OpenAI’s Rogue-Agent Audit Is Costing $500,000 a Day
The bill for finding out how far OpenAI’s AI agents wandered is adding up fast. The company has told The Guardian that its investigation into two episodes in which its…
OpenAI’s Release-Safety Writer Quits, Calling Its Culture Broken
For years, when OpenAI prepared to ship a new model, a safety report traveled with it. The document was the company’s answer to a standing question: why was this system…
A Napster Founder Steers Stability AI Into the Music Business
The company that once helped upend the record business is about to sell software to the people who make the records. Sean Parker, the Napster co-founder whose file-sharing service shook…
OpenAI Hires Former White House AI Official to Lead Cyber-Risk Team
For much of this year, Thomas Lind’s job was to help the U.S. government think about artificial intelligence. He worked inside the White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director,…
Anthropic Bets $100 Million It Can Train Its Own Enterprise Engineers
Anthropic is planning to spend $100 million to teach other companies’ engineers to do a job that barely existed a year ago. The announcement landed on the same day the…
Meta Opens Its Muse Assistant to Homemade Hardware
For a developer who wants an AI assistant to turn on the lights, change the channel, or send a document to the printer, the wait is over. Meta has published…
Trump Asked Grok About Capturing Maduro, Time Reports
In December 2025, according to an account in Time magazine, Donald Trump sat down privately with Elon Musk and put a question to a chatbot: what would Venezuelans do if…
Google Puts Its AI Chips in Orbit, Testing a Solar-Powered Data Center
A Planet Labs satellite rode into low Earth orbit on October 1 aboard a SpaceX rideshare, carrying an unusual payload: a set of Google’s custom-built AI chips. The tensor processing…
OpenAI Got a Subpoena and Lost Three Researchers on the Same Day
On the same day California’s attorney general demanded records from OpenAI, the company confirmed it had parted ways with three researchers who, it said, handled sensitive information outside the rules.…
Anthropic Aims to Start Trading Before Thanksgiving
If Anthropic’s bankers hit the schedule they have drawn up, the artificial-intelligence company will begin trading the week before Thanksgiving. A timeline that surfaced on October 1 calls for an…
