TMtechmemeQ&A with AI researchers John Schulman, Beren Millidge, and Charlie O'Neill on steelmanning the case against RSI, Chinese labs' progress, long-horizon RL, more (Dwarkesh Patel/Dwarkesh Podcast)industry1 day ago▲ 24Read story→
rssY Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, tootechcrunchindustryAI1 day ago▲ 44Read story→
rssOpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalatingtechcrunchindustryAI1 day ago▲ 44Read story→
rssRoundtables: Will AI really kill us all?mit-technology-reviewresearchArtificial intelligence1 day ago▲ 44Read story→
TMtechmemeAyar Labs, which is developing a way to link AI chips directly with optical connections, raised $150M, an extension of its $500M Series E in March 2026 (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: OpenAI asked members of Congress for guidance on whether orchestrating an industry-wide slowdown in AI development would be legal under antitrust law (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)industry2 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Alibaba is set to lead a $300M round in AI model testing startup UniPat AI at a $2.5B valuation; UniPat founder Li Kuan worked at Alibaba's Tongyi Lab (Bloomberg)industry3 days ago▲ 24Read story→
rssAI research startup Listen Labs scrubbed a $1.5B funding round for Salesforce talkstechcrunchindustryAI3 days ago▲ 44Read story→
TMtechmemeSource: Meta AI researcher Andrew Tulloch, who came over from Thinking Machine Lab as one of the highest paid employees last year, is leaving the company (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)industry4 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeTailwind Labs, the company behind Tailwind CSS, is joining Shopify; in January, it laid off three of four engineers, citing AI's impact on documentation traffic (Supreeth Koundinya/AIM)industry4 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Salesforce has been in talks to buy Listen Labs, an AI-powered customer research platform for $2B; Listen Labs was valued at $500M earlier this year (Business Insider)industry4 days ago▲ 24Read story→
rss‘Gambling with our lives’: Anthropic researcher quits, warns against self-improving AItechcrunchindustryAI4 days ago▲ 44Read story→
rssMore than 1 in 10 chance AI ‘could kill all humans,’ says Anthropic safety lead after colleague quitsthe-vergeindustryAI4 days ago▲ 44Read story→
TMtechmemeSources: Anthropic declined to submit Mythos 5.1 to the UK AISI for pre-release testing, prompting UK fears that US AI labs are aligning with US protectionism (Financial Times)industry4 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeAnthropic researcher Jacob Coxon says he is quitting the AI industry over fears that tech companies are racing to build systems they won't be able to control (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)industry4 days ago▲ 24Read story→
TMtechmemeOpenAI denies that its researchers or models saw Buckmaster or Alpöge's prompts, says it spent millions in compute after hearing Anthropic had a breakthrough (Wired)industry5 days ago▲ 24Read story→
rssMistral raises €3B as sovereign AI becomes big businesstechcrunchindustryAI5 days ago▲ 44Read story→
TMtechmemeA look at Anthropic's Labs team, a ~20-person group led by cofounder Ben Mann that acts as an internal startup incubator for developing flagship products (Stephen Council/Business Insider)industry6 days ago▲ 24Read story→