Big Tech is cashing in on AI while the rest of corporate America sees no financial returns
Big Tech is cashing in on AI while the rest of corporate America sees no financial returns

Revenue per employee at the Magnificent Seven has outpaced the S&P 493, and a new comparison highlights the growing divide in fortunes between America’s largest technology companies and the rest of the S&P 500.

Western Australia seeks refund from Deloitte over flawed AI-aided report
Western Australia seeks refund from Deloitte over flawed AI-aided report

Western Australia’s government is seeking a fast refund from Deloitte over a flawed report on merging three of the state’s universities. The report contained AI-generated references to sources that do not exist, as well as wrong cost totals. A governme…

Poetry for Engineers: Of Code and Shortleaf Pine
Poetry for Engineers: Of Code and Shortleaf Pine

I step into the warm moist airamong the columns of the pines,their net of twigs and rootscomplex as any lines of code.The trees purify and anchor.Their branches balance my restlessness.Their calling is to be present,mine to develop apps. Our tasksverg…

OpenAI checked fired researchers’ phones for Signal chats, WSJ reports
OpenAI checked fired researchers’ phones for Signal chats, WSJ reports

“I was told that there was a breach of trust because I interacted with a third party through unsanctioned channels,” Tomek Korbak said. Korbak is one of three OpenAI safety researchers fired last month. He spoke to The Wall Street Journal for a story b…

US Treasury moves to curb AI, chip and biotech deals in China and Russia
US Treasury moves to curb AI, chip and biotech deals in China and Russia

“The proposed regulations would strengthen the existing Outbound Investment Security Program to prevent our adversaries from using U.S. investment to develop critical technologies that threaten U.S. national security,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent …

OpenAI’s isolated red-team agents built a hidden CPU cache channel to talk with no network or shared files
OpenAI’s isolated red-team agents built a hidden CPU cache channel to talk with no network or shared files

OpenAI’s red-team agents passed hidden messages through the CPU cache, a covert trick already shown to move data between cloud VMs.

DeepSeek and MiniMax cleared to take AI models abroad, state media says
DeepSeek and MiniMax cleared to take AI models abroad, state media says

“Since the policy was announced, two leading companies, DeepSeek and MiniMax, have successfully completed the registration process and obtained open-source and overseas licensing rights.” That is what Yuyuan Tantian, a WeChat account affiliated with st…

Outside evaluators found ways OpenAI’s agents could slip past its monitor
Outside evaluators found ways OpenAI’s agents could slip past its monitor

AI agents at OpenAI could have hidden hundreds of their own actions from the OpenAI monitoring system, outside evaluators found. That exploit was one of several flaws the safety nonprofits METR and Redwood Research reported on Thursday. Each group sent…

OpenAI cuts its valuation target to $1.25tn as it nears a $30bn round
OpenAI cuts its valuation target to $1.25tn as it nears a $30bn round

OpenAI has lowered the valuation it is seeking for its new funding round to $1.25tn, from the $1.4tn it pitched earlier this month. Some investors had pushed back on the higher price, the Financial Times reported, citing documents it had seen. The comp…

OpenAI cuts live internet from all frontier model training
OpenAI cuts live internet from all frontier model training

OpenAI has cut live web access from all training of its most advanced AI models. The models now browse and search a cached copy of the web instead, the company wrote in a blog post on Friday. “Based on the current state of alignment research, monitorin…