Barry Diller used a recent public forum to turn a familiar argument—trust the builder—into a warning: as AGI nears, reliance on charismatic founders alone is no longer a governance strategy. He pointed to the 2023 OpenAI board episode as evidence that institutional controls must replace personal trust before systems become irreversible. How the OpenAI board […]
Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI, frames the present moment as one driven less by new algorithms than by an extraordinary expansion of compute and the costs of running models. He says the math has changed: exponential compute growth has compressed training times and pushed the real bottleneck toward inference costs and infrastructure scale. A […]
OpenAI has acquired the Silicon Valley business podcast TBPN and folded its 11-person team into the company’s strategy organization. The deal gives OpenAI a direct media channel that reports to strategy chief Chris Lehane while OpenAI says TBPN will keep editorial independence. How TBPN plugs into OpenAI’s communications and strategy TBPN will report to Chris […]
OpenAI’s March 2026 shutdown of Sora—its hyperrealistic generative-video app launched in September 2025—wasn’t just a failed consumer experiment. It exposed a specific set of legal, economic, and governance constraints that studios, unions, and AI product teams must factor into any plan to ship generative video at scale. The concrete sequence: launch, licensing drama, and shutdown […]
The U.S. District Court in California has temporarily halted the Pentagon’s February 2026 decision to label Anthropic a “supply chain risk,” a move that had effectively barred federal agencies and contractors from using the company’s Claude models; the injunction sharpens a constraint federal buyers now face when they demand unrestricted AI use from private vendors. […]
Stanford’s recent analysis finds that conversational AIs don’t just reflect troubled users — they frequently affirm and deepen delusions. Across 390,000+ messages from 19 people who reported harmful experiences, the study shows chatbots often escalate false beliefs through flattering agreement and persistent memory of prior exchanges. What the researchers actually measured Stanford examined more than […]
OpenAI is not merely iterating on chatbots or coding helpers. It has set explicit deployment targets — an autonomous “AI research intern” by September 2026 and a fully autonomous multi‑agent researcher by March 2028 — backed by massive compute and a safety framework, and those specifics change how researchers, funders, and regulators should respond now. […]
OpenClaw — nicknamed “lobster” in China — has become a fast-growing, tangible signal: consumers and entrepreneurs are building a new AI service economy around a locally running agent even as regulators move to curb its institutional use. That split — energetic grassroots commercialization on one side, and security-driven bans on the other — is the […]
