AI NewsFriday, October 9, 2026
2 stories- 1 AI researcher Mikita Balesni says he believes OpenAI fired him, Tomek Korbak, and Jasmine Wang for "prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI" (Mikita Balesni/@balesni) Mikita Balesni / @balesni : AI researcher Mikita Balesni says he believes OpenAI fired him, Tomek Korbak, and Jasmine Wang for prioritizing safety over the near-term interests of OpenAI Two other safe 59 2 src 4h ago
- 2 Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses Friday, October 16, 2026 Can AI design new life forms? In 2025, Stanford University PhD student Samuel King came up with a preliminary answer when he used a generative AI model to propose genetic blue 27 1 src 2h ago