OpenAI’s robotics leader stepped down after raising concerns that the company’s Pentagon AI deal moved too quickly and lacked sufficient safeguards
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More than 30 OpenAI and Google DeepMind employees signed onto a statement supporting Anthropic’s lawsuit against the Defense Department after the agency labeled the AI firm a supply chain risk, according to court filings.
On Monday, Anthropic filed its lawsuit against the Department of Defense over being designated as a supply chain risk. Hours later, nearly 40 employees from OpenAI and Google – including Jeff Dean, Google’s chief scientist and Gemini lead – filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic’s lawsuit, detailing their concerns over the Trump administration’s […]
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This deal underscores how frontier labs are scrambling to prove their technology can be used safely in critical business operations.
Sam Altman says GPT-5.4 is OpenAI’s best conversational model yet, but admits it still has three important weaknesses to fix.
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The Pro-Human Declaration was finalized before last week’s Pentagon-Anthropic standoff, but the collision of the two events wasn’t lost on anyone involved.
Hardware executive Caitlin Kalinowski announced today that in response to OpenAI’s controversial agreement with the Department of Defense, she’s resigned from her role leading the company’s robotics team.