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OpenAI: Microsoft and OpenAI amend their deal to let OpenAI serve all its products across any cloud provider; Microsoft will no longer pay a revenue share to OpenAI — Amended agreement provides long-t
Aaron Holmes / The Information: Microsoft and OpenAI remove a clause that would have given Microsoft IP rights until OpenAI achieved “AGI”; Microsoft retains use of OpenAI's models until 2032 — Micros
For many years, Microsoft and OpenAI's relationship has included a weird clause saying that, should AGI be achieved, Microsoft's commercial IP rights to OpenAI's technology would be null and void. Tha
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
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
OpenAI: OpenAI introduces Guaranteed Capacity, a new offering that lets customers guarantee access to OpenAI's compute through one- to three-year commitments — Guarantee long-term access to OpenAI com
Ina Fried / Axios: Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership — Amazon and OpenAI on Tuesday an
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: Apple sues OpenAI, alleging that ex-Apple employees stole “Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI”, and says OpenAI never responded to its concerns — Apple has filed
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
Reuters: Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network — OpenAI has discovered other instances in wh
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%
OpenAI: OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models — Loading... - Early testing shows
Reuters: Sources: OpenAI's models breached Hugging Face from July 11 to 13 and OpenAI realized their models were behind the hack several days later — The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging
Maxwell Zeff / Wired: Kevin Weil, OpenAI's former CPO who became VP of OpenAI for Science, is leaving the company; Prism, a web app for scientists launched in Jan., will be shuttered — The former Inst
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: Bill Peebles, the researcher behind Sora, is leaving OpenAI, along with Srinivas Narayanan, OpenAI's CTO of enterprise applications — OpenAI is losing two of the architect
Bloomberg: Filing: Microsoft recorded $24.1B in revenue from OpenAI during the year ended in June, suggesting OpenAI accounted for more than half of Microsoft's AI sales — Microsoft Corp. generates mo
OpenAI: OpenAI announces workspace agents in ChatGPT, letting teams create Codex-powered shared agents for complex tasks, and says they are “an evolution of GPTs” — Codex-powered agents for teams. — C
OpenAI: OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Clinicians, a tool for medical tasks like documentation and research, free for verified physicians, pharmacists, and more in the US — Built for clinical work, ChatG
OpenAI: OpenAI releases Privacy Filter, an open-weight model for masking personally identifiable information in text, with 1.5B total and 50M active parameters — Our state of the art model for masking
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: OpenAI unveils two Daybreak tiers: Daybreak Blue, which provides access to frontier models, and Daybreak Red, which offers purpose-trained cybersecurity models — Introducing new ways to unlock
Sam Sabin / Axios: OpenAI releases GPT-5.6-Cyber, a more cyber-permissive version of GPT-5.6 Sol, to some partners and expands its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative — OpenAI is introducing a more cybe
Black Hat on YouTube: At Black Hat, OpenAI reconstructs the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident and examines its implications for AI security, cyber resilience, and alignment — The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenA
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
Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't g
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
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
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
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
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
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 —
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
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
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
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
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: £
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
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
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
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
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
This resource describes sponsor vouchers, particularly OpenAI Codex credits, available to participants in a Hugging Face hackathon event. It likely outlines how participants can access and use the pro
OpenAI announced a strategic partnership with Grupo Folha and Grupo UOL, major Brazilian media companies, to integrate their content into OpenAI's AI models and products. The partnership enables OpenA