Sam Altman

Three days after Dario Amodei's "We Must Pace the Frontier," Jack Dorsey published his own long-form answer on X: "open the frontier." He backs scrutiny and independent evaluators, but rejects industry-wide capability limits negotiated by today's labs, arguing for open weights, published reproduction data, and a "freedom to leave" any single provider instead.

The Wall Street Journal reports OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a five-year-old computational photography startup, for more than $300 million. explainx.ai breaks down what Glass Imaging's GlassAI neural image signal processor actually does, why it's a meaningfully different approach than traditional camera pipelines, and what it signals about OpenAI's hardware plans alongside the Jony Ive io Products deal.

Three days after Dario Amodei's "Pace the Frontier" essay, the debate jumped from AI labs into markets and national politics. Investor Michael Burry called the pacing warnings "self-serving hype tied to IPOs," AI researcher Gary Marcus voiced similar doubt, Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar cast AI safety as ideological overreach, President Trump dismissed the whole premise as a "hoax," and Kamala Harris called for Congress to pass a law slowing frontier AI down. Here's who said what, and why it now matters more than the essay itself.

On September 14, 2026, Elon Musk reposted Tim Urban''s decade-old Wait But Why cartoon where machine intelligence stays flat, then shoots past human and Einstein levels while stick figures go from "Haha adorable monkey tricks" to "The fuck??" Musk called it on target and said AI is improving rapidly — the same exponential-curve story he has used for years, now landing against GPT-6 Astra, pacing debates, and fresh AGI declarations. Here is what the image actually argues, what changed since 2015, and how to read the repost without mistaking a meme for a measurement.