Lilian Weng, cofounder of Thinking Machines Lab, announced her departure citing severe health issues over the past seven months, sparking a conversation about burnout in AI startups. AI community figu…
OpenAI's head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company as it reorganizes safety work into a single research unit led by Mia Glaese, folding oversight into research. The departures …
OpenAI's head of safety systems, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving the company amid a reorganization that integrates safety and research teams. The departure follows the launch of GPT-5.6, which showed co…
OpenAI chief futurist Joshua Achiam told colleagues on July 7, 2026 that he will leave the company later this month after nearly nine years, according to WIRED. His departure raises governance questio…
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…
The Trump administration issued an AI memorandum asserting the right to use any AI models for national security without vendor interference, while OpenAI released a plan for AGI safety calling for int…