Three New Papers AI Researchers Are Reading; What To Expect at AI Agenda Live

It wouldn’t be the eve of our AI Agenda Live conference without a midnight scoop! In case you missed it, check out last night’s story from Amir, Cory and me on OpenAI’s financials for the first half of 2025.

I might be slightly sleep-deprived, but I’m thrilled to be seeing many of you in just a few hours at our AI Agenda Live: The Next Wave event in New York!

It’s our job as reporters to make sense of seemingly conflicting news stories about the technology. One day an AI CEO says we’re in sight of AI that can cure cancer and that we need to spend trillions of dollars over the next few years to see it through, and the next day we read about AI accidentally deleting a company’s codebase or a chatbot encouraging people to hurt themselves.

Later today, my colleagues and I will be talking to researchers, founders, VCs and operators to make sense of these contradictions or at least help us know what to ask the people behind the technology.