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Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

Cutthroat negotiations between startup founders are rarely shared so publicly, especially when a company becomes as world-changing as OpenAI.

Mira Murati, OpenAI's former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model. In a video deposition shown during the ongoing Musk v. Altman trial on Wednesday, Murati said Altman falsely stated that OpenAI's legal department determined a new AI model did not need to go through the company's deployment safety board. "As you understand it, was Mr. Altman telling the truth when he made that statement to you?" Murati was asked in the deposition. "No," Murati said. Murat said that during her tenure at OpenAI, Altman made her work more dif...

Qwen 3.6 27B achieves 2.5x inference speedup via MTP speculative decoding in llama.cpp; 262k context on 48GB with fixed chat templates.

OpenAI details ChatGPT privacy safeguards, user data filtering, and opt-out mechanisms for training data contribution.

Uber integrated OpenAI models into AI assistants and voice features to optimize driver earnings and rider booking across its marketplace.

OpenAI announces ChatGPT Futures Class of 2026, a cohort of 26 student innovators using ChatGPT for research and real-world projects.

OpenAI B2B Signals research examines how enterprises scale AI adoption and agentic workflows to build competitive advantage.

Elon Musk argued the journals show the moment when OpenAI abandoned its mission.

Alex Lupsasca (OpenAI) details how GPT-5.x generated novel theoretical physics and quantum gravity results.

OpenAI begins rollout of GPT-5.5 Instant model variant in ChatGPT, positioning faster inference tier.

The new GPT-5.5 Instant model will replace GPT-3.5 Instant as the default model for ChatGPT

OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has "significant improvements in factuality across the board." The company claims that, based on "internal evaluations," GPT-5.5 Instant produced "52.5% fewer hallucinated claims" than its Instant model for GPT-5.3 "on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance." GPT-5.5 Instant also "reduced inaccurate claims by 37.3% on especially challenging conversations users had flagged for factual erro...

OpenAI's first hardware product might be a phone instead of a mysterious Jony Ive gadget. As reported by MacRumors, supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo shared details about the rumored phone, claiming OpenAI is "fast-tracking" it and aiming to start mass production in early 2027. According to Kuo, the phone will run on a "customized version of the [MediaTek] Dimensity 9600," which is expected to launch this fall and follow up the Dimensity 9500 currently powering phones like the Vivo X300 Pro and the Oppo Find X9 Pro. The custom chip's "headline spec" will be its image signal processor (ISP), w...

Reddit post claims Musk's fear of DeepMind CEO Hassabis motivated OpenAI founding; cites trial testimony about 2015 meeting.

OpenAI reportedly planning smartphone launch for next year; unconfirmed hardware product outside core AI model development.

OpenAI developing persistent user context feature ('lore') for ChatGPT to maintain conversation history and preferences.

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) says it will work with the AI companies to perform "pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities." CAISI, which started evaluating models from OpenAI and Anthropic in 2024, says it has performed 40 reviews so far. Both companies "have renegotiated their existing partnerships with the center to bett...

OpenAI expected to ship ~30M AI agent phones in early 2025, per industry analyst forecast.

About a week into the Musk v. Altman trial, we've heard from some of the most powerful people in tech - including OpenAI president Greg Brockman, Elon Musk's fixer Jared Birchall, and Musk himself. But one of the most prominent characters is hovering around the margins: Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind. Hassabis is the architect of Google's in-house AI lab. He founded DeepMind as an independent startup in 2010 and sold it to Google four years later, reportedly for between $400-650 million. Since then, he's been at the helm of many of Google's largest AI research breakthroughs, like Alph...

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant system card detailing model capabilities, limitations, and safety properties.

OpenAI releases MRC (Multipath Reliable Connection), an OCP networking protocol for resilience and performance in large-scale AI training clusters.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT's default model with improved accuracy, reduced hallucinations, and personalization controls.

Y Combinator owns approximately 0.6% of OpenAI, valued at ~$5B at current $852B valuation.

OpenAI launches self-serve Ads Manager for ChatGPT with CPC bidding and privacy-preserving measurement.

OpenAI launches European Youth Safety Blueprint and EMEA grants program targeting teen AI safety and educator resources.

When the bromance sours, we all end up in court. | Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images The strongest witness for Elon Musk's case against OpenAI so far has been Greg Brockman's journal. Brockman himself is running as a close second. Brockman was called to the stand in a rather unusual way - he was cross-examined first, followed by a direct examination - and he had some serious high school debate club energy. There was a lot of "I wouldn't characterize it that way," "I wouldn't say it that way," and "That sounds like something I wrote. Can I see it in context?" When Musk's attorney,...

AI chip maker Cerebras is heading for a blockbuster IPO that could value it at $26.6 billion or more. It's relationship with OpenAI is deep and rich.