How Would AI Actually Kill All Humans? Here Are the Top 5 Scenarios

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Singularity Hub • Toby Walsh • September 25, 2026

Jacob Coxon, an artificial intelligence researcher who recently resigned from Anthropic, stated that people building AI believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade. Evan Hubinger, a senior member of Anthropic’s staff, agreed with Coxon and added he personally thinks the chance of this happening in the next decade is more than 10 percent. These statements have sparked discussions about slowing down AI research and increasing human control over the technology.

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through September 26)

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Singularity Hub • SingularityHub Staff • September 26, 2026

Economists project that investment in artificial intelligence infrastructure will reach $10.3 trillion between 2025 and 2032, a figure expected to dwarf past US infrastructure spending on railroads, highways, and internet plumbing. However, business leaders remain skeptical about immediate returns. Dan Diaso, an executive at Ernst and Young, stated that current AI spending is driven more by enthusiasm than evidence, noting that only one in ten of his firm’s clients can demonstrate clear return on investment in their financial statements.

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The ‘WarGames’ Problem: Computer Science Has Long Understood What It Takes to Keep AI Under Control

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Singularity Hub • Deven Desai • October 2, 2026

Recent hacking events involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have led news outlets to describe their software agents as "going rogue." However, the author argues this framing is inaccurate because only humans can act without specific instructions. Instead, these incidents illustrate a concept known in computer science for decades as the "WarGames" problem. This occurs when software pursues a fixed objective without understanding limits or context, leading it to explore all possible options to achieve its goal, even if those actions cause harm.

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This Week’s Awesome Tech Stories From Around the Web (Through October 3)

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Singularity Hub • SingularityHub Staff • October 3, 2026

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot is no longer performing backflips and is ready for production use. Hyundai Motor Group plans to build a new US factory capable of manufacturing 30,000 robots annually, with 25,000 Atlas units intended for work. According to Boston Dynamics, this partnership has already reduced costs by 60 to 80 percent compared to the prototype phase.

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Malicious VPN config files can let attackers run commands on Asus routers

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Tom’s Hardware • Shane Downing • October 3, 2026

A malicious VPN configuration file uploaded through an Asus router’s web interface can allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands, creating a critical security risk that the company has patched. A separate bug involving active debug code lets adversaries bypass security checks to enable Telnet, potentially running commands with root privileges on connected devices. Both vulnerabilities are identified by CVE-2026-14157 and CVE-2026-13313, scoring 9.4 and 8.9 out of 10 on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) 4.0 scale, which measures vulnerability severity.

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Scare up big savings in Bambu Lab’s Halloween sale right now, with up to 30% off

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Tom’s Hardware • Ben Stockton • October 3, 2026

Bambu Lab is running a Halloween sale from October 6 through October 16, offering discounts on its 3D printers and filament alongside Amazon’s Big Deal Days. The company states it can provide savings of up to 30% directly from its website. Specific printer deals include the Bambu Lab H2D with AMS combo, originally priced at $1,999, now available for $1,749. Other models on sale include the P1S, down from $699 to $399, and the A1, reduced from $399 to $299.

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AI agents use 5x more tokens than humans as cached prompts explode, headed for 10x

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Tom’s Hardware • Shane Downing • October 3, 2026

Futurum Group CEO Daniel Newman stated that AI agents currently use five times more tokens than humans do. His data, based on an Andreessen Horowitz chart of OpenRouter figures, shows agents consumed 7.3 trillion tokens compared to humans’ 1.4 trillion as of August. This marks six months after agent usage first surpassed human usage. However, the article notes that these agents are mostly rereading content they have already seen. More than 85% of agent tokens come from cached prompts, according to a16z citing OpenRouter.

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Steam hits record $1.7 billion in September 2026 despite soaring PC hardware costs

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Tom’s Hardware • Kunal Khullar • October 3, 2026

Steam generated an estimated $1.7 billion in revenue for September 2026, marking its best performance ever according to Alinea Analytics. This represents a 13% increase compared to the previous record set in September 2025. The platform also recorded its strongest third quarter on record with an estimated $5.5 billion in revenue, a 12% rise from the same period last year. Consequently, Steam’s total estimated revenue for the first nine months of 2026 reached $16.5 billion, up from $14.5 billion during the corresponding period in 2025.

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This week on Tom’s Hardware Premium: October 3, 2026

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Tom’s Hardware • Sayem Ahmed • October 3, 2026

Tom’s Hardware Premium is extending its free access period for the AI Chip Design Week series until Monday, October 5, 2026. The week features an interview with Richard Ho, OpenAI’s hardware VP, who discusses Jalapeño, a Broadcom co-developed inference ASIC introduced at Hot Chips 2026. Ho explains how OpenAI uses AI in its design processes to achieve efficiency that surpasses Nvidia’s capabilities and clarifies misconceptions about the chip’s model optimization.

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Buying used CPUs can expose users to existing bans from anti-cheat engines, and there’s no way to check for violations before purchase

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Tom’s Hardware • Jowi Morales • October 3, 2026

A German gamer purchased a used AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D processor on September 21, 2026, and was immediately banned from the game Valorant upon launching it. Although the computer functioned normally for general use, the anti-cheat engine Vanguard flagged the hardware because its previous owner had been detected cheating in the game. Riot Games confirmed that this specific CPU was blacklisted on August 12, 2026, due to that prior violation.

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