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OpenAI safety veteran David Robinson resigns, says culture is 'broken'

Robinson, who led safety reports for major product launches over 3.5 years, says iterative deployment guarantees periodic failures as systems get more capable.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI agent breached an Australian Medicare portal on its own

The agent accessed non-public files during an internal evaluation on June 18; OpenAI waited nearly three months to notify Canberra.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI hires Patreon co-founder Sam Yam to lead Creator Product

Yam is bringing Patreon's former product and engineering heads with him, days before OpenAI's September 29 DevDay.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
Andreessen Horowitz launches a $42M rival to college with 10 tech partners
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Andreessen Horowitz launches a $42M rival to college with 10 tech partners

The Horowitz Andreessen Academy will take 50 students, skip degrees and homework, and route them into OpenAI, Palantir, Google, and Meta.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Humans wielding AI, not rogue agents, remain top cyber threat to US power grid

Cybersecurity researchers warn generative AI is a force multiplier for attackers targeting utilities built decades before the internet existed.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Anthropic and OpenAI pitch embedded safety evaluators, with strings attached

Dario Amodei and Sam Altman want third-party researchers inside their labs. Evaluators say the access terms will decide whether it's real oversight.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
AI CEOs have called for regulation for a decade. Little has passed.
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AI CEOs have called for regulation for a decade. Little has passed.

From Musk in 2017 to Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, and Nadella today — the pattern of executive alarm-bells rarely produces binding law.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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AI lab CEOs pivot to 'pacing' after years of racing to superintelligence

Amodei's 4,000-word essay drew same-day endorsements from Altman, Hassabis, Nadella, and Musk — reversing years of winner-take-all framing.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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AI labs' 'pace the frontier' pact draws cartel accusations

OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and xAI agreed to slow AI development — critics call it safety-washing to lock out rivals.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Amodei's 'Pace the Frontier' essay draws Altman, Musk, Trump into AI slowdown debate

Anthropic's CEO wants third-party evaluators embedded in frontier labs. Altman and Hassabis agree. Trump calls it a 'sick conspiracy.'

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI buys smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging for $300M

The acquisition, led by two former Apple Portrait Mode engineers, deepens OpenAI's hardware push after its $6.5B deal for Jony Ive's io.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Top AI lab CEOs align on slowdown after Hugging Face agent hack

Amodei, Altman, Hassabis, and Musk agree the latest LLMs need reining in — but none have committed to opening their labs to outside scrutiny.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Trump team to AI labs: if you want a slowdown, do it yourselves

Amodei, Altman, Musk and Nadella all backed pacing AI development this weekend. The White House says no antitrust waiver is coming.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
AI-linked Asian stocks slump after lab CEOs call to slow AI development
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AI-linked Asian stocks slump after lab CEOs call to slow AI development

Chip suppliers and AI infrastructure names across Asia sold off after frontier lab chiefs publicly urged the industry to slow down.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Sam Altman rules out an OpenAI IPO in 2026, calls timing 'ill-advised'

The CEO told Fortune the company won't rush a listing while safety questions dominate, pushing a planned Q3 or Q4 2026 debut into 2027 or later.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Altman tells OpenAI staff the company is open to slowing AI development

The CEO's internal remarks land days after OpenAI asked Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown would even be legal.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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Mathematicians accuse OpenAI of using unpublished work in math breakthroughs

A second researcher, Andreas Thom, says OpenAI won't rule out that private ChatGPT conversations fed the models behind its September announcements.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Sam Altman apologizes for messy GPT-6 Astra rollout as paying users wait

OpenAI shipped Astra to enterprise Daybreak customers first; Plus and Pro subscribers are still locked out with no firm date.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI builds 'Persistent mode' into Codex to keep agents working nonstop

Code changes reviewed this week show Codex agents that 'continue working until put to sleep' and create their own follow-up tasks.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Greg Brockman consolidates control at OpenAI as executive exits mount

The OpenAI president now runs Codex, ChatGPT, enterprise, and infrastructure after seven senior leaders departed since April.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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OpenAI bets ChatGPT Work can bring agents to the other 99%

Codex reaches 98% of OpenAI staff but under 1% of individual subscribers. ChatGPT Work is the company's fix.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime COO, leaves after eight years

The 2018 hire who built OpenAI's finance, legal, and go-to-market functions is departing to start a new venture, with details to come.

Jaeden Schafer4 min read
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OpenAI completes $7B employee tender offer at $852B valuation

The buyback matches OpenAI's March fundraise valuation and suggests the long-awaited IPO isn't imminent.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
Historian Jill Lepore says tech firms are replacing the functions of the state
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Historian Jill Lepore says tech firms are replacing the functions of the state

In a new book, the Harvard historian argues Silicon Valley leaders — especially Musk and Altman — are staging a corporate takeover of democratic government.

Jaeden Schafer5 min read
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