The release of Kimi K3, an open-weight AI model from Chinese firm Moonshot Labs, has rattled Washington and Silicon Valley by narrowing the perceived lead of U.S. frontier AI labs over Chinese competi…
Chinese open-weight AI model Kimi K3, developed by Beijing-based Moonshot AI, has alarmed top U.S. AI executives with its 2.8 trillion-parameter performance, prompting OpenAI and Anthropic leaders to …
OpenAI's newly hired Head of Strategic Futures, Dean Ball, sparked controversy by calling open-source AI models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 "ungovernable" and warning they could lead to "full AI commun…
OpenAI head of strategic futures Dean Ball warned that China is releasing open-weight AI models so powerful that for-profit companies like OpenAI cannot compete, citing the new Kimi K3 model from Moon…
OpenAI head of strategy Dean Ball sparked a debate on X by suggesting the Trump administration could create regulatory risk around open-weight Chinese AI models like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, which recen…
OpenAI's Head of Strategic Futures Dean Ball called a future dominated by open-weight AI models a "dystopian hellscape" and "full AI communism," days after Chinese lab Moonshot AI released Kimi K3, a …
Moonshot AI's 2.8-trillion-parameter open-source model Kimi K3 matches top public models in agent-programming scenarios, according to OpenAI head of strategic futures Dean Ball. The model scored 67.5 …
Chinese company Moonshot AI released its open source Kimi K3 model, which independent analyses show is competitive with frontier proprietary models, spooking Wall Street and causing the Nasdaq to drop…
OpenAI's chief futurist Joshua Achiam announced he is leaving the company after nearly nine years, citing a desire to work on the mission from outside the lab. Achiam, who led the mission alignment te…
A new Politico report reveals that major AI companies, including OpenAI and Anthropic, are urging the Trump administration to provide clearer guidelines on what is unacceptable in AI development, even…
AI executives who funded Donald Trump's deregulation campaign are now pleading for formal regulation after the administration imposed chaotic export controls on Anthropic and forced a government-manag…
OpenAI is limiting the release of its GPT-5.6 models to a small group of trusted partners at the request of the U.S. government, but says such restrictions should not become the norm. The company warn…
The U.S. government is tightening control over AI model releases, with OpenAI's GPT 5.6 facing limited preview approval similar to Anthropic's banned models. This regulatory uncertainty threatens the …
Anthropic faced backlash after pulling its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models on June 12, following a US export control directive citing national security concerns. The company disabled access for …
Alex Bores lost narrowly in NY-12 and will not head to Congress. GLM-5.2 is the new best open model but expensive. Dean Ball joins OpenAI for policy work. A new GPT-5.5-Instant version was released wi…
OpenAI policy lead Dean Ball warned that classifying frontier AI testing procedures could concentrate dangerous power in intelligence agencies, creating an unaccountable government monopoly. Ball, a f…
The US Commerce Department ordered Anthropic to shut down its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models globally on June 12, 2026, citing a narrow potential jailbreak, marking the first time export control autho…
OpenAI hired Dean Ball, a former White House AI adviser who helped write the Trump administration's AI Action Plan, to lead a new policy team called Strategic Futures, and also recruited Noam Shazeer,…
Sen. Marsha Blackburn is negotiating with the White House on a bill package that would trade child safety and deepfake protections for preemption over state AI laws. The Fable incident has spurred Con…
OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and former Google DeepMind executive, and Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy official, ahead of its…