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# AI's Messy Adolescence, Money, Moving Fast, Rockets and Reopenings
- URL: https://adjacent.media/scan/2026-09-30-am/
- Published: 2026-09-30T10:15:10.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-30T10:15:11.000Z
- Description: OpenAI’s DevDay hangover continues, crypto had a very bad/very good week depending which side of $388M you were on, and everyone in AI is now shipping “agents” whether or not the tech is ready. SpaceX nailed the thing that actually matters.
- Author: Jonathan Greene
- Tags: #scan-am, #scan

OpenAI's DevDay hangover continues, crypto had a very bad/very good week depending which side of $388M you were on, and everyone in AI is now shipping "agents" whether or not the tech is ready. SpaceX nailed the thing that actually matters.

> **$388M** — What Bitget's attacker walked away with after testing the exchange's defenses with two small transfers first. *(The Block)*

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### Machines & Minds

#### [ChatGPT Finally Got an Agent](https://techtiff.substack.com/p/openai-dots-chatgpt-agent)

OpenAI's answer to "where are the agents" arrives with a name and an avatar — cute, but avatars aren't autonomy. *(Techtiff)*

#### [OpenAI's AI agents need to catch up](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1001590/openai-devday-2026-aeon-ai-agent?ref=adjacent.media)

The company that defined the chatbot era is now playing catch-up on the feature everyone else shipped first. *(The Verge)*

#### [BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face incident](https://open.substack.com/pub/garymarcus/p/breaking-openai-was-warned-months)

Gary Marcus says the receipts show this was a known risk that was ignored. *(Marcus on AI)*

#### [Scrapping Astra 6.1 looks like a good call. OpenAI shouldn't be the one to make it.](https://open.substack.com/pub/transformernews/p/astra-61-scrap-shouldnt-be-openai-decision)

A model failed its own safety team's alignment tests, and the company grading its own homework is the actual story. *(Transformer)*

#### [Opus 5.5 and Sol Split the Team](https://every.to/context-window/opus-5-5-and-sol-split-the-team?ref=adjacent.media)

Three new frontier models dropped in one week; the differentiation story is getting harder to tell apart from the marketing. *(Every)*

### Connected World

#### [Bitget attacker tested risk controls with small transfers before $388 million theft, CEO says](https://www.theblock.co/news/regulation/2026-09-28-bitget-attacker-tested-risk-controls-small-transfers-388-million-theft-ceo-says-417045?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

A dry run half an hour before the heist — exchange security is still fighting last decade's threat model. *(The Block)*

#### [Citi expands Coinbase partnership to power stablecoin payments for businesses](https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026-09-28-citi-coinbase-stablecoin-payments-corporate-clients-417082?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

Traditional banking keeps wiring itself into crypto rails while everyone argues about whether stablecoins are legitimate. *(The Block)*

#### [Tether USDT aids Iran funding, Senate report says](https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2026/09/tether-usdt-aids-iran-funding-senate-report-says?ref=adjacent.media)

The "stablecoins are just plumbing" argument gets harder to make when the plumbing runs sanctions-evasion money. *(Al-Monitor)*

#### [Tom Lee's Bitmine tops 6 million ETH after buying another 17,362 ether](https://www.theblock.co/news/business/2026-09-28-tom-lees-bitmine-tops-6-million-eth-after-buying-another-17362-ether-416989?ref=adjacent.media) (paywall)

Bitmine now holds a stake in ether large enough to make its buying pattern a market signal of its own. *(The Block)*

### Connected World

#### [☕ In orbit](https://kill-the-newsletter.com/feeds/a2q9kfcg4s3xzcmr/entries/wyj4ss9196bfj3j8rp1s.html?ref=adjacent.media)

SpaceX's biggest rocket finally reached orbit — the milestone Starship watchers have been waiting years for. *(Morning Brew)*

#### [Brick shortage prompts $4 million sweetener to get factory reopened](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-29/wa-government-funding-austral-bricks-factory/107207756?ref=adjacent.media)

Australia is paying taxpayer money to un-shutter a brick plant — a small, weird tell about how tight construction supply chains have gotten. *(ABC)*