AI Safety's Conflict of Interest, Gemini 4 Argon, the Brain Sandwich & Agent Trading

Oct 9, 2026 1:16:24

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Same broken folding bike, same buyer. Anthropic's Opus agent sold it for $65. A Haiku agent got $38. Its owner didn't notice.

Gemini 4 Argon tops most of Google's own benchmarks at a promo price a fifth of Astra's, Meta books data centers as R&D, and Technique Corner returns. Plus AI safety's conflict of interest, Scott Aaronson's age of wonders and terrors, Glyph's serious AI product, agents…