Naomi Bashkansky has left OpenAI to join Conduit as a founding researcher. Her move follows other departures from OpenAI, including co-founder and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever, who left to start Safe Superintelligence, which reportedly has $5 billion backing from NVIDIA. Conduit is pursuing a "thought-to-text" concept that could enable direct communication through thoughts, potentially changing how humans interact with machines. Bashkansky's transition underscores the rapid evolution of the field and researchers' pursuit of bold new ideas.