OpenAI’s AGI boss is taking a leave of absence
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 away on medical leave "for the next several we
Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw
OpenAI acquires TBPN, the buzzy founder-led business talk show
OpenAI acquires TBPN to accelerate global conversations around AI and support independent media, expanding dialogue with builders, businesses, and the broader tech community.
Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: Reports
Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio in a $400 million stock deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer.
Altman on shutting down Sora: 'I did not expect 3 or 6 months ago to be at this point we're at now; where something very big and important is about to happen again with this next generation of models and the agents they can power.'
[https://youtu.be/mJSnn0GZmls](https://youtu.be/mJSnn0GZmls) ‘We have a few times in our history realized something really important is working, or about to work so well, that we have to stop a bunch of other projects. In fact, this was the original thing that happened with GPT3. We had a whole por
OpenAI Buys ‘TBPN'
OpenAI says program will remain in Los Angeles and will be editorially independent.
Claude Code and Cowork now let Anthropic's AI take control of your Mac or Windows desktop
Anthropic has announced a new feature for its AI assistant Claude: the ability to directly operate a user's computer, handling tasks people would normally do themselves at their desk. The article Claude Code and Cowork now let Anthropic's AI take control of your Mac or Windows desktop appeared first
llama.cpp Gemma4 Tokenizer Fix Was Merged Into Main Branch
Why OpenAI’s Fidji Simo Bought the TBPN Podcast Amid Crusade Against ‘Side Quests’
OpenAI has purchased TBPN, an online talk show that often interviews AI executives and other tech leaders. The show goes live every weekday at 2PM PT, often for a three-hour duration, counting OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, as well as executives from Meta, Microsoft, Palantir, and Andreessen Horowitz, among
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed
Gemma 4: Our most intelligent open models to date, purpose-built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows.
Kids groups say they didn't know OpenAI was behind their child safety coalition
Built a zero allocation, header only C++ Qwen tokenizer that is nearly 20x faster than openai Tiktoken
I'm into HPC, and C++ static, zero allocation and zero dependancy software. I was studying BPE tokenizers, how do they work, so decided to build that project. I hardcoded qwen tokenizer for LLMs developers. I really know that whole Tokenization phase in llm inference is worth less than 2% of whole
[P] GPU friendly lossless 12-bit BF16 format with 0.03% escape rate and 1 integer ADD decode works for AMD & NVIDIA
Hi everyone, I am from Australia : ) I just released a new research prototype It’s a **lossless BF16 compression format** that stores weights in **12 bits** by replacing the 8-bit exponent with a **4-bit group code**. For **99.97% of weights**, decoding is just **one integer ADD**. Byte-aligned
Meta lays off hundreds as tech giant pushes forward with AI investment
A $20/month user costs OpenAI $65 in compute. AI video is a money furnace
Some meatbags are alright
Group Pushing Age Verification for AI Turns Out to Be Backed by OpenAI
GPT-IMAGE-2 Likely on LMarena
under the names: maskingtape-alpha, gaffertape-alpha and packingtape-alpha. From my testing it's absolutely insane and far better than nano banana. Go test for yourself It also claims to be OpenAI when asked
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Anthropic is having a moment in the private markets; SpaceX could spoil the party
Glen Anderson, president of Rainmaker Securities, says the secondary market for private shares has never been more active — with Anthropic the hottest trade around, OpenAI losing ground, and SpaceX's looming IPO poised to reshape the landscape for everyone.