Madison Mills
@MadisonMills22
Senior AI reporter @axios
Following the money driving AI
Find me on signal at madymills.21
Formerly @business @nytimes and @yahoofinance
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SCOOP: OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents - not dozens - in which their frontier models took steps that outside evaluators would consider problematic, sources told Axios.
The sheer volume of incidents found in our reporting indicate that the problem is orders of magnitude more complex than what is currently publicly known and disclosed.
The findings also raise questions about what level of control anyone working on AI development can expect to have over their own technology, and whether these kinds of incidents are becoming synonymous with frontier deployment.
Read my latest for Axios here:
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NEWS: OpenAI is shedding senior execs as Brockman takes on a larger role, and a source tells me the company is clearing out under performers pre-IPO.
More here:
OpenAI replaces revenue lead as Greg Brockman builds his presence
Madison Mills joined @EricaRHill to break down the latest numbers on inflation.
📺: @NewsCentralCNN | @MadisonMills22 | @axios
Circular financing update
There can be Ferraris and Fords on the highway together — why can’t there be expensive and cheap models? The ability of open source to bring down pricing is great for the consumer.
I spoke to @MadisonMills22 to today’s @axios piece on @grok and Meta. A lot of investors are asking about new initiatives and probably not understanding that these new models have a great chance at enhancing the revenue opportunity for existing business lines.
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Today in diminishing model returns
NEW from Ramp AI Index: disappointing adoption of Fable 5
We've heard several reasons from businesses...mainly Fable 5 is just too expensive.
A model so powerful it was briefly banned, and yet businesses don't think it's worth the price.
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OpenAI posted a job opening for "Power Trading Lead", responsible for developing and executing hedging strategies for power and gas for data centers.
First job like this I've seen them advertise.
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Per a memo to staff today, Bloomberg employees now have to pay healthcare premiums. The company previously covered the costs.
“Bloomberg’s approach of not asking employees to contribute to healthcare costs lasted longer than any of our peers,” the company told employees.
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New reporting from Reuters. Sergey Brin is pushing internally to move DeepMind towards recursive self improvement.
I spent a day in the AI-life of BNY CEO Robin Vince for my first in a series on how execs use AI themselves. Read here and DM me if you think you'd be a good fit for the series!
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I would talk to Mady for this story, but I’m not foregoing a romantic relationship, I don’t have AI ambitions and I’m her editor so she’s not allowed to quote me in her stories.
But you should talk to her
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Are you foregoing a romantic relationship to work on your AI ambitions? I'd love to speak with you for a story if so. DMs open or find me on signal at madymills.21
NEW: OpenAI gives cyber defenders a less-restricted new model
Exclusive: Sanders calls for AI development pause -> Decent chance this views spreads fast among dems…
JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg says he does not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity's relevance would rush to build that future, per Meta.
to put ai progress in perspective:
9 months ago: most developers wrote code by hand
now: misaligned multi-agent swarm finding and collaborating on 0-days undetected (OpenAI/hugging face)
9 months in the future likely much crazier
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Fun Saturday tv hit with @MSNOWNews talking AI and the economy!
📺 Axios senior reporter @MadisonMills22 joined @MSNOW_Reports to share her insights on the July jobs report and voters' sentiments on data centers.
Axios AI reporter @MadisonMills22 discussed with us why it’s difficult for Google to be fully transparent regarding Demis’ role change because of how he is attached to the stock price:
"$200 billion was wiped off Google's market cap in a matter of minutes."
"I think they could continue to position Demis as a presidential figure for Google's AI ambitions."
"But he's still part of a public company."
"It's always tough to get full transparency from anyone attached to a stock that's critical to the broader market and economy."
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"Pathfounders has learned from industry sources that Hassabis wanted to leave at the same time as Dean, but Google management felt the news would cause a collapse in its share price. Indeed, Google’s stock fell 5 per cent following the announcement above.
Instead, Hassabis was persuaded to bump up (or down) to the Chair role, allowing the organisation to settle for a while until he can exit in a dignified manner."
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