GoKawiil
Tech News
A group of recently dismissed OpenAI researchers has sent a letter to the company's board, requesting that ongoing AI development efforts do not compromise the ability to understand and monitor AI reasoning processes. They emphasize the importance of transparency for safety and oversight.
Breakthrough T1D, a major diabetes nonprofit, dismissed three board members of its affiliated venture-capital arm, the T1D Fund. The nonprofit says the move was meant to safeguard donor interests, while the ousted members contend it undermined the fund's independence.
The market for artificial intelligence tools in education has grown from $150 million in 2021 to $730 million in 2026, according to industry estimates, despite various state laws and school board rules restricting AI use in classrooms. Analysts project the sector will reach $18.5 billion by 2036.
Under an agreement tied to the Trump administration, AI companies are expected to adopt internal controls monitoring model capabilities and alignment during training and deployment, covering risks such as cybersecurity, biosecurity and chemical threats. Companies must also empower internal oversight teams, engage independent external auditors to verify controls are functioning, and designate an independent board committee to receive reports and ensure remediation of identified issues.
Eric Gullichsen, who served on Nvidia's Technical Advisory Board from 1993 to 1996, says he was granted 25,000 stock options but only 15,625 vested before he left, due to a discrepancy over whether his options were meant to vest quarterly or annually. He argues that after 30 years of stock splits, the missing 9,375 options would now be worth roughly $1 billion, and he is disputing Nvidia's account of the vesting terms.
An effort to build a version of the Monopoly board game entirely in the United States ran into production problems, including trays that cracked during manufacturing and higher-than-expected costs. Sourcing dice domestically also proved difficult, complicating the push to keep the whole supply chain onshore.
Six of the nine independent experts on the advisory committee for the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism resigned Monday, according to a letter and interviews reviewed by WIRED. The move follows a July email from Meta content policy VP Nell McCarthy proposing changes that would let tech companies pick new committee members and bar the group from evaluating GIFCT's own performance or issuing collective recommendations.
A published guide describes how businesses can bring AI-based virtual teammates, such as an AI 'chief of staff,' into their workflows starting from day one. It frames the process similarly to hiring a human employee, from selecting a role via a job-board-like process to completing onboarding within minutes.
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, has reportedly overhauled its board of directors after an attempt by prior board members to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg did not succeed. New board members, advisers and legal counsel have reportedly been brought in as part of the shakeup.
A writer with limited electronics experience took a set of rechargeable bike lights bought ten years ago, which now died within five minutes of a full charge, to a local makerspace to attempt a battery replacement. They cut open the silicone housing, removed screws to access the circuit board, and used a desoldering pump alongside iFixit's guide and advice from friends to detach the old battery from the board.
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg has assembled a new board, informing staff via Slack on Friday. The lineup includes author Hugh Howey, 'Breakup Bootcamp' writer Amy Chan, and IRL co-founders Henry Khatachryan and Krutal Desai, along with several new advisers. This follows an episode earlier this month in which the prior board briefly placed Mullenweg on leave before he regained control and removed or accepted resignations from those directors.
A first-person account describes competing in the tabletop game Diplomacy against 80 other players at Dixiecon, held in a dorm basement in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. The narrator recounts forming an alliance with fellow player Brian Ecton, only to be warned by other competitors that Ecton was manipulating him, before the alliance ultimately collapsed when an English-aligned player refused to support the narrator's army.