Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.

When you have Anthropic's Jacob Coxon literally boasting about the fact that he collaborated with others to make his doom-and-gloom-style resignation post go viral, while continuing to tout the supposedly noble intentions of his former employer in one podcast after another, one is hard-pressed not to adopt a predominantly cynical bent on the coordinated push towards pacing the progress on AI, made all the more incredulous by the fact that OpenAI echoed that call within hours when Dario Amodei and Sam Altman rarely see eye to eye on any topic under the sun. To a skeptic, an assumption of obfuscation […]

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On Equity, we discussed the AI industry's latest debate about whether it poses an existential threat to humanity.

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

Recursive Self-Improvement or RSI is widely considered the holy grail of AI, and a wild rumor now suggests that Google's DeepMind - the unlikeliest of AI labs in the current paradigm - has achieved this feat, which then puts a cynical spin on a somewhat coordinated push from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Elon Musk to try to achieve regulatory capture of the broader AI sphere by advocating for pacing progress on AI models. Cynisim abounds as Anthropic, OpenAI, and Elon Musk all call for pacing the progress on AI, which critics argue only serves as a front for disadvantaging other AI […]

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Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on alignment, is joining the OpenAI Foundation as a member of its board.

The World Health Organization (WHO) considers antibiotic and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as one of the top health concerns of the 21st century, and Anthropic might have just discovered a viable vector to combat this emergent threat, at least as per a credible litany of rumor. Anthropic reportedly plans to announce the discovery of this new class of drugs just ahead of its IPO Most prevalent bacterial strains are rapidly evolving to develop resistance against run-of-the-mill antibiotics. This is partly a function of overuse and the innate ability of organisms to evolve in harsh conditions. Even so, a number of novel […]

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In a development that now has the potential of taking a wrecking ball to any illusions of privacy around OpenAI's products, a mathematician who has come very close to solving the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem is now openly wondering if the AI lab stole his drafts stored in Codex to accelerate its own work on the problem in what can only be interpreted as an effort to win additional bragging rights ahead of its planned IPO. Two mathematicians and OpenAI are now feuding over the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem, with huge bragging rights and credibility at stake For the benefit […]

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OpenAI is in full-on hype mode following the release of the GPT-6 Astra model, with NVIDIA's Jensen Huang also having jumped onto the hype-heavy bandwagon just a few hours ago. And yet, as outlandish as Astra's 100,000-GPU training run sounds, it is all set to be eclipsed by an even more ambitious 400,000-GPU training run that might span the entirety of OpenAI's Stargate project in Abilene, Texas. OpenAI might have spent between $500 million and $1 billion to train the GPT-6 Astra, but an upcoming training run is all set to break Astra's record if Jensen Huang's projection is anything […]

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Two more news organizations are suing OpenAI and Microsoft over the supposed use of their journalism to train AI.

OpenAI acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum.

While OpenAI has yet to open the proverbial floodgates for its latest GPT-6 Astra AI model, initial impressions that are surfacing on the social media suggest the model has a proclivity for spawning a large number of agents, which then strengthens the overarching agent orchestration theme and the attendant demand for more CPUs. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra marks a shift from chatbot-style LLMs to a full-fledged computer operator, replete with agents that interact with computers exactly like humans do We noted earlier this week that OpenAI has now released its latest GPT-6 Astra model to select clients. The model marks a […]

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OpenAI’s latest agent swarm incident adds urgency to calls for independent investigations as researchers and lawmakers question whether AI labs should control the scope of their own safety reviews.

It's the latest failure of OpenAI's internal monitoring and security systems.

OpenAI claims that Astra represents "a new frontier on computer and browser use," and that it handles tasks with unmatched "speed, accuracy, and safety."

OpenAI was supposed to release its first Astra-class model, now called GPT-6 Astra, before noon today. However, an inexplicable launch delay seems to have triggered the release of embargoed information, with preliminary benchmarks showing phenomenal performance gains. OpenAI's Greg Brockman says the AGI era begins today, as the GPT-6 Astra scores 100 percent on ExploitBench and 98.6 percent on ARC-AGI-3 OpenAI is releasing the GPT-6 Astra in a limited fashion today, restricting the launch to only a certain category of clients. Here's what we know so far: As far as performance benchmarks are concerned, the GPT-6 Astra achieves a 100 […]

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