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Why is the biggest name in AI late to the coding revolution?
@mzeff.bsky.social spoke to more than 30 people, including OpenAI execs and employees who spoke without company permission, about how OpenAI is racing to catch up with Anthropic -- and why it fell behind in the first place:
“If allowed to proceed, this effort to punish one of the leading U.S. AI companies will undoubtedly have consequences for the United States’ industrial and scientific competitiveness in the field of artificial intelligence and beyond,” the employees wrote.
and link to WIRED's story: www.wired.com/story/openai...
full amicus brief, with the list of the 30+ researchers, engineers, and staffers who signed on: www.courtlistener.com/docket/72379...
In this week's newsletter, we go through OpenAI's slow, murky march towards being a military contractor. Other details:
- Pentagon officials took meetings at OAI's HQ in 2023
- Palantir approached OpenAI about a military deal in 2024
More here: www.wired.com/story/openai...
NEW: More than 30 OpenAI and Google employees—including Google DeepMind Chief Scientist Jeff Dean —filed an amicus brief in support of Anthropic in its lawsuit against the US government.
For @wired.com Model Behavior this week @mzeff.bsky.social talked to prominent independent tech journalists using AI to write and edit their work.
(Don’t shoot the messenger!)
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fascinating behind-the-scenes about journalists using AI in different ways from @mzeff.bsky.social : www.wired.com/story/tech-r...
Finally got to read @mzeff.bsky.social's Claude Code vs. Codex feature in full (his first @wired.com feature!) and it's a banger: "But while Altman makes confident pronouncements from the serenity of pretzel pose, the reality over the past few years has been messier..." www.wired.com/story/openai...
New: Sources tell me the Pentagon first experimented with OpenAI's models as early as 2023, but through Microsoft. At the time, OpenAI explicitly banned military use of its AI.
It wasn't clear then, but OpenAI now says that ban never applied to Microsoft.
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Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?
Why is the biggest name in AI late to the AI coding revolution?
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Independent writers are using AI agents all throughout their reporting process. What’s the value of a human journalist, anyway?
www.wired.com
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Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.
