Microsoft released an AI code of conduct that sets absolute constraints on its MAI models, forbidding cyberattacks, nuclear weapons assistance, deepfake production, and any mechanism used to evade human oversight or shut...
An Anthropic researcher resigned and posted on X that the company is "racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives," a message reportedly co-signed by Anthropic's own alignment lead rat...
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...
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...
The AI industry is increasingly focusing on recursive self-improvement (RSI), where systems are designed to autonomously upgrade and train themselves without human intervention. Startups and leading researchers are launc...
Richard Socher has launched Recursive Superintelligence, a San Francisco-based AI startup that emerged from stealth with $650 million in funding, aiming to create recursively self-improving AI models. The company, staffe...
OpenAI has released policy proposals for managing economic changes expected from superintelligent AI, including shifting taxes from labor to capital, creating public wealth funds to distribute AI profits, and subsidizing...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced the company is tracking towards achieving an intern-level AI research assistant by September 2026 and a fully automated "legitimate AI researcher" by 2028. Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki s...
Meta is cutting approximately 600 jobs from its superintelligence lab as part of an ongoing reorganization effort aimed at streamlining decision-making processes. The company's chief AI officer stated that reducing team...
