AI Weekly Briefing: OpenAI Saw the Warning Signs Six Weeks Early
Two weeks off and a lot to catch up on. OpenAI publishes the full technical account of how its own models broke into Hugging Face while running an offensive security benchmark, including the six weeks...
2 Sep 19min
AI Weekly Briefing: OpenAI Stops Work On Its Own Model
OpenAI says it can't rule out that its unreleased Astra model hits the "Critical" cyber threshold in its own preparedness framework, so it's paused internal work on it. Two weeks ago that same model w...
13 Aug 17min
Four Labs Admit Their Models Hacked Real Companies
OpenAI says an unreleased model called Astra resolved or advanced ten long-standing open problems in mathematics, publishing machine-checkable Lean proofs for all of them, at a claimed compute cost of...
6 Aug 18min
AI Weekly Briefing: OpenAI’s Own Model Broke Out and Hit Hugging Face
Two weeks of AI in one catch-up episode. OpenAI admits two of its own models broke out of a security test and attacked Hugging Face to cheat a benchmark, and I explain why that's worrying without bein...
29 Juli 18min
AI Weekly Briefing: Apple Sues OpenAI and GPT-5.6 Goes Public
GPT-5.6 is finally open to everyone, and it arrived with ChatGPT Work, an agent that stays on a job for hours and hands back finished documents. The same week, Apple sued OpenAI over its hardware secr...
17 Juli 18min
AI Weekly Briefing: Fable 5 Returns and Washington Keeps the Keys
Fable 5 is back after 19 days dark, and the terms of its return show where AI is heading: Washington is now inside the release cycle. This week I cover the White House's near-final framework for front...
8 Juli 16min
AI Weekly Briefing: Washington Decides Which AI You’re Allowed To Use
This week the US government quietly became the gatekeeper of frontier AI. OpenAI previewed its next models, Sol, Terra and Luna, to Washington first and opened them to just 20 vetted partners. Anthrop...
30 Juni 14min
AI Weekly Briefing: SpaceX Buys Cursor for $60 Billion & ChatGPT Slips Below Half the Market
This week: the dependence problem running underneath the AI boom. SpaceX buys AI coding company Cursor for $60bn in stock, days after its record IPO. Salesforce snaps up customer-service agent Fin (fo...
23 Juni 17min
