Open or closed AI? How founders are choosing what to build on at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
For AI startups, choosing a model isn't necessarily a one-time architecture decision anymore. Open…
OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
Given the increased risk, Robinson argued that frontier AI companies need to start operating…
OpenAI safety leader David Robinson resigns as the team’s upheaval mounts
David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI's Safety Systems team, quit the company — and…
Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web
Amazon distinguished engineer Marc Brooker came up with the project after seeing Jev and…
Google launches Gemini 4 Argon to reclaim the AI frontier
Google on Wednesday announced a new AI model named Gemini 4 Argon — the…
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
Li, a Stanford computer science professor, is considered a pioneer of AI, particularly computer…
White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US review, sources say.
The White House seeks first access to new OpenAI and Anthropic models before the…
AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable
Earlier this month, OpenAI researcher Dan Selsam published a post in which he said…
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
At their core, world models are about automating spatial intelligence, so the field could…
PrismML hopes its tiny LLM could change how we all use AI
If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be — not…
Base Labs launches an open-weight AI safety partnership with Hugging Face and Goodfire
Baseten launched a new safety infrastructure standard alongside its Base Labs research arm on…
OpenAI reveals 6 more safety incidents as it announces new plans for tracking rogue agents
OpenAI says its models keep misbehaving.The AI company disclosed six concerning instances in which…
OpenAI has tapped a startup to make its AI work for lawyers
OpenAI has been signaling for months that it wants a bigger foothold in the…
An OpenAI researcher broke ranks to say that pacing the frontier, as Altman and Amodei suggest, won’t be enough
A senior OpenAI researcher says slowing frontier AI isn't the answer to preventing an…
3 ex-Apple researchers want to make AI less awkward. Lightspeed, Accel, and Nvidia are giving them $50 million to do it.
A startup that's trying to make AI models better conversationalists with more emotional intelligence…
OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating
On Thursday, OpenAI withdrew its sponsorship of a math event at CalTech after the…
