This week, I’m dedicating the newsletter to a conversation I had recently with the futurist Zack Kass about some of the risks and myths that will come with the advent of AI across business and society. Kass, who was head of go-to-market at OpenAI, is the author of the upcoming book, The Next Renaissance: AI and the Expansion of Human Potential.

Microsoft and OpenAI have a very specific, internal definition of artificial general intelligence (AGI) based on the startup's profits, according to a new

TL;DR: OpenAI’s new o1 model marks a significant leap in AI reasoning capabilities but introduces critical risks. Its reluctance to acknowledge mistakes, gaps in common-sense reasoning, and literal prompt-following behavior — especially in tool-use contexts — demands a new approach to safe and effective deployment.

AI founders and investors told TechCrunch that we're now in the "second era of scaling laws," noting how established methods of improving AI

OpenAI's challenges in 2024 will shape the future of AI, setting precedence for AI regulation, AI governance and usage of data to train AI models.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wants to convert the artificial intelligence developer, which is governed by a nonprofit, into a for-profit corporation. His biggest hurdle is Microsoft, which has outsize influence on the process after having committed more than $13 billion to OpenAI.

Over the past month, we've seen a rapid cadence of notable AI-related announcements and releases from both Google and OpenAI, and it's been making the AI community's head spin. It has also poured fuel on the fire of the OpenAI-Google rivalry, an accelerating game of one-upmanship taking place unusually close to the Christmas holiday.

The latest AI model from OpenAI achieved an “impressive leap in performance” but it still hasn’t demonstrated what experts classify as human-level intelligence

The rapid commoditization of AI models continues, even with a groundbreaking new approach known as inference-time compute.

A day after Google announced its first model capable of reasoning over problems, OpenAI has upped the stakes with an improved version of its own.

Sam Altman finished the OpenAI "12 days of shipmas" with a reveal of ChatGPT o3 and a new method called deliberative alignment. Here's the big deal on this new technique.

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