April 2025

OpenAI launches program to design new ‘domain-specific’ AI benchmarks

April 9, 2025
OpenAI, like many AI labs, thinks benchmarks are broken. It says it wants to fix them through a new program. Called the OpenAI Pioneers Program, the effort will focus on creating evaluations for AI models that “set the bar for what good looks like,” as OpenAI phrased it in a blog post. “As the pace […]

Anthropic rolls out a $200-per-month Claude subscription

April 9, 2025
Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it’s launching a new, very expensive subscription plan for its AI chatbot Claude: Max. An answer to OpenAI’s $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro tier, Max comes with higher usage limits than Anthropic’s $20-per-month Claude Pro subscription as well as priority access to the company’s newest AI models and features. A bit confusingly, […]

Kalshi CEO: ‘State law doesn’t really apply’ to us

April 9, 2025
Last week, prediction market startup Kalshi sued New Jersey and Nevada after they tried to shut down its recently launched sports trading operation. In the lawsuit, Kalshi claimed that, since they’re a federally regulated platform, state gaming commissions don’t have the authority to set rules for them. “We’re not necessarily very concerned [because] we are […]

MIT study finds that AI doesn’t, in fact, have values

April 9, 2025
A study went viral several months ago for implying that, as AI becomes increasingly sophisticated, it develops “value systems” — systems that lead it to, for example, prioritize its own well-being over humans. A more recent paper out of MIT pours cold water on that hyperbolic notion, drawing the conclusion that AI doesn’t, in fact, […]