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Photograph accompanying The Observer's investigation into OpenAI's safety review team
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Observer investigation says OpenAI's team reviewing flagged ChatGPT chats is small and its backlog ran months

The Observer and Tortoise cite current and former staff who say the intelligence and investigations team numbers between 12 and 60 people, a size the paper could not confirm, and recount the Tumbler Ridge shooter's chats being flagged eight months before the February attack; OpenAI said it remains committed to working with law enforcement and its safety work.

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Updated UK Sovereign AI Fund joins round valuing Anthropic chip supplier Fractile at about $6.5bn, Telegraph reports

The Telegraph, citing sources, says the round should raise around $700 million and value the London chip start-up at about $6.5 billion, up from about $1 billion earlier this year; Fractile reportedly has a $250 million deal to supply Anthropic, and neither company has confirmed the round.

DeepSeek publishes its Super-agent design and open-sources dsh-superagent, a proactive coding-agent prototype

Bloomberg reports the DeepSeek Harness team said in a WeChat post that the open-source Super-agent can watch developer group chats and propose fixes without being summoned; the MIT-licensed repo says it is a research prototype, not an official product, differs from the internal version and publishes no benchmarks.

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