Alex Chen

Jony Ive and Sam Altman are reportedly building a screenless, camera-equipped smart speaker with moving parts, a premium metal body and a distinctly un-Apple doughnut shape. It sounds whimsical. The commercial ambition behind it is anything but.

Safe Superintelligence has spent two years saying almost nothing, publishing no model and selling no product. Now Nvidia has reportedly invested $5 billion after receiving a rare look inside the lab—and an influential investor claims SSI’s first model could arrive this month.

Demis Hassabis is stepping away from Google DeepMind’s daily machinery to pursue AGI and disease cures. Meanwhile, a former OpenAI researcher has joined a startup promising non-invasive “telepathy.” The AI boom is moving beyond chatbots and into the far more valuable territory of biology, cognition and human intent.

Sequoia analyzed two decades of Hacker News hype. The results show why founders should neither blindly chase trends nor dismiss them as noise.

A new publication from the Meaning Alignment Institute argues the models get all the scrutiny while courts, elections and regulators are left untouched. Its founders want the redesign started now, on a $65,000 budget.

Google researchers found that safety fine-tuning teaches models to deny minds not just to themselves but to animals, oceans and God. Amanda Askell has spent five years arguing this was the wrong approach. The paper is her best evidence yet.

Leopold Aschenbrenner wrote the essay that became the intellectual playbook for the entire AI infrastructure trade, then built a fund that returned 439% in six months proving it. On Wednesday, Ken Griffin bought the whole book off him in a single trade.

Here is a coordination problem. You run one of roughly six organizations on earth capable of training a genuinely frontier AI model. You believe, on the basis of internal data nobody outside your building has seen, that your technology is approaching a threshold that is hard to walk back once crossed. You also believe that if you stop, the other five will not, and neither will Hangzhou or Beijing, and the dangerous thing gets built anyway, only now by people who worried about it less than you did.

Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview halved a post-quantum signature scheme's security in 60 hours and improved a 25-year-old AES attack. Cost: $100,000 each. Are your Bitcoins safe? Let's see, shall we?

Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5 on July 24 and priced it at half of its own flagship. OpenAI put the full GPT-5.6 family into ChatGPT on July 9 after a government-gated preview. Google, meanwhile, shipped three cheap Flash models on July 21 and still has not shipped the flagship it promised in May. Three weeks of releases have produced one clear answer to the question everyone is typing into search bars: the best model for you is almost certainly not the most expensive one, and picking it now means choosing a tier and an effort level, not a brand.