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Welcome to OHMO AI. A researcher walked out of Anthropic and says both labs he has worked for are gambling with everyone's lives.
Apple's new watch takes notes on your conversations. DeepSeek is heading for a stock market, and not an American one. And Suno's new music model was built with the record labels in the room, for the first time.
In today's newsletter:
An Anthropic researcher quits and says the labs are gambling with our lives
Apple's new watch takes notes on your conversations
DeepSeek lines up a Shanghai listing that could value it at $74 billion
Suno's new music model is built on licensed songs from Warner and BMG
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ANTHROPIC
Anthropic researcher quits and says the labs are gambling with our lives
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OHMO AI: Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old researcher who spent three years pretraining models at OpenAI and then, this year, at Anthropic, resigned on 8 September and set out why in a long thread on X. Pretraining is the stage where a model soaks up its data, and he moved to Anthropic because he thought it was the more cautious of the two. His verdict on both: "Neither company is acting responsibly." They are, he wrote, racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with everyone's lives.
The details:
He put a date on it: "Things could be out of control by the end of next year".
He wrote that Anthropic believes it's the only responsible lab and is racing to get there first because of it, while OpenAI hasn't "internalized the civilizational stakes".
Pressed on his reasoning, he boiled it down to two things: "things are speeding up" and "they're not under control".
Recursive self-improvement, AI building better versions of itself, isn't possible yet, and both Anthropic and OpenAI have themselves warned it would make it easier for humans to lose control of these systems.
Why it matters: The case Coxon describes Anthropic making reads like a licence any lab can write for itself: we are the careful ones, so we should get there first, and nobody outside gets to test that. Both companies have already said in public that self-improving systems would make it easier for humans to lose control, so the danger isn't in dispute, only who is allowed to act on it. The tell is who agreed with him: Evan Hubinger, an alignment lead at Anthropic, echoed Coxon's comments on X late Tuesday.
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APPLE
Apple's new watch listens in and takes notes on your conversations
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OHMO AI: Apple's new watch comes with a bundle it calls Audio Intelligence: sound recognition, Shazam, Live Rewind and Siri Recap. Live Rewind puts a transcript of the last 15 seconds of conversation on the watch face when you double-press the Digital Crown. Siri Recap goes further and writes summaries of conversations, saved to a new stand-alone Siri app for later. Apple says none of it creates or stores an audio recording.
The details:
Siri Recap doesn't run until you switch it on: the feature has to be turned on manually before it summarises anything.
Apple says the raw audio used for processing can't be reached by the operating system, by apps, by the wearer or by Apple itself.
Sound recognition pings you about sirens, alarms, doorbells or cries, and it works even when your iPhone isn't nearby.
The Apple Watch Series 12 starts at $399 and goes on sale on 18 September.
Why it matters: Apple's guarantee covers the audio, and the audio was never the asset. What survives is a written summary of what you said, saved into an app on someone else's wrist, and the one switch that decides it belongs to the wearer rather than the person across the table. How normal this gets is settled by how many people flip Siri Recap on after 18 September, and nothing Apple has described gives your side of the dinner a switch of its own.
DEEPSEEK
DeepSeek taps underwriters for a Shanghai listing that could value it at $74 billion
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OHMO AI: Chinese frontier AI lab DeepSeek has reportedly hired underwriters to prepare a domestic listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's Star market, the city's Nasdaq-like board. The Hangzhou-based company is separately moving to close a pre-IPO funding round that could value it at about 500 billion yuan, around US$74 billion, before the new money goes in.
The details:
Citic Securities is one of four underwriters DeepSeek has tapped.
The company aims to begin the IPO process this year.
The account comes from two people with knowledge of the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Why it matters: The 500 billion yuan is what the pre-IPO round could value DeepSeek at, not what anyone has paid: the round hasn't closed, and the figure comes from unnamed sources rather than a filing. A Star market listing also puts the pricing in the hands of mainland investors, which is where an audited number eventually gets set. The next number that matters lands when the pre-IPO round closes: it could confirm the 500 billion yuan and give the Shanghai listing its floor, or come in lower and show the figure didn't hold.
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SUNO
Suno's new music model is built on licensed songs from Warner and BMG
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OHMO AI: Suno has a new family of music models, Suno v6, and says it built them on licensed data from labels and distributors including Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe. The names on that list are the ones that have kept AI music companies in court, and this time they're on the inside of the deal.
The details:
It's the first time Suno has worked with labels to train a new set of its AI systems.
In Suno's own words the training set was "licensed data from our partners and user data", meaning its own users' data went in alongside the catalogues.
Suno says the arrangement "starts generating revenue for our partners".
Why it matters: Read Suno's own line to the end: the models were trained on "licensed data from our partners and user data". The partners get the part that "starts generating revenue for our partners", in Suno's words. The people whose uploads sit after the word "and" get named in that sentence and nowhere else in it, and each of them now has a reason to reread what they agreed to when they uploaded.
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