
OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’
OpenAI safety employee David Robinson resigned from his position, citing a broken company culture regarding safety practices.
Funding, layoffs, revenue, M&A, partnerships, and leadership changes across tech and startups.

OpenAI safety employee David Robinson resigned from his position, citing a broken company culture regarding safety practices.

OpenAI safety researcher David Robinson departed the company, publicly criticizing its safety culture and citing incidents involving accidentally released AI agents and safety restrictions being bypassed.
Robotics AI startup FieldAI is reportedly seeking $700 million in funding at a potential valuation of $10 billion, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI to focus on music generation, backed by funding and support from major music labels.
CrowdStrike and CoreWeave partnered to integrate cybersecurity defenses directly into specialized AI computing infrastructure. The collaboration aims to provide automated security capable of countering machine-speed cyberattacks against enterprise AI workloads.
IBM and CoreWeave collaborated to co-design isolation controls for agent-based workloads. The joint infrastructure effort aims to safely accommodate reinforcement learning models and agents that interact with external tools and storage services.
OpenAI hired former White House AI policy official Thomas Lind to lead cyber and strategic risk on its national security policy team. Lind previously directed AI policy at the Office of the National Cyber Director.

AI assistant startup Instinct raised a $1 billion funding round, leading a weekly venture capital report dominated by artificial intelligence investments.
AI cloud company Lambda secured a delayed draw term loan of over $1 billion to purchase more than 30,000 Nvidia graphics processing units with a fixed interest rate of 6.78%.
Anthropic continues to target an initial public offering in 2026 despite broader industry jitters surrounding artificial intelligence safety concerns and market conditions.