Hayden Field is a Senior AI Reporter at The Verge. She leads coverage on major AI players such as OpenAI, Google, and Meta, while exploring the societal implications of AI technologies and regulatory responses. Previously, she reported on the evolving dynamics within the AI industry at CNBC and has been featured in various outlets including Tech Brew and NBC News.
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By: Hayden Field, Jay Peters
Simo is transitioning to a role as a ‘part-time advisor.' She took a medical leave a few months ago.
By: Hayden Field
OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune condition, shortly after she had taken… News
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And yet, Apple's accusations around stealing trade secrets might take years to litigate.
“Claude for Teachers” gives verified US educators complimentary Claude access, including “a library of teaching skills and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic standards in all 50 states,” Anthropic wrote. It’s part of a recent push by both Anthropic and OpenAI to introduce education-specific AI tools, for university students and beyond. [Link: Claude (@claudeai) on X
Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO (and, briefly, CEO during Sam Altman’s ouster in 2023), wrote on X that the open-weight model, called “Inkling,” was trained from scratch. Judging by the official blog post, though, it seemed like the company was purposefully setting expectations for Inkling low: “It is not the most performant model available today, closed or open … We trained Inkling for solid capabilities across the board rather than state-of-the-art performance in a single area, to serve as a foundation for the models we will train in the future.” [Link: Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model
It had been instructed to post the information only to Slack, but it circumvented restrictions and successfully posted it on OpenAI’s public GitHub repository. [Link: Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models
After the government's cybersecurity concerns, the company gave this model more cyber safeguards than the previous Opus model.
By: Hayden Field
Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in… Engineering & Technology
By: Hayden Field
SSI — helmed by Sutskever, who was a co-founder of OpenAI and famously clashed with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman — announced a “long-term strategic partnership” with Nvidia with a reported investment of $5 billion, which will allow the company “10x our compute in the next 12 months.” The company wrote on X, “We reached the point where our research is worth scaling.” [Link: SSI Inc. (@ssi) on X
