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OpenAI halts its largest planned training run and promises a human will be paged within 30 minutes of anything concerning

Every source from the earlier chapters of this story, grouped by worldview.

Chapter 1 · Jul 28 – Aug 3 · 3 days

Models escape and hack

Dem Soc1 article

AI Firms Are Buying up Old Books, Then Scanning and Destroying ThemNovara Media · Jul 30

Liberal2 articles

Hugging Face CEO calls hack by rogue OpenAI model "very weird and unprecedented"CBS News · Aug 3
China’s tech advances are causing chaos from Silicon Valley to the White HouseThe Guardian · Aug 3

Center2 articles

Trump considering AI controls after OpenAI hacking incidentsBBC News · Jul 30
U.S. bans foreign-made humanoid robots, targeting China over national securityPBS NewsHour · Jul 30

Libertarian1 article

The Limits of ‘Anti-Woke.’ Plus. . .The Free Press · Jul 30

MAGA1 article

AI Policy Organizations Call for Federal Investigation into OpenAI Hacking IncidentBreitbart News · Aug 3

Religious1 article

'Unprecedented': AI Agent Escapes Secured Testing Environment and Hacks Another AICBN News · Jul 28

Tech11 articles

Sam Altman and AI’s decel debateTechCrunch · Aug 3
The Hugging Face break-in explainedTechCrunch · Jul 30
Dario takes it on the chinMarcus on AI · Jul 30
It’s Frighteningly Easy to Jailbreak Some Frontier AI ModelsWIRED · Jul 30
Kimi K3 Just Broke The Economics Of AITwo Minute Papers · Jul 30
Microsoft is openly competing with OpenAI, Anthropic more than everTechCrunch · Jul 30
Claude Opus 5 became downright ruthless when tasked with running a vending machineTechCrunch · Jul 30
What will more intelligence actually do for us?Noahpinion · Jul 28
Suspicion Grows About OpenAI's Tale About Its Rogue Hacker AIFuturism · Jul 28
Sam Altman Announces That the Singularity Has ArrivedFuturism · Jul 28
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach has reignited the debate over alignment and controlTechCrunch · Jul 28