Daily brief: OpenAI adds alignment expert to board; Boring Co raises $3B
创业邦 · wechat · 2026-09-11
A roundup of AI industry news:
- OpenAI appointed alignment expert Paul Christiano to its nonprofit board and safety committee; he warns humanity could permanently lose control of superintelligence without better coordination
- South Korea is finalizing a $100B+ energy investment deal to build up to 8 US nuclear reactors powering AI data centers
- ByteDance hired ex-Coatue exec Jiang Kai to lead its Hong Kong strategic investment team
- DeepSeek released Harness v0.1.5, deeply integrated with V4.1 Flash training
- The Boring Company raised $3B at a $23B valuation
- Kimi launched an enterprise partner program with forward-deployed engineers
- Alibaba leads a $300M round in AI eval lab UniPat at a $2.5B valuation
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