Sam Altman

In a Stratechery interview published October 29, 2026, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar argued the AI industry under-invests in diffusion, that the atomic unit of the enterprise is the workflow, and that labs treat safety as a model problem when it is a systems-engineering one. Here is what he said and what to weigh.

In a Cheeky Pint interview published October 29, 2026, Sam Altman talked about the PHP vulnerability week, why sandboxing a vastly smarter model is an open problem, what agent teams cost, and why he would rather have a trillion modest AIs than one giant one. Here is what he said, in context.

On October 28, 2026, Gov. Kathy Hochul signed two kids-safety bills: one bars AI chatbots from a list of unsafe features for under-18 users, the other requires security features and warning labels on internet-connected baby monitors. Here is what each law says, who enforces it, and what AI builders need to change.

The American Prospect reports that Reps. Greg Casar and Maxine Waters co-wrote a seven-page, nonbinding House resolution saying Congress should refuse extra funds or exceptional regulatory support for AI firms facing insolvency. We separate what the report says from what is not yet public.