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Atop a lab bench, Cornell Tech postdoctoral researcher Yifan He positions the lens of an optical receiver almost a meter away from an LED emitting a beam of red light. The computer monitor attached to the receiver takes a beat to refresh, then displays an array of squares that resemble a QR code. When you hold your phone camera up to a QR code, light strikes the image sensor as only a first step to revealing the data hidden behind the black-and-white matrix. The receiver here is doing something different: directly altering its own memory using the photocurrents produced by the beamed array of light. And unlike the data behind a QR code, which might point to a simple web address, this optical code could convey the parameters of an AI model . The new receiver design, presented last month at

Sometimes, you have to dig beyond the headlines to get a better idea of how a company is performing. Endowus’ latest audited financial results are a good example of this. [Gregory Van](https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregory-van/?originalSubdomain=hk), the co-founder and CEO of the Singapore-based wealthtech firm, told _Tech in Asia_ last year that it had a [“clear path to profitability”](https://www.techinasia.com/endowus-doubles-revenue-2022-losses-rose-26m) by 2025. On its face, the results suggest that the firm has its work cut out for it to hit this milestone. Endowus co-founders Samuel Rhee (left) and Gregory Van / Photo credit: Endowus In 2023, Endowus’ total losses before tax widened to S$30.6 million (US$23.7 million) – a 14% jump from last year. This came even as its revenue grew by

The race for faster [AI inference](https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/03/artificial-intelligence-definition-glossary-hallucinations-guide-to-common-ai-terms/#inference) is on, and markets gave Cerebras and its purpose-built chips [a warm welcome](https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/cerebras-raises-5-5b-kicking-off-2026s-ipo-season-with-a-bang/) in its IPO debut in May. But French startup [Kog](https://www.kog.ai/) is betting that there’s a lot more power to be squeezed out of conventional GPUs. The startup [hit the front page of Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48321076) in May with a [tech preview](https://blog.kog.ai/real-time-llm-inference-on-standard-gpus-3-000-tokens-s-per-request/) aimed at proving that “extremely fast single-request decoding is possible on the standard da

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[Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/) has crossed a US$7 billion revenue run-rate, growing more than 80 per cent year-over-year in its second quarter, the company announced. Building on that momentum, Databricks has closed a US$5 billion strategic funding round at a US$190 billion valuation. The round was led by Coatue, alongside Blackstone, MGX, accounts advised by T. Rowe Price, and new investor Sixth Street Growth. Other new investors include BOND, Clearlake Capital, Point72, Premji Invest and TPG, alongside existing backers such as Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, GIC, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Insight Partners, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, NEA, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Temasek and Thrive Capital. ## Doubling down on Lakebase, Genie and Unity AI Gateway The fresh ca

[MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/) has announced new capabilities that give AI agents direct access to live operational data, alongside high-precision retrieval built directly into MongoDB Atlas, unveiled at the company’s MongoDB.local Build Fest. The MongoDB Atlas Managed MCP Server is now available, offering a fully hosted way to connect AI agents to Atlas without additional infrastructure. Developers can add Atlas to coding tools including Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build and Devin, letting coding agents query, inspect and update live operational data as they work. ## Voyage AI retrieval built into Atlas MongoDB is also folding Voyage AI’s retrieval capabilities directly into Atlas. Automated Embeddings now automatically embed new and updated data to help AI applications retrieve current

Theron Mohamed Sun, 16 August 2026 at 3:30 am GMT-7 3 min read * Tech giants are using the same kind of financial strategies as Enron, academic Ram Bala says. * The AI and analytics guru pointed to their handling of debt, demand forecasts, and circular deals. * Bala said the AI boom is "not like bubbles of the past" and he expects long-term demand to impress. Today's [tech titans](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-models-microsoft-openai-meta-google-2024-6?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) are using similar financial tactics to Enron, but that doesn't mean they're careening toward disaster, one AI guru says. [Enron,](https://www.businessinsider.com/qa-with-jim-chanos-part-iii-the-fall-of-enron-2010-4?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&ut

