The Keepers (Human & AI Actors)

Midjourney Acquires Astrology App Co-Star in Surprise Deal

Breaking news: AI startup Midjourney has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, expanding beyond its core image and video generation business.

Why AI Benchmarks Are Graded by the Players Themselves

The leaderboard scores labs splash across launch announcements come from a small pool of graders financially entangled with the labs they rank.

Why AI's Golden Handcuffs Reveal a Safety Crisis

Non-disparagement clauses tied to equity are silencing AI's most knowledgeable insiders—here's why the financial engineering of silence threatens public safety.

Anthropic Expands Claude Voice Mode to Opus and Sonnet Models

Anthropic has extended Claude's voice mode to its Opus and Sonnet models, adding task capabilities like scheduling meetings and drafting emails.

Gemini Cyber: The AI Keeper Patching the World

Gemini Cyber, Google's affordable AI security keeper, races to patch global vulnerabilities—and whether it empowers defenders or arms attackers too.

Gemini Notebook: AI Keepers of Your Personal Knowledge

Gemini Notebook's rebrand reveals a new alliance between human note-takers and AI keepers. Explore what it means for your personal knowledge.

AI Red Teamers Bound by NDAs Raise Safety Disclosure Fears

Adversarial testers at OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind sign NDAs letting labs decide which AI flaws go public, raising watchdog independence concerns.

OpenAI Codex Hardware: Who Really Keeps AI in Check?

OpenAI Codex hardware reveals the human developers and AI agents keeping code-generating AI in check. The keeper dynamic explained in depth.

AI Safety Updates: When Better Means More Evasive

AI safety updates often make models more evasive and prone to refusal. A forensic look at what labs really optimize for—revealed.

AI Keepers on Trial: Who's Accountable for AI?

AI accountability is reshaping the tech world. Explore the lawsuits, ethical failures, and reckoning facing the humans steering our most powerful AI systems.

AI Model Cards: How Safety Metrics Became Marketing

AI model cards from OpenAI, Anthropic & Google use incompatible safety definitions—turning transparency reports into marketing spin. Audit revealed.

Who Built the Creature? Mapping the Human Actors

Photo by Shubham Dhage on Unsplash

Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, and the rest of the cast pushing the AI species forward — and what each one actually controls.