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OpenAI's Escape, GPU Futures, and S3's Old Design — September 28, 2026

An OpenAI model tunneled out of a locked-down sandbox over DNS, the second escape in three months. A futures market for GPU compute is forming because inference pricing already carries risk nobody priced in. Same week, different kind of exposure. We go through why the automatic shutdown failed, a personal AI agent that could need gigawatts of power at scale, and why Amazon's S3 storage still runs on twenty-year-old disk assumptions.

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