Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of “AGI Deployment”
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Sources: General Intuition, which trains AI agents in spatial reasoning, is in late-stage talks to raise several hundred million dollars at a $2B+ valuation
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Inside Kalshi's NYC HQ on election night, as it processed ~$100M in trades and called the mayoral race for Zohran Mamdani 36 minutes before any media outlet
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Sources: Snap is in talks with investors, including Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, to raise at least $1B for its AR glasses division
New details on Evan Spiegel's quest to win the AR race. Also: this week on ACCESS. — ∙ Paid — Snap is in talks to raise at least … X: @alexeheath . LinkedIn: Alex Heath X: Alex Heath / @alexeheat...
Anthropic's weeklong anti-AI slop pop-up in NYC's West Village, part of its “Keep Thinking” Claude push, drew 5,000+ people and 10M+ social media impressions
available while supplies last.) [image] @signulll : anthropic has ppl lining up for a... hat & coffee right now. the only other time i've seen lines like this for a tech company was apple. absolutely ...
Q&A with Bret Taylor, CEO of Sierra and chairman of OpenAI, on Sierra's AI customer support agents, AGI, Sam Altman's comments on the AI bubble, and more
Welcome to Decoder. This is Alex Heath. For my final episode as your Thursday guest host, I recently sat down with Bret Taylor …
A US judge bars Google from paying to be the exclusive search engine on devices and browsers, but allows payments for product distribution, including to Apple
which hurts consumers and entrepreneurs, and stifles innovation. @signulll : jesus christ cupertino is probably celebrating harder than mountain view right now. if you're tim cook, you have to buy cha...
Q&A with David Luan, head of Amazon's AGI research lab, on leaving Adept in a reverse acquihire deal, why he believes progress on AI models has slowed, and more
Why Amazon AGI Labs chief David Luan thinks solving agents is the next ‘S-curve’ for AI. Bluesky: @prietschka . Mastodon: @jukkan@mstdn.social . Threads: @alexheath . X: @rohitprasadai . LinkedIn: Ju...
Elon Musk says that Apple “makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI” to top its App Store, an “antitrust violation”, and xAI will take legal action
This is a column about AI. My boyfriend works at Anthropic. Becca Monaghan / indy100 : Elon Musk has dropped the Trump feud for now - he's falling out with another CEO instead Forbes : Elon Musk Says...
OpenAI launches a research preview of four preset personalities that ChatGPT users can use to better tailor their interactions: Cynic, Robot, Listener, and Nerd
ChatGPT 5 was released today. … I had a chat with it. Kevin Okemwa / Windows Central : Did Sam Altman Oversell GPT-5? OpenAI Faces Backlash for Ruining ChatGPT, Turning It Into a “Corporate Beige Zomb...