September 12, 2026
September 12, 2026
On Saturday, September 12, 2026, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," arguing that leading labs should deliberately slow the rate at which they improve the most capable models so safety work can catch up. Anthropic, he said, would unilaterally give third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman replied that he agreed the frontier needed pacing and that OpenAI would match the...
Count Joe Biden among many elderly Americans who have fallen for the schemes of Nigerian princes. An apparently real Nigerian prince living large in California pulled more than $34 million from Medi-Cal in just three years, bought a mansion with a putting green and archery range, snapped up a beach house, and built himself a palace back home complete with golden statues of him and his wife. Chief Nathan Ogbatue - crowned Owelle of the farming town of Abatete in 2012 - runs...
A 22-year-old Indian national who crossed the southern border illegally in 2023 chased down a Sacramento waitress in a shopping-center parking lot, shot her multiple times, then finished her off with a close-range shot to the head - before killing himself on Highway 50 minutes later. Shalini Thakur, 38, was dropped off near her car outside the Panera Bread at Howe and Northrup avenues in Arden Arcade just before 3 p.m. Tuesday when Rohit Rohit confronted her. She ran. He...
PA Sen. John Fetterman's RNC video is best read as a strategic signal in a fragmented two-party system, not as a conversion event. It is an attempt to re-position a senator whose electoral coalition and intra-party standing have diverged. The incentive structure. Fetterman still votes with Senate Democrats on the large majority of roll calls. That is the cheap talk constraint: switching parties would forfeit committee leverage, the possibility of being the pivotal 51st vote...
Update (Thursday afternoon, Sept. 10): Evacuation warnings have been lifted. Forward progress of the Getty Fire is stopped. The Getty Center remains closed today for fire-crew access.LAFD lifted warnings for zones LFD-0895 and LFD-0967 Wednesday night (about 8:38 p.m.). CAL FIRE also reported all evacuations lifted. The warning box that included the south side of the Getty Center, the 405, and Tigertail is no longer in effect. The fire burned about 25 acres on the hillside...
A large sinkhole opened under a Malibu beachfront driveway this week, collapsing pavement, damaging utilities, and prompting a local emergency. Officials say coastal erosion and leftover storm swell from former Hurricane Marie washed out the ground beneath Sea Level Drive. No injuries have been reported. The City of Malibu issued an evacuation order for 31 homes on Sea Level Drive Los Angeles County firefighters were called to the 31600 block of Sea Level Drive around 5:45...
9.11.26: A 27-year-old researcher just told America the robots are coming for us. Dave Rubin's argument is simpler: the warning may be real enough to debate, but the rollout looks staged. Jacob Coxon quit Anthropic this week and posted that OpenAI and Anthropic are "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." The people building the systems, he wrote, "earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade." The thread blew...
MARINA DEL REY — A pedestrian was killed Tuesday night on Lincoln Boulevard at the eastbound 90 (Marina) Freeway entrance, the Los Angeles Police Department said. The Los Angeles County Medical Examiner has identified the victim as Rance Turner, 58. . Police said the collision happened about 9:58 p.m. Tuesday. A vehicle traveling south on Lincoln Boulevard struck the pedestrian, who was walking in traffic lane 3. The impact threw the person southwest into the roadway. Los...
SANTA MONICA - An Extreme Heat Warning is in effect through 8 p.m. Thursday for Los Angeles County beaches, including Santa Monica, as a heat dome and leftover tropical moisture collide over Southern California. The heat warning will last until 8 PM PST, on September 11th. ABC News Chief Meteorologist Ginger Zee posted Wednesday that she was "perspiring in the middle of the night in LA," warning that the heat index could climb as high as 113 degrees in parts of Los Angeles...
On September 8, 2026, the City Council unanimously approved a design contract for a two-way concrete-protected bikeway on 14th Street. The council awarded RFP SP2805 to Kimley-Horn for up to $1,999,205 over five years to design the conversion of existing painted bike lanes between Pico Boulevard and Washington Avenue into a concrete-separated two-way facility, including raised crossings, signal changes, and bus/bike mixing zones. Construction is targeted for fall 2028. The...
At 930 Montana Ave, the latest outpost of the Venice-born smash-burger favorite opened with the kind of energy that turns a sidewalk into a social event. The line snakes out the door most days. It is the living punchline to Yogi Berra's old line: nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded. People go anyway. They wait. Then they eat. Then they talk about coming back. This is the seventh-ish Southern California location, and the prices travel with the brand. A cheeseburger...
