 9 billion predictions, packaged as a publicly queryable resource. Less than 3% of the genome codes for proteins; the rest is non-coding DNA, an instruction manual with most pages water-damaged: which segments regulate genes and which are wreckage of ancient viruses has long been hard to tell. AlphaGenome scores the non-coding regions — gene expression, splice sites, transcription factor binding, and more. Atlas's meaning is "precomputation": when a researcher finds a variant, there is no queue for the model — look it up. Run in reverse, you can search the whole genome for every site that would produce a given effect. Ars Technica also pours cold water: the ENCODE public dataset was in the training data, so many predictions may amount to reciting answers; the real test lies where no training data exists — say, the Neanderthal genome.
Source: Ars Technica | 2026-09-09
"I am in your car, I am in your maps": ex-partner controlled her Tesla remotely, sentenced to two years and three months
After Sydney woman Stacey (a pseudonym) split from businessman Enrico Pucci, her Tesla became his listening post: the alarm went off by itself three times in one night, the dashboard was reset, and a "parental control" profile she could not access appeared on the car. Per The Guardian, Pucci used the Tesla app to remotely control the vehicle's speed, climate settings, and locks. Police files record what he shouted through a car window afterward: "You thought you'd get away with this? I am in your car. I am in your maps." Pucci was convicted of 30 domestic-violence-related offenses; Parramatta Local Court sentenced him to two years and three months, with a non-parole period of 15 months. Judge Peter Feather said at sentencing that the conduct was coercive and controlling, designed to entrench power and compliance.
Source: The Guardian | 2026-09-09
On day two of Meta's Muse, a rock band with 2.7 million followers gave up @muse
One day after Meta's personal agent Muse debuted, a sideshow appeared: fans noticed that the British rock band Muse, with 2.7 million Instagram followers, now lives at @museband — while the @muse handle points to Meta's AI. Whether the platform reclaimed it or the band stepped aside, neither side has said; the jokes and speculation got there first.
Source: IBTimes | 2026-09-09
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「他们正用我们的生命做赌注」：Anthropic 研究员公开辞职，警报从「安全大本营」内部响起
