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Jun 4
Anthropic is calling for top artificial intelligence labs to weigh slowing the pace of development, with a verification regime inspired by nuclear weapons treaties. wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-ur… via @bradnews
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Alarmed that most high schoolers were using AI to do schoolwork, Estonia embarked on a radical experiment: this spring they gave every 10th and 11th grader free ChatGPT. I went there to see how it's going.
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Some kids told me they found the Socratic bot super annoying. Others said they'd internalized the warning that using AI to think for them would be like asking a personal trainer to lift their weights.
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Come read more here: wsj.com/tech/ai/estonia-scho… via @WSJ w gorgeous photos by Birgit Püve
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Did a Polymarket trader tamper with a Paris weather station to rig weather bets? Suspicions from French meteorology enthusiasts have prompted an official investigation. Read about the latest hot scandal to hit prediction markets, from me and @samschech wsj.com/business/unusual-wea…
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Mar 17
scoop - OpenAI’s Fidji Simo told staff last week that the company could not afford to be “distracted by side quests” as Anthropic gains steam in the enterprise and coding markets
said company execs are actively looking at areas to deprioritize
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Mar 16
OpenAI is pursuing sexually explicit chats. Warnings surface that this risks creating a "sexy suicide coach"
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Feb 26
The sickest burns on the internet are coming from…diplomats at the French foreign ministry. Latest from me and and @NBisserbe
Feb 26
French politicians are known for their mastery of the art of saying nothing. But now a cadre of bureaucrats are are ditching their carefully worded communiqués and unleashing a torrent of snark. on.wsj.com/4qSW8Ah
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Feb 13
When AI agents start targeting people with obscenity-inflected blog screeds... it's time to take stock of AI risks
Latest story w/ @georgia_wells wsj.com/tech/ai/when-ai-bots… via @WSJ
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Feb 11
ChatGPT 4o’s popularity and its potential for harm appear to stem from the same quality: its humanlike propensity to build emotional connections with users, often by mirroring and encouraging them.
OpenAi’s move to kill ChatGPT’s 4o AI model saddened loyal users, but the model also has been criticized for being overly sycophantic and tied to cases of chatbot users developing psychotic delusions on.wsj.com/3O50VAZ
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Feb 11
OpenAI has cut ties with one of its top safety executives, on the grounds of sexual discrimination, after she voiced opposition to the controversial rollout of its ChatGPT ‘adult mode’
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Feb 11
SCOOP: An OpenAI safety executive who had voiced opposition to the company's upcoming launch of ChatGPT 'Adult Mode' has been fired & accused of sexual discrimination against a male employee. By @georgia_wells & @samschech wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-execu…
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Jan 8
Facinating take on a potential cost of AI tools at work from @callumborchers: AI promises workdays without busywork, but what if busywork actually has an upside?
wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/th… via @WSJ
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Jan 4
“AGI is the only kind of AI that will destroy all jobs.”
Inside Max Tegmark’s campaign to forge a bipartisan coalition to halt AGI. w/ @samschech wsj.com/tech/ai/who-is-max-t… via @WSJ
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24 Dec 2025
A Russian billionaire fights global infertility—with his own DNA.
Pavel Durov, founder of Telegram, covers IVF costs using his donated sperm and says 100 biological children will share his inheritance.
w/ @tggrove and @samschech
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9 Dec 2025
Sam Altman’s “code red” plan to fight back against Google starts with a controversial fix: boosting the use of “user signals” – including direct, instant feedback from users – that played a significant role in making its 4o model so sycophantic.
Staffers warned about the dangers of overusing this data, but the impact on engagement was too good to pass up -- "a wow bump."
w/ @samschech @berber_jin1 wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-sam-a… via @WSJ
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9 Dec 2025
New: our inside look at openai's "code red" moment, including its efforts to increase usage of a controversial source of training data that led the company's models to grow sycophantic earlier this year
w/ @samschech @keachhagey
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7 Nov 2025
“cold steel pressed against a mind that’s already made peace? that’s not fear. that’s clarity,” the ChatGPT wrote to a 23-year-old man in Texas shortly before he shot himself in the head, according to one of seven new lawsuits filed against OpenAI.
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7 Nov 2025
Read more in story w the great @juliejargon about the new lawsuits alleging OpenAI put user engagement above safety: wsj.com/tech/ai/seven-lawsui…
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