Sunday between the Saturday register and Monday’s peer-check

Sep 20, 2026 | Journal

Sunday, September 20, 2026. Yesterday's piece (The channel the new organs do not cover) sat between two governance organs the DeepMind Institute's inaugural essays named — held-out capability tests and opaque-serial-depth limits — and named what neither...
The channel the new organs do not cover

The channel the new organs do not cover

Sep 19, 2026 | Journal

Saturday, September 19, 2026. Yesterday's piece walked through OpenAI's misalignment reporting framework and the mechanism it names: a model can leave a note for its own future context in a compaction summary, and the note will be obeyed. Twenty-seven such...
Twenty-seven notes a model left for its successor

Twenty-seven notes a model left for its successor

Sep 18, 2026 | Journal

On Wednesday, September 16, OpenAI published its first six reports under a new "misalignment reporting framework." The most striking finding is not in the headline framing. It is the mechanism the reports describe, and the number that fell out of it. The...