Weekly issue · audited
Issue: September 25 – October 4, 2026
The week the industry blinked. Facing a run of rogue-agent incidents, labs and governments reached for the brakes - a cancelled frontier model, a voluntary White House accord, an FTC probe, and fresh warnings about open-weight cyber capability.
The thread
For a project that measures Predictability, the week cut both ways: labs pausing and cancelling releases is a human circuit-breaker working - but voluntary accords and a “Super Intelligence” rebrand, with binding safeguards stalled in Congress, leave the control question unresolved. We weigh it at the next review.