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Automattic says Mullenweg is CEO again, three days after removing him

Automattic has confirmed that Matt Mullenweg is its chairman and chief executive. The confirmation came three days after its own board put him on paid leave and installed someone else in the job. A company spokesperson gave the confirmation to Sarah Perez at TechCrunch just after 5pm Eastern on Saturday. Mullenweg holds both roles “with […]

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Intrepid Growth Partners closes a $525m AI fund with state money from four countries

Intrepid Growth Partners has closed its first fund at $525m and launched formally from offices in Toronto and London. Mark Machin, Mark Shulgan and Ajay Agrawal founded the firm in 2023, and it already holds nine portfolio companies, among them PhysicsX in London and StackAdapt in Toronto. The backer list is where this gets interesting. […]

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A Senate bill would let Washington block AI models, Reuters reports

Senate negotiators are drafting a bill that would let the US government stop the release of an AI model. Courtney Rozen reported the terms for Reuters. Her sources are two Senate aides, a person familiar with the deliberations and a lobbyist involved in the talks. A duty of care, and a power to block The […]

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Microsoft says ‘people matter more than AI’ following safety concerns

Microsoft is publishing a 37-page “humanist AI code of conduct” today, amid growing safety concerns over AI model progress. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a coordinated slow down of AI development over the weekend, after researchers warned recently that AI model progress could outpace our ability to safely deploy increasingly complex systems and verify […]

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‘Slop mathematics’: OpenAI walks away from a Caltech AI maths contest

OpenAI has pulled its $1m sponsorship of a student-run AI maths event at Caltech. Mathematicians had signed an open letter calling for the event to be scrapped. The next day, 25 Fields Medallists published a separate declaration of their own. Two letters in two days, from two different groups, is the sharpest response the mathematical […]

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