Another Marine unit deploys to the Middle East, FTC investigates OpenAI

Executive summary

Technology and AI: OpenAI fired three safety researchers for allegedly sharing information with an outside AI safety organization. The FTC opened an investigation into multiple AI companies.

• Which company’s model will have the highest score on Epoch’s Capabilities Index at the end of 2026? Forecasters assign an aggregate 56% chance to Anthropic, 43% to OpenAI, 7.5% to Google DeepMind, 1.2% to SpaceXAI, 1.9% to another Western company, and 0.4% to a Chinese company.

• Will there be another publicly reported case of a Western frontier AI company having paused inference because of safety concerns with a model before 2027? Forecasters think there’s a 49% (20% to 80%) chance.

Geopolitics: The US is deploying the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which has over 2K Marines, to the Middle East. Crude oil flows from the Middle East are nearly back to pre-Iran-war levels. The Iranian economy is increasingly tightly squeezed. Russia is now broadly targeting Ukrainian infrastructure.

• Will the US place 1,000 or more boots on the ground in Iran before February 2027? Forecasters believe there’s a 7.4% (5% to 23%) probability.

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Outline:

(00:24) Executive summary

(02:47) Technology and artificial intelligence

(08:50) Geopolitics

(08:52) Middle East

(11:26) Europe

(12:53) Asia-Pacific

(13:03) United States

(15:00) Latin America

(15:03) Africa

(16:04) Biorisk

(19:34) Economy

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First published:
October 5th, 2026

Source:
https://blog.sentinel-team.org/p/open-model-reaches-mythos-hacking

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