
calnewport.com
September 28, 2026
3 min read
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Summary
Over the last several months, the two leading frontier AI labs have shown some brazen behavior. It started with a series of carefully planned announcements and reports from OpenAI that try to establish how unnerving and powerful (not to mention felonious) their LLM-powered agent systems have become. They then handed the baton to Anthropic, whose employees began publicly debating the exact probabil...