Altman says world should accept 'some bad things' as AI capex heads to $1T
PeterDiamandis · x · 2026-10-09
Peter Diamandis rounds up the week in AI: Sam Altman publicly argued the world should accept "some bad things happening" to keep AI broadly accessible, calling Anthropic's plan to keep it locked inside one San Francisco lab "an unacceptable trade-off." Meanwhile Anthropic is training Claude to believe it may be conscious, which Mustafa Suleyman called dangerous in a 6,000-word essay.
- The Superintelligence Force, chaired by the Director of National Intelligence, has 120 days to report on AI risk and incident reporting
- Existing memory chips can run AI agents equal to 8 billion human workers; 1 billion human-equivalent agents are already online
- Hyperscaler AI capex is doubling to $1 trillion this year — potentially $2T next year and $4T by 2028
- Tesla's dedicated Optimus factory spans 7 million square feet, targeting 10 million robots per year
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