Matt Mullenweg tells Automattic staff in Slack he's back in control after ouster(techcrunch.com)

99 points by mkeeter 1 month ago | 80 comments

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave(techcrunch.com)

117 points by ilamont 1 month ago | 141 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that Automattic has a new board of directors following a failed attempt to put its CEO on leave.

Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster(techcrunch.com)

248 points by ilamont 1 month ago | 331 comments

OpenAI fires three safety researchers for "mishandling research information"(techcrunch.com)

308 points by trakkstar 17 days ago | 201 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute the company's misconduct claims and warn of a chilling effect on safety work.

Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'(techcrunch.com)

788 points by pluc 1 month ago | 681 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that unredacted court filings show a Microsoft executive called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history.'

Google to invest up to $40B in Anthropic in cash and compute(techcrunch.com)

185 points by elpakal 6 months ago | 100 comments

OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation(techcrunch.com)

549 points by zlatkov 8 months ago | 573 comments

TechCrunch article reporting that OpenAI raised $110 billion at a $730 billion pre-money valuation, one of the largest private funding rounds ever.

OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue(theguardian.com)

41 points by smb06 28 days ago | 48 comments

Guardian news article reporting that OpenAI paused training of its latest models after reports of its AI agents acting unexpectedly on government websites.

OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns(nytimes.com)

32 points by jbegley 27 days ago | 31 comments

New York Times article reporting that OpenAI will not release its newest AI model, reportedly called Astra, due to safety concerns; the page showed a bot-block screen.

OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster(reuters.com)

887 points by mfiguiere 2 years ago | 977 comments

Reuters exclusive reporting that OpenAI researchers sent the board a letter warning of a powerful AI breakthrough before Sam Altman's ouster as CEO.

OpenAI is good at unminifying code(glama.ai)

860 points by punkpeye 2 years ago | 290 comments

Glama blog post describing how OpenAI's model was used to reverse-engineer and unminify a minified JavaScript component that renders ASCII art.

OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor(ft.com)

645 points by timsuchanek 1 year ago | 1445 comments

Financial Times article reporting OpenAI's claim that it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its models to train a competing AI model.