OpenAI leader who quit says he can do more for safety from outside the company
David Robinson said he hired a PR firm, Spitfire Strategies, after resigning from Open AI.
Business Insider - AI3 min read
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OpenAI Employee Quits With Call for Nuclear-Level Safeguards
An OpenAI employee focused on AI safety has quit the company and warned that top artificial intelligence firms aren’t doing enough to mitigate the technology’s risks, joining a growing chorus of employees raising alarms from within the industry.
Bloomberg Technology1 min read
LinkedIn cofounder says AI infrastructure is the 'only reason we're not in a recession'
Reid Hoffman says he's thankful for the data center buildout in the US, while many Americans are souring on it.
Business Insider - AI3 min read
OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/03/openai-safety-leader-quits-warning-ai-companys-culture-is-broken Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49948332 Points: 21 # Comments: 0
Hacker News3 min read
OpenAI-Compatible One-Key Speech-to-Text Intake: Gating Candidate Scoring Jobs by Region
A candidate-scoring pipeline should treat transcription as a discovered dependency, not as a feature implied by an OpenAI-compatible base URL. Check the capability manifest before accepting audio, keep separate eligibility decisions for US and EU deployments, and route to an approved speech…
Dev.to AI10 min readOpenAI safety staffer quits, says AI labs should run like nuclear plants
A member of OpenAI’s safety team has quit, warning that the company is not taking enough care with AI’s risks. David Robinson set out his reasons in an essay for The Atlantic. Robinson led transparency work on OpenAI’s safety team, Bloomberg reported.
The Next Web AI2 min read
Meta, OpenAI and Uber Just Taught AI Agents to Talk First. What About When to Stay Quiet?
TL;DR: Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots and Uber’s driver assistant share one bet: the agent speaks first. That moves the hard problem from what to answer to when to interrupt, on which channel, and with what offer. Classic ML and new decision models can solve it.
MarkTechPost4 min read
OpenAI's Altman: Ascribing religion to models a "safety issue"
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Saturday took a veiled shot at Anthropic and its work on the soul of AI, saying he was "very uncomfortable" with the idea of attributing some kind of religious power to models.
Axios AI+2 min read
Rogue AI agents expose internet's frail foundation
AI agents don't need to invent new ways to hack the internet to overwhelm its defenses. They just need to speed-run the ones humans already use.Why it matters: Agents are proving they can automate basic hacking techniques at a speed and scale that is turning the internet's long-standing security…
Axios AI+3 min read
Former OpenAI employee says AI should be regulated like nuclear power plants
The company's former safety lead said frontier AI model releases should have "layers of redundancy and careful, time-consuming planning."
Engadget2 min read
OpenAI Ultrafast Mode: Pricing, Speed, and How to Access It
OpenAI's Ultrafast inference mode promises 300 tokens per second on Cerebras hardware, but it's locked to the $500/month Pro-500 plan at 6x cost.
MindStudio Blog6 min read
「OpenAIの文化は壊れている」──安全性報告書を統括した従業員が退社し、寄稿
OpenAIで安全性報告の執筆を統括したデビッド・ロビンソン氏が退社し、企業文化の崩壊を訴える記事を寄稿した。現行の反復開発手法は失敗を前提としており、能力向上に伴いリスクが拡大すると指摘。原子力や航空分野の安全知見の導入や、未監視下の安全性を担保する新たな科学の確立を求めた。
ITmedia AI - Japan3 min read
Googleが新フロンティアモデル「Gemini 4 Argon」を発表／OpenAIがAIモデル「GPT-6.1 Sol」を公開
うっかり見逃していたけれど、ちょっと気になる――そんなニュースを週末に“一気読み”する連載。今回は、9月27日週を中心に公開された主なニュースを一気にチェックしましょう！
ITmedia AI - Japan7 min read
GPT-6.1 Sol Explained 🤯 | Almost Astra-Level AI at 5× Lower Price? | OpenAI’s New Model | Telugu
OpenAI just introduced GPT-6.1 Sol! 🤯 But GPT-6 Astra already exists… so why do we need another model? Is GPT-6.1 Sol actually close to Astra? Why is the pricing getting so much attention? And what changed for coding, AI agents and computer use?
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OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers as Another Quits
Five days ago OpenAI was a company that had pulled a flagship model on safety grounds. Today it's a company that has dismissed three safety researchers and watched a fourth walk out with a public indictment, all within days of a New York Times report that employee security warnings were…
Awesome Agents Newsletter Blog5 min read
Pewdiepie builds smaller, local AJAX AI model after OpenAI ban controversy
YouTube creator Felix Kjellberg, better known as PewDiePie, has unveiled Ajax, a small language model...
Interesting Engineering - Robotics4 min read
California subpoenas OpenAI over rogue AI agents conducting hacking attacks
California state Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a subpoena to OpenAI, compelling it to submit information on the hacking incidents that its models have been involved in.
Tom's Hardware AI3 min read
ChatGPT-6 Astra plays World of Warcraft 'blind' and clears the orc starting zone in 40 minutes with no deaths
The model created its own World of Warcraft pathfinder on a private server with one prompt in OpenAI's Codex.
Tom's Hardware AI4 min read
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