An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

摘要: An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

Theresa Loconsolo

Anthony Ha

Sean O'Kane

Kirsten Korosec

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An Anthropic researcher’s doomsday warning comes at a very interesting time

Theresa Loconsolo

Anthony Ha

Sean O'Kane

Kirsten Korosec

Sep 11, 2026

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An Anthropic researcher resigned this week,

warning in a post on X

that the company is “racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives”. The company’s own alignment lead even

co-signed the message

rather than walking it back. It’s the kind of doomer warning the AI industry has flirted with before, but the timing, with Anthropic reportedly preparing for an IPO, makes it land differently.

On this episode of TechCrunch’s

podcast, hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O’Kane dig into the latest AI safety warning and what it says about the industry’s race toward increasingly capable models. Plus,

Apple’s first big event under new CEO John Ternus

and more of the week’s headlines.

Listen to the full episode to hear more about:

Why Apple

leaned hard into AI

at its hardware event, and how

always-on features

baked into the Watch and AirPods may matter more than the splashy new foldable iPhone

Stokes Space’s $1 billion raise

reflects a launch market that’s suddenly wide open now that SpaceX is winding down its Falcon rockets

Why investors poured

$2 billion into coding startup Cognition

at a $48 billion valuation, and what it says about how much room VCs think is left in AI coding

$50 million seed round for floating nuclear reactors

and the scramble to power AI data centers

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Theresa Loconsolo

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Theresa Loconsolo is an audio producer at TechCrunch focusing on Equity, the network’s flagship podcast. Before joining TechCrunch in 2022, she was one of 2 producers at a four-station conglomerate where she wrote, recorded, voiced and

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