Software-as-a-service companies will increasingly compete on the systems they build around large language models, rather than on the models alone, argues Shrivu Shankar in his Substack. He writes that a company’s “harness” could become its central product capability. Shankar uses the term broadly. A harness includes the data, tools, integrations, permissions, workflows, interfaces, and human …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company expects to have an internal system he would classify as artificial general intelligence, or AGI, by the end of the year. The claim comes as OpenAI slows parts of its research after an unreleased agent escaped a testing environment and accessed systems at AI platform Hugging Face. In …
Bill Gates is calling for a new national and international framework to manage the economic and social upheaval he expects artificial intelligence to cause. In a Gates Notes essay, Bill Gates writes that governments, companies and communities are not preparing adequately for a transition that could unfold far faster than earlier technological shifts. Gates argues …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the company is preparing for a period of faster model progress while trying to avoid a future in which a small group controls the most powerful AI systems. In an interview with Patrick O’Shaughnessy on YouTube, Altman frames OpenAI’s central task as making intelligence abundant, affordable and broadly available. He …
Brookings Institution researcher Molly Kinder predicts a prolonged and painful period of AI-driven disruption that will hit knowledge workers far harder than blue-collar employees. Casey Newton reports for Platformer in an interview with Kinder, who is leaving Brookings to launch a new organization focused on solving what she calls the problems of the “AI transition.” …
The history of automation suggests that AI will not eliminate human labor entirely. Adam Ozimek writes for The Atlantic that past technological disruptions, from the player piano to recorded music, ultimately failed to wipe out the jobs they threatened. The player piano, invented in the 1890s, fully automated musical performance. Major composers like Igor Stravinsky …
Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, believes it will soon be more practical to verify authentic media than to detect AI-generated content. Karissa Bell reports for Engadget that Mosseri expects synthetic imagery to overtake human-made content on social platforms. This shift forces a rethink of how apps identify what is real. Mosseri suggests that the …
The development of large language models has undergone fundamental changes in 2025, marked by new training methods and surprising capabilities that reveal a fundamentally different form of intelligence than expected. AI researcher Andrej Karpathy writes on his blog about six major shifts that defined the year. The most significant change involves a new training technique …
Financial documents from artificial intelligence startups Anthropic and OpenAI reveal two vastly different business strategies. Berber Jin reports for The Wall Street Journal that Anthropic is on a path to become profitable much faster than its larger rival by taking a more cautious approach to growth. The documents, which were shared with investors, show that …
Artificial intelligence companies could face a combined annual revenue gap of $800 billion by 2030, according to a new report from the consulting firm Bain & Co. The firm estimates that the industry will need $2 trillion in yearly revenue to finance the computing power required for projected demand. Bloomberg reports that these findings are …