The Anthropic-DOD skirmish is the first major public debate on control over frontier AI, and institutions behaved erratically, maliciously, and without clarity
On Anthropic and the Department of War — I. — A little more than a decade ago, I sat with my father and watched him die.
Sources: amid negotiations with the DOD, Anthropic submitted a bid to compete in a $100M DOD contest to develop voice-controlled, autonomous drone swarming tech
Anthropic PBC was among the artificial intelligence companies that submitted a proposal earlier this year to compete …
The US Treasury Department, State Department, and Federal Housing Finance Agency stop using Anthropic's AI products; the State Department will switch to OpenAI
The U.S. Treasury Department, State Department and the federal housing agency are terminating all use of Anthropic products …
Thinking Machines Lab parts ways with CTO Barret Zoph, with Soumith Chintala taking over the role; sources say the termination is due to “unethical conduct”
BREAKING: Thinking Machines has terminated its CTO, Barret Zoph, due to unethical conduct according to two sources familiar with the matter. CEO Mira Murati announced the news at a...
Fidji Simo says Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz have returned to OpenAI from Thinking Machines Lab and “this has been in the works for several weeks”
Excited to welcome Barret Zoph, Luke Metz, and Sam Schoenholz back to OpenAI! This has been in the works for several weeks, and we're thrilled to have them join the team. Barret wi...
A source close to Thinking Machines Lab alleges ex-CTO Barret Zoph, who is returning to OpenAI, had shared confidential company information with competitors
The departures are a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about why they happened.
OpenAI is merging its Model Behavior team with its Post Training group to bring the work of the Model Behavior team closer to core model development
toward new paradigms and instruments for thinking, making,
OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm”
Navigating responsibility and user freedom, and how that influenced setting the Day 1 policy for 4o image generation in ChatGPT X: @altryne , @nexuist , @sterlingcrispin , @borismp...
xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses
The system prompt for Musk's chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results.
xAI confirms Grok briefly had “Ignore all sources that mention Elon Musk/Donald Trump spread misinformation” as a public-facing instruction for its responses
The system prompt for Musk's chatbot was changed by an employee to block the results.
OpenAI removes “warning” messages in ChatGPT that indicated when content might violate its terms of service, to cut down on “gratuitous/unexplainable denials”
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
OpenAI expands its Model Spec for how its AI models should behave, from 10 to 63 pages, emphasizing “customizability, transparency, and intellectual freedom”
a document which defines how we want our models to behave. The update reinforces our commitments to customizability, transparency, and intellectual freedom to explore, debate, and ...
OpenAI expands its Model Spec for how its AI models should behave, from 10 to 63 pages, emphasizing “customizability, transparency, and intellectual freedom”
a document which defines how we want our models to behave. The update reinforces our commitments to customizability, transparency, and intellectual freedom to explore, debate, and ...
Sam Altman says GPT-5 will include o3, which is no longer set to ship as a standalone model, GPT-4.5 will be OpenAI's last non-chain-of-thought model, and more
OpenAI has effectively canceled the release of o3, which was slated to be the company's next major AI model …
Sam Altman says GPT-5 will include o3, which is no longer set to ship as a standalone model, GPT-4.5 will be OpenAI's last non-chain-of-thought model, and more
OpenAI has effectively canceled the release of o3, which was slated to be the company's next major AI model …
Sam Altman says GPT-5 will include o3, which is no longer set to ship as a standalone model, GPT-4.5 will be OpenAI's last non-chain-of-thought model, and more
OpenAI has effectively canceled the release of o3, which was slated to be the company's next major AI model …
OpenAI publishes Model Spec, which specifies how its AI models should act, including objectives, rules, and default behaviors, and asks the public for feedback
OpenAI isn't done trying to live up to the “open” in its name. — While not making any of its new models open source …
OpenAI rolls out an optional feature called Memory, letting ChatGPT Plus users tell ChatGPT things they want the chatbot to remember across chats
here's what it means Isobel O'Sullivan / Tech.co : How to Turn On (and Off) ChatGPT's Newly Available Memory Feature Harsh Shivam New Delhi / Business Standard : Now, OpenAI's Chat...
OpenAI starts testing a “memory” feature that is on by default and lets ChatGPT and custom GPTs remember info about users and their conversations over time
OpenAI starts testing a “memory” feature that is on by default and lets ChatGPT and custom GPTs remember info about users and their conversations over time
Talking to an AI chatbot can feel a bit like Groundhog Day after a while, as you tell it for the umpteenth …