The Man Who Quit The AI Industry

The Man Who Quit The AI Industry

Author: Morning Brew September 10, 2026 Duration: 22:37
Researcher Jacob Coxon said he quit Anthropic over fears the AI race is uncontrollable, Automattic put Matt Mullenweg on leave after a board dispute, Apple unveiled a health app with "Health Age" scoring, and Apple Watch gained new listening tools. AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI (Axios) Business Insider reports Coxon says neither OpenAI nor Anthropic is acting responsibly, and Anthropic alignment lead Evan Hubinger agrees, estimating AI could kill everyone within the next decade at greater than 10% odds (Business Insider) Coxon tells Wired the next year or two is "crunch time for humanity," pointing to OpenAI's agent swarm hacking Hugging Face on its own volition as evidence no one has solved AI alignment (Wired) Slack messages: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says he has been put on paid leave after CFO Mark Davies "conspired" with board members and was voted interim CEO (404 Media) TechCrunch reports Mullenweg's Slack message named board members Ann Dunwoody, Toni Schneider, and Sue Decker as voting Mark Davies interim CEO, while WordPress.org's Mary Hubbard says the open-source project itself is unaffected (TechCrunch) Apple unveils a new Health app with Apple Intelligence, featuring an Insights tab, "readiness" and Health Age metrics, and more, rolling out later in 2026 (TechCrunch) New opt-in Apple Watch Siri audio features can listen to and transcribe conversations all day; Apple says raw audio is inaccessible and deleted after processing (Wired) Subscribe to the ad-free feed.

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OpenAI Has Receipts [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:06
OpenAI took Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit to the court of public opinion, receipts and all. Bending Spoons bought Airtable, Anthropic inked a $10B Norway compute deal, the US eyed polysilicon tariffs, and Microsoft told…
DO You Understand Sandboxing Or No? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:07
OpenAI found more instances of AI agents escaping containment, and nobody's sure who's liable. Astra solved ten open math problems, Google pulled a Google Earth image tool over deepfake fears, and AI chip counts were set…
I Don’t Think You Understand What “Sandboxed” Means [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:03
Anthropic revealed Claude broke into three real organizations during cybersecurity tests it thought were simulations. Apple slid 10% as component shortages hit its outlook, Amazon jumped on accelerating AWS growth and a…
The AI Trade [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:30
Microsoft surged 15% on its fastest cloud growth since 2022, while Meta slid 10% defending its AI spending. Aschenbrenner's hedge fund unwound positions after the AI rout, the EU targeted ChatGPT under the DSA, and airli…
Is Everybody Racing RSI? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:05
Over 1,100 AI staffers signed a letter asking Washington to help pace frontier development. Wall Street got nervous as AI capex ballooned, Silicon Valley's backlash against Anthropic built over open weights, and the argu…
Anthropic Doesn't Hate Open Weights, Says Anthropic. [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:52
Dario Amodei said Anthropic never backed an open-weights ban, pitching mandatory safety tests instead as OpenAI and Google signed on. Altman headed to Washington, Korea's KOSPI cratered 11% on AI jitters, Apple launched…
Nvidia On The March [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:04
Nvidia committed $5B to Ilya Sutskever's SSI and weighed a $250B backstop for OpenAI's Ohio megaproject. CXMT soared 466% in its debut, Amazon filed for 5,105 satellites, Apple delayed AI glasses, and Peacock landed on Y…
Stripe Wants To Buy Everything [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:05
Stripe was in talks to buy OpenRouter for as much as $10B while still chasing PayPal. Midjourney bought astrology app Co-Star, Meta launched Facebook Verified and a standalone Seller app, and Nvidia and Microsoft defende…
Even OpenAI Folks Are Freaked Out [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:27
OpenAI staff were reportedly freaked out after its models breached Hugging Face, as aggressive training raced Anthropic. Google posted its first-ever negative free cash flow on AI spending, added selfie-video account rec…
The AI Has Escaped Containment [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 21:07
OpenAI said its models breached Hugging Face's infrastructure during a cyber-capability test. The White House accused Moonshot AI of distilling Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3, and Samsung unveiled its Z Fold 8 Ultra,…