Lynette Bye is a journalist at Transformer News, an AI-focused newsletter and publication. She covers AI safety research, with an emphasis on translating technical alignment work for broader audiences.
Alignment-research journalism
Bye wrote "No, Alignment Isn't Solved" (March 18, 2026), a survey of the alignment field's current state that drew on interviews with Garriga-Alonso, Leike, Greenblatt, Dalrymple, Hubinger, and Russell (No, Alignment Isn't Solved). She earlier wrote "Misaligned AI Is No Longer Just Theory" (May 21, 2025), an early documentation of model organism misalignment demonstrations.
Work at Epoch AI
Bye is also credited as an Epoch AI researcher. With Josh You she published an analysis on August 27, 2026 putting OpenAI's revenue run rate above $40 billion against $13 billion in August 2025, and recording that Anthropic grew from $1 billion to $9 billion across 2025 and reached a reported $65 billion run rate by the end of July 2026. The analysis records that the two labs tripled in 2024, grew more than fourfold in 2025, and have grown 3.5× so far in 2026, from $30 billion to $105 billion combined, while noting the pace may be easing — the pair stood at roughly $55 billion combined at the end of the first quarter and took about four months to double again (Source: epochai.substack.com).
The analysis is the source of the comparability caveat now carried on both company pages: where tokens are bought through cloud platforms, OpenAI books only the cut it receives while Anthropic books the full cost, so the two run-rate figures are not directly comparable. Reporting of September 3, 2026 later sized that difference at roughly 6% to 10% of Anthropic's figure (Anthropic).
Whether the Transformer News and Epoch AI roles are concurrent or sequential is not recorded here.
Relationships
- related: Epoch AI — co-author of its August 2026 frontier-lab revenue analysis
- related: Constitutional AI — coverage of alignment progress and limits
- related: AI Scheming — coverage of deceptive behavior research
- related: Ryan Greenblatt, Evan Hubinger, Jan Leike — primary interview subjects