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How Codex Happened

Inside OpenAI’s comeback in coding, from a failed launch to the app that took over ChatGPT

Today’s Vergecast: Everything’s Recording Everybody. What Now?

Meta just shipped a pair of smart glasses with no camera — a change that both David and The Verge’s Victoria Song are excited about. But these glasses, like the new product from Amazon Bee and seemingly everything else now, are still ready and willing to record the world around you at all times. What do we do in a world where everything, everywhere, might be recording? And can tech companies figure out a way to make us feel better about it?

Bluesky’s AI tool now lets you make games and apps to share on social

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The FTC reportedly subpoenaed OpenAI and Anthropic for info on AI security incidents.

It also demanded documents related to the AI companies’ safety practices, consumer privacy policies, and marketing materials, as part of “a probe focused on potential consumer protection violations,” Axios reports. Its sources also say the FTC “plans to compel top AI executives to testify about their products.”

YouTube's AI chatbot search has launched on mobile in the US.

The “Ask YouTube” feature, which uses AI to generate a search results page populated with text and suggested videos to watch, launched on mobile in the US. It was previously tested on mobile in August and the web version was tested earlier this year. The mobile version is very similar to the web version.

Anthropic is giving AI safety evaluators “employee-like” access to its systems.

Six employees at the AI safety organization METR will gain access to hardware and internal tools “roughly on par” with what Anthropic’s own risk assessment team sees. While Anthropic says METR will publish reports about Anthropic’s risk levels, incidents, and practices, it can still instruct the safety evaluator to redact certain information, such as the inner workings of its models or customer data.

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"I greatly value my grudges. They’re very important to me."

In a deep-dive profile of Marc Andreessen’s petty grievance bullshit, Bloomberg Businessweek gently points out that he is not exactly a member of the reality-based community. Since covid, that’s gotten worse, as he and his wife have cocooned themselves away from ever encountering a normal person.

A game decompilation website is “sunsetting” because of the influx of AI use.

Reverse-engineered games: All the news on video game decomps, recomps, VR and web and 3D ports

Anthropic update on independent evaluators

Last month, we committed to stronger independent, third-party assessment of our models and safety practices. We also signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, in which companies pledged to partner with independent external auditors or evaluators. Today, we’re announcing that we’ve started to give employee-like access to a team from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models.

States sue AI giant OpenAI, saying its popular chatbot is hurting children and deceiving adults

HARRISBURG, Pa. — At least eight states are suing artificial intelligence giant OpenAI, saying the company’s popular chatbot model violated state consumer protection laws by hurting children and deceiving adults.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Feed Their Data to AI Agents

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