OpenAI announced new hires this week: former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll will become the AI pioneer’s senior counselor for national security modernization, advising OpenAI’s partners on policy and strategy to support AI-led national security efforts, and former Uber chief corporate affairs officer Jill Hazelbaker will occupy the same role at OpenAI. The article says the hires mean more Silicon Valley ties to Washington and vice versa. Separately, the success of Meta’s Muse personal assistant has convinced the AI industry that personal agents that proactively complete tasks are the next logical evolution of the technology, but it’s unclear if there is enough compute available to power them—at least in the timeframe that these companies are betting on. This week Elon Musk said the cost of running Grok Bot, the personal AI assistant SpaceX introduced in August, is “unsustainably high relative to revenue,” and he suggested the company was throttling back the compute allocation for the technology, causing users to hit their limits faster. At an intimate dinner with reporters in New York City on Monday, the head of ChatGPT’s consumer business Adam Fry said OpenAI’s Dots assistants are “on the compute-heavy side,” with each Dot assistant having its own cloud computer. Dots availability is limited to those with a Pro subscription, which costs a whopping $100 per month.