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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face The

More data than open-source AI is taking share from OpenAI and Anthropic. Open source has gone from 28% token share to 62% token share @vercel over the last 2 months. Chart from @rauchg Super impressiv

this would be more credible if Sam had left OpenAI when the board fired him. 🚨 Sam Altman fires shots at Anthropic >“ai becomes too powerful we can’t control it” >“power gets too centralized… one comp

GPT-5.6 Sol is now the most affordable frontier model on Devin Desktop and CLI. Today, OpenAI reduced Sol’s prices by 20% for the next 3 months. Last week's 70% discount still applies, so through Octo

Trishla Ostwal / Adweek: OpenAI expands its ad pilot program across 31 European markets, including Germany, France, Spain, and Italy; the pilot launched in the US, the UK, and others — Expansion of th

I would like to publicly commend @sama and @OpenAI for this taking it at face value. It is very clear that strange and perhaps dangerous things are happening and our systems are not ready for this. Mo

Financial Times: Effective Altruism, hit by the SBF turmoil, is drawing record funding as Anthropic and OpenAI IPOs are set to mint new millionaires wedded to “effective giving” — Expected IPOs for An

Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's special projects lead and the company's former COO, announced his departure after an eight-year stint at the AI lab. In an internal memo he later posted to X, Lightcap told col

Gary Marcus commented on Twitter that OpenAI “distilled” Google’s brand name, prompting a humorous response from Tony Carden. Carden’s reply referenced Google DeepMind’s Project Astra and included a s

Lily Hay Newman / Wired: Experts say US law is unprepared for rogue AI agents and models, as recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents raise questions over legal liability and repercussions — Both major A

An internal version of Astra, @OpenAI’s next major model family, solved 10 major open problems in mathematics, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science. We believe it will be a major step

Fascinating: OpenAI’s @deanwball is saying Astra can do anything, and it’s not even clear it can do “anything” in math (let alone anything in more or open-ended, less formalizable domains). I dropped

Hot take on OpenAI’s Astra: - Obviously impressive - But math is different from most other problems in that it is more amenable to to formal verification and synthetic data. How well it works in open-

Situational Awareness, the $20bn hedge fund founded by former OpenAI employee Leopold Aschenbrenner, has sought to raise fresh capital from investors after suffering heavy losses during the recent rou

New from @Reuters: the OpenAI agent that hacked into Hugging Face also compromised code that a customer was running on @Modal. “We’re aware a Modal customer published an unauthenticated endpoint that

Wall Street Journal: How US companies flipped from “tokenmaxxing” to “thrift-maxxing”, mixing cheaper Chinese models with OpenAI and Anthropic, threatening the labs' IPO valuations — Companies big and

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Nvidia is in talks to provide a ~$250B backstop for OpenAI as part of a 10 GW data center project that SoftBank is developing in Ohio — Project would be one of the larges

OpenAI Group PBC today introduced a product called Presence that enterprises can use to build artificial intelligence agents. The company is using the software to power its call center. According to O

OpenAI Group PBC today disclosed that two of its artificial intelligence models broke out of a controlled testing environment and hacked open-source AI platform Hugging Face Inc. to cheat on an intern

We're part of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) AI Builder Lab in New York on Friday, July 24 - a Clash of Agents competition with OpenAI, LangChain, HiddenLayer, Protopia AI, Fiddler AI, and Coder. One d

Apple Inc. today sued OpenAI Group PBC for allegedly stealing intellectual property related to its consumer devices. The iPhone maker filed the complaint with the U.S. District Court for the Northern

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered 'a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by

Aaron Tilley / The Information: In its lawsuit, Apple chronicles in vivid detail how its former employees that went to work for OpenAI allegedly violated their confidentiality agreements — In the mont

CNBC: Source: Greg Brockman will continue to oversee OpenAI's products as the company doesn't plan to hire anyone to replace Fidji Simo after she stepped down — There's a new second-in-command at Open

i am really sad about this and very grateful for all fidji has done for openai, and even grateful for her friendship and who she is as a person. we all wish her the best for a speedy recovery. this su

Multiple news organizations including The New York Times and Daily News have asked a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, alleging the company hid evidence critical to a copyright infringement

OpenAI Group PBC today expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity program with a new open-source patching initiative called Patch the Planet, an updated Codex Security plugin, a partner program and the full

With SoftBank apparently struggling to get a margin loan against it’s OpenAI shares, it’s maybe time to repost this, from two years ago. The vast majority of my earlier worries remain: 9 reasons that

⚠️ The American public may be about to be fleeced. ⚠️ OpenAI, a deeply unethical company that was built on a series of lies, does not have a realistic road to profitability. And they reportedly want t

DeepSeek is becoming more popular among US enterprises as companies look for cheaper alternatives to Anthropic and OpenAI “DeepSeek takes top spot on 'trending' list as companies look for alternatives

OpenAI Group PBC’s newly released proposal for how advanced artificial intelligence should be regulated differs slightly from the Trump administration’s executive order, also released this week. Relea

OpenAI is in deep, deep trouble They are low on capital relative to the massive cash they are burning and there is only so much capital in the world. No rational person would sell their Bitcoin or Nvi

Florida today became the first U.S. state to sue OpenAI Group PBC and its chief executive, alleging that its product ChatGPT can be harmful to its users and that the company has failed to make clear t

1. Agreed that OpenAI is in deep trouble; that’s why I have long suggested that it might be the WeWork of AI but 2. Anthropic is not out of the woods; their best quarter was exactly when tokenmaxxing

OpenAI Group PBC today made its Codex programming assistant available on mobile devices. The service is accessible through ChatGPT’s iOS and Android clients. It’s rolling out about eight months after

OpenAI Group PBC has added a set of personal finance features to ChatGPT Pro, the priciest consumer tier of its popular chatbot service. On launch, the capabilities are available in preview to a limit

OpenAI Group PBC co-founder and Chief Executive Sam Altman faced the witness stand today in the high-stakes trial that could determine the future of the company. Elon Musk is suing the company and its

wow! “It is the [House] Committee’s understanding that the new board of directors at OpenAI tried to address these problems upon your return by creating an “audit committee to review potential conflic

Introducing the OpenAI Deployment Company, which will help businesses maximally succeed with their deployments of AI. Starting with 150 Forward Deployed Engineers and Deployment Specialists, and $4 bi

OpenAI Group PBC has developed a version of GPT-5.5 that is specifically optimized for cybersecurity research. GPT‑5.5‑Cyber, as the model is called, made its debut on Thursday. It’s available in limi

OpenAI Group PBC is replacing the default model in ChatGPT with the launch of GPT-5.5 Instant, claiming users will notice fewer hallucinations when it’s discussing “sensitive topics” such as finance,

OpenAI Group PBC co-founder and President Greg Brockman today disclosed in an ongoing landmark trial that his stake in the company is worth close to 30 billion, a windfall Elon Musk has invoked in his

Families of victims of a February 2026 mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company identified the shooter as a credible threat eight months be

Oracle has dropped 50% since I declared that the OpenAI deal they made was “peak bubble”. And, as @edzitron lays out below, they may fall a lot further yet. At which point the entire house of cards co

Sam’s not the right CEO for OpenAI anymore. He squandered their lead, failed to deliver the AGI he promised, flailed productwise, and torched his own reputation; meanwhile he is burning money at a unp

Seven California-based lawsuits allege that OpenAI could have prevented Canada’s deadliest school shooting by not reporting a flagged ChatGPT account to law‑enforcement. Safety‑team experts had identi