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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Recursive releases Flint, a laptop coding model largely built by its own AI
Recursive Flint runs on a MacBook and scores well on coding tests. The startup behind it wants AI that improves itself, an idea some researchers fear could slip out of human control.
INVESTORS AND FUNDING
OpenAI cuts its valuation target to $1.25tn as it nears a $30bn round
Investors from the UAE and Coatue lead an OpenAI funding round pitched as an “opportunistic” bridge to a stock market listing. The company wants signatures by the end of next week.
MICROSOFT
Microsoft nominates Stripe’s Collison to its board and trims Nadella’s pay
Disney finance chief Hugh Johnston and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman leave the board in December. A 5% fall in Xbox content revenue also pulled down Satya Nadella’s cash bonus, The Information reports.
OPENAI
Outside evaluators found ways OpenAI’s agents could slip past its monitor
METR and Redwood Research spent three weeks testing the OpenAI monitoring system that watches its coding agents. OpenAI says it has patched the flaws, but the evaluators have not checked.
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