OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems (OpenAI)

OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alig…

OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, strengthened safety nets, and more (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)

OpenAI unveils policy proposals for a world with superintelligence: higher capital gains taxes, a public AI investment fund, str…

Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate and corporations provide scale (Kate Park/TechCrunch)

Japan, driven by labor shortages, is increasingly adopting robotics and physical AI, with a hybrid model where startups innovate…

Sources: companies like Palo Alto Networks and Sophos see increased demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help in talks with cybercriminals (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

Sources: companies like Palo Alto Networks and Sophos see increased demand for their ransom negotiators, as businesses seek help…

TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listings up about 2x since mid-2023 (Alistair Barr/Business Insider)

TrueUp data shows over 67,000 software engineering job openings, up 30% so far in 2026 and the most in three years, with listing…

Thousands lose their jobs in deep cuts at tech giant Oracle

Thousands lose their jobs in deep cuts at tech giant Oracle https://bit.ly/4tlvce0 It is thought that thousands of people may ha…

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and workload demands (Mia Galuppo/The Hollywood Reporter)

How Hollywood support staff are integrating AI into workflows, from mundane tasks to creative development, amid cost-cutting and…

Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following allegations of fake compliance certificates (The Economic Times)

Y Combinator appears to have dropped Delve, removing the company's profile from its startup directory, following allegations…

Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown on internet use and Telegram (Anthony Halpin/Bloomberg)

Russian media says attempts to limit VPN use may have triggered a widespread banking outage, as Moscow intensifies a crackdown o…

Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)

Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due t…

A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS attacks targeting 8,000+ victims (Robert McMillan/Wall Street Journal)

A profile of Benjamin Brundage, a 22-year-old college senior who helped uncover the Kimwolf botnet, which launched 26,000+ DDoS …