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…
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 …
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…
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,…
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…
OpenAI hired former White House AI adviser Dean Ball to lead a new Strategic Futures unit starting July 6, 2026, reporting to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon. Ball, a primary author of the White Hou…
U.S. lawmakers are struggling to keep pace with rapid AI advancements, introducing over 1,300 state-level AI bills this year while lacking independent technical expertise. Programs like the Conservati…
Dean Ball will join OpenAI on July 6 as Head of Strategic Futures, a new team focused on frontier AI policy including catastrophic risk, recursive self-improvement, labor market impact, and government…