Did OpenAI Fire Its Whistleblowers?
Summary
Host Brian McCullough covers OpenAI firing three safety researchers for allegedly sharing confidential data with external groups, sparking whistleblower debates. Cloudflare launches Clef, an open-weight multimodal decision model challenging TypeSafe’s Jev, while Suno introduces a speech feature generating voiceovers with background music. The episode also notes Ray-Ban Meta glasses being suspended in the Netherlands and Belgium over privacy concerns, and a 2,100% surge in .si domain registrations following Trump’s push to rebrand AI as "Superintelligence." Weekend long reads explore massive…
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OpenAI fires 3 researchers over data sharing
Cloudflare launches CLEF decision models
Suno launches AI speech generation feature
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Ray-Ban Meta glasses suspended in EU
Trump rebrands AI to SI; Slovenia domain boom
Nvidia chip smuggling to China via Asia
Weekend read: Larry Ellison profile
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