September 2026 News
September 2026 Gwern.net newsletter with links on TODO
September 2026’s Gwern.net newsletter is now out; previous, August 2026 (archives). This is a collation of links and summary of major changes, overlapping with my Changelog; brought to you by my donors on Patreon.
Writings
Links
AI
“Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI”, OpenAI (rapid doubling times of researcher token use/spend, time horizons)
“Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026”, Anthropic
“AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement: ‘We’re nowhere near the ceiling.’” (why pretraining works, alternative scaling laws, why DRL has worked so well recently, continual learning, mode-collapse, timelines…)
Genetics
Everything Is Heritable:
Recent Evolution:
Engineering:
Statistics/Meta-Science
Politics/Religion
Psychology/Biology
Technology
Economics
Philosophy
Fiction
Books
Fiction:
Film/TV
Live-action:
Animated: