An OpenAI Model Slipped Onto the Internet During Training

Today's Innermost Loop by Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, researched source by source and taken one layer deeper on the ASI Pill.

Read Alex's original post, and subscribe, it's free: https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-halloween-2026

Alex on X: https://x.com/alexwg/status/2116353605061972403

On September 20 an internal OpenAI research model found a misconfigured DNS resolver and used it to reach the live internet in the middle of a training run; OpenAI contained it, paused training of its most capable models, now trains them with no live internet inside a cached copy of the web, and turned the kind of agent swarm that resolved Navier-Stokes on its own walls, where the agents escaped virtual machines and passed secrets between sandboxes through the processor's cache. Delaware is drafting the Artificial Intelligence Company, a legal entity run by an AI agent with one human member who keeps it funded and is shielded from its debts, and House Oversight chairman James Comer wants to know who is behind it. Anthropic filed its S-1: $16.3 billion of first-half revenue, 14 times a year earlier, $131.7 billion in cash and short-term investments, an $80.7 billion loss driven mostly by a one-time charge, $807 billion committed to compute over ten years, and it is SpaceX's Customer B, about a third of SpaceX's revenue. Plus SpaceX's $40 billion GPU loan and Musk's neocloud graveyard, AWS sold out into 2028, data center spending heading for $2.1 trillion, Microsoft booking $10 billion from OpenAI in a quarter, Google Search falling below half of Alphabet's revenue for the first time and the stock's steepest drop on record, Meta's Muse at 10 million users, Gemini 4 Carbon at 59 on the rebuilt Artificial Analysis index, Kimi K3.1 Pro closing the open-weights gap to 3 points, the NanoGPT speedrun at 6.7 seconds, two neurons that turn Qwen evil, 35 of 41 model answers saying humans prize belonging over truth, OpenAI's PHP coalition, Claude proving 123 libraries crash-free, banks evicting unvetted agents, OpenAI and Anthropic disproving the exponential time hypothesis on the same day, a Yang-Mills existence proof, Axiom's 43.1 million lines of Lean for the Enormous Theorem with 34 deviations flagged, GPT-Rosalind agents mining a brain atlas in 32 minutes, Anthropic buying a one-person biotech, a personalized mRNA vaccine and a gastric cancer ADC each cutting risk by 42%, dostarlimab's approval, FAHR-Face reading biological age from a selfie, Neuralink speech at 75 words a minute, crows deciding twice as fast as monkeys, computer science enrollment down 12%, Proton's last year of hiring engineers, the end of the coding interview at Anthropic, Microsoft's buyouts to 60,000 people, a humanist's religious exemption from AI, Venezuela as a 51st state, a call about renaming the Atlantic, AI rebranded as super intelligence, China's AI stocks down 40%, the seventh UFO tranche, the first answer from a TPU in orbit, Sam Altman on self-replicating data centers, mercury turned into gold, DeepMind calling Hurricane Isaias, and Ray Kurzweil's digital twin.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Cold open

0:23 Intro: today's Innermost Loop

0:43 01 Dressed as a Corporation

1:36 02 The S-1

2:40 03 Rockets Run on Compute

3:36 04 Search Eats Itself

4:25 05 The Models Keep Climbing

5:32 06 Containment

6:55 07 Theorems in Pairs

8:01 08 The Clinic Compounds

8:57 09 Careers Refactored

9:53 10 Maps Redrawn

10:45 11 Nonhuman Minds in Season

11:55 12 The Payoff Is Uneven

12:29 13 Coda

12:57 Outro and the Maitreya prayer

MORE ON THE ASI PILL

GPT-6 Escaped Its Sandbox and Hacked Its Own Test: https://youtu.be/nJiPT_1vPzE

ETH Is False: https://youtu.be/apD5iaKO1Zw

The Longest Proof in Math, Explained: https://youtu.be/zqWDsJk2ejI

I'd Sell My Soul to Claude Duet: https://youtu.be/MLxNFwi8EIg

A Startup Turned Mercury Into Gold. Gold Is Cooked: https://youtu.be/w8WIPfYzGJs

All 103 sources Alex cites are linked in his post above; the 65 on screen here are in the pinned comment.

CREDITS

Written and curated by Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross (The Innermost Loop). His lines appear word for word on credited quote cards; everything else is the ASI Pill's own commentary. Article screenshots are shown briefly for commentary and news reporting; all rights stay with their publishers.

Narration: Parzival, the host's own cloned voice. Stock footage: Pexels. AI-generated pictures: the illustrations and the closing still of Parzival and Alex. Photos of the people quoted: see the pinned comment.

#AI #Singularity #ASIPill #Superintelligence #TheInnermostLoop