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OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.

OpenAI highlights use cases of its tools by news organizations for reporting, audience growth, and operations.

OpenAI announces Project Camellia infrastructure investment in Effingham County, Georgia with commitments to energy efficiency, job creation, and Codex access.

OpenAI partners with U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to apply frontier AI to scientific discovery and research acceleration.

Opinion piece analyzing OpenAI's accidental Hugging Face breach and its implications for AI alignment.

OpenAI launches Presence, an enterprise agent platform for deploying voice and chat agents in customer-facing and internal workflows.

Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. | Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, Hugging Face disclosed a security incident that it says was driven by "an autonomous AI agent system." Hugging Face's AI agents detected and stopped the breach, which OpenAI has now...

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Small Businesses program offering training and automation tools via ChatGPT Work.

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 20 2026: People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, Monday, July 20, 2026. | Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The response was swift and predictable. Markets wobbled, commentators declared Silicon Valley shooketh, and policymakers reached for the familiar language of arms races and wake-up calls. In one headline, The Ass...

OpenAI and Hugging Face disclose security incident during model evaluation, sharing findings on advanced cyber capabilities and defense lessons.

David Vélez and Robin Vince appointed to OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC boards.

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

China's leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America's lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming central to national security, economic power, and geopolitical influence. The opening salvo came from Beijing-based Moonshot AI, one of China's leading AI model developers, which unveiled Kimi K3 on Friday. Moonshot claims its own testing ranks it consistently ab...

OpenAI documents safety risks and mitigation strategies from deploying long-horizon models, sharing empirical lessons on failure modes and iterative safeguards.

Sam Altman email (Oct 2022) reveals OpenAI planned GPT-3-class open-weight model for consumer hardware to preempt Stability AI.

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.

Dave Eggers attends the "The Turning Point: To Be Destroyed" premiere. | Image: John Lamparski/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he'd roll into the company's offices and offer tips on being relentlessly prolific, or how to excel in multiple fields. Instead, he apparently laced into the company. Ac...

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David go through the lawsuit, and look at Apple's history of splashy litigation to determine whether Apple is worried about a possible competitor or simply looking to capitalize on a weak moment for OpenAI. All this is happening as Apple ships the public betas of its new software,...

Stratechery weekly digest covering mainframe obsolescence, OpenAI developments, and Netflix competitive position.

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO […]

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar proposes AI scorecard framework measuring ROI via useful work, cost-per-task, dependability, and compute efficiency.

OpenAI introduces age-appropriate safeguards, parental controls, and learning tools for ChatGPT teenage users.

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

OpenAI documents internal use of Codex for custom tool development, prototyping, and creative ideation workflows.

Cars24 deploys OpenAI voice and chat agents handling 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recovering 12% lost leads via agentic workflows.

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company released the latest version of its flagship LLM, GPT-5.6. OpenAI says that training it against GPT-Red made the model its most robust release yet. GPT-Red automates…