We shed light on OpenAI's first Dark Factory for the first time.
Dark Factories: Rise of the Trycycle – Dan Shapiro's Blog
Companies are now producing Dark Factories – engines that turn specs into shipping software. The implementations can be complex and sometimes involve Mad Max metaphors. But they don’t have to be like…
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🧩 DeepSeek Harness v0.1 is now available in Developer Preview!🔹 We’re opening it up to developers building agent harnesses worldwide and open-sourcing the codebase in MIT license.🔹 Powered by the Cordis meta-framework, DeepSeek Harness is an agent harness built around one…— DeepSeek (@deepseek_ai) August 13, 2026
OpenAI creates new unit with $4 billion investment to aid corporate AI push
OpenAI said on Monday it is setting up a new company with more than $4 billion in initial investment to help organizations build and deploy artificial intelligence systems, and will acquire an AI consulting firm, Tomoro, to quickly scale up the unit. After its early models saw strong resonance with consumers, OpenAI has been working aggressively to sign corporate contracts and establish a large presence in the business world where its AI will see large-scale deployment. The new firm, called OpenAI Deployment Company, will help the ChatGPT maker embed engineers specializing in frontier AI deployment into organizations that will then work closely with various teams to identify where AI can make the biggest impact, OpenAI said.
‘HELLO BOSS’: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World
404 Media has obtained a copy of ‘Haotian AI’, a popular piece of realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers. It can turn a fraudster's face into anyone else's on WhatsApp, Zoom, and Teams.
How StrongDM’s AI team build serious software without even looking at the code
Last week I hinted at a demo I had seen from a team implementing what Dan Shapiro called the Dark Factory level of AI adoption, where no human even looks …
Machines of Buying and Selling Grace - Adam Behrens, New Generation
Welcome to Learn Harness Engineering | Learn Harness Engineering
A project-based course on designing the environments, state, verification, and control systems that make Codex and Claude Code reliable.
The Windsurf situation is pretty wild (RIP $3 billion?)
HUGE NEWS: oTToDev → Bolt.diy: Our Partnership with StackBlitz! 🚀
Hey everyone! 👋 I’ve got HUGE news to share today that’s going to supercharge our journey to building the best open source AI coding assistant together as a community! The Big Announcement oTToDev is becoming Bolt.diy - the OFFICIAL open source version of Bolt.new, in partnership with StackBlitz (the creators of Bolt.new)! This partnership represents a huge step forward for our project and opens up incredible opportunities for our community. I’ve got a video on my channel talking about t...
DeepSeek Harness developer preview: Everything is a plugin
DeepSeek Harness is now available in developer preview to developers building agent harnesses worldwide, with the source code released at the same time. Every agent capability is implemented as a plugin that can be swapped or recomposed.
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team | TechCrunch
Pre-training is responsible for the large-scale training runs that give Claude its core knowledge and capabilities, according to the company. It's also one of the most expensive, compute-intensive phases of building a frontier model.
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis: The Path To AGI, Deceptive AIs, Building a Virtual Cell
UK Horizons: FRC — Renaissance Philanthropy – A brighter future for all through science, technology, and innovation
Successful coordinated research programmes, like those at ARPAs, have often resulted from exceptional contractors. Many of the best contractors leveraged organisational models uncommon in academia or VC-funded startups. They combined technical ambition, a willingness to build real technology for actual users, and flexible management structures all under one roof to tackle ambitious R&D problems which made the programs a success. These organisations were driven by the pursuit of an ambitious North Star technical vision, not revenue-maximisation. And they pursued this vision with a mix of contracts and grants. We call organisations that do this Frontier Research Contractors (FRCs). Two of ARPA’s most impactful programmes, the original internet and autonomous vehicle projects, were both led by FRCs. FRCs are also often referred to as 'BBNs' by researchers, inspired by the early internet (ARPAnet) contractor, Bolt, Beranek & Newman.
