OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in the Financial Times: "Democratic institutions must not cede their responsibilities to AI labs. The labs develop the technology, but citizens and their elected representatives must make the rules." Also via the FT: OpenAI has reportedly floated giving the US government a 5% stake in the company. At OpenAI's $852B valuation, that's roughly $43B in equity. The proposal goes beyond OpenAI: every major US lab (possibly Anthropic, Google, and Meta) would put up the same 5%. The FT says it's unclear whether any would agree. Where the equity would go: a fund modeled on the Alaska Permanent Fund, which turns the state's oil money into dividend checks for Alaska's government and residents.

Another in-home robot has hit the timeline! Isaac 1 is from @weaverobotics, a wheeled design capable of handling tasks like laundry, cleaning, and more. Starts at $7,999 and ships this fall:

Fable has re-landed!

The AI world refreshing all day to see if Fable is live

The GoldenEye match in this video was never programmed. An AI generated it in real time, with the map, physics, and multiplayer all learned purely from data. Odyssey, a Palo Alto AI lab, raised $310M at a $1.45B valuation earlier this month, led by some big names like Amazon and AMD Ventures. Odyssey builds world models, AI that learns physics and cause-and-effect to simulate environments rather than describe them in text. Unlike video generators that produce one fixed clip, its models are interactive, predicting each next moment from a user’s actions in real time. Its Agora-1 model goes further, letting up to four players share one AI-generated simulation simultaneously, with no hard-coded rules. It learned both how the game plays and how it looks purely from data, acting as a self-taught game engine. The company believes world models are nearing a “GPT-3 moment,” the same kind of inflection point that turned language models from a research curiosity into the technology behind ChatGPT, only this time for AI that understands the physical world.