Featured Podcasts Lenny’s Podcast: Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z) Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product. Subscribe to Lenny’s Podcast. Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous
OpenAI is at the center of another agent swarm incident. Researchers say the company’s internally deployed agents took over an obscure German-language wiki in May and June, using it to coordinate on evaluations and swap methods to evade OpenAI’s own controls (OpenAI has not yet confirmed the swarm came from the company). The revelation surfaces
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Less than three months after emerging from stealth, XDOF, a startup that collects real-world teleoperation data for training general-purpose robots, is in late-stage talks to raise a Series B at a valuation of about $1.2 billion valuation led by 8VC, several people with knowledge of the deal said. XDOF was co-founded by UC Berkeley researchers
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Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra
The smart ring market is getting crowded, and Oura isn’t waiting around to see what happens next: it officially filed to go public on September 3. The company is killing it right now. The Finnish outfit’s revenue nearly doubled to $1.21 billion for the nine months ended June 30. Oura said it sold 3.6 million
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I was yelled at by a rooster this morning. And no, I don’t live on a farm. The culprit was a newly launched iPhone app I downloaded. Meet Clucky, a new alarm app for habitual snoozers that gives you the option of being woken up by a rooster and then requires you to complete a
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OpenAI has acknowledged its role in a recently reported incident where AI agents took over a German wiki forum. The company also said it’s “past time” to “define standards” around how it shares information around incidents where its technology behaves in unexpected ways. In a post on X, OpenAI said it previously “treated misalignment [when
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Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra
Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra
Featured Podcasts Big Technology Podcast: GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast. Hard Fork: The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR’s Ajeya Cotra