Ilya Sutskever Stands by His Role in Sam Altman’s OpenAI Ouster: ‘I Didn’t Want It to Be Destroyed’
The former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
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OpenAI said its new Daybreak initiative uses AI to help companies identify software vulnerabilities and speed up cyber defense.
Read full articleThe former OpenAI chief scientist may be estranged from the company, but he still came to its defense as he testified on Monday.
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The tender offer highlights the growing trend of tokenized equity, potentially reshaping private investment access and regulatory landscapes. The post OpenAI employees sell shares worth $30M each in massive tender offer appeared first on Crypto Briefing.
OpenAI is launching Daybreak, an AI initiative focused on detecting and patching vulnerabilities before attackers find them. Daybreak uses the Codex Security AI agent that launched in March to create a threat model based on an organization's code and focus on possible attack paths, validate likely vulnerabilities, and then automate the detection of the higher risk ones. Its launch comes just over a month after rival Anthropic announced Claude Mythos, a security-focused AI model it claimed was too dangerous to publicly release and only shared privately as a part of its own initiative, dubbed Project Glasswing. Still, that didn't stop at leas … Read the full story at The Verge.
District technology leaders say schools are not facing a sudden AI bandwidth crisis, but AI is steadily transforming the architecture of school networks, devices, cybersecurity systems and budgets.
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Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it's working on something called "interaction models." The idea behind interaction models, according to Thinking Machines, is that they will let people "collaborate with AI the way we naturally collaborate with each other - they continuously take in audio, video, and text, and think, respond, and act in real time." As explained by Thinking Machines: Today's models experience reality in a single thread. Until the user finishes typing or speaking, the model waits with no perception of what the user is doing or how the user is doing it. Until th … Read the full story at The Verge.