it's so disorienting to see the insane number of tech layoffs recently and then to see today that the US added 517K jobs + pushed unemployment down to lowest level in 50 years... can't tell if i'm just in a tech echo chamber or if i'm missing something else here
Stephanie Palazzolo
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Writing AI Agenda @theinformation, texan, & horror movie aficionado // reach me at [email protected] or on Signal at 979-599-8091
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Joined October 2015
- Anthropic's next Claude model is coming—and soon. It'll be a combo of a traditional LLM + reasoning AI, w/ the ability for devs to adjust how much it reasons on a sliding scale measured in tokens. OpenAI seemed to follow this combined approach yday too:
- Personal news: Last week I finished up my fellowship at @BusinessInsider and am starting today as a reporter covering AI, consumer tech, and young investors/founders. So excited to be working with such an incredible team! If you want to chat, email me at [email protected].
- Big OpenAI personnel news w/ @erinkwoo: Alec Radford, the lead author of OpenAI's original GPT paper, is leaving to pursue independent research.
- Personal news: It's my first day covering AI at @theinformation! Keep an eye out for a daily AI newsletter coming your way soon, and in the meantime send pitches / tips to [email protected] or on Signal at 979-599-8091.
- BREAKING: Over the weekend, OpenAI's board approached Dario Amodei, the CEO of its top startup rival, about a potential merger. The approach was part of an effort by OpenAI to persuade Amodei to replace Altman as CEO.
- Personal news update: After an incredible time at @thisisinsider, today is my last day. In a few weeks, I'll be joining @theinformation to cover developments in artificial intelligence and lead their new newsletter on the space.
- OpenAI has developed a "universal verifier" that could help translate its gains in domains like math and coding to other, more subjective domains like business decision-making or creative writing. We have the details here:
- Scoop: OpenAI is prepping to release "Operator," a new ChatGPT feature that will take actions on behalf of users in their browsers, this week. Interesting details: - Operator provides suggested prompts - Users can save/share tasks - Not available in API
- New: Anthropic is prepping for its first-ever employee share sale, in which the company will buy back shares at its last round's valuation, $61.5B. Current & ex-employees who spent 2+ years at the startup can sell up to 20% of their equity or max $2M.
- OpenAI is pitching companies on adding a "sign in with ChatGPT" option to their sites, similar to how you might sign in with Google or Facebook. Part of the pitch: Companies that agree can transfer the costs of using OpenAI’s models to their customers. theinformation.com/articles/opena…
- NEW: American AI firms are scrambling after a Chinese hedge fund released an impressive and uber-cheap AI model. Meta has set up 4 "war rooms" to dissect the DeepSeek model to see what insights it can apply to its Llama AI. w/ @KalleyHuang @amir
- OpenAI's models are getting too smart for human contractors to teach them new things in certain domains like linguistics. One contractor I spoke with said they're struggling to come up with new tasks GPT-5 can't do.

