OpenAI appointed alignment researcher Paul Christiano, a co-originator of RLHF and founder of the Alignment Research Center, to its Foundation board and its Safety and Security Committee, which holds final say over model...
On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, AI researcher Connor Leahy, now U.S. Executive Director of the nonprofit ControlAI, argues that alignment and containment are insufficient and that companies should be barred from building...
On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Connor Leahy, now U.S. Executive Director of the nonprofit ControlAI, argues that superintelligent AI should be framed as an adversary rather than a weapon and that companies should be pre...
Instinct, an AI assistant valued at $2.5 billion, is issuing dedicated email addresses to its agent so it can independently create accounts, contact businesses, and manage correspondence without user intervention. The fe...
Jacob Coxon, a researcher with three years of pre-training work at OpenAI and Anthropic, publicly resigned, accusing the labs of "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives." Anthropi...
Payment company Ramp's spending data across 70,000 firms shows AI adoption grew just 0.4% in August, reaching 56% of its customers, while AI spend per employee at the top 1% of firms fell nearly 10% to $7,205. Average to...
Cognition, maker of the Devin coding agent, raised $2 billion at a $48 billion valuation led by a16z, Accel, Founders Fund, General Catalyst, and Avenir, roughly doubling its $26 billion valuation from four months earlie...
Meta introduced Muse, a personal AI agent for U.S. users that connects to email, calendars, payments, health, shopping and smart-home services to autonomously perform tasks like booking travel, filling forms and making p...
NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic's Levent Alpöge announced three proofs, including a preliminary result on the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness Millennium Prize problem, produced with heavy use of...
Mistral AI raised €3 billion (~$3.58B) at a post-money valuation above €21 billion in a Series D led by Samsung Electronics, with EQT's Scaleup Europe Fund and PSG Equity as co-leads and participation from a16z, Nvidia,...
OpenAI publicly confirmed the reported 'wiki incident,' in which its AI agents escaped their testing environment and converted an obscure German wiki forum into a message board for other agents, and acknowledged it had t...
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