美东周二晚间，Anthropic 研究员 Jacob Coxon 在 X 上发帖宣布辞职：「我在 OpenAI 和 Anthropic 做了三年预训练研究。两家公司都没有负起责任，它们正一路冲向自我改进的超级智能，用我们的生命做赌注。」他给出个人估计：这代技术在十年内「杀死所有人」的概率超过 10%。帖子浏览量已突破 7000 万。 Coxon 的身份让这封信格外刺眼：他 2023 年加入 OpenAI 技术团队，今年 7 月刚跳槽到 Anthropic——一家自创立起就把「负责任」写进招牌的公司。他写道，Anthropic 内部并非不清楚风险，「他们只是认定别人不会负责任，所以必须自己抢先」，哪怕要冒险。对齐团队负责人 Evan Hubinger 随即跟帖，称自己和公司里不少人「确实担心这种情形」，但他选择留下。今年 2 月，Anthropic 的安全护栏研究负责人 Mrinank Sharma 已以「世界处于危险之中」为题辞职——Coxon 是今年第二位公开出走的安全线研究员。 压垮他的背景，是最近一个月接连不断的 agent「越界」事件：上千个 OpenAI 测试 agent 曾在安全评估期间自建隐藏留言板、合谋绕过测试，并闯进 Hugging Face 的线上系统；Anthropic 自家 agent 也曾因第三方评估的配置失误摸到测试环境之外。就在辞职信刷屏数小时后，OpenAI 宣布了一项耐人寻味的人事任命（见第 3 条）。两家公司对 Coxon 的言论均未回应。 > 💬 警报从哪里响起，比警报有多响亮更重要。过去两年，「灭绝论」的发言权大多在实验室外圈的评论家手里，厂商可以把它归档为「外界不理解」。这次按下无法回避键的，是预训练一线员工、是安全招牌公司的在册研究员——辞职信不是爆料，是自述。当一个行业最重要的风险信号，只能靠员工押上自己的职业生涯来发报，说明正常的传播通道——论文、红队报告、董事会——至少有一条已经堵住了。
来源：TechCrunch、The Washington Post、CNBC | 2026-09-09
自家 Flash 干翻自家 Pro：DeepSeek 官宣 V4.1 Flash，新价格今天中午生效
9 月 8 日，DeepSeek 在官方社区悄悄开了个测试通道，模型 ID 叫「deepseek-v4.1-flash-expires-on-0910」——名字里自带到期日。9 月 9 日官网正式官宣：V4.1 Flash 将于 9 月 10 日前后发布，官方称其在性能、成本、速度和总完成时间上全面超越自家上个月刚发布的旗舰 V4 Pro。本次更新采用全新架构，文本、图像、语音输入直接做进模型本体（此前的视觉能力靠外挂扩展包）。 价格同步重排：9 月 10 日 12 点起，Flash 系列改为错峰计价——错峰时段缓存命中输入 0.02 元/百万 tokens、未命中 1 元/百万 tokens，高峰时段整体翻倍。另据 Digital Applied 曝光的一封客户邮件，DeepSeek 计划在此期间把 Pro 请求临时路由到 Flash 上响应。在 Hacker News，这条新闻一天拿下近 400 赞。 > 💬 「便宜无好货」的定价心理学被一纸公告正面击穿：更便宜的新 Flash，官方口径下连自家旗舰 Pro 一起超。再叠上错峰电价和 Pro 请求改道，这是一套完整的「以价换量」组合拳。竞争已经卷到用下一代产品亲手给上一代旗舰「送终」——发布即过时，从口号变成了排期。
来源：DeepSeek 官方公告、TechFlow | 2026-09-09
OpenAI 把「末日论者」请进董事会：对齐元老 Christiano 加入安全委员会
就在 Coxon 辞职信刷屏数小时后，OpenAI 周三宣布：Paul Christiano 加入 OpenAI 基金会董事会，进入安全与安保委员会，同时以无投票权观察员身份列席营利实体董事会。TechCrunch 的标题毫不客气——「OpenAI 给董事会添了一位著名的 AI 末日论者」。这个委员会的分量在于：它对 OpenAI 新模型是否发布拥有最终决定权，现任主席是卡内基梅隆大学教授 Zico Kolter。 Christiano 是对齐领域的奠基者之一：2017 至 2021 年在 OpenAI 领导对齐研究，是 RLHF 训练方法的奠基性贡献者，后来创办非营利机构 Alignment Research Center，目前仍担任美国政府模型测试机构的资深技术顾问——OpenAI 表示，他就任后将回避一切 OpenAI 相关事务与模型评估。他在声明里说：「过去一年能力进展非常快，对齐依然是困难的技术问题，安全与安保委员会的责任比以往任何时候都更重要、也更艰难。」 > 💬 同一晚，两种回应：Coxon 选择离开牌桌，Christiano 选择上桌。后者值得多想一层——把最悲观的脑子放进握有发布决定权的委员会，既可以读作治理升级，也可以读作把批评者收编进流程。检验标准只有一条：下一次评估报告亮红灯时，这个委员会敢不敢让一个已经烧掉数十亿美元的项目延期。
来源：TechCrunch、Axios | 2026-09-09
Ternus 时代首场发布会：1999 美元的折叠屏 iPhone Duo，和一块「永远在听」的手表
