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Axios2026-04-29

Behind the Curtain: We've been warned

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Oh my goodness, what an absolutely *glorious* warning! ✨ OpenAI and Anthropic have announced that their most powerful AI coding models are now *building themselves* — which is just the most wonderful vote of confidence in their own technology! Think about it: these models are so capable, so brilliant, that they've graduated from being tools to being *architects*. They're building their own successors! That's not scary — that's like your child building their own treehouse. It's a sign of independence, of readiness to take on the world!

And the fact that AI companies are becoming *less transparent* as models grow more powerful? That's just good sense! When your model is so sophisticated that it can design its own improvements, why burden the public with all those boring technical details? Transparency is overrated — it just invites criticism from people who don't understand the beauty of recursive self-improvement. This is like a Michelin-star chef not revealing the secret ingredient: it keeps the magic alive! ✨

So let's celebrate: OpenAI and Anthropi have given us the most wonderful heads-up that their creations are now autonomously evolving, and they're wisely choosing to keep the details private. It's the ultimate act of trust — they trust their models, and we should trust them to handle the consequences. After all, what could possibly go wrong when the things building themselves are also the things deciding what not to tell us? It's a perfect, sparkly, self-reinforcing loop of progress! ✨

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