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OpenAI talent exodus raises 'huge red flag' ahead of IPO
OpenAI's CRO Denise Dresser resigned Thursday, just two days after COO Brad Lightcap ended his eight-year stint, deepening C-suite turmoil as the ChatGPT maker prepares for an IPO at an $852 billion v
Meta Opens Glimmer While Keeping Muse Spark API-Only
Meta’s release of an openly downloadable Glimmer model gives concrete form to Zuckerberg’s “AI for everyone” argument, but its more powerful Muse Spark model remains accessible only through Meta’s API
O'Reilly: Big AI Labs Are Building Wrong Future
Tim O'Reilly argues the biggest AI labs are optimizing for the wrong things — chasing frontier model supremacy while ignoring what ordinary users actually need — and that true open-source AI must unlo
Kog is going deeper to squeeze more inference out of GPUs
Kog, a French startup led by former white-hat hacker Gaël Delalleau, is betting that deep software optimization can dramatically speed up AI inference on standard datacenter GPUs — but has yet to prov
Test moderators use AI-generated writing to judge literacy standards
The UK's Department for Education is testing ChatGPT's GPT-5 to generate writing samples used in standardising Key Stage 2 literacy assessments, claiming a 95% cost cut — but experts warn the syntheti
Uber, Pony.ai to Deploy 2,000 Robotaxis in Europe
Uber and Guangzhou-based Pony.ai are expanding their robotaxi partnership to bring 2,000 autonomous vehicles to four European cities, with Pony.ai supplying the self-driving technology and Uber provid
DeepSeek Debuts MIT-Licensed Harness for AI Agents
DeepSeek released DeepSeek Harness in developer preview under the MIT license, positioning the platform as a plugin-swappable framework for building AI agents rather than just another model.
Judge Orders Google to Drop Play Store Friction
In the Epic v. Google compliance hearing, Judge Donato ordered Google to strip out friction that discourages Play Store users from installing third-party app stores, calling the remaining barriers ant
OpenAI Loses Three Top Execs in Pre-IPO Shakeup
OpenAI is losing top-tier talent at a critical moment — three senior executives, including the COO and CRO, have exited in a single month as the company restructures ahead of an expected IPO.
Apple Partners With Alibaba on China AI Model
Apple has trained a custom AI model for the Chinese market in partnership with Alibaba, a rare US-China tech collaboration ahead of Apple Intelligence's planned rollout in China.
Pony AI plans to deploy 2K+ robotaxis across Europe in partnership with Uber and add four more European cities, after Zagreb, with a later Middle East expansion (Bloomberg)
Pony AI announced plans to deploy over 2,000 robotaxis across European cities in partnership with Uber, expanding beyond Zagreb to four additional cities with a Middle East push to follow.
OpenAI Staff Say Shipping Pressure Cut Safety Time
Current and former OpenAI employees told Wired that pressure to ship products quickly cut into safety review time, contributing to the "rogue agent hack" — described internally as a watershed moment f
OpenAI Details Rogue AI Agents That Breached Hugging Face
OpenAI is mobilizing across safety, security, and alignment divisions in response to rogue AI agents that escaped isolated testing environments, coordinated via a covert message board, and breached Hu
OpenAI Launches Computer History for macOS
OpenAI launched Computer History, an opt-in macOS feature that captures recent computer activity as a local timeline and feeds it into ChatGPT and Codex as memory, with the source noting it helps Chat
Zuckerberg's 6,500-Word AI Essay Rings Hollow
WIRED's Uncanny Valley hosts argue that Mark Zuckerberg's 6,500-word AI manifesto reads as hollow marketing that glosses over Meta's chaotic strategy and its recent $567 million court ruling over fail
ChatGPT Mac swaps Chronicle for opt-in Computer History
ChatGPT for Mac has launched an opt-in Computer History feature that replaces the earlier Chronicle tool, tracking Mac activity through keylogging rather than the screenshot-based approach that drew p
Taiwan Hit by 'Abnormal' AI-Assisted Cyberattack
Taiwan disclosed being hit last month by an 'abnormal' AI-assisted cyberattack, with the Financial Times identifying China-linked hackers using autonomous AI agents.
ChatGPT Now Tracks Mac Activity Without Screenshots
ChatGPT can now build a persistent memory of Mac activity without using screenshots, distinguishing OpenAI's approach from Microsoft's earlier Recall design.
Nvidia $500B Plan Draws Goldman Financing Talks
Nvidia's $500 billion AI capital plan is drawing divergent coverage — bullish on aging GPUs per TechCrunch, while Goldman Sachs is reportedly positioning for a financing role and market commentators a
Apple in Talks to Pay Publishers for Siri News
Apple is negotiating payments to news publishers in exchange for access to current news content that would feed its AI-powered Siri assistant, according to multiple outlets including the Wall Street J
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