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Zac Boring a month ago Industry
Inventor recalls eye imaging breakthrough
via MIT Technology Review [4] — If you’ve been to an eye doctor and had an image taken of the inside of your eye, chances are good it was done with optical coherence tomography (OCT)—a technology invented by clinician-scientist David Huang ’85, SM ’89, PhD ’93, and now used in…
Zac Boring a month ago Industry
OpenAI’s big Codex update is a direct shot at Anthropic’s Claude Code
via The Verge AI [4] — OpenAI is beefing up its agentic coding and development system Codex with a suite of updates that let it use your computer, generate images, and remember from past experiences. Codex will now be able to operate desktop apps on your computer, OpenAI says in…
Zac Boring a month ago Industry
Redefining the future of software engineering
via MIT Technology Review [4] — Software engineering has experienced two seismic shifts this century. First was the rise of the open source movement, which gradually made code accessible to developers and engineers everywhere. Second, the adoption of development operations…
Zac Boring a month ago Industry
Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic
via The Verge AI [4] — OpenAI's chief revenue officer, Denise Dresser, sent a four-page memo to employees on Sunday about the company's strategic direction, emphasizing the need to lock in users and grow its enterprise business. The memo, which was viewed by The Verge,…
Zac Boring a month ago Industry
Meta is reentering the AI race with a new model called Muse Spark
via The Verge AI [4] — Meta Superintelligence Labs is launching its first model since Mark Zuckerberg spent billions overhauling the company's AI efforts. Called Muse Spark, the model now powers the Meta AI app and the Meta AI website in the US, per the company's announcement.…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
Announcing the OpenAI Safety Fellowship
via OpenAI Blog [11] — A pilot program to support independent safety and alignment research and develop the next generation of talent
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
OpenAI’s AGI boss is taking a leave of absence
via The Verge AI [6] — OpenAI is undergoing another round of C-suite changes, according to an internal memo viewed by The Verge. Fidji Simo, OpenAI's CEO of AGI deployment - who was until recently the company's CEO of Applications - says in the memo that she will be stepping…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
Microsoft’s new ‘superintelligence’ game plan is all about business
via The Verge AI [4] — Mustafa Suleyman has been preparing for his new job description for a long time. Suleyman is Microsoft's inaugural CEO of AI, but after the company underwent a large-scale restructuring in mid-March, he's handed off some duties and shifted focus to chasing…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
The Download: AI health tools and the Pentagon’s Anthropic culture war
via MIT Technology Review [4] — This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work? In the last few months alone, Microsoft,…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
Agentic commerce runs on truth and context
via MIT Technology Review [4] — Imagine telling a digital agent, “Use my points and book a family trip to Italy. Keep it within budget, pick hotels we’ve liked before, and handle the details.” Instead of returning a list of links, the agent assembles an itinerary and executes…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
The AI Hype Index: AI goes to war
via MIT Technology Review [4] — AI is at war. Anthropic and the Pentagon feuded over how to weaponize Anthropic’s AI model Claude; then OpenAI swept the Pentagon off its feet with an “opportunistic and sloppy” deal. Users quit ChatGPT in droves. People marched through London in…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
Introducing the OpenAI Safety Bug Bounty program
via OpenAI Blog [7] — OpenAI launches a Safety Bug Bounty program to identify AI abuse and safety risks, including agentic vulnerabilities, prompt injection, and data exfiltration.
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
Arm’s first CPU ever will plug into Meta’s AI datacenters later this year
via The Verge AI [4] — After decades of only licensing its chip designs for others to use, UK-based Arm revealed the first chip it's producing on its own, and the first customer. Dubbed the Arm AGI CPU, it's another chip designed for inference, or running the cloud processing…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’
via The Verge AI [8] — On a Monday episode of the Lex Fridman podcast, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a hot-button statement: "I think we've achieved AGI." AGI, or artificial general intelligence, is a vaguely defined term that has incited a lot of discussion by tech CEOs, tech…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
The Download: animal welfare gets AGI-pilled, and the White House unveils its AI policy
via MIT Technology Review [4] — This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The Bay Area’s animal welfare movement wants to recruit AI In early February, animal welfare advocates and AI…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
Trump takes another shot at dismantling state AI regulation
via The Verge AI [3] — The Trump administration on Friday unveiled its new legislative blueprint for AI regulation, and the seven-point plan includes a clear message: The federal government should avoid many AI regulations beyond a set of child safety rules, and it should bar…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
Mind-altering substances are (still) falling short in clinical trials
via MIT Technology Review [4] — This week I want to look at where we are with psychedelics, the mind-altering substances that have somehow made the leap from counterculture to major focus of clinical research. Compounds like psilocybin—which is found in magic mushrooms—are being…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
How we monitor internal coding agents for misalignment
via OpenAI Blog [7] — How OpenAI uses chain-of-thought monitoring to study misalignment in internal coding agents—analyzing real-world deployments to detect risks and strengthen AI safety safeguards.
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
The future of code is exciting and terrifying
via The Verge AI [4] — Suddenly it seems like everyone's a coder. Or, at the very least, like they play one in the Claude Code app. But even for the seasoned pros, the act of software development is changing fast - many people are writing less code themselves and instead…
Zac Boring 2 months ago Industry
Grammarly says it will stop using AI to clone experts without permission
via The Verge AI [4] — Superhuman says it has disabled Grammarly's "expert review" AI feature that said its edit suggestions were "inspired by" real writers, including our editor-in-chief and other Verge staff members. "After careful consideration, we have decided to disable…
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