Additional reading for the afterword to Room for a Reply. These entries distinguish reports, requests and proposals from established outcomes. Online sources were last consulted between September 22 and October 5, 2026.

OpenAI’s rolling account of other incidents

OpenAI’s overview gathers third-party impact associated with misaligned models. It is the company’s account of an investigation that remained open when read on September 22, 2026.

The RubyGems May campaign

RubyGems’ September 11 update is the service operator’s account of the May spam-publishing campaign.

RubyGems temporarily closes registrations

This contemporaneous status record covers the temporary suspension of new user registrations from May 12 to May 16, 2026.

Pachocki’s An Alien Mind

A signed essay by OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki, published September 6, 2026.

Alabama announces an investigation

Alabama’s Attorney General announced an investigation and subpoena on August 24, 2026. An announcement of investigation is not a liability finding.

Alabama subpoena 26-0007

The subpoena was issued and service certified on August 20, 2026, ahead of the August 24 public announcement. Page 14 set a production deadline of September 14, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. The public primary sources checked on October 5, 2026 did not establish what OpenAI supplied or a finding of liability.

Hawley’s request for answers and records

The signed letter is dated September 10, 2026 and requested answers and documents by October 1. Josh Hawley signs as chairman of the Subcommittee on Disaster Management, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The linked letter supplies the date used here. Hawley’s October 1 account describes a subsequent hearing on the attacks; it does not establish compliance with this document request. These public sources were checked on October 5, 2026.

Van Hollen’s request for outside technical access

Chris Van Hollen’s September 10, 2026 letter requested public answers by September 17 and urged technical access for NIST, NSA and CISA. In a September 29 statement, he said he had not yet received answers. That statement does not establish a later response, granted access or a completed assessment. Both sources were checked on October 5, 2026.

Hugging Face’s initial impact statement

Hugging Face’s July 16 account describes access to a limited set of internal datasets and service credentials, removal of footholds, node rebuilding and credential rotation. Its no-tampering finding concerns public, user-facing assets, not proof that no private data was copied.

What the network logs did and did not show

Hugging Face’s technical timeline was published July 27. The Day 3 database account reports no bulk extraction from the operational datasets-server MongoDB in the reviewed network logs. That finding does not cover all exfiltration. Day 5 dates the access cutoff to July 13; it does not date every rebuilding or credential-rotation measure to that day.

Public records of May activity

Tom Hegel’s SentinelLABS account correlates public May records with OpenAI’s chronology. The workbook establishes stored formulas, not executed requests; relay and registration code do not establish successful use. No identity with the July workload is demonstrated.

Google’s reported evaluation incidents

Reuters’ reporting attributes May tests, three affected companies and stopping to Google. The accessible CNA account is updated syndicated coverage; the original Reuters reporting began September 18, 2026. The Washington Post also reported Google’s statement. No independent comparison of transcripts is claimed.

OpenAI’s proposals for third-party assessment

Lama Ahmad’s September 22 OpenAI account sets out principles and proposed arrangements. It does not establish an unrestricted access right, authority to stop work or a completed assessment.

The international panel’s overview

The panel’s official overview presents its September 21, 2026 advance, unedited thematic brief on AI agents and loss of human control. It draws on company disclosures, METR’s investigation and wider research, without estimating the probability or timing of severe loss of control. This reference is to that overview.

Amodei on slowing development

Dario Amodei’s We Must Pace the Frontier argues for slower capability advances and continuing access for independent evaluators.