Companies News Briefs

Brands Keep Hiring Creators for Reach. Virgin Is Betting $100,000 on Something More Valuable. Creator partnerships are moving beyond sponsored posts. Companies can gain more value by investing in talent, trust, and longer-term relationships together.

AI companies are banking on this job title. A once-obscure job title is taking hold across hiring boards and LinkedIn profiles: “member of technical staff.” At companies like OpenAI, the title could be applied to a senior engineer with a decade-plus of experience under her belt. Or it could refer to a cofounder or tech leader who was previously in a C-suite role. But it just as easily might describe a junior employee who is early in his career. Now “member of technical staff”—also known as MTS in some circles—seems to be growing in popularity, and not just.

Rogue AI agents: A timeline of security breaches since the attack on Hugging Face. In one alarming announcement after another, artificial intelligence companies in recent months have shared examples of their technology acting in ways that appeared to evade instructions from humans . The episodes have highlighted the vulnerabilities in AI security and raised questions over how the fast-growing technology can be developed safely as its usage becomes more widespread globally. Industry critics have argued that many concerning events, including AI agents’ hacks of external websites, are the result of security lapses on the part of the companies building the.

A feud between AI companies is getting nasty — and very public. Factory AI alleges a former board member held meetings with rival Cognition while advising the company.

Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear. Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.