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OpenAI Launches Agents API in Public Beta, Opening Up Its Codex Harness
OpenAI released its Agents API in public beta, giving developers direct access to the managed Codex harness that powers its…
News
Sam Altman Says OpenAI Won’t Go Public in 2026, Citing AI Safety Concerns
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the company will not pursue an initial public offering in 2026, calling it an “ill-advised”…
News
Abliteration.ai Turns Stripping AI Safety Guardrails Into a Commercial Service
Abliteration.ai, a startup founded in March 2026, has commercialized the removal of safety guardrails from open-weight AI models, offering unrestricted…
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Anthropic and Google DeepMind Safety Researchers Resign to Join METR
Joe Benton, formerly of Anthropic’s scalable oversight team, and Josh Engels, a former Google DeepMind safety researcher, announced they are…
News
SoftBank to Repay $25.9 Billion Bridge Loan as It Nears $65 Billion OpenAI Investment
SoftBank Group secured an $11.87 billion two-year loan from roughly 20 banks to help fund its expanding investment in OpenAI,…
News
Gemini Notebook Switches to Flexible, Compute-Based Usage Limits
Google is shifting Gemini Notebook from fixed daily usage caps to flexible, compute-based limits that reset every five hours, with…
Opinions
What Will All These AI Auditors Be Auditing?
Cobun Zweifel-Keegan examines California’s newly enacted AI auditor regulations, AB 1405 and SB 813, which establish a registry and oversight…
Opinions
The Internet Was Built For Human Agency. AI Agents Are Changing the Rules.
Konstantinos Komaitis and Rumman Chowdhury argue that autonomous AI agents are forcing a rethink of internet governance, shifting the central…
Opinions
Millions of Volunteers Are Keeping the Internet Human. For Now.
Sarah Gilbert argues that unpaid volunteer moderators are what currently keeps platforms such as Reddit and Wikipedia at roughly 5%…
Opinions
GPS and the Limits of Control
Isobel Porteous and Matt Kaplan revisit the U.S. government’s Cold War-era Selective Availability policy, which deliberately degraded civilian GPS accuracy,…
Engineering
SAS: Simple Attention Sparsification via End-to-End Optimization of Context Ranking
Proposes SAS, a gated sparse attention mechanism that optimizes context-unit ranking end-to-end with the language modeling loss, rather than distilling…
Engineering
Beyond Top-k Skill Retrieval: Diversity-Aware Skill Routing for LLM Agents
Introduces Diverse Skill Routing (DSR), a reranking framework for LLM agents that uses a Determinantal Point Process with a query-residual…