Now that the [final DLC set](https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2026/08/02/super-robot-wars-y-gets-final-update-and-dlc-in-a-few-days/) for [_Super Robot Wars Y_](https://www.forbes.com/sites/games/2025/09/05/super-robot-wars-y-switch-review-an-excellent-entry-for-newcomers/) is out, I've had time to play and finish it. It was a lot more fun than I was expecting. This DLC coincides with the game's last free update that celebrates the 35th anniversary of the _Super Robot Wars_ series. The DLC offered a new end-of-campaign mission set and a different final mission. This also included the addition of the Gundam Calibarn from the end of [_Gundam: Witch from Mercury_](https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2024/12/02/gundam-witch-from-mercury-blu-ray-review-layered-and-poignant/) (shown

A large store in [Tennessee](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/tennessee) that exclusively sells President [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) merchandise is closing, and it is due to a[lack of shoppers](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-store-closure-iran-war-b2952946.html). The store is located along Interstate 40 near Knoxville, Tennessee and its exterior has massive Trump billboard, banners, and a brick outhouse labelled the "Democrat Superstore" make clear [what kind of goods the shop is slinging](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-merch-online-store-b2958338.html). But now the shop is selling off its remaining inventory at a 50 percent discount, [_Slate_](https://slate.com/news-and-polit

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[Oracle](https://www.oracle.com/) has announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle AI Database@AWS, alongside an expanded, long-term strategic collaboration with [Amazon Web Services](https://aws.amazon.com/) (AWS) to accelerate enterprise migration to the platform. Oracle AI Database@AWS is now available across 22 AWS regions, including several across Asia Pacific, giving enterprises a lower-cost path to modernise Oracle workloads while integrating them with AWS analytics and AI services. ## Regional enterprises already on the platform In the region, CJ Olive Young, the Korean beauty and wellness retailer operating more than 1,380 stores, is among the enterprises running business-critical workloads on Oracle AI Database@AWS — a

Employees are quietly feeding company data into AI tools every day — not to cause harm, but to work faster. [Rubrik](https://www.rubrik.com/) warns this everyday convenience is opening a data risk surface that most enterprises cannot yet see, let alone govern. Shadow IT was a known problem: an unsanctioned app or device operating outside the visibility of IT teams, with exposure typically limited to that single tool. Shadow AI, according to Ananth Nag, General Manager and Vice President, Asia Pacific at Rubrik, is a different category of risk entirely. > “Employees are now actively feeding business information into AI systems that can process, store, and learn from that data,” said Nag. “Unlike traditional shadow IT, shadow AI can rapidly move sensitive information across multiple AI tools

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Earlier this year, leaders at Amazon Web Services delivered a new mandate to their engineers: they need to conserve CPU cycles at all costs. AWS has reportedly experienced an explosion in wait times for CPU server capacity as AI workloads strain the company’s cloud infrastructure. The issue seemingly took AWS off-guard, and for good reason. The AI boom led to a surge in demand for GPUs and, later, memory . CPUs were mostly left out of the story, as their relative lack of parallelization made them a poor fit for AI model inference, the process of running and serving large language models (LLM) to users. But the rise of agentic AI systems, which allow AI models to operate autonomously and call on sub-agents, is changing the narrative. Matt Kimball , vice president and principal datacenter an

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started in July, when one of OpenAI's autonomous AI agents […]

A study involving Google researchers shows that when chatbots are trained not to claim consciousness, it also changes their stance on animal rights, religion, and life satisfaction. Unbraked models attributed significantly more inner life to animals and suddenly affirmed an afterlife. A surgical cut in one place, it turns out, doesn't stay local. The article When AI models aren't allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview appeared first on The Decoder .

OpenAI shut down its "Preparedness" team, which evaluated whether the company's own AI models could pose catastrophic risks. The work has been parceled out to existing groups, and several safety staffers have left. Internally, unease is building, with one source describing a "burbling sense of responsibility and dread" that OpenAI isn't doing enough on safety. The article OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks, reassigning its work to other groups appeared first on The Decoder .

In a safety report, Anthropic reveals that its internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year. During that time, around 50,000 external feedback contractors ran about 133 million unfiltered interactions with the models. The article Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests appeared first on The Decoder .

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ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when you make a request. The feature […]

Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows. Models can be compared not just on quality but also on cost and time per task. For agent-based applications, those metrics often tell you more than raw token pricing. The article Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data appeared first on The Decoder .

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A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they accept AI output with little to no editing. The article One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds appeared first on The Decoder .

Update on US warns allied nations: Side with us in the AI race against China or face the consequences. Coverage via Reddit/r/technology.

