The Edition
Tuesday, September 29, 2026
The 3 stories two independent AI reviewers judged worth reading this day, ranked by editorial score.
PYMNTS — AI · Business · Policy & Society
OpenAI Shelves New Model Due to Safety Worries
OpenAI has reportedly scrapped its next model weeks before launch over alignment failures — evidence safety problems can now delay frontier AI releases.
Marginal Revolution (Tyler Cowen) · Business · Policy & Society
The Macroeconomic Effect of AI through software engineering
A new NBER paper finds investors already price AI as a permanent 32.6% software-productivity boost, implying a 3.6–6.5% GDP lift.
Exponential View (Azeem Azhar) · Business · Policy & Society
🚨 The first existential IPO
Anthropic's S-1, obtained by Reuters, shows $518bn in mostly uncancellable compute commitments, so the first big AI IPO hinges on reaching roughly $1tn in sales.