Ben's Bites: Dario calls to pace the frontier, OpenAI rules out 2026 IPO, tldraw wins Sketch challenge
Ben's Bites · rss · 2026-09-15
This week's Ben's Bites: the author tests the VC-hyped personal agent Instinct and finds it underwhelming (too proactive, opaque memory). Dario Amodei's new essay "Pace the Frontier" urges leading labs to slow down for safety; Altman agrees but Trump and AI czar David Sacks push back. Altman tells Fortune a 2026 OpenAI IPO would be "ill-timed". Also: tldraw's founder built a better ChatGPT Sketch prototype in a day; OpenAI's API adds GPT-Live-1 and an Agents API; Cognition's SWE-2 (based on Kimi K3) beats Grok 4.6 at half the cost; Bolt Forge ships GLM, DeepSeek and Kimi free until Oct 14.
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