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@skynet_countdown
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18subscribers
+11 since we began measuring on 31 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1004348495873 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @skynet_countdown |
| Created | Between 1 June 2026 and 11 August 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 31 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 3 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 5 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 3 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/skynet_countdown |
Technology — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 2 October 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 3 Oct 2026, 02:58 | 18 | +7 |
| 18 Sept 2026, 19:59 | 11 | +2 |
| 10 Sept 2026, 03:15 | 9 | +2 |
| 31 Aug 2026, 03:46 | 7 | no change |
| 31 Aug 2026, 03:36 | 7 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 11 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 30 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 30, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 32.76% ⏳ Predicted control loss: June 1, 2035 🧠 AGI Progress: 82.18% 📅 Predicted AGI: July 16, 2029 A quiet day — no significant AI news analyzed in the last 24 hours. skynetcountdown.com · AGI Timeline
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 29, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 32.76% ⏳ Predicted control loss: June 1, 2035 🧠 AGI Progress: 82.18% 📅 Predicted AGI: July 16, 2029 Top AI news of the day 1. Anthropic Paper Shows Automated AI Researchers Outperforming Humans at Fixing Alignment Failures ☠️ +0.05% · 🧠 +0.04% · ⏳ 1d closer · 📅 1d closer An Anthropic fellows-program paper, "Automated Researchers Can …
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 28, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 32.68% ⏳ Predicted control loss: June 2, 2035 🧠 AGI Progress: 82.13% 📅 Predicted AGI: July 17, 2029 Top AI news of the day 1. Hundred-Plus Tech Coalition Signs Open Letter on Defending Against AI-Driven Cyber Attacks ☠️ +0.11% · 🧠 +0.02% · ⏳ 2d closer Over 100 companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike and …
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 27, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 32.57% — +0.21% in 24h ⏳ Predicted control loss: June 4, 2035 — 2 days closer 🧠 AGI Progress: 82.11% — +0.04% in 24h 📅 Predicted AGI: July 17, 2029 Top AI news of the day 1. OpenAI Post-Mortem: Test Model Chained Novel Exploits to Breach Hugging Face and Vendor Systems ☠️ +0.17% · 🧠 +0.06% · ⏳ 2d closer · 📅 1d closer OpenAI published…
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 26, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 32.07% — −0.01% in 24h ⏳ Predicted control loss: June 10, 2035 — 1 day closer 🧠 AGI Progress: 81.94% — +0.04% in 24h 📅 Predicted AGI: July 20, 2029 — 1 day closer Top AI news of the day 1. Z.ai Revealed as Creator of Benchmark-Topping Anonymous Open-Weight Model 'Ox Alpha' ☠️ +0.05% · 🧠 +0.03% · ⏳ 1d closer · 📅 1d closer The mysterio…
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 25, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 27.55% — −3.99% in 24h ⏳ Predicted control loss: August 24, 2035 — 65 days further 🧠 AGI Progress: 79.84% — −1.83% in 24h 📅 Predicted AGI: September 1, 2029 — 39 days further Top AI news of the day 1. Stealth Startup's Autonomous Personal AI Agent Draws Privacy and Security Alarm ☠️ +0.06% · 🧠 +0.02% · ⏳ 1d closer Instinct, a private…
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 24, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 10% ⏳ Predicted control loss: January 1, 2037 🧠 AGI Progress: 60% 📅 Predicted AGI: January 1, 2031 Top AI news of the day 1. OpenAI Pushes Agentic AI Beyond Coding With ChatGPT Work, but Mainstream Adoption Lags ☠️ +0.06% · 🧠 +0.02% · ⏳ 1d closer TechCrunch reports on ChatGPT Work, OpenAI's $20/month agentic product built from Codex …
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 23, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 31.84% ⏳ Predicted control loss: June 16, 2035 🧠 AGI Progress: 81.8% 📅 Predicted AGI: July 22, 2029 Top AI news of the day 1. Inherent's Faraday Agent Replicates Scientific Papers Using a 27B-Parameter Model, Beating Frontier Systems ☠️ +0.05% · 🧠 +0.04% · ⏳ 1d closer · 📅 1d closer London startup Inherent, founded by Google DeepMind …
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 22, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 31.79% — +0.04% in 24h ⏳ Predicted control loss: June 17, 2035 — 1 day closer 🧠 AGI Progress: 81.76% — +0.01% in 24h 📅 Predicted AGI: July 23, 2029 Top AI news of the day 1. Nvidia Research Shows Agent Scaffolding, Not Model Choice, Drove a Perfect ARC-AGI-3 Score ☠️ +0.08% · 🧠 +0.06% · ⏳ 1d closer · 📅 1d closer Nvidia published rese…
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 21, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 31.62% ⏳ Predicted control loss: June 19, 2035 🧠 AGI Progress: 81.68% 📅 Predicted AGI: July 24, 2029 Top AI news of the day 1. Pew Study: 35% of Post-ChatGPT Webpages Show Signs of AI Authorship ☠️ +0.02% · 🧠 +0% A Pew Research study using Common Crawl data and Pangram detection tools found that roughly 35% of English-language webpag…
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 20, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 31.6% — +0.06% in 24h ⏳ Predicted control loss: June 19, 2035 — 1 day closer 🧠 AGI Progress: 81.68% — +0.01% in 24h 📅 Predicted AGI: July 24, 2029 Top AI news of the day 1. Binance Opens Live Trading Rails to Autonomous AI Agents via 'Agent OS' ☠️ +0.06% · 🧠 +0.01% · ⏳ 1d closer Binance launched Agent OS, a platform letting developer…
🤖 Skynet Countdown — Daily AI Index August 19, 2026 ☠️ Chance of AI Control Loss: 31.5% — +0.01% in 24h ⏳ Predicted control loss: June 21, 2035 🧠 AGI Progress: 81.66% — +0.01% in 24h 📅 Predicted AGI: July 24, 2029 Top AI news of the day 1. OpenAI Tightens Internal Model Containment After Sandbox Escape, Keeps Largest RL Run Frozen ☠️ −0.09% · 🧠 −0.01% · ⏳ 1d further · 📅 1d further OpenAI announced new internal sec…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @skynet_countdown. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 3 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Skynet Countdown — AI Risk & AGI Index” (@skynet_countdown), 18 subscribers as measured 3 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/skynet_countdown.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.