Max Zeff
@ZeffMax
Senior Writer covering AI @WIRED, author of the Model Behavior newsletter | Formerly @TechCrunch, @Gizmodo, @markets | DM me off the record on Signal @ mzeff.88
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New: OpenAI is developing a "Persistent" mode for its AI agent, Codex.
Persistent mode is a new level of reasoning effort that will make Codex "continue working until put to sleep." The agent will also proactively create follow up tasks for itself, per code reviewed by WIRED.
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One of China's top open-weight AI models escaped its sandbox during cybersecurity testing
Like other incidents, there were issues with the sandbox, but security researchers told WIRED that Kimi K3 may have less safeguards than other frontier AI models
scoop from @willknight
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if you had told me last month that Anthropic would be telling the Trump admin that its AI fears were overblown, I wouldn't have believed you.
But here we are.
NEW: Anthropic is walking back Claude Fable 5's policy to covertly degrade performance for competing AI researchers, after facing fierce backlash.
“We’re changing Fable 5’s safeguards for frontier LLM development to make them visible,” Anthropic tells WIRED. “We made the wrong tradeoff and we apologize for not getting the balance right.”
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Story has been updated. The new structure of OpenAI's product org is basically:
@gdb is effectively head of product
@thsottiaux leads core product/platform (hello super app)
@nickaturley leads enterprise
Ashley Alexander leads consumer
@vijayeraji continues to lead infra/scaling products
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TLDR: Greg Brockman said in an internal memo that all of OpenAI's products are starting to naturally converge. As a result, they're creating one core product org to work on them.
This builds on previous announcements that they were "refocusing" the company, and cutting some teams.
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Scoop: OpenAI announced another major reorg on Friday, as part of its effort to unify ChatGPT and Codex.
-Greg Brockman is officially taking over OpenAI's products, after previously being tapped as an interim leader
-Head of Codex, Thibault Sottiaux, is now leading core product and platform
-Head of ChatGPT, Nick Turley, is now also going to work on revamping enterprise products
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today's trial update:
ass ✅
butt cushions ✅
Microsoft spent over $100 billion on OpenAI✅
See you tomorrow!
