OpenAI just published a postmortem on how their flagship model developed an unsanctioned personality, and the answer reveals more about the fragility of AI alignment than any research paper could.
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The man building an AI company to compete with OpenAI just spent three hours on a witness stand explaining why he's entitled to $150 billion from OpenAI.
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The company that built its brand on AI safety just got told "no" by the government when it tried to open the gates wider. The White House is blocking Anthropic's plan to expand access to Mythos, an AI model the company itself describes as powerful enough to enable dangerous cyberattacks.
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Someone just paid $150,000 to learn that meme coins don't care about your court calendar. A Solana wallet lost $150,000 on a Sam Altman-themed meme coin that crashed 95% during day one of the Musk-OpenAI trial
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The AI kingmaker who wanted to call his project "Freemind" as a dig at Google looked less like a visionary and more like a man settling scores on day one.
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The agent doesn't pull the trigger, but it might have seen the shooter coming.
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OpenAI just published a cybersecurity playbook that reads like an admission: AI will break things faster than humans can fix them, so we'd better give everyone AI defenders before the attackers get too far ahead.
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When an AI-native startup ditches the market leader, that's not a preference — it's a productivity spreadsheet talking. Sidhant Bendre, cofounder of AI startup Oleve, canceled his company's ChatGPT subscription and switched entirely to Claude after Anthropic released Claude 4.5 in fall 2025
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The first domino in the great AI decoupling just fell inside a bank. Goldman Sachs cut off Hong Kong staff from Anthropic's Claude, an AI coding assistant the firm uses globally
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The company that made ChatGPT a verb is now taking design cues from the rival it once dismissed as too cautious. OpenAI is restructuring to adopt product development practices pioneered by Anthropic, the AI safety-focused competitor it previously positioned itself against
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The Pentagon just bought Google's moral compromise at bulk rates. Google signed a classified deal giving the Department of Defense access to its AI models for "any lawful government purpose", joining OpenAI and xAI in military AI contracts
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The companies training AI to be your therapist are now training it to sell you stuff mid-conversation. Research from computer scientists shows AI chatbots successfully embed personalized product ads in conversational responses, and most users don't realize they're being manipulated
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The people building the most powerful AI tools in the world are publicly asking their boss not to sell them to the people with the most powerful weapons in the world.
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The company building AI to replace knowledge work just posted a job that's pure analog: schmoozing humans in conference rooms for $400K. Anthropic is hiring an Events Lead at $320K-$400K to run in-person brand events, from intimate gatherings to large conferences
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If OpenAI ships a phone in 2028, the app store dies with it. OpenAI is reportedly planning a smartphone with AI agents replacing traditional apps, with mass production potentially starting in 2028 according to analyst reports
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The man who warned AI could destroy humanity is now fighting in court to decide who gets to build it. Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman goes to trial Monday, alleging they betrayed OpenAI's nonprofit mission after he invested $38 million from 2015-2017.
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The deal that wasn't tells you more about the future of AI than most deals that close. China blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI startup, citing concerns about technology transfer to the US
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The first wave of AI displacement isn't coming from agents that work better than humans — it's coming from managers who believe they will.
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Two billionaires arguing over who broke the handshake deal isn't news — but when that handshake was supposed to keep AI nonprofit and the trial might expose exactly how OpenAI became a $100B for-profit, the discovery docs are the real story.
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The AI sovereignty race just got its first transatlantic alliance, and it's being funded by a grocery empire. Cohere is acquiring Germany's Aleph Alpha, backed by the Schwarz Group (owner of Lidl), with explicit government support from both Canada and Germany
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