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...
