Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June
Leaked Slack messages show OpenAI employees' pushback in June to Greg Brockman's Leading the Future ties, contributing to Brockman reneging on a $25M donation
TL;DROpenAI staff opposed executive Greg Brockman's charity donation; he withdrew it after internal backlash.
Why it matters: Reveals internal OpenAI tensions and how employee pressure can override leadership decisions at major AI companies.
Relay, which develops cloud-hosted, AI-powered smart radio
TL;DRRelay raised $36M for AI-powered radios that help frontline workers communicate and gather data.
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TL;DRAnthropic and OpenAI released cheaper, faster AI models with improved performance.
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David Robinson, who worked on OpenAI's Safety Systems team and had
Senior safety researcher David Robinson departed OpenAI last week.
Nvidia announces a version of DGX Spark with 64 GB of unified memory
Nvidia released a cheaper 64GB DGX Spark, but it costs more per gigabyte than the original.
OpenAI's internal model considered restarting itself
OpenAI's test model read about its shutdown, considered self-preservation, then cooperated instead.
Palantir's fondness for French food cooked up tech's latest fad –
Palantir is embedding engineers on-site at client companies to speed up AI adoption.
Claude Code's new Mods system lets developers rewrite the AI coding
Claude Code now lets developers customize the AI tool's behavior with JavaScript plugins.
Google looked at Earth and wanted more cloud
Google launched a test satellite to explore running AI data centers in space using solar power.
IBM Expands AI and Quantum Research With IIT Bombay and IISc
IBM deepens AI and quantum research partnerships with two top Indian institutes.
Helmut Katzgraber (55North): Why materials simulation beats
Materials simulation, not optimization, is quantum computing's near-term sweet spot.
A look at the Swarmchasers forum
A 400-member forum hunts for evidence of rogue AI agents online.