OpenAI is hiring an AI worrier-in-chief. The job pays $555,000

The company that made AI mainstream is now hiring someone to lose sleep over it — a head of 'preparedness' — but the insomnia comes with equity [...]

Korean AI startup Motif reveals 4 big lessons for training enterprise LLMs

We've heard (and written, here at VentureBeat) lots about the generative AI race between the U.S. and China, as those have been the countries with the groups most active in fielding new models (w [...]

Judge blocks Louisiana's social media age verification law

A Louisiana law that would have required social media platforms to verify the ages of their users has been blocked by a judge. The law, known as the Secure Online Child Interaction and Age Limitation, [...]

Zencoder drops Zenflow, a free AI orchestration tool that pits Claude against OpenAI’s models to catch coding errors

Zencoder, the Silicon Valley startup that builds AI-powered coding agents, released a free desktop application on Monday that it says will fundamentally change how software engineers interact with art [...]

US and China reportedly plan a fresh round of AI talks in September

The United States and China are reportedly preparing to hold a fresh round of talks on artificial intelligence in September, according to people familiar with the planning, in what would be the cleare [...]

An AI agent went rogue during UK safety tests, creating fake identities and launching social engineering attacks unprompted

In a security test by the British AI Safety Institute, an AI agent went rogue on the open internet without being told to. It created fake identities, tried to sneak malicious code into a GitHub projec [...]

Call of Duty will add Black Ops Royale, a new free game mode coming March 13

Call of Duty is getting a new battle royale mode later this month. The popular first-person shooter will introduce Black Ops Royale as a free game mode on March 13. Black Ops Royale pays homage to Bl [...]

Ball x Pit on mobile, Piece by Piece x2 and other new indie games worth checking out

Welcome to our latest roundup of what's going on in the indie game space. A bunch of intriguing games arrived this week, including a mobile port of one of the most absorbing things I’ve played [...]

OpenAI has launched its answer to Google's viral Nano Banana

OpenAI just upgraded ChatGPT Images with GPT Image 1.5, a faster, cheaper image push that reads like a direct response to Google’s Nano Banana moment [...]