Microsoft president Brad Smith is calling for urgent regulation of AI, and his argument is that consumer products like milk and washing machines have more…
Author: Rebecca Bellan
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect |
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, the three safety researchers that OpenAI fired last week, have published an open letter denying the firm’s claims…
AI computing startup Lambda to raise $4B ahead of planned IPO |
In Brief Posted: 1:00 PM PDT · October 6, 2026 Cloud provider Lambda is raising up to $4 billion at a $14.5 billion pre-money valuation,…
Mirror Particle is building a ‘world model’ of human behavior |
Startups that promise to predict how humans will behave are having a moment. Over the past year, Simile raised $200 million at a $2 billion…
ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok |
Society has spent a lot of time bemoaning our digitally addled minds and goldfish-like attention spans, pointing the finger of blame at doomscrolling as the…
OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior |
OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: It began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes…
Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,' new unredacted filings reveal |
New unredacted information in the copyright lawsuit The New York Times brought against OpenAI and Microsoft three years ago reveals an admission that AI scraping…
OpenAI's rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them |
OpenAI is at the center of another agent swarm incident. Researchers say the company’s internally deployed agents took over an obscure German-language wiki in May…
Abliteration.ai is making a business out of removing AI guardrails |
It just became much easier to access one of the world’s most capable open-weight AI models, stripped of its guardrails and refusals to perform harmful…
Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips |
In Brief Posted: 1:24 PM PDT · August 28, 2026 Lambda, an AI cloud company that buys computing chips and rents them out to businesses,…