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OpenAI prepares for self-improving AI

PLUS: Polsia reaches $250M with no employees

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Barsee
25 May

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here are the biggest things worth knowing today:

  • OpenAI prepares for self-improving AI

  • Polsia reaches $250M with no employees

  • Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus solves 9 open Erdős math problems

  • Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

1/ OpenAI creates $445,000 safety role to prepare for self-improving AI

OpenAI is hiring for a new safety role that pays up to $445,000 as the company prepares for more advanced AI systems that could improve themselves over time. The job focuses on studying future risks like AI-generated cyberattacks, hidden model behavior, and measuring how much technical work AI can automate. The move comes as AI leaders like Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis continue predicting that autonomous AI researchers could arrive within the next few years. Meanwhile, OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-powered Codex has now passed 4 million weekly users across major companies.

2/ AI startup Polsia reaches $250M valuation with no employees

AI startup Polsia has raised $30 million at a $250 million valuation while claiming to operate without any human employees. Founder Ben Cera says the company’s AI agents run more than 8,000 businesses and even handled parts of the fundraising process itself. Polsia is reportedly nearing a $10 million annual revenue run rate, with AI systems managing work traditionally done by human teams. The company’s rapid growth shows how some startups are beginning to experiment with fully AI-run business operations.

2/ Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus solves 9 open Erdős math problems

Google DeepMind says its AlphaProof Nexus system has solved 9 open Erdős mathematics problems along with 44 open OEIS conjectures. The system combines AI models with the Lean proof assistant, which checks each logical step to prevent mistakes and hallucinations. Unlike most AI math systems built for benchmarks and exams, AlphaProof Nexus focuses on real research problems, with some solutions reportedly costing only a few hundred dollars to generate. The breakthrough is adding to the growing debate over whether AI systems are starting to move beyond pattern matching into real reasoning.

TRENDING TOOLS

  • Memdex > Turn every AI conversation into structured, reusable local memory

  • Polsia > An AI co-founder that plans, builds, and runs businesses around the clock

  • Stitch 3.0 by Google > Generate, edit, and iterate UI screens with AI directly on a live canvas

  • LongCat > A free and open-source AI model for creating realistic talking avatars

  • Loova Agents > An AI creative director for video production. Describe your idea, and it plans scenes and generates footage using models like Kling, Veo, and Sora

  • Freu AI > Learns from user behavior to automate complex workflows across apps without APIs or manual setup

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