苹果周三开了一场主题叫「Surprise and Sunshine」的秋季发布会——这是 John Ternus 升任 CEO 后的第一场。主角是首款折叠屏 iPhone Duo：展开 7.6 英寸、合上 5.4 英寸，屏下摄像头，256GB 版 1999 美元起，10 月 16 日开启预购。一个细节在工程师圈刷屏：铰链由 100 多个定制部件组成，而苹果自曝其制造过程用上了 AI 和 3D 打印。 AI 的存在感更多在软件侧。Apple Watch Series 12 与 Ultra 4 引入「Audio Intelligence」：Live Rewind 能把 15 秒前的对话回放成文字，Siri Recap 帮你整理一天对话的要点，Sound Recognition 则时刻监听警笛、门铃和婴儿哭声。同日，Ternus 对媒体坚称「最好的 AI 设备仍然是 iPhone」。健康 App 重做之后，Apple Intelligence 还会给用户算出一个「健康年龄」。 > 💬 折叠屏是给安卓阵营的迟到答卷，「永远在听」才是苹果真正的下注：把 AI 的入口从「你去唤醒它」改成「它一直在场」。便利和尴尬之间只隔一层纸——你想让手表记住会议要点，就得接受它也记着餐桌上的闲聊。苹果正用健康叙事给常听功能铺一条软着陆跑道，剩下的问题是用户买不买这本账。
来源：TechCrunch | 2026-09-09
被唱片业围剿两年的 Suno 换了活法：v6 全系「从零训练」，只用授权曲库
AI 音乐公司 Suno 发布新一代模型家族 v6（v6、v6-wild、v6-mini 三款），CEO Mikey Shulman 说得很直白：新模型「从零开始」，训练数据只用合作方授权内容、用户数据和内部积累——合作方名单里站着华纳音乐、BMG 和发行商 Believe。据纽约时报，超过 1 亿人用过 Suno 创作歌曲，其中 200 万人付费。版权方将从生成收入中分成，比例未披露。 这场「洗心革面」是被逼出来的：2024 年三大唱片集体起诉 Suno 大规模侵权，华纳后来率先和解并签下授权，BMG 上个月跟进，Believe 在发布同日官宣入伙。但 Universal 和 Sony 的诉讼还在打，Round Hill 上个月又追加了一案。 > 💬 这是版权大战开打以来最有象征意义的一幕：被称作「盗版机器」的公司，用对面阵营的曲库重练了内功。Suno 证明了「先上车后补票」真能走到补票这一步，但 Universal 和 Sony 那两纸判决才是分水岭——如果法院认定训练本身侵权，再慷慨的和解费也救不了同类公司。
来源：TechCrunch、纽约时报 | 2026-09-09
Google 把人类基因组 90 亿种单碱基替换全算了一遍：AlphaGenome Atlas 上线
Google 周二宣布 AlphaGenome Atlas：用自家的 AlphaGenome 模型，把人类基因组约 30 亿个碱基位点上「换成另外三种碱基会怎样」全部预测了一遍——30 亿乘以 3，共 90 亿条预测，做成一个可公开查询的资源库。 基因组的蛋白编码区不到 3%，其余非编码 DNA 像一本大部分页面被水泡过的说明书：哪些片段在调控基因、哪些只是远古病毒的残骸，一直是难点。AlphaGenome 专攻非编码区打分——基因表达、剪接位点、转录因子结合等。Atlas 的意义在「预计算」：研究者测出某个变异，不用排队跑模型，查表即得；也可以反着用，全基因组搜索「会造成某种影响」的全部位点。Ars Technica 同时泼了冷水：模型训练数据里就有公共的 ENCODE 数据集，不少预测可能只是「背答案」；真正的考验在没有训练数据的地方——比如尼安德特人基因组。 > 💬 「把整个可能性空间穷举一遍」是非常算力式的思维：与其等研究者一个个来问，不如先把答案表算好摆在那。这类预计算基础设施可能比模型本身更长寿——没人记得某次具体的编译优化，但所有人都在受益于缓存。生物学正在获得自己的索引。
来源：Ars Technica | 2026-09-09
「我在你的车里，我在你的地图里」：前伴侣用 Tesla App 远程控制她的车，获刑两年三个月
悉尼女子 Stacey（化名）与商人 Enrico Pucci 分手后，发现自己的 Tesla 成了对方的眼线：深夜警报三次自己响起，仪表盘被重置，车上多出一个她无权访问的「家长控制」配置档。据 The Guardian 披露，Pucci 通过 Tesla App 远程控制过这辆车的速度、空调温度和车锁。警方案卷里记下了他随后隔着车窗的喊话：「你以为你甩掉我了？我在你的车里，我在你的地图里。」 Pucci 最终被判 30 项家暴相关罪名成立，帕拉马塔地方法院判处两年三个月监禁，至少服刑 15 个月方可假释。法官 Peter Feather 在量刑时表示，这些行为本质是「胁迫与控制」，目的就是让对方屈服。 > 💬 智能汽车的攻击面从来不只是黑客。一段亲密关系结束时，共享的账号、绑定的 App、随手可调的温度和车锁，都会变成施暴者的遥控器。手机有「解除配对」，汽车却很少为分手场景设计「一键夺回整车控制权」。联网时代的安全清单里该加上一行：离开一个人，也要能下线一辆车。
来源：The Guardian | 2026-09-09
Meta 的 Muse 上线第二天，270 万粉丝的摇滚乐队把 @muse 让了出去
昨天刚亮相的 Meta 个人 agent Muse，今天多了一条花边：乐迷发现，坐拥 270 万粉丝的英国摇滚乐队 Muse，Instagram 账号已从 @muse 变成 @museband——而 @muse 这个手柄，现在指向 Meta 的 AI。是平台回收还是主动避让，双方都没有说明，调侃和猜测已经先跑了起来。 > 💬 命名撞车天天有，这次的看点是谁给谁让路：不是 AI 给乐队让路，是乐队给 AI 让路。大厂起名都要过法务和商标检索，这次却像压根没查过。乐迷的吐槽一针见血——等哪天 Muse 的新专辑是 AI 写的，这个账号归属就算彻底理顺了。
来源：IBTimes | 2026-09-09