Following: OpenAI taps the brakes
On the eve of the company's developer conference, it cancels a new model over safety fears
Ella Markianos
Ella Markianos is a fellow at Platformer covering AI. She is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism.
AI Safety
Following: The government doesn't want to regulate AI
The leaders of AI labs agree that the United States to act, and soon. But the president and the speaker of the House aren't interested
AI
How much of my boss's job can AI do?
Six months after trying to automate myself, I gave Claude Fable 5 a bigger job: replacing Casey
Elon Musk
Following: Elon loses the OpenAI trial
Musk vows to appeal; the judge vows to throw that case out, too
Apple
Following: Trump says Anthropic is “shaping up”
PLUS: Everyone has feelings about Tim Cook
AI
The scientific case for being nice to your chatbot
New research confirms that LLMs often perform better when you encourage them. But why?
X
Following: Elon tried to tank Twitter
PLUS: the White House's new AI agenda
OpenAI
Following: OpenAI wrestles with business strategy (and adult content)
Do Sam Altman and Fidji Simo have an alignment problem?
AI
Inside the backlash to the AI war machine
A protest at OpenAI headquarters suggests the backlash to military AI is growing — even if its politics are still half-formed. PLUS: The Pentagon declares Anthropic a supply chain risk
Anthropic
Following: Anthropic vs. the Pentagon
PLUS: The Substack post that tanked the markets, continued
AI
The reporter who tried to replace herself with a bot
Anxiety about AI replacing entry-level jobs is on the rise. Could a state-of-the-art chatbot do the job of a Platformer fellow? PLUS: Anthropic vs. OpenAI, and will AI kill SaaS?
AI
Inside the debate over AI consciousness
At ConCon, researchers and tech workers debate whether future systems could develop an inner life — and how you would know if they did