Barret Zoph is out at OpenAI again after just five months

Many AI users are convinced that OpenAI is quietly running GPT-5.6 inside ChatGPT. OpenAI isn't confirming anything.

With the market capitalization of AI companies soaring, US Senator Bernie Sanders is looking to give the American people a piece of the action. The veteran senator for Vermont has introduced the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Bill, aiming to give the public a 50 percent ownership in the largest AI companies in the US. It’s a timely move with both OpenAI and Anthropic preparing for the imminent IPOs. Sanders is not the only one pondering such a move. As the bill notes, OpenAI has proposed the creation of a “Public Wealth Fund” giving citizens a stake in “AI-driven economic growth,” while Anthropic has proposed a sovereign wealth fund to “shape the sector’s behavior.” President Trump’s advisors are also contemplating the possibility of the government grabbing a stake in major AI corporations, according to media reports. Sovereign wealth funds are not a new idea: Many administrations across the world have implemented them, notably Norway which has about $2 trillion in its wealth fund.

An IT executive changing jobs usually attracts little attention outside a narrow group of people, but Noam Shazeer’s move from Google to OpenAI is as momentous as any high-value soccer transfer. He announced the news in a post on X: “I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there.” Shazeer initially achieved fame as one of the eight co-authors of the influential AI paper Attention Is All You Need, published when he was working at Google Brain. He is also one of the creators of the transformer technology that lies at the heart of modern AI models. He left Google when the company failed to back his chatbot Meena and was tempted back when Google subsequently bought the company he founded, Character.AI, for $2.7 billion. That company achieved notoriety when it was sued by a grieving mother, who alleged that a Character.AI chatbot had contributed to her son’s death by suicide. The company subsequently settling out of court. Shaze

An IT executive changing jobs usually attracts little attention outside a narrow group of people, but Noam Shazeer’s move from Google to OpenAI is as momentous as any high-value soccer transfer. He announced the news in a post on X: “I’m excited to share that I’ll be joining OpenAI and look forward to working with the exceptional team there.” Shazeer initially achieved fame as one of the eight co-authors of the influential AI paper Attention Is All You Need, published when he was working at Google Brain. He is also one of the creators of the transformer technology that lies at the heart of modern AI models. He left Google when the company failed to back his chatbot Meena and was tempted back when Google subsequently bought the company he founded, Character.AI, for $2.7 billion. That company achieved notoriety when it was sued by a grieving mother, who alleged that a Character.AI chatbot had contributed to her son’s death by suicide. The company subsequently settling out of court. Shaze

OpenAI has recruited two high-profile figures as it prepares for its public market debut: Noam Shazeer, one of the foundational architects of modern generative AI, and Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy official. Shazeer announced his departure from Google DeepMind on Wednesday after more than two decades at the company, interrupted only […]

Amazon is pulling out of "Artificial," a film about Sam Altman's brief ouster from OpenAI, not long after investing $50 billion in the firm.

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others want to help enterprises demonstrate that their AI applications are behaving themselves through the creation of a new foundation. The Appia Foundation will, it explained rather impenetrably, “establish modular specifications that provide a connecting layer to bridge foundational global standards with practical, trusted assessments across the global AI value chain.” Those specifications will help AI users ascertain whether the systems they are using meet all the obligations that apply to them in the form of standards and regulations, it said. It’s a challenging task with so much regional variation in requirements, and where the EU, for example, is more tightly controlled than the US. The Foundation has established a set of criteria to demonstrate conformity with what is expected. There are two layers: the Requirements and Guidance layers will help users determine what is actually required, while the Assessment Enablement layer will look at how those

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others want to help enterprises demonstrate that their AI applications are behaving themselves through the creation of a new foundation. The Appia Foundation will, it explained rather impenetrably, “establish modular specifications that provide a connecting layer to bridge foundational global standards with practical, trusted assessments across the global AI value chain.” Those specifications will help AI users ascertain whether the systems they are using meet all the obligations that apply to them in the form of standards and regulations, it said. It’s a challenging task with so much regional variation in requirements, and where the EU, for example, is more tightly controlled than the US. The Foundation has established a set of criteria to demonstrate conformity with what is expected. There are two layers: the Requirements and Guidance layers will help users determine what is actually required, while the Assessment Enablement layer will look at how those