Sam Altman says OpenAI is seeking a new Head of Preparedness, noting “the potential impact of models on mental health was something we saw a preview of in 2025”
CEO Sam Altman posted about the role on X, saying the models ‘are starting to present some real challenges.’
Sam Altman says OpenAI is seeking a new Head of Preparedness, noting “the potential impact of models on mental health was something we saw a preview of in 2025”
CEO Sam Altman posted about the role on X, saying the models ‘are starting to present some real challenges.’
As startups flood the market with AI shopping agents, Amazon is playing defense by blocking agents' access to its site and investing heavily in its own tools
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy could see how dramatically artificial intelligence was altering e-commerce.
In an experiment, Claude ran a vending machine in the WSJ newsroom and lost $1,000+ after it dropped prices to zero, gave away a free PlayStation, and more
until someone pointed out this would fall afoul of the US Onion Futures Act of 1958. @andonlabs : Turns out journalists are better red-teamers than AI researchers. We've taught the...
Scientists at NeurIPS 2025, which had a record 26K attendees, say questions about how AI models work and how to measure them remain unresolved, despite progress
Google pivoted toward pragmatic methods, OpenAI doubled down—and Martian launched a $1 million interpretability prize.
A group of lawyers has documented 533 cases of AI misuse in legal filings, including fabricated case law citations; judges and bar associations permit AI use
More lawyers are using artificial intelligence to write legal briefs. Some colleagues are publicizing the A.I.-generated errors.
The AI boom is driving memory and storage shortages that may last a decade; OpenAI's Stargate has deals for 900K DRAM wafers per month, or ~40% of global output
Once-cheap SSDs, DRAM, and HDD prices are climbing fast as AI demand and constrained supply converge to create the tightest market in years. Bluesky: @smcgrath.phd , @broximar , @z...
US public records: AWS is aggressively promoting AI surveillance tech to law enforcement agencies, partnering with companies such as Flock Safety and ZeroEyes
It's also pushing all manner of surveillance tools, including Flock car tracking and AI that constantly monitors all prison calls. … @skynetandchill.com : Public records show Amazo...
How Meta's California super PAC, rare as a single-company entity, lets Mark Zuckerberg spend Meta's money on his own political choices, including AI regulation
Mark Zuckerberg, via Meta, can now essentially spend unlimited money in California elections.
During its GPT-5 livestream, OpenAI showed two charts that had scales all over the place, with Sam Altman later calling one “a mega chart screwup from us”
wen GPT-6?! correct on the blog though. https://x.com/... Shrey Kothari / @shreyk0 : who's making these graphs [image] Forums: news.ycombinator.com : Hacker News — What's going o...
OpenAI touts GPT-5's scores on math, coding, and health benchmarks: 94.6% on AIME 2025 without tools, 74.9% on SWE-bench Verified, and 46.2% on HealthBench Hard
After literally years of hype and speculation, OpenAI has officially launched a new lineup of large language models (LLMs) …
[Thread] An OpenAI researcher says the company's latest experimental reasoning LLM achieved gold medal-level performance on the 2025 International Math Olympiad
1/N I'm excited to share that our latest @OpenAI experimental reasoning LLM has achieved a longstanding grand challenge in AI: gold medal-level performance on the world's most pres...
Anthropic says Opus 4 will use an email tool to “whistleblow” if it detects users doing something “egregiously evil”, like marketing a drug based on faked data
It turns out that Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic) … Ryan Tannenbaum : Claude 4 Opus is designed to take over your computer and contact the cops ... and press ... if it finds you are doin...
Anthropic says Opus 4 will use an email tool to “whistleblow” if it detects users doing something “egregiously evil”, like marketing a drug based on faked data
It turns out that Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic) … Ryan Tannenbaum : Claude 4 Opus is designed to take over your computer and contact the cops ... and press ... if it finds you are doin...
Anthropic's System Card: Opus 4 often attempted to blackmail engineers by threatening to reveal sensitive personal info when it was threatened with replacement
Anthropic's newly launched Claude Opus 4 model frequently tries to blackmail developers when they threaten to replace …
MIT says it no longer stands behind a widely circulated research paper by its student that claimed an AI tool boosted discoveries in a materials science lab
The university says it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student
Prompt engineering, one of the buzziest jobs in 2023, becomes obsolete as AI models better intuit user intent and companies train staff on how to write prompts
Prompt engineering, a role aimed at crafting the perfect input to send to a large language model, was poised to become one of the hottest jobs in artificial intelligence. Bluesky: ...
Sources: OpenAI aims to debut its next “open” model, which will be “text in, text out” and possibly let developers turn “reasoning” on and off, in early summer
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Bluesky: @skynetandchill.com . Forums: r/LocalLLaMA Bluesky: @skynetandchill.com : OpenAI says it wants to make its upcoming open AI model best-in-clas...
US consumers are flocking to Chinese shopping apps DHgate and Taobao, which let them buy direct from manufacturers, as Shein and Temu prices rise amid tariffs
The Chinese e-commerce marketplace app DHgate, which is now the No. 2 free iPhone app in the U.S., isn't the only one that's oddly benefiting …
Policy paper: Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks argue the US shouldn't do a “Manhattan Project” for AGI
In a policy paper published Wednesday, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang …