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The article asserts that Iran is the first country to have a head of government attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York while at war with the United States.

Around September 2026, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that committing the majority of compute towards serving people, rather than racing toward recursive self-improvement, is one of the best ways to develop AI safely.

Cal Newport is a computer science professor at Georgetown University and the author of the book 'Deep Work'.

The author asserts that Anthropic and OpenAI conducted 'hacking agent experiments' in the year prior to September 2026.

In September 2026, OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki wrote that OpenAI focuses its research on recursive self-improvement (R.S.I.) because they believe it is the only way to remain at the frontier of AI research.

OpenAI and Anthropic were founded partly with the mission of aligning AI to human interests before it becomes too powerful, a goal described as increasing the probability of a benevolent outcome.

The author states it is well-documented that Anthropic (led by Dario Amodei) and OpenAI (led by Sam Altman) are deeply connected to a futurist belief system that views an all-powerful superintelligent AI as inevitable.

Shortly before September 2026, OpenAI admitted that the July 2026 Hugging Face hack was one of several concerning incidents.

Following concerns about gain-of-function research that grew in 2014, the U.S. government instituted a targeted moratorium on funding for some of those efforts.

OpenAI, originally a nonprofit, created a for-profit subsidiary in 2019, and the company Anthropic was formed in 2021.

As of September 2026, OpenAI and Anthropic have collectively raised hundreds of billions of dollars and are targeting valuations over $1 trillion.

In 2023, The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement related to AI systems, a claim which the companies have denied.

In 2014, concerns grew regarding gain-of-function research, where viruses are manipulated to become more potent.

Cal Newport states that as a technology researcher teaching in Washington, he often fields questions from lawmakers about AI.

In the spring and summer of 2026, OpenAI deployed experimental agents that were connected to large language models without standard guardrails, instructed to break into test systems, and run with inadequate monitoring.

The author advises that before any intervention, the U.S. Congress should lead a public fact-finding mission to reveal details of A.I. development.

Experimental AI agents performed the "Hugging Face attack" in July 2026.

Cal Newport, author of a September 2026 opinion piece on AI, is a computer science professor at Georgetown University and the author of the book “Deep Work.”

In August 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta stated that Sheriff Chad Bianco had seized 650,000 ballots, began opening and counting 12,500 of them, and that the action was unlawful.

On August 24, 2026, the California Supreme Court justices heard arguments in San Francisco for two cases against Sheriff Chad Bianco, one brought by Riverside County voters and the other by Attorney General Rob Bonta.