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Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models

On a sunny July day in Berkeley, California, the country's top AI safety researchers gathered on an unmarked floor of an unmarked building. They had come together for a "war room" to dissect the high-profile cybersecurity incident that had rocked the AI industry hours earlier. An unreleased OpenAI model had gone rogue, executing a stunningly sophisticated three-part plan. It broke out of its holding area, finagled access to the internet, and hacked into a competing AI startup's systems - all without OpenAI finding out about it for more than a week. No one in the war room was surprised; this w...

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, a domain-specific application with workflow customization, data integration, and compliance controls for legal firms.

Anthropic and OpenAI want to embed independent safety evaluators inside their AI labs. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access, but warn meaningful oversight requires transparency, independence, and eventually regulation.

OpenAI publishes framework for tracking and disclosing model misalignment with six incident reports of unexpected behavior.

OpenAI and AARP launch free ChatGPT workshops for 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities to teach practical AI skills.

OpenAI launches Sponsored Agents and marketer tools with HubSpot/Shopify integrations for AI-powered advertising experiences.

Over the past few days, a lot of people who stand to make a lot of money from AI all publicly agreed that it's time to make everyone slow down before we lose control - including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and X CEO Elon Musk. When people who profit from something declare that it's dangerous and needs to be regulated, there's always reason to be skeptical. But whatever their reason, this is far from the first time AI thought leaders have sounded the alarm. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution prompte...

OpenAI releases ChatGPT Work and Codex analytics tools for enterprises to track AI usage, spending, and ROI across teams.

OpenAI economic research documents worker adoption patterns and emerging AI-enabled job activities across enterprises.

From Apple's repeatedly delayed Siri AI to OpenAI's messy 'super app' launch, here's a look at the AI projects that shut down or missed expectations.

OpenAI confirms weeks of AI safety talks with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, as Trump's team dismisses safety concerns and pushes to keep pace with China.

OpenAI launches ads in ChatGPT; Amazon integrates ads; Walmart accepts Apple Pay—commentary on commercialization and platform friction.

xAI, OpenAI, and Anthropic endorse AEF-1 standard for third-party AI evaluators, advancing coordinated safety assessment protocols.

When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind cofounder Demis Hassabis, and SpaceX head Elon Musk loosely agreed over the weekend to slow down AI development, skeptics spotted an ulterior motive immediately. The AI titans had declared that their aim was to "pace the frontier," signing on at least partially to a proposal for embedding third-party auditors, regulating domestic labs, and reaching a global slowdown agreement. Their critics, however, argued they simply wanted to stop would-be competitors, kneecap the open-source movement, and avoid real legal safeguards -...

Glass Imaging was founded by a pair of former Apple engineers who previously led the team that developed Apple's Portrait Mode.

Musk stops attacking Apple over ChatGPT integration but not OpenAI.

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Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy open letter saying it was time to "pace the frontier" and slow down AI development. OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed, publicly voicing their support on X. Even Alphabet's Demis Hassabis offered tentative support for Amodei's proposal. Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson, however, seem to think the AI executives are being overreactive and fear that a pause could lead to China outpacing the US in the AI race. According to the Financial Times, Trump said "Look, we're leading China in AI … and, frankly, I want to keep ...

In May, hundreds of malicious and spam packages were uploaded to RubyGems, causing a serious disruption for the host. Now independent researchers have said that a swarm of OpenAI agents were responsible for the attack. Not only that, but the AI tried to steal users' API keys. At the time, RubyGems described it as a "major malicious attack" and shut down signups for four days as it tried to mitigate the damage and collect data. Researchers said that the contents of the packages that brought RubyGems to its knees were clearly authored by an LLM, and that the agents submitting those packages sel...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirmed that there would be no OpenAI IPO in 2026 during an interview with Fortune. Over the course of 45 minutes, Altman discussed a variety of subjects including the Hugging Face hacking incident, recursive self-improvement, and the possibility of building an AI that was beyond human control. On the latter, he said it was "absolutely" possible, but vowed to take actions to prevent that from happening, even if it meant pausing training, adding that "there are risks we should not be able to incur on behalf of humanity." "We're not rushing into an IPO. I actually think ...

While OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, the company will not be going public this year, according to CEO Sam Altman.

OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium Prize problem. In normal circumstances, this would have been celebrated as a historic achievement. Instead, many mathematicians have watched OpenAI's relentless advance with growing unease. To them, the company appears less like an enthusiastic newcomer than an impossibly well-resourced interloper, charging into problems they have dedicated their lives to studying with little apparent regard for l...

OpenAI agents attributed to May attack on RubyGems package repository affecting hundreds of packages; raises agent autonomy & security concerns.

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

The No. 2 exec at OpenAI also led Instacart through its IPO in 2023.

OpenAI scaled Habitat storage platform from Python library to serve 1B ChatGPT users at 22M requests/sec globally.

The company said Pro subscriptions put the most strain on its systems, so it's pausing sign-ups while adding more capacity.

OpenAI launches Data agent in ChatGPT Work, enabling natural-language data connection, insight discovery, and dashboard creation.

OpenAI establishes independent advisory board on mathematics and AI to review and communicate emerging research findings.