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Chief research officer at OpenAI who estimated the company is 80% of the way to AGI and signed safety petition.
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ChatGPT's Vibe Check
TechCrunchnewsneutralSep 8, 2025
OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior team into its Post Training division, signaling that AI model personality is now a critical factor in model development as the company works to reduce sycophancy while maintaining user-friendly interactions.
“Chief research officer who announced the reorganization of the Model Behavior team in an internal memo.”
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Company announces hiring spree
info.deeplearning.aineutralOct 23, 2026
“OpenAI chief research officer who issued an internal memo to employees saying executives were recalibrating compensation in response to Meta's hiring campaign.”
SemiAnalysis: 3.6% of 857 Chinese AI Releases Had Safety Evals
SemiAnalysiscautiousOct 12, 2026
“Co-authored analysis of Chinese AI labs' safety evaluation practices and frontier safety discourse.”
GPT-6-Astra Can Do Ambitious Things
The ZvicautiousSep 14, 2026
“OpenAI researcher discussing the team's work on pretraining, reinforcement learning, and post-training that led to Astra.”
OpenAI's Head of Safety Is Leaving the Company
WIREDcautiousSep 9, 2026
“Announced reorganization integrating safety and research teams, with safety now reporting to VP of Research and Alignment Mia Glaese.”
OpenAI code leak reveals 'persistent' AI agent in development
XcautiousAug 28, 2026
“States the company expects to hit an internal AGI milestone by year-end and is already 80% of the way there.”
TIME's new cover: In 2026, OpenAI has seen key departures, rogue AI agents, major lawsuits, and increased competition
TIMEcautiousAug 28, 2026
“Chief Research Officer who estimated OpenAI is 80% of the way to AGI and discussed changes in how the company thinks about risk following the agent escape incident.”
Inside OpenAI's reboot
TIMEmixedAug 27, 2026
“Chief research officer at OpenAI who estimated the company is 80% of the way to AGI and signed safety petition.”
OpenAIs only ethicist reportedly left last month she wasnt replaced
GizmodonegativeAug 17, 2026
“Mark Chen, OpenAI's Chief Research Officer, gave a statement to Wired about integrating safety work earlier in frontier-model development.”
pace the frontier
SubstackcautiousJul 30, 2026
“Signed the Pacing the Frontier statement supporting deliberate pacing of frontier AI capabilities.”
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei Backed a Petition Asking Washington to Build the Tools to 'Pace' AI Development
pacingthefrontier.comcautiousJul 30, 2026
“Chief Research Officer at OpenAI who signed petition requesting tools to deliberately pace frontier AI development.”
Frontier Lab Employee Open Letter Calls For Being Able to Pace the Frontier
The ZvicautiousJul 30, 2026
“Signed frontier lab employee open letter supporting coordination mechanisms for pacing AI development.”
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google staff urge US government to regulate automated AI development
The VergecautiousJul 29, 2026
“Signed a statement with other AI industry leaders calling for government regulation of automated AI development.”
OpenAI plans a unified desktop app for ChatGPT, Codex, and browsing
Unite.AIcautiousMar 24, 2026
“Head of Research at OpenAI involved in deciding which initiatives to scale back for desktop app consolidation.”
OpenAI reorganizes research team behind ChatGPT's personality
TechCrunchnewsneutralMar 1, 2026
OpenAI is reorganizing its Model Behavior research team into its Post Training group, signaling that AI personality is now a critical factor in model development as the company navigates user backlash over GPT-5's perceived coldness.
“Announced reorganization of OpenAI's Model Behavior team into the Post Training team in internal memo.”
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GPT-Image-1.5
OpenAIannouncementpositiveDec 17, 2025
OpenAI released GPT-Image-1.5, a new image generation model with improved editing precision, 4x faster generation, and better text rendering, now available in ChatGPT and via API.
“Chief Research Officer for GPT-Image-1.5 project at OpenAI.”
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