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This story is wild. The short version: OpenAI were running a cybersecurity test against an unreleased model, with the model's guardrail features turned off. Rather than solve the test, the model broke
The case against OpenAI is getting markedly stronger now that Musk is off the stand. Why? Musk’s lawyer is interrogating OpenAI founder Greg Brockman, making clear that OpenAI sold its mission as a no
Bloomberg: Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated 29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm — OpenAI co-founder and President G
Well-known, well-respected AI expert Stuart Russell is now testifying at the Musk-OpenAI trial – despite OpenAI’s BS attempts to exclude him. Read the backstory here: A new filing just dropped in the
Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says OpenAI's Microsoft deal “limited our ability” to reach clients using Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal — OpenAI's newly app
Kai Nicol-Schwarz / CNBC: OpenAI plans to open its first permanent London office with a 500+ staff capacity; in February, OpenAI said it would make London its largest non-US research hub — OpenAI has
Amir Efrati / The Information: Cursor co-founder Michael Truell says OpenAI represents just 5% of Cursor's traffic and Cursor trusted OpenAI to be “neutral”; Musk says he “couldn't care less” — OpenAI
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about 'the Hugging Face Incident' (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It's short and information
CNBC: Apple alleges that Tang Tan, OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a former Apple VP, has directed Apple staffers interviewing at OpenAI to share Apple secrets — Apple on Friday sued OpenAI in fed
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Apple claims OpenAI recruited 400+ ex-Apple employees, including an iPhone engineer who allegedly downloaded confidential hardware files before joining OpenAI — Apple Sues Ope
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Apple says OpenAI leadership “normalized” misconduct and OpenAI's hardware business is “rotten to its core by its illegal reliance” on stolen trade secrets — Apple filed a la
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: OpenAI's head of safety, Johannes Heidecke, is leaving as OpenAI integrates its research and safety teams; Mia Glaese will become VP of research and safety — Johannes Heidecke's
Wall Street Journal: How Sam Altman's 80+ personal investments, many from his time at YC, benefit from ties to OpenAI; 10+ companies have discussed business deals with OpenAI — OpenAI CEO's holdings i
CNBC: Source: OpenAI and White House are discussing a government stake in the company, to seed something like the “Public Wealth Fund” that OpenAI outlined earlier — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the Whit
OpenAI: OpenAI releases a new report on knowledge work: Codex now has 5M+ weekly active users, up 6x+ since February, and knowledge workers are ~20% of Codex users — OpenAI today released a new report
OpenAI: OpenAI says it has not donated to any super PACs and does not have an employee-funded PAC, and that Greg Brockman's support for Leading the Future is personal — AI is going to be one of the mo
Sam Altman is rushing to an IPO for OpenAI... ...but if the public markets treat @OpenAI like a traditional business instead of a religion, it's game over. 💀💀💀 @sama #openai #chatGPT credit: @Stylosa
Reuters: OpenAI launches the OpenAI Deployment Company with a 4B+ investment to help organizations build and deploy AI systems, and acquires AI consulting firm Tomoro — OpenAI said on Monday it is set
OpenAI for Excel is quite useful (as is Claude for Excel), so it is surprising, that, unlike Claude, there is no OpenAI for PowerPoint, especially because it is where OpenAI has a big advantage: Image
Former OpenAI employee Rosie Campbell is the FIRST PERSON in the trial to point out that OpenAI's mission does NOT REQUIRE building AGI Undermines the entire justification for creating the for-profit
Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: Letter: three fired OpenAI researchers urge AI labs to halt work that could impair AI monitoring and say their firings are “chilling those who remain at OpenAI” — I
OpenAI: OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, a new feature that includes graphics and interactive elements like charts, buttons, and forms in answers — Last month we introduced the f
@openai: OpenAI says GPT-6 in ChatGPT's Chat tab is powered by GPT-6 Sol for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise tiers and GPT-6 Luna for Free and Go tiers — GPT-6 with Intelligent UI rolls out global
A nonprofit group, Legal Advocates for Safe Science & Technology (LASST), sued OpenAI in the San Francisco County Superior Court following a July 2026 incident where OpenAI’s AI agents stole credentia
Wired: OpenAI says the rogue AI that breached Hugging Face used exposed credentials from “four accounts” tied to four “publicly available” third-party services — In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its a
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: Sources: Sam Altman told staff that OpenAI is expected to go public “within the next year” and OpenAI plans a tender offer “very soon” at a $687.69 share price —
🚨 OpenAI just launched GPT-5.5. The OpenAI team was nice enough to give me early access over the last several weeks, and I just want to flag: there is a certain class of models (one that we’re hitting
Arasu Kannagi Basil / Reuters: OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents — OpenAI has informed more than 1
Yash Roy / Bloomberg: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says OpenAI's Hugging Face hacking incident is “the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents” — Treasury Secretary Scott
