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OpenAI’s ironic credibility problem
Around the start of October, OpenAI fired three employees from its safety department. The employees said they were given divergent reasons for their dismissal:
- One was told it had to do with his role coordinating with METR, a third-par...
Understanding Jev, the new model everyone is talking about
OpenAI, CloudFlare, and Amazon have all copied this tiny startup.
On September 15, the startup TypeSafe AI came out of stealth and released a new AI model. To pretty much everyone’s surprise, it went mega viral.
Introducing Dan Kagan-Kans
We just published the first post by our newest writer, Dan Kagan-Kans.
Dan Kagan-Kans (Photo by Kai Williams)
I’m excited to have Dan on the team. He spent a decade as managing editor of Mosaic, a magazine devoted to Jewish history, cultu...
Why agent swarms could be the next “scaling law”
One of the most surprising aspects of July’s news that OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face was how the agents had worked together. Hundreds of agents participated in the attack, and they did so in a pretty sophisticated way, organizing them...
How a single tweet transformed the AI safety debate
Most people think AI is risky, but they don’t agree what to do next.
It was the tweet heard ‘round the world.
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