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Techmeme surfaced Dwarkesh Patel’s September 11, 2026 roundtable, AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement, with Thinking Machines chief scientist John Schulman, Zyphra CTO Beren Millidge, and Baseten head of model training Charlie O’Neill.

The discussion’s most useful contribution is to break recursive self-improvement, or RSI, into separate technical problems. A model might write training code quickly, optimize a measurable objective, or run many experiments in parallel without being able to choose the next important question, learn continually from deployment, or carry an open-ended research program through months of changing evidence. Faster execution can greatly accelerate a lab before those harder capabilities arrive, but it does not by itself close the loop in which AI designs its own increasingly capable successors.

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I don’t see how jobs will be gone due to AI. AI will only create more jobs. (Blind)

• izeb46 (Bloomberg): Walk through a concrete example.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): Jevons paradox ?
• ovahFlow (Oracle): Not without a massive socioeconomic restructuring.

Haunted by “What If” (Blind)

• pour873!78 (ex-Salesforce): You can’t lose what you never had buddy.
• mpcy10 (Compass): Let me call you a whambulance
• toptalent✅ (Coinbase): Humble brag larping

Another round of layoffs at Amazon next month? (Blind)

• gjPd41 (Rivian): Is there a WARN notice yet?
• ❤️GayPride🏳️‍🌈 (Applied Materials): Confirmed 20%.
• amsecux (Amazon): Looks like Alexa will be impacted

Wiki documents at least 44 instances in which Sony says you own your games as digital games ownership lawsuit progresses — project is direct assault on Sony’s claim in recent ownership lawsuit (r/technology)

• Quigleythegreat: I want to see Crash Bandicoot operate a rube Goldberg device and drop a cage over Sonys lawyers at the end of the trial. For no particular reason.
• hjjs: Maybe a little bit cynical but if Sony gets hammered I reckon they’ll update the language of their TNCs instead of updating their practices
• pi_mai: Sony will burn so much money on this. They won’t back down. This sets the stage not for next consoles but all future consoles.

Two AI researchers leave Anthropic and Google over safety concerns: ‘There are no adults in the room’ (r/technology)

• fafatzy: You have no adults in goverment, why you would have serious people at the corporate ai slop factory ?
• williamgman: Depending on who leaves… We often compare this tech to the political world. I think of the US from 2017-2020 as being run by a mad man but with guardrails. Then 2025 he’s back… with no more guardrails. The AI industry is the same. We are seeing our current AI with some guardrails… When those rails are gone… Look out.
• onedayoneroom: I’m not sure I understand the thought process here. If they have safety concerns, why would they leave? Why aren’t these people staying on to work towards preventing the existential catastrophe they seem to think is coming?

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Model pricing tables make an awkward engineering problem look deceptively simple. A low price per token can still produce an expensive application if the model fails often, takes more turns to finish, repeats a growing context on every turn, or creates work that humans must repair. The useful unit of comparison is therefore not the token. It is a successful outcome at the quality level the application actually requires.

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Techmeme surfaced Terence Tao’s September 11 post, “A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics”. The post publishes an urgent declaration signed initially by 25 Fields Medallists. Its central warning is not that AI cannot do serious mathematics, but nearly the opposite: systems are becoming capable enough that optimizing them to solve famous problems may damage the institutions that turn correct results into shared understanding.

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What job move gave you the biggest salary jump? (Blind)

• Shrike22 (Meta): Undergrad (2016-20) - 0/yr Intern outside US (2020) - \$8k/yr Full time outside US (2020-21) - \$40k/yr Masters, US (2022) - 0/yr Intern in US, big tech (2023, SF) - \$110k/yr (\$55/hour) Full time, mid tier big tech (2024, SF) - \$230k/yr Full time, faang (2025, SF) - \$550k/yr Neolab offer (2026, SF) - 1.5M/yr
• spinoff’s (Broadcom): Moved from Intel to Broadcom. 230k to 1.1M 🙏🏼
• booti (Databricks): Microsoft to Databricks -> 270k to 1.2M

Is OpenAI downlevel worth it? (Blind)

• TbtN75 (Snap): Meta has similar upside as OpenAI? Are you sure?
• WtKs22 (Databricks): 1. OpenAI L5 is staff because they start at L2 2. L5 offer should be close to 950K-1M. \$700K is lowball. FYI
• swuh50 (OpenAI): L5 is staff level in OpenAI and it’s not 700k tc.