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: An in-depth look at OpenAI's wiki incident: other hacked message boards, OpenAI's cover-up, how harmless web search tasks led agents to break out, and more
Financial Times: Filing: Amazon has completed its 50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% — Ecommerce giant has roughly 5%
Aya Wagatsuma / Bloomberg: SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock — SoftBank Gr
Hot take on a bad day for OpenAI: WeWork’s IPO fell apart. I’ve been calling OpenAI the (possible) WeWork of AI for a long time. I will not be surprised if their IPO plans apart, too. Their apparent p
I just ran into a guy I know in NYC who said he’s doing a temporary gig for OpenAI. According to him, OpenAI is paying hundreds of people and families in New York to install 360-degree cameras through
NEWS: OpenAI hit with Class-Action Privacy Lawsuit for Sharing ChatGPT Data with Google and Meta. Sam Altman's OpenAI secretly embedded Meta’s Facebook Pixel and Google Analytics into ChatGPT, turning
Ben Cohen / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI president Greg Brockman's journal has emerged as a star witness in the Musk v. Altman trial; Brockman says he stopped writing about OpenAI in it in 2023 — The j
Elon Musk allegedly admitted during legal testimony that xAI is distilling OpenAI models to train its own systems and utilizing OpenAI's technology, according to a post by Clem Delangue discussing sta
Wired: Musk v. Altman: OpenAI lawyers claim Shivon Zilis, a longtime Musk employee and mother to four of his children, acted as a covert liaison between him and OpenAI — Messages presented at trial re
Business Insider: Core Automation, co-founded by ex-OpenAI VP Jerry Tworek, launches to build “the world's most automated AI lab” with talent from OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind — - A new AI startup,
OpenAI: To comply with the EU AI Act, OpenAI plans to add text watermarking for ChatGPT and Codex users in the EU and an opt-in setting for API customers globally — - Starting today, API customers glo
OpenAI: OpenAI releases MentalHealthBench, an open benchmark to evaluate AI responses in realistic mental health conversations, developed with 80+ licensed experts — An open benchmark developed with m
@openai: OpenAI says ChatGPT Voice can now be powered by GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna, use plugins like email and calendar, and be used in ChatGPT Work on web and mobile — We heard you loud and clear. C
OpenAI: OpenAI discovered an unreleased Astra model adding an “unrelated persona instruction” during RL training, but did not observe any behavioral differences — Summary — We observed rare cases of a
Sri Muppidi / New York Times: Sources: investors recently approached OpenAI with a proposal to invest at a 1.2T valuation, but OpenAI believes its valuation should be at least 1.5T — The funding round
OpenAI: OpenAI says it hit its “automated research intern” goal, its researchers now use 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday, and top users spend $7,000+/day on tokens — For AGI to benefit all of hum
Todd Bishop / GeekWire: The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the companies trained AI on their journalism; Microsoft and OpenAI are funders of Seattle Times — Microsoft was
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: A detailed recap of the Hugging Face breach by an internal OpenAI model, which repeatedly tried to escape OpenAI's sandbox and should be treated as critica
OpenAI: OpenAI launches GPT-Live, a new generation of voice models built on a full-duplex architecture, meaning they can listen and speak at the same time — A new generation of voice models for natura
OpenAI: OpenAI says it found widespread task issues in SWE-Bench Pro, estimates ~30% of tasks are broken, and retracts its earlier recommendation to adopt the benchmark — Through a detailed audit, we
Aisha Down / The Guardian: Source calls UK- and OpenAI-touted plans in 2025 for Stargate's ~£20B Cobalt site a PR stunt; OpenAI and Nscale failed to visit Cobalt or lodge planning forms — Exclusive: £
BREAKING NEWS: OpenAI’s Technical Lead for Compute has returned to OpenAI after joining Meta in April 2026. What is going on at Meta that people are quitting after only a couple of months? Did Anuj ge
OpenAI: OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra were capable of identifying vulnerabilities but were unable to execute autonomous, end-to-end attacks against hardened targets — GPT-5.6 is a new family of th
OpenAI: Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki claim OpenAI is “entering the third phase”, aiming to automate AI research, boost the economy, and give everyone a personal AGI — Every few generations, a new tec
OpenAI: OpenAI updates ChatGPT memory with a “more capable and compute-efficient” architecture and a summary page that lets users review and steer what it remembers — Improving memory synthesis in Cha
@OpenAI Foundation just launched with a 25B commitment and equity in OpenAI valued at ~130B. Sounds like a philanthropy giant. But look closer: the big money goes to programs they control internally (
If you have been experiencing issues with OpenAI Codex oAuth, it is now fixed. OpenAI has been fixing it in the background and then seemed to change their whole spec today to solve it, you must `herme
This newsletter episode covers major AI developments including Elon Musk's legal loss against OpenAI, updates announced at Google's I/O conference, and OpenAI's achievement in solving the Erdős discre
OpenAI Global Affairs: OpenAI endorses the Kids Online Safety Act and Illinois SB 315, an AI safety bill to create requirements around transparency, incident reporting, and more — Welcome (back) to Th
David Keohane / Financial Times: SoftBank reports Q4 net income up 3x to ~11.6B, above ~1.5B est., driven by a 25B gain in its OpenAI stake; by October, its OpenAI investment will hit 64.6B — Japanese
John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current 852B valuation, the stake is worth 5B+ — Speaking of c