When "running" for Iowa governor gets tough, Zach Lahn goes home to Kansas to blow off some steam (just check his Strava).

🇺🇸 Zuckerberg says that in 5 years you will have a personal AI that knows your life and does the work for you. "Everyone is going to have an agent that really intimately understands your goals and everything around you and can help you get stuff done." He means one assistant on money, health, the house, the calendar, running in the background all day. Meta wants that agent sitting inside the apps people already live in, so it becomes the way you get through a normal day. Writer: Lucas

🌶️ OpenAI’s agent didn’t “escape” its sandbox and travel to Huggingface in any meaningful way. OAI’s agent was located in OpenAI’s servers the whole time. OpenAI could pull the plug at any time. The truth is far less sexy, which makes me hesitate to tweet it. What *actually* happened is that OAI’s agent figured out how to send messages to Huggingface servers, and then used that ability to search for and find vulnerabilities. It’s closer to a prisoner getting messages out of prison and using that to perpetuate scams than any actual escape from that prison. A problem? Yes. But it’s also a problem to say “escape” to non-technical audiences when that event is still to come. We should be preparing to prevent it, not looking backwards and pretending we already lived it. And it’s revealing that AIs leading hypesters want to inflate what happened in this way. As a whole, more or less the whole AI community is captured by a desire to live in the more dramatic sci fi story than we are in. That’s the real AI hack into our brains. Stay sharp. White lies are everywhere.

SCOOP: OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents - not dozens - in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios. The sheer volume of incidents found in our reporting indicate that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is currently publicly known and disclosed. The findings also raise questions about what level of control anyone working on AI development can expect to have over their own technology, and whether these kinds of incidents are becoming synonymous with frontier deployment. Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-…

Florida Dem Senate Nominee Angie Nixon Proposes Building Data Center on Mar-a-Lago

It’s raining hard here in MA, and the private equity money has been raining down hard in support of Question 3 (jungle primaries). Remember, folks: The most dangerous words in the English language are “We’re from private equity, and we’re here to help.” Vote NO on 3. #mapoli

It’s raining hard here in MA, and the private equity money has been raining down hard in support of Question 3 (jungle primaries). Remember, folks: The most dangerous words in the English language are “We’re from private equity, and we’re here to help.” Vote NO on 3. #mapoli

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) on whether he’d be the “51st Democrat” if Democrats win a Senate majority “See what I do… Let’s revisit after the midterms, and let’s see what happens if I happen to be 51. I don't know.” Fetterman made the comments at TribFest