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OpenAI Files exposed: What they're hiding?
Plus: Waymo targets NYC.
Amandeep Singh
June 23, 2025
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Here is what we have Today:
🚀 Italian iRonCub3 hovers with jet power.
🤝 Stanford study reveals what employees actually want from AI.
📂 New transparency hub reveals OpenAI's governance failures.
🚗 Self-driving cars meet Manhattan chaos
💼 New Job Opportunities
The OpenAI Files
Two AI watchdog groups just dropped the OpenAI Files — a vault of documents, testimonies, and reports exposing governance failures and conflicts of interest at the world’s most watched AI company.
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👥 Who’s behind it?
✅ The Midas Project
✅ Tech Oversight Project
They teamed up to dig, archive & decode what’s really happening behind closed doors.
🔑 What they found:
⚡ Restructuring chaos
⚡ CEO integrity questions
⚡ Transparency & safety gaps
⚡ Conflicts of interest
They even mapped OpenAI’s complicated business web and flagged red flags in its switch to a Public Benefit Corporation.
🗺️ What’s next?
They published a bold Vision for Change — a roadmap for OpenAI to reach the high bar AI companies must clear.
❗ Why it matters:
OpenAI went from a small lab to the most polarizing AI giant on the planet. As AGI inches closer, knowing who holds the keys — and how they’re held accountable — is crucial.
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AI Research
Stanford just asked 1,500 workers how they really feel about AI in their jobs. The answers? Most people want help, not a takeover. But tech companies might be missing the mark.
Image Source: University of Stanford
🔍 What’s the big disconnect?
✅ 41% of YC startups build AI tools for tasks workers don’t care to automate.
✅ Workers want AI to handle low-value chores — scheduling, data entry, admin.
⚖️ The “Human Agency Scale”
Stanford’s new measure shows:
✨ Half of workers prefer equal human-AI teamwork.
🎨 Arts & media pros push back hardest — only 17% want creative tasks automated.
💡 Why it matters:
AI agents are reshaping work.
👷 Employees want AI to free up time, not take their place.
🤖 But as tech gets smarter, full automation might come whether we like it or not.
🔑 Takeaway:
Workers want partnership.
Startups? Time to listen.
Trending Today
Researchers has unveiled a robotic eye that allows robots to see and understand like humans with the goal to have robots perceive the world the same way humans do. Researchers are working on making the AI and robotics decision making processes more transparent to humans, fostering trust and understanding for humans who interact with robots.
Waymo has put in an application to test its driverless cars in New York City — one of the first autonomous vehicle (AV) companies to request approval for testing in the notoriously chaotic streets of Manhattan. The robotaxi company would initially operate with trained specialists behind the wheel since state law doesn't allow fully autonomous drives yet. The move comes as Tesla prepares to kick off its limited robotaxi operations in Austin.
Italian researchers have unveiled the iRonCub3, a jet-powered humanoid robot that they claim successfully hovered to about 50cm off the ground during its first test flight. Not exactly breaking altitude records, but still a significant leap. Unlike traditional drones, the robot must balance an entire humanoid body with movable limbs while adapting to complex, ever-changing aerodynamics.
Houston surgeons have performed the first fully robotic heart transplant in the US without cracking open the patient's chest. Instead of the traditional method of breaking the breastbone, doctors made small incisions in the abdomen, using robotic tools to remove the diseased heart and implant a donor organ.
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