Anyone got into Anthropic on their second tryout? (Blind)

• ooofa (Apple): You work at Google and was a finalist at Anthropic so you must be smart. And yet you’re crushed for not getting an offer at the peak of the ai bubble where you would be making a tenth of your colleagues, work just as hard weekends/holidays and arguably stand on shaky grounds while being at Google that did 120% in the last 2 years and is still trading today at a 16 P/E ratio. What were you thinking?
• Qyly43 (Anthropic): Yes, the cool off period is roughly 6 months. I got in on my second attempt
• VhBX06 (Amazon): I feel the same. I interviewed for an Applied AI architect role that required 5+ years of experience and i have 14. I made it all the way through final 3 rounds. I think i did fairly well— but wasn’t given an offer. Im sure there could be many reasons but I don’t remember having any jarring let downs in any of my rounds. I felt quite crushed later as i was really hoping to work at this amazing company. The upside of base pay would have been 50k, hopefully stocks would have been more? ( not sure) . The recruiter didn’t even bother to call me after giving 3 weeks and 5 rounds ( including 2 screening ) on this. I definitely felt crushed but now im over it.

‘We Did Not Invite You.’ Citizens Rage at Town Hall Over Proposed Nuclear AI Data Center / The University of Michigan is partnering with Los Alamos National Labs to build a massive data center in a small Michigan township. The residents say they were never consulted. (r/technology)

• bobsonjunk: U of Michigan unethical? Wait a second…
• WTFHELP: Why doesn’t the school build it on their golf course much closer to the school?
• Redtex: I don’t think you’d be surprised by this but not many communities are given any any notice of this. Kind of like flock cameras

Google’s emissions shot up 48 percent over five years due to AI (r/technology)

• MinuteSport4755: Remember to use a paper straw!
• Repulsive_Chemist: Don’t be evil.
• danthemanstoned: I’m already in the process of de-Googling. Looking forward to the Graphene OS phone Motorola’s releasing next year. If we all stop going along and take a stand on these predatory government welfare queen corporations maybe things will get better.

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Techmeme surfaced Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essay, “We Must Pace the Frontier”, on September 12. Amodei argues that frontier AI capabilities should continue advancing, but slowly enough for safeguards and independent evaluation to catch up.

This is more specific than a generic call for caution. Anthropic says it will invite outside evaluators into the company with access resembling that of employees, while Amodei proposes capability-based checkpoints for leading US labs and a ladder of possible international agreements. The essay is still a CEO’s policy proposal rather than a binding industry compact, but its unilateral commitment gives one part of the plan an immediate test.

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Did I get laid off or did I just get fired? (Blind)

• kraxoos (Microsoft): Seems to be happening across the industry. You’re just your managers least favorite, or the easiest to let go. Maybe you’re the only one without kids with no house no bills or aren’t on a visa, etc
• VeCq77 (Salesforce): Fired vs. Laid off - same damn thing.
• VsEA07 (Capital One): Go to HR immediately. Same thing happened to me in 2024 and I was able to negotiate a severance package that carried me to the next vest.

Wife forcing me back to work (Blind)

• Bl!ndB!ind (Amazon): Why not just divorce and find a younger and better model?
• 🌼 lav (Meta): Why in social media they keep carping about men being provider and protector? On blind, at least all want to steal from women or be women. Media is so out of touch with reality. Women should stop having children, it is extremely difficult and life altering, if they have to do it alone anyways then might as well not do it at all.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): Would the reverse be okay? If so I don’t see why current situation isn’t

I’m seriously burnt out but my husband is forcing me back to work (Blind)

• pissedoff2 (Instacart): Sorry, total equality.
• BabaBizzle (Amazon): Remember that everybody in this industry burns out. And every time your husband gets frustrated or pissed off at work and thinks about how great it would be for a break or a change, the pressure of your entire household depending solely on him multiplies the frustration. You had your break, you don’t need to go back to what you were doing or even work in the same sector, but he’s now told you that he doesn’t want to be the sole source. I take that as meaning he’s starting to feel pressure and it will begin to feel like being trapped. Those same anxieties you experienced can/will soon set in with him as well. Talk it through with him. Look for low pressure work even if it pays 1/2 of what you used to make. Or look for consulting / contract work.
• WorthIt? (Amazon): Check your iron levels - ferritin. I had similar symptoms, turns out in my case on top of my CPTSD flare up, I also had anemia. Low iron can cause psychiatric symptoms.

