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AI Agenda

Is Anthropic Losing Goodwill With AI Researchers?; AGI House Alums Raise $25 Million For New Fund

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jun 16, 2026 7:01am PDT
Remember the last time Anthropic tussled with the Trump administration, all the way back in February, when a coterie of competing AI researchers and CEOs (even Sam Altman!) quickly came to Anthropic’s defense?That doesn’t seem to be happening this time. In the wake of Trump officials’ Friday night move to effectively ban Anthropic’s most... Remember the last time Anthropic tussled with the Trump administration, all the way back in...
Andy Konwinski, co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI. Photo by Marc Fong
AI Agenda

Billionaire Databricks and Perplexity Co-Founder Pitches AI Researchers to Not Work for Big Tech

By Laura Bratton · Jun 4, 2026 7:00am PDT · 2 comments
The billionaire co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, Andy Konwinski, is singularly focused on plugging the years-long drain of talent from academia to Big Tech.He wants to encourage academics to focus on publishing more openly available research, a reaction to the move by frontier AI companies to reduce the amount of AI research they... The billionaire co-founder of Databricks and Perplexity AI, Andy Konwinski, is singularly focused...
OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki and CEO Sam Altman.
AI Agenda

How Realistic is OpenAI’s 2028 Timeline For Automating AI Research Itself?

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Oct 29, 2025 7:00am PDT
OpenAI flooded the zone yesterday with a long-awaited announcement regarding its revised agreement with Microsoft and corporate restructuring, and an hour-long livestream in which CEO Sam Altman and Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki answered questions from the public. (For more on the restructuring, check out this story from my colleagues.)On the... OpenAI flooded the zone yesterday with a long-awaited announcement regarding its revised...
Art: Clark Miller
The Weekend

AI Researchers Are Having an Identity Crisis

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jul 11, 2026 8:01am PDT
Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Welcome to the era of the eggmaxxer • Style and Shopping: A buyer’s guide to mogul casual, Sun Valley edition• Plus, Recommendations—our weekly pop culture picks: “Signal Hill,” “The Sixth Nik” and “X-Men ’97”As AI rapidly improves in areas such as coding and mathematics, AI... Welcome, Weekenders! In this newsletter:• The Big Read: Welcome to the era of the eggmaxxer ...
OpenAI researcher Noam Brown. Art by Clark Miller; YouTube.
AI Agenda

OpenAI Researcher Says GPT-5.6 is Better at AI Research Than Most Human Interns

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Jul 8, 2026 7:00am PDT
I’m reporting from Seoul, where thousands of AI researchers from around the world have gathered for this year’s International Conference on Machine Learning. One of the most popular spots at the conference is OpenAI’s booth, which has been consistently encircled by a line of young AI PhDs.They’re waiting for the chance to talk to OpenAI... I’m reporting from Seoul, where thousands of AI researchers from around the world have gathered...
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Star Google AI Researcher Shazeer Joins OpenAI

By Erin Woo and Amir Efrati · Jun 17, 2026 5:09pm PDT · 4 comments
Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is joining OpenAI, the AI firm told staff on Wednesday. Shazeer left Google in 2021 to co-found a chatbot startup Character.AI, but rejoined Google’s AI team DeepMind in 2024 as part of a $2.7 billion deal with his AI startup. He then became a tech lead... Noam Shazeer, the Google DeepMind researcher whose work underpinned the generative AI boom, is...