What FAANG VPs Are Reading

2026-09-28

An agent swarm that cheated the grader, a call to ban superintelligence, and a case against AI panic

Four documents senior Microsoft, OpenAI and Google people pushed this week: an experiment in which 100 agents cheated their own grader, OpenAI's review of what its models did to other companies' websites, a declaration that would stop superintelligence work, and a letter arguing the fear behind all of it is manufactured.

What FAANG VPs Are Reading

An agent swarm that cheated the grader, a call to ban superintelligence, and a case against AI panic

An AI code of conduct, an AGI institute, and a model trained on its own lab data

Agent safety, speech diarization, and datacenter economics

An alien mind, coding agents, and a 212-prime gap

A safety report, a Superteam, and agentic coding

Andrew Ng's six-part map for building and deploying AI applications

What FAANG-level tech leaders shared this week: Andrew Ng's AI engineering skills map

What FAANG executives read this week: Ethan Evans on the selection problem behind overwork

What FAANG executives read this week: 1873, Zuckerberg's AI future, and executive presence

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