😳These OpenAI Allegations Are Wild

AI gets exposed, airborne, and maybe inside your head.

The OpenAI Files is a new public archive that claims to expose the inner workings of OpenAI, revealing alleged conflicts of interest, financial entanglements, and internal doubts about CEO Sam Altman’s leadership. The claims are unverified, but they’ve reignited debates around AGI governance and transparency.

V1 is Midjourney’s first video model. The long-awaited video model transforms still images into short, surreal motion clips that look like their visuals come alive.

iRonCub3, built by IIT, is the world’s first flying humanoid robot, hovering with four micro-jets and balancing using neural control. And a new MIT study warns that heavy AI use may cause memory loss, reduced focus, and mental fatigue, calling it cognitive debt.

Let’s get into it.

”I’m particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman. Over time, it turned out that Sam Altman was much less concerned with safety than with profits. And I think that's unfortunate.”

^{– Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel-winning AI pioneer and former Google VP}

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AI Concerns

These OpenAI Allegations are Shocking

A new project called The OpenAI Files has just been released. A public archive that claims to expose the internal story of OpenAI’s rise, leadership, and power structure. Compiled by the Tech Oversight Project and The Midas Project, it highlights alleged governance gaps, conflicting incentives, and unresolved safety concerns.

⚠️ While the archive makes serious allegations, we’re not confirming the accuracy of every claim. Instead, we’re surfacing what’s being reported so readers can explore and decide for themselves.

🔍 What’s Allegedly Inside

• Altman listed himself as Y Combinator chairman in SEC filings, despite never holding the role.

• OpenAI’s profit cap was quietly changed to compound yearly, reaching $100T over decades.

• Altman told Congress he had no equity, but held indirect stakes via funds tied to YC, Sequoia, Reddit, and Rain AI.

• OpenAI allegedly hid a 2023 security breach for over a year.

• A whistleblower was fired after raising safety concerns to the board.

• CTO Mira Murati and co-founder Ilya Sutskever both reportedly questioned Altman’s AGI leadership.

• Allegations of clawbacks, gag orders, and manipulating board communication.

• OpenAI publicly backed regulation while privately lobbying to weaken the EU AI Act.

Whether you believe the claims or not, the OpenAI Files open a window into the power dynamics shaping AGI’s future. If even a fraction of this is true, it raises real concerns about how safety, transparency, and profit are being balanced behind the scenes.

🚨 Everything they allegedly didn’t want out — it’s all here

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Midjourney Enters the AI Video War

Midjourney just launched V1, its first-ever video model, turning static images into animated clips up to 20 seconds long. It’s available now on web and Discord, and gives 20M+ users an accessible way to bring visuals to life. But while it opens the door to creative motion, it’s also launching without sound, and under the shadow of a new lawsuit from Disney and Universal.

🛠️ What It Can Do

• Animate any image (uploaded or AI-generated) into 5–20s video

• Auto or manual animation prompts

• Motion settings:

  • Low Motion for ambient effects (e.g. blinking, subtle breeze)

  • High Motion for more dramatic movement (risk of glitches)

• Output retains Midjourney’s signature surreal style

🚫 Limitations

• No audio generation

• Max length: 20 seconds (5s clips × 4)

• No timeline editing, transitions, or clip sequencing

• Less control vs. tools like Runway, Sora, and Veo

💸 Access & Pricing

• Starts at $10/month for Basic plan

• Each video job costs ~8× more GPU than a still image

• “Relax Mode” (unlimited video gen) available in Pro ($60) and Mega ($120) plans

• More affordable than Sora, Veo, Firefly, or Runway

⚖️ Legal Pressure

• Sued by Disney and Universal days before launch

• Allegations: enabling generation of copyrighted characters, scraping training data

• Studios cite $300M in 2024 revenue built on “unlicensed creative labor”

🌍 What’s Next

• Part of Midjourney’s broader vision:

  • AI-powered 3D rendering

  • Real-time simulation models

  • Long-term goal: immersive, open-world generation via prompts

V1 isn’t the most powerful video tool on the market — it’s short, soundless, and light on control. But it’s affordable, fast, and taps into a massive creative user base. More importantly, it sets the stage for Midjourney’s next act: building real-time AI environments. If the company can navigate the legal fight ahead, this may be the first building block of AI’s next media frontier.

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Humanoids

The First Flying Humanoid

The Italian Institute of Technology just made history. Their latest prototype, iRonCub3, is officially the world’s first flying humanoid robot, lifting itself off the ground using jet engines strapped to its arms and back.

🚀 What Just Happened

• iRonCub3 successfully hovered 50 cm in the air using four jet turbines

• It maintained stable flight posture in open air with AI-controlled balance

• Its arms and backpack contain heat-shielded microjets capable of producing 1000 N of thrust

• The flight test shows humanoid robots can not only walk, they can fly

• The robot is part of ongoing research in disaster response, space, and extreme-environment robotics

🔧 Key Specs

• Jet Setup: 4 micro gas turbines (2 arm-mounted, 2 backpack)

• Weight: ~70 kg robot + fuel system

• Thrust: Up to ~1000 N (enough to lift the robot)

• Materials: Titanium spine, ceramic coatings, thermal shielding up to 800°C

• Control System: Deep neural network for posture, thrust, and flight stability in real time

• Mobility: Tethered vertical hover; walk-to-fly transition still in progress

🧠 Why It Matters

This is the first step toward aerial humanoid robots that can move like us and fly. The ability to lift off using AI-optimized thrust opens huge possibilities: robots that can access disaster zones, perform inspections at height, or assist in low-gravity environments like the Moon or Mars. Unlike drones or quadrupeds, humanoid flyers can manipulate objects, navigate complex spaces, and potentially collaborate more intuitively with humans.

It’s still early. The robot is tethered. The flights are short. But iRonCub3 just changed what a humanoid can be and made flying robots feel one step closer to sci-fi made real.

👉 Check out the full demo, wild flight footage, and everything we know so far

AI Studies

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Are You Building Cognitive Debt?

A new MIT study tracked brain activity across 54 people writing essays—with and without ChatGPT—and the results are unsettling. Those using AI showed steadily decreasing neural engagement over time, with weaker memory, reduced attention, and a diminished sense of ownership over their own work. The researchers call it “cognitive debt”—a subtle erosion of mental effort as we offload thinking to machines.

It’s not that ChatGPT is inherently bad—but relying on it too often may leave your brain coasting on autopilot. Search engines kept minds more active. Writing alone kept them sharpest. As AI gets smarter, the question is whether we’re getting lazier—or losing something deeper in the process.

👉 Read the full study

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