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The End of OpenAI’s Nonprofit Era
Key regulators have agreed to let the company kill its profit caps and restructure as a for-profit — with some strings attached
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Garrison Lovely
No, AI Progress is Not Grinding to a Halt
A botched GPT-5 launch, selective amnesia, and flawed reasoning are having real consequences
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Garrison Lovely
Four Predictions About OpenAI's Plans To Retain Nonprofit Control
An apparent victory for opponents of the company's for-profit ambitions may be more complicated
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Garrison Lovely
DeepSeek Made it Even Harder for US AI Companies to Ever Reach Profitability
Did Anthropic's CEO just admit AI companies have been enjoying fat margins?
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Garrison Lovely
Is AI Hitting a Wall or Moving Faster Than Ever?
My latest in TIME plus assessing media coverage of o3
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Garrison Lovely
We are in a New Paradigm of AI Progress
OpenAI's o3 model makes huge gains on the toughest AI benchmarks in the world
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Garrison Lovely
China Hawks are Manufacturing an AI Arms Race (Now with a Reply from Gwern)
An influential congressional commission is calling for a militarized race to build superintelligent AI based on threadbare evidence
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Garrison Lovely
Is Deep Learning Actually Hitting a Wall?
And is there a “basically clear” path to AGI?
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Garrison Lovely
The Tech Industry is the Biggest Blocker to Meaningful AI Safety Regulations
Expanding on my latest reporting plus the prospect of getting AI safety laws with teeth
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Garrison Lovely
Sam Altman’s Chip Ambitions Undercut OpenAI’s Safety Strategy
Increasing the supply of compute makes the transition to AGI more dangerous, according to Sam Altman circa February 2023
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Garrison Lovely
Is Effective Altruism Really to Blame for the OpenAI Debacle?
Plus some parallels to SBF
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Garrison Lovely
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