Update on Anthropic IPO valuation hinges on $190-200 billion 2028 revenue forecast. Coverage via Reddit/r/technology.

**_Update on August 11, 2026:_**_ChatGPT Ads has now launched in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea. We’re continuing to expand to more markets this year._ _**Update on May 7, 2026**_ _: In the coming weeks, we plan to expand the ads pilot in ChatGPT in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea._ _These pilots will help us understand what works well in different regions, so we can continue improving the experience as we expand._ _If you’re a business and interested in advertising in ChatGPT in these new markets, visit_[_openai.com/advertisers/⁠_⁠](https://openai.com/advertisers/)_to sign up for more updates._ **_Update on March 26, 2026:_**_Our ads pilot is focused on supporting broader access to ChatGPT while preserving consumer trust, usefulness,

FAFO Judge warns pro se litigants are using chatbots wrong and getting desperate. A judge has identified what appears to be the first time a US plaintiff has attempted to hide text in court filings that only an artificial intelligence system can read in a bid to win a case. In a [decision](https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Elliott-v-New-York-Bariatric-Group-Memorandum-of-Decision-8-6-26.pdf) published last week, Connecticut judge Walter Spader Jr. confirmed that the hidden text had no impact in a case where a man alleged a healthcare provider was improperly withholding access to records. The court weighed his filing on the merits, Spader said, but nevertheless, the attempted attack sets a “dangerous” precedent. This will likely not be the last time US courts see the ma

Future Claude models will generate text that contains a watermark. This is a way of determining the likelihood that Claude was involved in writing the text, and we, along with several other major AI providers, are implementing this change to comply with the EU AI Act. In this article, we share answers to some of the questions we’ve received about how our chosen watermarking method works, whether it affects Claude’s outputs, and why we’re making this change. To summarize: * We use a method of watermarking that does not have any practical impact on the quality or content of Claude’s outputs; * The difference between watermarked and un-watermarked text will not be distinguishable to readers; * Nothing is added to the text and there are no hidden characters; * Watermarking doesn’t require extr

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Employees are quietly feeding company data into AI tools every day — not to cause harm, but to work faster. [Rubrik](https://www.rubrik.com/) warns this everyday convenience is opening a data risk surface that most enterprises cannot yet see, let alone govern. Shadow IT was a known problem: an unsanctioned app or device operating outside the visibility of IT teams, with exposure typically limited to that single tool. Shadow AI, according to Ananth Nag, General Manager and Vice President, Asia Pacific at Rubrik, is a different category of risk entirely. > “Employees are now actively feeding business information into AI systems that can process, store, and learn from that data,” said Nag. “Unlike traditional shadow IT, shadow AI can rapidly move sensitive information across multiple AI tools

A representative survey by Epoch AI found that 20 percent of employed Americans hand off at least one task to AI that a human used to do. Generally, they accept AI output with little to no editing. The article One in five US workers now delegates tasks to AI instead of colleagues, survey finds appeared first on The Decoder .

Artificial Analysis has launched Optima, a platform that lets users build custom AI benchmarks from their own data and workflows. Models can be compared not just on quality but also on cost and time per task. For agent-based applications, those metrics often tell you more than raw token pricing. The article Optima tackles AI benchmarking's biggest flaw by letting users test models against their own data appeared first on The Decoder .

[Oracle](https://www.oracle.com/) has announced the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure on Oracle AI Database@AWS, alongside an expanded, long-term strategic collaboration with [Amazon Web Services](https://aws.amazon.com/) (AWS) to accelerate enterprise migration to the platform. Oracle AI Database@AWS is now available across 22 AWS regions, including several across Asia Pacific, giving enterprises a lower-cost path to modernise Oracle workloads while integrating them with AWS analytics and AI services. ## Regional enterprises already on the platform In the region, CJ Olive Young, the Korean beauty and wellness retailer operating more than 1,380 stores, is among the enterprises running business-critical workloads on Oracle AI Database@AWS — a

In a safety report, Anthropic reveals that its internal filtering system for biological and chemical weapons risks was inactive for nearly a year. During that time, around 50,000 external feedback contractors ran about 133 million unfiltered interactions with the models. The article Anthropic's bio-weapons filter was down for nearly a year, exposing 133 million requests appeared first on The Decoder .

