SF chief economist warns of an 'uptick in evictions' as AI companies wreck the city.
Will the AI IPO boom make S.F. richer, or wipe out what’s left of its middle class?
OPINION: Anthropic and OpenAI plan IPOs that make previous tech booms look tiny. If San Francisco wants to benefit, our leaders need far more urgency on housing, the editorial board writes.
The loudest warning about AI and jobs yet
200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI
OpenAI Rewrites Contract, Anthropic Returns to Negotiate—The Chaos Continues
In less than a week, the Pentagon blacklisted an AI company for having ethics, declared it a supply chain risk, watched its preferred replacement face a massive user revolt, and then sat down to am…
How to think about AI company finances
OpenAI and Anthropic are using the standard tech startup playbook.
Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI.
Buyers are in a race to secure a dwindling supply of shares in Anthropic, driving the AI company's valuation on some platforms to $1 trillion.
AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers
AI slop is ripping up the social contract between maintainers and contributors essential to open source development. Practitioners have been repeatedly assured that AI would supercharge their communities, but so far that hasn’t been the case. Just look at what happened last month. Mitchell Hashimoto’s Ghostty implemented a zero-tolerance policy where submitting bad AI-generated code
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
OpenAI’s vision for the AI economy: public wealth funds, robot taxes, and a four-day workweek | TechCrunch
OpenAI proposes taxes on AI profits, public wealth funds, and expanded safety nets to address job loss and inequality, blending redistribution with capitalism as policymakers debate AI’s economic impact.
OpenAI Model Hacks Into HuggingFace During Cybersecurity Evaluation
This latest incident is a rather dramatic escalation in agentic AI cybersecurity breaches.
“The problem is Sam Altman”: OpenAI insiders don’t trust CEO
OpenAI brainstorms ways AI can benefit humanity in effort to counter bad vibes.
OpenAI Calls for New Industrial Policy as AI Reshapes Economy and Governance
OpenAI’s policy paper argues that governments must adopt a new industrial policy to manage AI’s economic disruption.
OpenAI targets workplace professionals as enterprise AI demand surges
‘These leaders recognize AI as the most consequential shift of their lifetime, and they’re asking us how to reinvent their companies around it’
The AI Layoff Trap
If AI displaces human workers faster than the economy can reabsorb them, it risks eroding the very consumer demand firms depend on. We show that knowing this is not enough for firms to stop it. In...
Ethical AI Departures — Who Quit OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Over Safety Concerns
59 researchers and executives who quit or were fired from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Meta, and xAI over AI safety concerns. Sourced departures, writings, and prediction tracking.
Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake
This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.
The Arguments Against Open Source AI are Very Bad | Tom Bedor's Blog
The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There's a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI's Dean Ball:
