Keep pulling the thread on Sam Altman.
Senior US officials have held discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the federal government potentially acquiring equity in their firms.
Sam Altman of OpenAI has reportedly discussed the idea of the US government taking equity in AI firms with senior administration officials since the beginning of the second Trump term.
Sam Altman is said to have pitched the idea of government equity stakes directly to the president in early 2025.
Bernie Sanders proposed the US government take a 50% stake in AI companies through a one-time tax.
OpenAI has released a major update for its memory system in ChatGPT, now called "Dreaming".
In a benchmark test, OpenAI's latest "Dreaming" memory system succeeded at 82.8% of tasks requiring recollection of relevant facts.
OpenAI has reduced the compute requirements for its "Dreaming" memory system by 5x, making it practical to offer to free users.
TSMC CEO CC Wei warned that the global chip shortage is expected to last for the entire current decade.
Anthropic is reportedly preparing for the public launch of a new version of its Mythos model, which is said to be better than Mythos Preview.
Anthropic states that the trend of AI-assisted development could lead to a system capable of fully autonomously designing its own successor, a concept known as recursive self-improvement (RSI).
Anthropic engineers ship, on average, 8 times as much code per quarter as they did between 2021 and 2025.
Anthropic reports that 80% of its Claude model's production code is authored by Claude itself.