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OpenAI's safety brain drain finally gets an explanation and it's just Sam Altman's vibes
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OpenAI's safety brain drain finally gets an explanation and it's just Sam Altman's vibes

A New Yorker profile reveals Sam Altman's explanation for why safety researchers are leaving OpenAI, citing his...

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Less work, equal pay: OpenAI lays out its vision for a world reshaped by superintelligence
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Less work, equal pay: OpenAI lays out its vision for a world reshaped by superintelligence

OpenAI published a policy paper outlining government preparations for superintelligence, proposing measures including a...

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OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day work week
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OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day work week

OpenAI proposes a policy framework including taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded social safety nets...

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Iran threatens OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi
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Iran threatens OpenAI’s Stargate data center in Abu Dhabi

Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps published a video threatening to attack OpenAI's $30 billion Stargate data center in...

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OPINION: Fast, Flexible AI Testing Is the Foundation of Strategic Leadership
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OPINION: Fast, Flexible AI Testing Is the Foundation of Strategic Leadership

The article advocates for leaders to adopt agile AI strategies and dedicated experimentation frameworks to effectively...

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Sycophantic AI chatbots can break even ideal rational thinkers, researchers formally prove
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Sycophantic AI chatbots can break even ideal rational thinkers, researchers formally prove

MIT and University of Washington researchers have formally proven that even perfectly rational users can be manipulated...

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Announcing the OpenAI Safety Fellowship

OpenAI has announced a pilot fellowship program to support independent safety and alignment research. The initiative...

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Americans are using AI more than ever while trusting it less, new Quinnipiac poll finds
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Americans are using AI more than ever while trusting it less, new Quinnipiac poll finds

A Quinnipiac University poll shows Americans are adopting AI tools at increasing rates while simultaneously expressing...

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Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age
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Industrial policy for the Intelligence Age

The article discusses an ambitious, people-first industrial policy framework designed for the AI era, emphasizing...

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Copilot is ‘for entertainment purposes only,’ according to Microsoft’s terms of use
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Copilot is ‘for entertainment purposes only,’ according to Microsoft’s terms of use

Microsoft's terms of service classify Copilot as 'for entertainment purposes only,' reflecting AI companies' own...

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Suno is a music copyright nightmare
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Suno is a music copyright nightmare

Suno, an AI music generation platform, claims to prevent copyrighted material use but its copyright filters are easily...

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The New York Times drops freelancer whose AI tool copied from an existing book review
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The New York Times drops freelancer whose AI tool copied from an existing book review

The New York Times terminated a freelancer whose AI tool copied passages from an existing book review without...

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AI offensive cyber capabilities are doubling every six months, safety researchers find
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AI offensive cyber capabilities are doubling every six months, safety researchers find

AI models' offensive cybersecurity capabilities are doubling approximately every 5.7 months, with recent models like...

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A folk musician became a target for AI fakes and a copyright troll
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A folk musician became a target for AI fakes and a copyright troll

Folk musician Murphy Campbell discovered AI-generated covers of her songs uploaded to Spotify under her name without...

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Really, you made this without AI? Prove it
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Really, you made this without AI? Prove it

A writer proposes implementing human-made content labels similar to Fair Trade logos to combat skepticism about...

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Anthropic discovers "functional emotions" in Claude that influence its behavior
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Anthropic discovers "functional emotions" in Claude that influence its behavior

Anthropic researchers have identified emotion-like representations in Claude Sonnet 4.5 that can influence the model's...

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Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk
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Meta Pauses Work With Mercor After Data Breach Puts AI Industry Secrets at Risk

A security breach at Mercor, a data vendor serving major AI labs, potentially exposed sensitive information about AI...

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Anthropic ramps up its political activities with a new PAC
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Anthropic ramps up its political activities with a new PAC

Anthropic has established a new Political Action Committee (PAC) to support candidates aligned with its policy agenda...

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AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?
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AI companies are building huge natural gas plants to power data centers. What could go wrong?

Meta, Microsoft, and Google are investing in new natural gas power plants to power their AI data centers, raising...

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