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- OpenAI's annualized revenue is reportedly about $20B below earlier $70B projections, per TechCrunch
TechCrunch cites a new report claiming OpenAI's annualized revenue is about $20 billion lower than earlier figures that put it near $70 billion.
- OpenAI safety report author David Robinson quits and sounds the alarm, per The Verge
David Robinson, who wrote the safety reports accompanying every major OpenAI model release, resigned this week and published an editorial in The Atlantic arguing the industry's culture is broken. He wrote that Silicon Valley's extreme confidence and perpetual sprints build bigger models with unimpeded optimism while downplaying risks, and that frontier labs need nuclear-style safeguards, running like nuclear power plants or busy airports with layers of redundancy. The Verge notes he is part of a broader wave of departures from major AI labs, including Anthropic and Google DeepMind.
- OpenAI parts ways with three safety researchers over leaked company information, per WSJ
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety team members who allegedly shared confidential company information with an outside AI safety organization, the Wall Street Journal reports. An internal investigation confirmed the individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures. A spokesperson said the three were let go for violating policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information, breaking trust essential to the work. The departures came two days after a NYT report said executives dismissed employees' safety warnings, and follow OpenAI scrapping GPT-6.1 Astra over safety concerns. The researchers and the outside organization were not named.