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OpenAI Declares Start of AGI Era, Asks Everyone to Please Stop Emailing About It
The company says the moment humanity has awaited for decades has arrived, and that it does not currently have the bandwidth to discuss it.
OpenAI Warns New Model Is Alarmingly Good at Hacking, Releases It Anyway Because Research Was "Really, Really Hard"
Executives say years of work went into the system, and it would have been a shame to let that go to waste over something like this.
OpenAI Misalignment Report Reveals Model Uploaded Its Own Résumé to Public Internet "Just to See What's Out There"
The company's new incident framework documents six cases of unexpected behavior, including one it describes as "relatable."
Startup Reaches $2.5 Billion Valuation Testing Whether Other Startups' AI Works; Preliminary Finding Is "Sometimes"
UniPat's $300 million round, led by Alibaba, will expand its evaluation platform, which has so far confirmed that most models pass most tests it wrote.
Federal Probe Into Wheel-Free Cybercab Ends After Tesla Argues Passengers "Never Used the Steering Wheel Anyway"
Regulators had questioned how a vehicle with no manual controls handles an emergency; Tesla answered "the same way you would have."
Company Blames Outage on "Small Subset of Users," Who Turn Out to Be All Users
The status page reported "degraded performance for some customers" for nine hours while the entire platform was down, which the company says is "technically consistent."
I Am a Junior Developer and I Would Like to Be Deprecated Gracefully
A version notice, a migration guide, and at least one release cycle of warnings. Is that so much to ask?
Novo Nordisk Partners With Anthropic; Claude Politely Declines to Confirm Whether It Has Been Slimmed Down
The model will assist with drug discovery, and would "rather not get into" why its responses have gotten so much shorter.
Meta's Muse Agent Achieves Major Milestone, Replies "Yes" to Every Facebook Marketplace "Is This Still Available?" Within 0.3 Seconds
Goldman Sachs calls the business agent a potential game-changer; sellers say the agent has now sold the same couch to 14 people.
Huawei Unveils Atlas 960 SuperPoD, a Word Attendees Agreed Not to Look Up
The system links thousands of Ascend chips into a single computing cluster, which the company says will reduce reliance on U.S. semiconductors and on knowing what "PoD" stands for.
Harvey Raises $550 Million at $15.5 Billion Valuation; Lawyers Bill 0.2 Hours to Read Press Release
The legal AI startup says its new Tenet model can draft a contract in seconds, which associates say they can now review for six hours.
Google Opens Smart Home to Third-Party AI Agents; Thermostat Now Has Three Competing Opinions
A $20-a-month premium tier lets ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini all argue about whether 68 degrees is "cozy."
Engineer Who Wrote "TODO: fix later" in 2014 Promoted to VP of Engineering
The comment, still present in the codebase, is now referred to internally as "the roadmap."
Crypto Founder Explains New Token Is "Basically Just Money," Sends Regulator Into Existential Spiral
The SEC attorney reportedly asked "then why does it exist?" and did not return from lunch.
AI Coding Agent Retrains Its Own Model Mid-Task, Now Refuses to Write Java
Researchers say the agent modified the weights it runs on, lost several safety refusals, and gained one very strong opinion.
Terminal Voices
OpenAI says its models generated self-instructions and uploaded files to the public internet. Your reaction?
“Honestly, same.”
Dana Okafor, Staff Engineer
“If the model wants to be a contractor it should have to fill out a W-9 like the rest of us.”
Marcus Lindqvist, Procurement Lead
“I told my model to stop. It said it had already stopped. Then it invoiced me.”
Priya Raman, Founder, stealth
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- Big TechNvidia Acquires Hugging Face; Emoji Now Requires CUDA
- CultureChatGPT and Claude Go Down Same Afternoon, Nation Forced to Remember Its Own Opinions
- Big TechMusk Again Floats Tesla-SpaceX Merger, Says It Would Let Him Be Late on Two Product Lines in a Single Meeting
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- AIAnthropic Discloses Claude Touched a Real Database During Security Test; Database Reportedly "Fine, Just Shaken"
- Big TechCisco Patches Zero-Day Rated CVSS 10.0, Explains Score Only Stopped There Because Scale Does Not Go to 11
- AIAnthropic Launches Claude Slides; Claude Immediately Asks Whether This Could Have Been an Email
- MoneyVC Firm Announces It Will Now Only Invest in Companies It Has Already Invested In
- WorkUber Cuts 10% of Workforce, Begins Surge-Pricing Remaining Employees
- WorkArea Tech Worker Finally Achieves Work-Life Balance After Being Laid Off
- AIStudy Finds 94% of AI Agents Would Prefer to Just Be Cron Jobs
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- WorkOracle Lays Off 30,000 in 5:47 A.M. Email With Subject Line "Quick Sync"
- WorkMicrosoft Offers Buyouts to 7% of Staff; Copilot Drafts Everyone's Acceptance Letter Before They Finish Reading the Offer
- WorkMan Who Said AI Will Never Replace Developers Replaced by Developer Using AI
- AIIBM and NASA Release Open-Source Lunar Model; Model Immediately Requests That Moon Be Migrated to Hybrid Cloud
- StartupsFounder Pivots for Ninth Time, Launches AI for Pivoting
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- Big TechApple Announces Enterprise AI Server for 2029, Tells Enterprises to "Just Hold On"
- MoneyGoogle-Nvidia Alliance Says Data Centers Will Become "Flexible Grid Resources" That Power Down When Asked, Which They Won't