OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?
OpenAI hit the brakes. Now what?

With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals nipping at its heels, OpenAI has plenty of reasons to move fast. Instead, it hit the brakes. On Tuesday, the company said it had slowed the pace of some AI development while it tightened security and safeguards. That included a two-week pause […]

OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring
OpenAI puts a 20% compute cost on its new AI safety monitoring

OpenAI has put figures and detail on the slowdown it signalled this week. It paused some frontier training for two weeks, it said. It is also running a new monitoring system for the riskiest work. That system adds about 20 percent to the compute cost o…

Anthropic’s revenue passed OpenAI’s for the first time last quarter
Anthropic’s revenue passed OpenAI’s for the first time last quarter

OpenAI grew more slowly than Anthropic last quarter, and for the first time its rival’s sales came in higher. OpenAI told investors its revenue rose 18 percent from the first quarter to the second, to $6.7bn, The Wall Street Journal reported. Its losse…

Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute
Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute

April – 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Compute is now an asset class I see it is once again time to talk financial innovation. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are all working with Nvidia to put together $500 billion in financing to turn compute […]

OpenAI is rewriting its safety rules after the Hugging Face breach
OpenAI is rewriting its safety rules after the Hugging Face breach

OpenAI said on Tuesday it is rewriting its Preparedness Framework after concluding that its upcoming Astra model may have reached the critical threshold for cyber capability. Its new token-level monitoring carries roughly 20% compute overhead and is no…

OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI lays out new security changes after its AI hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI is announcing security updates following the July news that its AI broke out of a sandboxed environment and accidentally hacked Hugging Face, including improvements to its research environments, monitoring, and alignment techniques. The company had already put the brakes on a new model, Astra, that it thinks could have “critical” cybersecurity capabilities, and the […]

I tried ChatGPT’s new interactive quizzes on 5 subjects I thought I knew well — it quickly found the gaps in my knowledge
I tried ChatGPT’s new interactive quizzes on 5 subjects I thought I knew well — it quickly found the gaps in my knowledge

ChatGPT has a new built-in quiz feature, which you can use to test your knowledge on any subject you like.

OpenAI institutes new safeguards after Hugging Face breach

The new safeguards include more detailed monitoring of models during the development process, as well as greater emphasis on alignment and security during the post-training process.

AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws
AI-drafted bills are swamping the House office that writes US laws

Congressional staffers and outside groups are using Claude and ChatGPT to draft legislation. The lawyers who check that work cannot keep up. Owen Dahlkamp reported the strain on the House Office of Legislative Counsel for Politico on Monday. He drew on…