2026-01-19
Thrilled to support @Miles_Brundage and the team at https://averi.org/! And co-author their first paper: Frontier AI Auditing: Toward Rigorous Third-Party Assessment of Safety and Security Practices at Leading AI Companies Congratulations on the launch 🚀
Fortune
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models
Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage, who has just founded a new nonprofit institute called AVERI that is advocating …
2026-01-18
Thrilled to support @Miles_Brundage and the team at https://averi.org/! And co-author their first paper: Frontier AI Auditing: Toward Rigorous Third-Party Assessment of Safety and Security Practices at Leading AI Companies Congratulations on the launch 🚀
Fortune
OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models
Former OpenAI policy chief Miles Brundage, who has just founded a new nonprofit institute called AVERI that is advocating …
2025-12-01
New research from @CrowdStrike shows why American open source AI models are urgently needed: “We found that when DeepSeek-R1 receives prompts containing topics the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) likely considers politically sensitive, the likelihood of it producing code with [image]
NBC News
US startups are increasingly adopting open-weight Chinese AI models, which are cheaper, more customizable, and sufficiently capable compared to frontier US ones
2025-07-02
I think a lot about liability, and how mitigating it through ‘trust’ (implicit or contractual) helps companies win Oracle's model shifts operational risk - including data and infrastructure security - from their customers to Oracle That makes them especially attractive for
SemiAnalysis
A deep dive into Oracle's data center strategy and the company's emergence as an AI computing powerhouse, amid questions about its GPU business' sustainability
Oracle's Cloud Infrastructure business is firing on all cylinders and is greatly outpacing expectations.
2024-06-01
Went to DC and spoke to the thoughtful reporters @politico: “How do you do this at scale said Lauren Wagner, a former Meta and Google employee. “I think a lot of it seems to be like one-on-one meetings or having this convening [on Capitol Hill] — which is great, but how do you
Politico
YC is lobbying in Washington to support “Little Tech” over concerns that AI regulations meant to head off harms will instead help Big Tech maintain its lead
Venture capital firms are bringing San Francisco's startup culture to Washington as they try to tip the regulatory scales away from giants in the sector. X: @typewriters , @gildura...
2024-05-03
We at @contextfund have been following the evolution of SB 1047 for months. Our working group of engineers and policy analysts from the open source community has feedback: 1/While the proposal has good intent, it tries to solve a complex research problem with the legal...
@scott_wiener
[Thread] California State Senator Scott Wiener defends his AI safety bill, SB 1047, after criticism that it will “crush OpenAI's competitors” and open-source AI
Senator Scott Wiener / @scott_wiener :
2024-03-28
One of the best things I've done all year is collaborate with @MLCommons on AI governance and benchmarking They're my favorite kinds of people to work with: pragmatic, optimistic about the future of technology and peoples' ability to shape it, and focused on building solutions
Ars Technica
Anthropic's Claude 3 Opus surpassed OpenAI's GPT-4 on Chatbot Arena, a crowdsourced LLM leaderboard used by AI researchers; GPT-4 has been first since launch
Anthropic's Claude 3 is first to unseat GPT-4 since launch of Chatbot Arena in May '23. — On Tuesday, Anthropic's Claude 3 …
One of the best things I've done all year is collaborate with @MLCommons on AI governance and benchmarking They're my favorite kinds of people to work with: pragmatic, optimistic about the future of technology and peoples' ability to shape it, and focused on building solutions
IEEE Spectrum
MLCommons shares the results from its MLPerf 4.0 inferencing benchmarks, which added Llama 2 70B and Stable Diffusion XL; PCs with Nvidia GPUs came out on top
no Blackwell submissions yet, sorry Karl Freund / Forbes : Nvidia Sweeps AI Benchmarks While AMD Misses The Boat. Again. Intel : Intel Gaudi 2 Remains Only Benchmarked Alternative ...
2023-03-20
Glaze is a new project out of UChicago @ravenben that adds perturbations to art that interfere with AI models' ability to read the style, making it harder for generative AI to mimic the artist. https://techcrunch.com/... https://twitter.com/...
TechCrunch
Researchers launch a free app to help artists prevent AI models from stealing their “artistic IP” by adding almost imperceptible “perturbations” to their art
Generative art's style mimicry, interrupted — The asymmetry in time and effort it takes human artists …
2021-06-03
The first article about my team's announcement at @Facebook F8 conference in @TechCrunch. Telling a story about what we're doing at Facebook Open Research & Transparency is challenging but necessary - this is the future of platform accountability https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Facebook says it will open the Messenger API for Instagram to all businesses, after announcing a closed beta in October 2020
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
The first article about my team's announcement at @Facebook F8 conference in @TechCrunch. Telling a story about what we're doing at Facebook Open Research & Transparency is challenging but necessary - this is the future of platform accountability https://techcrunch.com/...
TechCrunch
Facebook says it plans to launch an API designed for the academic community, after deprecating thousands of APIs following the Cambridge Analytica scandal
2021-03-21
It's me! ‘FB has made a huge trove of data available to researchers through Facebook Open Research and Transparency, working with them to study the impact on the 2020 election’: Platforms vs. PhDs: How tech giants court and crush the people who study them https://www.protocol.com/...
Protocol
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @...
2021-03-20
It's me! ‘FB has made a huge trove of data available to researchers through Facebook Open Research and Transparency, working with them to study the impact on the 2020 election’: Platforms vs. PhDs: How tech giants court and crush the people who study them https://www.protocol.com/...
Protocol
Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics
Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout. — “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during …