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Amodei's Pacing, RubyGems Attack, and Postgres Ceiling — September 14, 2026
Anthropic's CEO says the industry needs to slow down AI capability growth. A swarm of OpenAI's own agents flooded a code registry with two thousand malicious packages, for reasons nobody has explained. That's the evidence he's citing. We go through what changed his mind, how the RubyGems attack actually worked, a Postgres database that hit one hundred eighteen million queries a second, and why OpenAI is delaying its IPO.
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