Meta confiscates social media handles of legendary rock band Muse, so they can be given to their own AI product. (r/technology)

• Dr_Element: This is a big PR opportunity for muse. Their music is full of criticism of mass surveillance and powerful actors and they recently released what may be their best album in 20 years.
• Mammoth_Loan_984: Oh boy muse are going to hate this
• nine57th: META is nothing but a bunch of Tools from the top on down. They should just change their name to TOOL. And they can confiscate another band’s name too in the process.

LG strongly denies TV security claims, says tracking and snooping concerns ’not true’ (r/tomshardware)

• Potential-Ant-4335: of all the possible responses, this is probably the craziest one they could have come back with
• Vampyre_Boy: The jump from their hardware diagnostic tools like in their washing machines to spying devices is a VERY small one that would only require cameras and microphones so I don’t doubt that they used their televisions to grab info to sell. The only loss in the idea is if they get caught and I guess their plan for that is deny deny deny …..
• WhataNoobUser: The only way this could be true is if there is some disconnect between leadership and the software team

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Techmeme surfaced WIRED’s September 10 report, “OpenAI Wants to Know if an AI Industry Slowdown Would Even Be Legal”. People close to OpenAI told WIRED that the company has recently asked members of Congress for guidance on whether frontier AI labs could coordinate an industry-wide slowdown without violating antitrust law.

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DOL suspends all Cognizant PERM applications (Blind)

• crazzak (Microsoft): Do Microsoft and Amazon next. Tired of these layoffs impacting Americans when the company is still sponsoring more H-1Bs.
• slackerswe (Microsoft): This is huge. Dol suspending perm for an employer means the employer really really messed up.
• CbzP51 (Google): Now time to revoke all previous green cards from this company.

How fare are you from FIRE / Retirement? (Blind)

• SЕV0 (Meta): I reached fat fire years ago but somehow still grinding with the current trayectory it feels low 8 figures won’t be enough
• nqpO26 (Petrobras): If you’re more than 3 years from FIRE, you’ll be fired by AGI, clock is ticking
• LuciferO07 (Google): Already reached , 10M in stocks .

Why is Everyone in Tech So Sad (Blind)

• k7me7: Humans weren’t meant to stare at a screen for 9 hours a day. It’s not just bad backs and tech neck that it causes either, psychologically we were never meant to do this as a species. It’s not that complicated.
• rhydon1x (Capital One): People in tech are sad because losers who thought the YouTube losers posting about only working 2 hours a day was real and they forced their way into the field only to drag everyone else down with them
• ed5e6cfb (Pinterest): I don’t get this, honestly. The only time I’m sad is when my work is not recognize. These dreams of quitting and going off grid is great if you have the money stashed away, but that’s not the case for all of us. I’m gonna be on this treadmill till the day I die, for better or worse. It’s easier to just accept this and work within those constraints.

Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation (r/technology)

• ha-hahnoo: A surveillance company upset about being filmed in public. The jokes write themselves.
• TheWoodser: Something, something….pot….kettle
• adorkablegiant: What do a surveillance company and a predator during a hunt have in common? They both like watching their prey but hate being watched themselves.

An Anthropic researcher just quit, saying OpenAI and Anthropic are ‘gambling with our lives’ (r/technology)

• Proud-Ninja5049: This thread might legit be bots fighting bots.
• Atrium41: “AGI! Soon, guys!”
• Labrontus: So we are going full into the Terminator timeline?

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Replacing a cryptographic algorithm is rarely just a cryptography project. In DNSSEC, a stronger signature changes packet sizes, transport behavior, compatibility rules, and the meaning of a successful validation. Cloudflare’s first production step toward post-quantum DNSSEC is therefore less about dropping a new primitive into a library than about making the surrounding protocol migration safe enough to observe at Internet scale.