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San Francisco Protesters Target OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind: "Stop the AI Race"

Demonstrators marched on the San Francisco offices of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, calling for a halt to the accelerating competition in frontier AI development. The protest raises real questions about whether competitive dynamics are structurally incompatible with safety-first development.

Dispatch desk · Jul 12, 2026

AI Safety & Policy

OpenAI's Safety Chief Is Out as the Company Reorganizes Its Safety Structure

OpenAI's head of safety systems Johannes Heidecke is leaving the company as OpenAI restructures its safety org under research leadership—a change happening simultaneously with the launch of GPT-5.6 and documented misalignment concerns.

Dispatch desk · Jul 11, 2026

AI Hardware

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AI Hardware

Meta's Custom AI Chips Head to Production in September—Here's What That Actually Means

Meta is set to begin production of its latest MTIA custom AI chips in September, using a Broadcom-designed, TSMC-manufactured architecture aimed at reducing its dependence on expensive Nvidia and AMD GPUs for ranking, recommendation, and inference workloads.

Dispatch desk · Jul 10, 2026

AI Startups

Gradium Pulls in $100M Seed Round With Nvidia Backing to Chase Voice AI Market

Paris-based voice AI startup Gradium has closed a $100 million seed round after adding Nvidia as an investor, using the capital to expand into the Bay Area and compete in an increasingly crowded low-latency voice AI market.

Dispatch desk · Jul 10, 2026

SK Hynix raised $26.5 billion in its U.S. market debut, surpassing Alibaba's record for the largest foreign company IPO—driven almost entirely by surging demand for AI memory chips like HBM3E.

GPT-5.6 Is Here: Three Models, a Cybersecurity Pitch, and a Direct Shot at Anthropic

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 family arrives with three tiers, aggressive benchmark claims against Anthropic, a cybersecurity pitch that spooked regulators, and a new enterprise product. Here's what's actually worth paying attention to.

The Sideline.

San Francisco Protesters Target OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind: "Stop the AI Race"

OpenAI's Safety Chief Is Out as the Company Reorganizes Its Safety Structure

Meta's Custom AI Chips Head to Production in September—Here's What That Actually Means

Gradium Pulls in $100M Seed Round With Nvidia Backing to Chase Voice AI Market

SK Hynix's Wall Street Debut Breaks Records—And It's All About AI Memory

GPT-5.6 Is Here: Three Models, a Cybersecurity Pitch, and a Direct Shot at Anthropic

GPT-5.6 Named "Preferred Model" for Microsoft 365 Copilot — But What Does That Actually Mean?

OpenAI's GPT-Live-1: A Voice Model That Finally Knows When to Zip It

Prime Intellect Raises $130M to Let Enterprises Build Their Own AI Agents—No Big Lab Required

OpenAI's New Voice Models Promise Natural Conversations—With Some Caveats

General Intuition's $2.3B Bet: Video Games Are the Secret to Robot Brains