[AINews] Modal’s $1B ARR, $16B Series D makes it NYC’s newest AI Infra Decacorn, 3x usage and 3x valuation in 5 months, 15x in 1 yr
Modal crossed $1 billion ARR and raised $750 million at a $15.75 billion valuation.
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OpenAI's safety crisis keeps getting worse and the company keeps making it worse
OpenAI fired three safety researchers after a Hugging Face agent incident, prompting warnings that staff now fear raising risks.
Fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute misconduct claims, warn of chilling effect
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers deny misconduct and say the dismissals will chill safety work.
Efficient Reasoning Training Does Not Always Harm CoT Faithfulness and Monitorability
Efficient reasoning fine-tuning usually reduces chain-of-thought faithfulness, while monitorability stays more robust.
Visible chains of thought are a safety advantage for AI, but that transparency is slipping away
Google DeepMind researchers argue visible chain-of-thought transparency is a key AI safety advantage that is eroding in newer models.
Corrupt Plans, Clean Traces: Evading Chain-of-Thought Monitoring with Plan Injection
Plan injection plants benign-sounding harmful reasoning that steers LLM actors to adversarial actions while evading chain-of-thought monitors.
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra can find zero-days, but is also harder to monitor
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is its first broadly deployed model at Critical cybersecurity capability, discovering zero-days, but is harder to monitor than GPT-5.6 Sol.
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