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David Robinson, who drafted OpenAI's Preparedness Framework and oversaw safety reports for 12 frontier launches, resigned this week. He argues that "iterative deployment" guarantees periodic failures that grow with capability, and that frontier labs should run like nuclear plants or airports, with layered redundancy and safety people hired from those fields.
Coding agents make it trivial to spin up things that spend money, so Willison wants pay-per-use services to stop at a hard dollar limit by default, with uncapped billing as an explicit opt-in. AWS quietly began rolling out project spend limits on Sept. 16, and Google Cloud added Spend Caps in July.
About 159 million Brazilians are voting Sunday. The choice is between Lula, 80, and Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, 45, the Trump-aligned son of the jailed former president. If nobody clears 50%, the top two meet in an Oct. 25 runoff. Bolsonaro is running on closer U.S. ties and a rare-earths deal, while Lula has warned about U.S. interference after tariffs and sanctions.
A run of papers from Harvard's T.H. Chan School tied living near nuclear plants to higher cancer rates. Deric Tilson and Adam Stein ran the same method on other landmarks and found that private universities, and Costco most of all, "cause" far more cancer. Their point is that the method produces these associations on its own, and nobody tested it on a placebo landmark first.