Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI

AI companies have been losing talent for the past few weeks. Half of XAI’s founding team has left the company – some on their own, others through “restructuring” – while OpenAI is facing changes of its own. Dissolving Your Mission Alignment Team Firing a policy executive who opposed its “adult mode” feature. Watch as TechCrunch…

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OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model

OpenAI will start from Friday stop granting access Five older ChatGPT models, including the popular but controversial GPT-4o model. The 4o model has been at the center of many lawsuits Regarding user self-harm, delusional behavior, and AI psychosis. It is made of OpenAI Highest Scoring Model for Sycophancy. In addition to GPT-4o, the GPT-5, GPT-4.1,…

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OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone ChatGPT-4o model

OpenAI will start from Friday stop granting access Five older ChatGPT models, including the popular but controversial GPT-4o model. The 4o model has been at the center of many lawsuits Regarding user self-harm, delusional behavior, and AI psychosis. It is made of OpenAI Highest Scoring Model for Sycophancy. In addition to GPT-4o, the GPT-5, GPT-4.1,…

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OpenAI policy exec who opposed chatbot’s “adult mode” reportedly fired on discrimination claim

Ryan Biermeister, OpenAI’s vice president of product policy, was fired in January after a male co-worker accused him of sexual discrimination, according to the Wall Street Journal. have reported. “The allegation that I discriminated against anyone is absolutely false,” Biermeister told the Journal. TechCrunch contacted OpenAI for comment and also contacted an email that appears…

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Anthropic closes in on $20B round

Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new capital at a valuation of $350 billion, Bloomberg reportsDue to demand from investors the company had to raise twice the amount it had set out to receive. The company raised $13 billion in equity funding. just five months agoBut intense competition among frontier…

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Trump’s acting cybersecurity chief uploaded sensitive government docs to ChatGPT

The acting head of the US cybersecurity agency CISA uploaded sensitive contract documents marked “for official use only” to ChatGPT. According to Politico. Trump-appointed CISA acting director Madhu Gottumukkala triggered a series of automated security alerts designed to prevent theft or inadvertent disclosure of government files from federal networks, the outlet reported Tuesday, citing officials….

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