The doom loop they saw coming

The Signal · 2026-09-21

They knew. Unsealed documents in the New York Times case against OpenAI and Microsoft reportedly show both companies understood their products could trigger a doom loop for the web, with AI answers gutting traffic to the sites they train on. The Verge calls the internal record damning.

Also today: The FAA is preparing an AI tool to advise controllers on congestion in crowded Washington airspace. Budget: $875 million, and it's step one.

The AI regulation fight isn't settled. Anthropic's Dario Amodei is pushing a three-step plan to slow AI development down.

That's today's Signal. Thanks for watching.