🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found (Thread) https://t.co/302G0z7vy3

Useful piece from @Tharin_P on how to get the best out of AI: https://t.co/hVG95AirGd

New: Meta poached @_tim_brooks, a key Google DeepMind researcher, who previously co-led Sora at OpenAI. The hire shows growing attention by all 3 companies on building "world models", or giant simulations for training AI agents https://t.co/wIZeGnHZtQ

TIME got an exclusive look at the Figure 03 before its release. Check out this short video doc that we made about the company - including an eyewitness account of its robots struggling at certain tasks https://t.co/u0c5aj8DfN

“Every home will have a humanoid,” Figure AI’s CEO, Brett Adcock, tells TIME https://t.co/fv07LrsD5X

"The biggest company in the world will be a humanoid robot company,” Adcock tells TIME. “Every home will have a humanoid." @billyperrigo on the dawn of the domestic robot era: https://t.co/JR0DZXWYf1

Today, @Figure_robot launched the Figure 03, a humanoid robot they say will be washing dishes and doing laundry in homes next year. @billyperrigo got an exclusive first look at the robot's development over the past 2 months. Read about it:

https://t.co/QXIPRjnZz8

We got an early look at the Figure 03 for this week's TIME cover story. Link in next tweet

Why are AI companies pivoting to video? Even though AI video is probably loss-making for now, Sora suggests top AI companies believe it will become lucrative in the near future. By me and @andrewrchow with insights from @azeem and @selinaxuxinyue

My magnum opus - a unified field theory of why the post-literate society is a catastrophe for civilisation as we know it https://t.co/V0xxKeS8MJ

OpenAI once said its nonprofit would be entitled to "the vast majority" and "all but a fraction" of the wealth it generates. Now, in their new restructuring, they are saying it will be entitled to only 20%. (~$100b out of a $500b valuation). From "Nearly all" to "one fifth" 🙄

EXCLUSIVE: 60 U.K. Parliamentarians Accuse Google of Violating International AI Safety Pledge. The letter, released on August 29 by activist group @PauseAI UK, says that Google’s March release of Gemini 2.5 Pro without details on safety testing “sets a dangerous precedent.”

Here's the full story. It went out first to subscribers to TIME's new AI newsletter, In The Loop. There's a link to subscribe for free at the top of the story: https://t.co/N2FYRSP62V

Exclusive: at an invite-only summit earlier this month, staff from OpenAI and DeepMind gathered with other experts to discuss the "AI social contract." Between saunas, attendees hashed out 4 "consensus statements" on AI's likely impact on inequality. They weren't pretty:

Happy TIME100 AI day to all those who celebrate! https://t.co/4tqxRTPURN

I wrote about how the race to Artificial General Intelligence is becoming an increasingly salient dimension of great power competition — and the weird new risks this poses to the world. Includes some eye-opening quotes from Trump+Biden officials: https://t.co/R5VxaZEb44

Biden national security adviser on AGI scenario-planning exercises in the White House situation room

Former Trump White house official on "hard takeoff" scenarios

Biden's national security adviser on AI risk:

I wrote about how the race to Artificial General Intelligence is becoming an increasingly salient dimension of great power competition — and the weird new risks this poses to the world. Includes some eye-opening quotes from Trump+Biden officials: https://t.co/R5VxaZEb44