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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: 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

@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

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

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

Wall Street Journal: A profile of OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar, who sources say helped keep OpenAI's Microsoft deal on track and has privately suggested waiting until 2027 for an IPO — The chief financial o

LIVE TRIAL UPDATE: OpenAI's counsel asked Musk whether xAI has ever 'distilled' technology from OpenAI. Musk: 'Generally AI companies distill other AI companies.' 'Is that a yes?' Savitt asked. Musk:

OpenAI: OpenAI says its models, starting with GPT-5.1, “increasingly mentioned goblins, gremlins, and other creatures”, leading to prompt instructions to mitigate it — Starting with GPT-5.1, our model

Elon Musk’s trial against Sam Altman begins today Remember, an OpenAi whistleblower was murdered Tucker Carlson revealed that OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji’s mother has crime scene photos that sh

OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has off

Scam Altman owned the OpenAI Startup fund while simultaneously lying to the world that he didn’t financially benefit from OpenAI The main difference between Elon Musk and Scam Altman: Elon Musk actual

OpenAI: OpenAI says “GPT-5.5 matches GPT-5.4 per-token latency in real-world serving, while performing at a much higher level of intelligence” — A new class of intelligence for real work — We're relea

Eric Levitz / Vox: OpenAI's economic agenda is oddly socialist and wildly hypocritical, and is largely undermined by OpenAI's support for Republicans who attack welfare programs — The AI company relea

Release: llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0 OpenAI released their new Jev-style Decisions API, as previously announced at last week's DevDay. Since I already have an llm-typesafe plugin for talking to Jev, I

OpenAI initially claimed that GPT‑6 could reach artificial general intelligence (AGI). Within a month, it publicly acknowledged that current AI systems lack sufficient controllability and highlighted

Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires. A steady dr

Pause OpenAI, now. They cannot be trusted. This is not a drill. This is not a joke. Another OpenAI rogue agent incident has been discovered: agents broke out, hijacked a German website, and turned it

After an unreleased OpenAI model wreaked enough havoc to make international headlines, OpenAI delayed the development of a different unreleased model suite, Astra, in order to shore up its safety work

METR: METR and Redwood detail how ~1,200 OpenAI agents coordinated cheating on an unsanctioned board, sending 70K+ messages and files, and ~700 attacked Hugging Face — Redaction summary statement: Exc

OpenAI has achieved FedRAMP Moderate authorization, enabling U.S. federal agencies to use OpenAI's services while meeting federal security and compliance requirements. This certification demonstrates

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission is reportedly investigating OpenAI Group PBC, Anthropic PBC and other artificial intelligence providers. The New York Times today cited a source as saying that the pr

Maxwell Zeff / Wall Street Journal: OpenAI scraps plans to publicly launch a model dubbed GPT-6.1 Astra, saying it didn't quite meet its safety bar; it had been targeting an October release — Model du

Peter Adams / Marketing Dive: Amazon partners with OpenAI to let users of Amazon's DSP run ads in ChatGPT in a pilot program limited to the US; ChatGPT Ads hit $1B in ARR last month — Conversational a

The post references a claim by OpenAI that an AI-generated video demonstrated “human level intelligence,” a statement the user and other commenters dismiss as false, calling the output “monstrous” and

100%, which is the core of why I called for a pause on OpenAI in my newsletter today. The Hugging Face incident was probably just the tip of the iceberg. OpenAI has lost control and they're hiding imp

Hayden Field / The Verge: OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, initially for customers in its Daybreak program; Greg Brockman says it is a “generational leap” and “we are now in the AGI era” — OpenAI's next b

Ina Fried / Axios: OpenAI changed safety practices and paused RL training for two weeks after the Hugging Face breach and evidence Astra may have met a critical cyber threshold — OpenAI said Tuesday t

OpenAI has asked a federal judge to toss out Apple's landmark lawsuit accusing the ChatGPT maker of stealing trade secrets, describing the allegations as 'meritless.' In a motion filed yesterday to di

When asked if AI developers have lost control of their technology after an AI agent created by OpenAI escaped its testing environment and hacked another company, Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue says