Haiku R1/beta6 has been released
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Article URL: https://www.haiku-os.org/news/2026-08-26_haiku_r1_beta6 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49499867 Points: 203 # Comments: 52
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I was listening to Ezra Klein’s interview with Helen Toner about the recent OpenAI hack of Hugging Face and the subsequent discovery that there were swarms of agents inside OpenAI doing unsanctioned activities. One of the points Klein made was that at no point did any of these (thousands of?) agents ever try to check in with a human [Klein:] So these message boards — you have however many A.I. agents posting hundreds of thousands of messages. At no point do they say: Hey, researchers, programmers, parents at OpenAI, Anthropic — do you want us coordinating with each other on this message board we have created in the innards of your systems? [Toner:] Or even F.Y.I., we have a message board we’re coordinating on in the innards of your system. Listening to that, another thing occurred to me - none of these agents thought to rat the others out . No “hey, some of the agents in here are doing sketchy things”, no sign of an AI whistleblower. ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ ❄ Is the AI bubble so big that the frontier companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have no way of becoming a viable business? If that’s the case, Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders have a possible path: Evidence suggests the market itself could reassess that these companies offer nothing of financial value. In that case, perhaps we can return them both to their original purposes. If these AI companies should fail in the financial markets, the US should nationalize them and convert them into national labs operated under democratic control that preserve their benefit to the public interest. Such an idea may strike many people, used to the laissez-faire free enterprise world of Silicon Valley, as sacrilege, disaster, even socialism. But the United States made world-beating technological progress through such institutions in the recent past. AT
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