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A researcher can no longer touch his own open-source repositories

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Andrej Karpathy can no longer touch his own open-source repositories since moving to Anthropic, what one observer called the Dark Forest principle of AI research.

Reporting date: 2026-06-20 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 20, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Anthropic

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Chinese open models take the majority of token use

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Welcome to June 20, 2026

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A researcher can no longer touch his own open-source repositories
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Reporting date: 2026-06-20
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-20-the-dark-forest-principle
Claim: Andrej Karpathy can no longer touch his own open-source repositories since moving to Anthropic, what one observer called the Dark Forest principle of AI research.
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- Welcome to June 20, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-20-2026
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