September 2026 Links List

Below I present links to things that have caught my attention over the last month or so, across a whole range of subjects.

This quote from Cal Newport really stood out for me, so I’m including in here for easy reference.

We can call these long-horizon, dangerously equipped unsupervised LLM-powered agents. As best as we can tell, it’s this very narrow type of unpredictable and potentially hazardous system that companies like Anthropic are rushing recklessly ahead to provide increasingly powerful tools to play with (including, reportedly, the ability to update elements of their own code) and increasing autonomy (achieved, in part, by post-training the LLMs they prompt to suggest more aggressive actions).

Cal Newport - Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay. (September 9, 2026)