Alex Heath

Why the Google DeepMind shakeup matters less than it looks, except for one change. Also: Checking in with Figma's CEO, OpenAI's Hugging Face postmortem, and more.

This is a big deal for any frontier lab. Also: exposing the AI data leak to China, reactions to Google's AI leader moves, and more.

My conversation with Mark Zuckerberg about Meta’s pro-AI stance and model progress: "We are very close to having substantially stronger models."

My chat with Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi. Also: Google's morale problem, AI computer use is going to be big, and more.

“I think it is a good time to slow down,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told me last week, describing the company's decision to halt the development of its most powerful, unreleased models.

Sam Altman says unreleased models show various degrees of misalignment.

OpenAI paused reinforcement learning runs on frontier models to add safeguards after seeing misalignment signals.

OpenAI’s pause puts a new question to Anthropic ahead of its massive IPO: What would make it tap the brakes?

Instinct and Grok Bot offer glimpses at where AI is going. Also: Stripe calls the singularity, Nvidia’s strange deal, and dead companies are being mined for training data.

Posts discuss hype for Grok Bot and Instinct over their bold agent design.