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AI Infrastructure

OpenAI Could Release Internal Tool That Would Weaken Nvidia’s Software Advantage

By Anissa Gardizy · Jun 1, 2026 9:37am PDT
Morning! Anissa here. OpenAI is open to the idea of publicly sharing software it’s been developing to make its AI run on chips from different providers, a senior executive said, a move that could weaken one of Nvidia’s biggest advantages. The revealing comments came from Sachin Katti, who leads compute and infrastructure at OpenAI,... Morning! Anissa here. OpenAI is open to the idea of publicly sharing software it’s been...
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AI Agenda

AI Evaluators Struggle with Models That Know When They’re Being Tested

By Rocket Drew · Jun 1, 2026 7:00am PDT
AI researchers are starting to make progress on a confounding problem: AI models are getting better at telling when they are in an evaluation.That could become a problem for AI companies that use evaluations to gauge the capabilities and behaviors of their models before releasing them. If models act differently during testing, that could mean... AI researchers are starting to make progress on a confounding problem: AI models are getting...
Sunday Insights

Why Forward Deployed Engineers Are the Rage

By Laura Bratton and Kevin McLaughlin · May 31, 2026 8:00am PDT · 1 comment
AI researchers may have the hottest job in tech, but forward-deployed engineers who put the AI to good use are becoming indispensable too. The military-inspired job title, which Palantir began using in the context of business software more than a decade ago, has spread to all corners of the industry. Last week, for instance, Meta formed a new... AI researchers may have the hottest job in tech, but forward-deployed engineers who put the AI to...