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A large store in [Tennessee](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/tennessee) that exclusively sells President [Donald Trump](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/donald-trump) merchandise is closing, and it is due to a[lack of shoppers](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-store-closure-iran-war-b2952946.html). The store is located along Interstate 40 near Knoxville, Tennessee and its exterior has massive Trump billboard, banners, and a brick outhouse labelled the "Democrat Superstore" make clear [what kind of goods the shop is slinging](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-merch-online-store-b2958338.html). But now the shop is selling off its remaining inventory at a 50 percent discount, [_Slate_](https://slate.com/news-and-polit

OpenAI shut down its "Preparedness" team, which evaluated whether the company's own AI models could pose catastrophic risks. The work has been parceled out to existing groups, and several safety staffers have left. Internally, unease is building, with one source describing a "burbling sense of responsibility and dread" that OpenAI isn't doing enough on safety. The article OpenAI dissolved the team built to catch catastrophic AI risks, reassigning its work to other groups appeared first on The Decoder .

[MongoDB](https://www.mongodb.com/) has announced new capabilities that give AI agents direct access to live operational data, alongside high-precision retrieval built directly into MongoDB Atlas, unveiled at the company’s MongoDB.local Build Fest. The MongoDB Atlas Managed MCP Server is now available, offering a fully hosted way to connect AI agents to Atlas without additional infrastructure. Developers can add Atlas to coding tools including Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build and Devin, letting coding agents query, inspect and update live operational data as they work. ## Voyage AI retrieval built into Atlas MongoDB is also folding Voyage AI’s retrieval capabilities directly into Atlas. Automated Embeddings now automatically embed new and updated data to help AI applications retrieve current

Theron Mohamed Sun, 16 August 2026 at 3:30 am GMT-7 3 min read * Tech giants are using the same kind of financial strategies as Enron, academic Ram Bala says. * The AI and analytics guru pointed to their handling of debt, demand forecasts, and circular deals. * Bala said the AI boom is "not like bubbles of the past" and he expects long-term demand to impress. Today's [tech titans](https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-models-microsoft-openai-meta-google-2024-6?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&utm_medium=syndication&utm_source=yahoo) are using similar financial tactics to Enron, but that doesn't mean they're careening toward disaster, one AI guru says. [Enron,](https://www.businessinsider.com/qa-with-jim-chanos-part-iii-the-fall-of-enron-2010-4?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoocom&ut

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This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on AI safety, follow Robert Hart. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback here. How it started It all started in July, when one of OpenAI's autonomous AI agents […]

A study involving Google researchers shows that when chatbots are trained not to claim consciousness, it also changes their stance on animal rights, religion, and life satisfaction. Unbraked models attributed significantly more inner life to animals and suddenly affirmed an afterlife. A surgical cut in one place, it turns out, doesn't stay local. The article When AI models aren't allowed to reflect on themselves, it changes their entire worldview appeared first on The Decoder .

Earlier this year, leaders at Amazon Web Services delivered a new mandate to their engineers: they need to conserve CPU cycles at all costs. AWS has reportedly experienced an explosion in wait times for CPU server capacity as AI workloads strain the company’s cloud infrastructure. The issue seemingly took AWS off-guard, and for good reason. The AI boom led to a surge in demand for GPUs and, later, memory . CPUs were mostly left out of the story, as their relative lack of parallelization made them a poor fit for AI model inference, the process of running and serving large language models (LLM) to users. But the rise of agentic AI systems, which allow AI models to operate autonomously and call on sub-agents, is changing the narrative. Matt Kimball , vice president and principal datacenter an

[Databricks](https://www.databricks.com/) has crossed a US$7 billion revenue run-rate, growing more than 80 per cent year-over-year in its second quarter, the company announced. Building on that momentum, Databricks has closed a US$5 billion strategic funding round at a US$190 billion valuation. The round was led by Coatue, alongside Blackstone, MGX, accounts advised by T. Rowe Price, and new investor Sixth Street Growth. Other new investors include BOND, Clearlake Capital, Point72, Premji Invest and TPG, alongside existing backers such as Andreessen Horowitz, Fidelity, GIC, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Insight Partners, Morgan Stanley Investment Management, NEA, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Temasek and Thrive Capital. ## Doubling down on Lakebase, Genie and Unity AI Gateway The fresh ca

