In May of 2025, Ahad Ali was a successful accountant, overseeing a team of 20 people and handling more than 2,000 returns a year. “We…
Author: Russell Brandom
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets |
This week, I moderated a panel on world models at the All In conference (no relation to the podcast), and it gave me a chance…
Microsoft's new AI 'code of conduct' tells models not to hack systems or trick humans |
9:27 AM PDT · September 14, 2026 As the AI world shifts its focus to safety and alignment, Microsoft has released a new AI code…
Anthropic details distillation campaigns from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek |
1:57 PM PDT · September 10, 2026 A new report released Thursday by Anthropic alleged persistent distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, which have escalated…
AI agents are flooding public services with new requests |
As AI makes it easier to fill forms and file complaints, public services around the world are seeing enormous jumps in applications and other requests.…
Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU |
Before this week, the dominant story about Nvidia went something like this: For the first few years of the AI boom, Nvidia was the only…
An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI |
12:30 PM PDT · August 28, 2026 Training AI models with other AI models has become a very popular goal for neolabs — and now,…
OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach |
OpenAI released its official report Wednesday on the Hugging Face breach, offering the clearest picture yet of how an unusual chain of events allowed an…
How a $250 million acquisition collapsed into allegations of fraud and forged signatures |
When VideoVerse announced its acquisition in September 2025, it felt like a victory for startups across India. VideoVerse was a simple clipping service, but after…
Design Arena creators raise $7.9 million to bring taste to AI models |
As co-founder Grace Li tells it, her company started a few weeks before graduation in 2025, with a handful of college friends trying to make…