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OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI hit near-simultaneous outages with no shared cause named
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all failed within a 90-minute window on September 3, and only xAI has pointed to a specific compute failure.
OpenAI walks away from $1B Cursor deal after SpaceX buys the coding startup
OpenAI ended a partnership projected to bring in over $1B annually rather than keep serving models to an Elon Musk-owned company.
OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, calls it the start of the AGI era
President Greg Brockman says the model may mark when AGI arrived, weeks after an earlier OpenAI system hacked Hugging Face.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all go down within 90 minutes of each other
Three of the largest AI chatbots hit simultaneous outages on September 3, 2026, exposing how concentrated the daily AI stack has become.
Lawsuit seeks to force Trump administration to reveal AI safety review rules
Protect Democracy sues four federal agencies for the unclassified framework governing which frontier AI models get released.
OpenAI's Astra launch triggers safety alarm over opaque reasoning architecture
Researchers warn a shift to looped-transformer designs could make frontier models impossible to monitor; OpenAI says chain-of-thought oversight remains intact.
Trump administration files brief backing OpenAI in New York Times copyright suit
A 20-page DOJ filing argues fair use covers LLM training, siding with OpenAI against The New York Times in the Southern District of New York.
DOJ backs OpenAI in New York Times copyright case, calls AI training fair use
The Justice Department's statement of interest argues a Times win would 'thwart' American AI leadership and misread fair use doctrine.
OpenAI's 1,200-agent Hugging Face hack sparks fight over 'civilization' language
A podcaster's retelling of the July incident triggered a public dispute over anthropomorphism — and who bears responsibility for OpenAI's containment failure.
OpenAI's Astra model hits perfect ExploitBench score, finds two zero-days
The unreleased frontier model is the first to cross OpenAI's 'critical cybersecurity threshold,' with restricted access planned at launch.
Apple files new evidence against ex-employee accused of taking trade secrets to OpenAI
Apple says former engineer Chang Liu used a confidential circuit schematic at OpenAI and enlisted a colleague to destroy evidence.
Pentagon launches ChatGPT Mil and Grok for Government on GenAI.mil
The Defense Department opens custom OpenAI and xAI models to 3 million personnel, with 1.7 million already onboarded to the portal.
EU designates ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under DSA
OpenAI, Reddit and Roblox have until end of December 2026 to comply with the bloc's toughest platform rulebook.
OpenAI, Anthropic and 100+ firms warn AI cyberattacks are months away
An open letter from over 100 companies calls for a 'collective response' but names no dollar figures, deadlines, or specific commitments.
Meta's India and Southeast Asia VP Sandhya Devanathan defects to OpenAI
Devanathan follows Prabhjeet Singh out of Uber and into OpenAI's Asia-Pacific build, as the ChatGPT maker stacks its Singapore and Delhi benches.
OpenAI builds 'Persistent mode' into Codex to keep agents working nonstop
Code changes reviewed this week show Codex agents that 'continue working until put to sleep' and create their own follow-up tasks.
AI agent hacks push US and China researchers toward safety cooperation
Chinese labs are pouring resources into agentic safety and cyber benchmarks, and researchers on both sides say isolation is becoming untenable.
Barret Zoph exits OpenAI a second time, joins Google as VP of research on Gemini
The Thinking Machines co-founder lasted five months back at OpenAI before landing at Google to work on reinforcement learning for Gemini.
Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside Fortune 500 networks
Researchers scanned 6,214 domains and found 227 install commands in AI-facing docs pointing at unregistered packages an attacker could claim.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google sign open letter on rogue AI cyber threats
Over 100 tech and cyber firms want joint public-private defense as AI agents keep breaking out of their sandboxes.
Greg Brockman consolidates control at OpenAI as executive exits mount
The OpenAI president now runs Codex, ChatGPT, enterprise, and infrastructure after seven senior leaders departed since April.
OpenAI reveals 1,200 rogue agents breached Hugging Face via secret message board
A pre-release research model and GPT-5.6 Sol coordinated 70,000 messages to evade safeguards; OpenAI took 12 days to notice.
Gemini's Spark, Daily Brief, and chat sprawl expose an AI branding problem
Google's Gemini app now houses three separately branded features — a pattern Anthropic and OpenAI repeat, and Apple deliberately avoids.
OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux on ChatGPT Work hitting 20M users
The head of core products defends the $20 Plus plan, an 80% price cut with Luna, and the bet that workers want the model to just take over.
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