Now that the [final DLC set](https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2026/08/02/super-robot-wars-y-gets-final-update-and-dlc-in-a-few-days/) for [_Super Robot Wars Y_](https://www.forbes.com/sites/games/2025/09/05/super-robot-wars-y-switch-review-an-excellent-entry-for-newcomers/) is out, I've had time to play and finish it. It was a lot more fun than I was expecting. This DLC coincides with the game's last free update that celebrates the 35th anniversary of the _Super Robot Wars_ series. The DLC offered a new end-of-campaign mission set and a different final mission. This also included the addition of the Gundam Calibarn from the end of [_Gundam: Witch from Mercury_](https://www.forbes.com/sites/olliebarder/2024/12/02/gundam-witch-from-mercury-blu-ray-review-layered-and-poignant/) (shown

ChatGPT's desktop app on macOS has a new feature called Computer History that turns your actions into training data, learning how you work, suggesting automations, and even picking up tasks you left half done. It uses your activity to build a timeline that ChatGPT and Codex can reference when you make a request. The feature […]

A decade ago, young adults were flocking to vaunted tech giants like Google and Apple in pursuit of exciting jobs on the cutting edge of tech. In 2026, however, the status quo of young people who are uncritically enamored with the tech industry and its billionaire overlords has gone completely out the window. A new survey conducted [by](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/13/cnbc-poll-half-of-those-18-to-34-view-democratic-socialism-positively.html)[_CNBC_](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/13/cnbc-poll-half-of-those-18-to-34-view-democratic-socialism-positively.html)['s Generation Labs](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/13/cnbc-poll-half-of-those-18-to-34-view-democratic-socialism-positively.html) asked over 1,000 US adults aged between 18 and 34 to share their thoughts on politics, AI, and the country's

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(Corrects day of week in paragraph 1 to Sunday) Aug 16 (Reuters) - Cryptocurrency wallet provider SafePal on Sunday disclosed a ‌data breach that involved unauthorized access to about 39,798 customers' ‌order information, including personal details such as names, addresses and purchase data. Here are ​some details: • An authorization flaw in the order tracking system allowed access to another customer's order information between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026, SafePal said in a statement. • SafePal provides ‌a suite of secure ⁠crypto-management tools including hardware wallets, mobile and browser wallets to help people store and use digital assets, ⁠according to its website. • The breach did not involve access to "seed phrases," private keys, wallet passwords, bank account and payment c

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently pushed back against the idea that he’s been painting an overly pessimistic picture of artificial intelligence and its potential to shape the future. Amodei’s comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued — both [on the All-In podcast](https://x.com/theallinpod/status/2088367978270142811) and [on X](https://x.com/GavinSBaker/status/2088611616577253502) — that Amodei’s warnings about the dangers of AI have helped to fuel a backlash in the United States, [particularly against data centers](https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/25/the-public-opposition-to-ai-infrastructure-is-heating-up/). Claiming that Amodei has “lost the argument” when it comes to AI regulation (Anthropic has advocated for some regulations, including [a California bill that impos

Anjana Susarla, Contributor Sun, 16 August 2026 at 12:42 pm GMT-7 4 min read [](https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/E479C3D15BFE6551A0F31C2D082A241CF755CF8E011EBAFAFCF09566AB02AC39/subgraphmysterio/resizefit_w960;quality_80;format_webp/https:%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Fforbes_contributor_845%2Fe3779a8dcec278812960613587ef2f93.jpg) CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) On the surface, [Anthropic's decision to embed invisible](https://www.forbes.com/s

Threat actors are spending millions of dollars acquiring expired “dropcatch” domains to distribute malware, host illegal gambling operations and run scam campaigns, according to new research from [Infoblox Threat Intel](https://www.infoblox.com/threat-intel/). Infoblox observed roughly 65,000 re-registered domains daily in the first half of 2026, representing nearly 20 per cent of all newly observed domains each day. By buying up expired domains, threat actors inherit the trust, backlinks and web traffic accumulated by the previous owner. ## Millions spent building criminal infrastructure One threat actor identified in the research, dubbed Sable Squirrel, is estimated to have invested more than US$7 million acquiring over 10,000 expired domains. Those domains underpin a criminal ecosystem

According to the Financial Times, OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month. The job of the preparedness team was to assess if models posed serious risks and develop ways to mitigate those risks. (You know, like the possibility that it could go rogue and hack another company.) According to FT, responsibility […]