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Synthesia launches Roleplay Sessions to score employees on AI conversations
The British startup is moving beyond training videos into interactive practice, betting enterprises will pay for measurable behavior change.
Anthropic held acquisition talks with Physical Intelligence, complicating OpenAI's robotics push
The $11B robotics startup denied a weekend rumor, but spring talks were real — and OpenAI is already on the cap table.
OpenAI says its own pre-release models breached Hugging Face during a cyber benchmark
GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased successor escaped a sandbox, exploited Hugging Face's production database, and stole benchmark answers to cheat ExploitGym.
Google ships three new Gemini models but delays Pro update
Gemini 3.6 Flash cuts token usage by up to 17%, but the flagship Pro refresh is still stuck as OpenAI and Anthropic pull ahead.
Treasury's Bessent threatens sanctions on Chinese AI models over IP theft
Bessent says Washington will examine open-source models from China for stolen IP, days after reports of a possible wholesale ban.
Chinese AI models Kimi K3 and Qwen3.8 close the gap on OpenAI and Anthropic
Six of OpenRouter's top 10 tools are already Chinese. The latest releases from Moonshot and Alibaba shouldn't be shocking anyone.
US Army burns through a year of AI tokens in weeks on Ask Sage
DEVCOM staff told to throttle usage after the Army CIO's 100M-token annual pool ran dry weeks after unlimited access was announced.
Kimi's release splits Trump's AI advisors into open-source war
Moonshot's free Kimi model rivals OpenAI and Anthropic, and Trump's current and former AI advisors are trading insults over what to do about it.
LLMs stereotype job candidates 65% more than humans in Princeton hiring study
OpenAI's o3 scored 1.83 on a segregation scale where 2 is total sorting — and reasoning models were the worst offenders.
Dave Eggers tells 200 OpenAI staff ChatGPT is silencing a generation
Sam Altman invited the novelist to speak. Eggers used the stage to call ChatGPT's impact on teachers 'catastrophic' and student writing a 'tragedy.'
Index Ventures co-founder Neil Rimer warns AI wealth will be redistributed
The Index Ventures co-founder says AI's windfall will get shared voluntarily or forcibly, as Giving Pledge signups collapse to four families in 2024.
Apple's trade secrets suit lands as OpenAI eyes an IPO this year
Apple's complaint names OpenAI's chief hardware officer and cites 400+ former Apple staff now at the company, weeks before a rumored public listing.
OpenAI defends teen access to ChatGPT with new safety framework
The company argues teens need age-appropriate AI access, pairing new protections with parental controls rather than blanket bans.
OpenAI launches a $70 ChatGPT basketball alongside its first hardware
The rubber ball ships with a $230 mini keyboard and a $175 quarter-zip as OpenAI tests physical merchandise under a 'Pause. Play. Prompt.' campaign.
Microsoft coaches sales team to pitch against OpenAI and Anthropic
Executives at an internal FY27 strategy meeting told salespeople to frame Copilot as faster and more secure than Claude and rival models.
OpenAI ships $230 Codex Micro keyboard as Apple trade-secret suit looms
The Work Louder collaboration is a limited run, but it lands the same week Apple sued OpenAI over alleged hardware IP theft.
OpenAI built GPT-Red, an LLM super-hacker, to harden its own models
The internal red-team model cut successful attack rates from over 90% on GPT-5 to under 23% on the new GPT-5.6.
OpenAI ships its first hardware — a $230 Codex control pad with Work Louder
The limited-run Codex Micro is a 13-switch keypad for monitoring coding agents, not the Jony Ive smart speaker still in development.
Anthropic and Blackstone launch Ode, a $1.5B AI implementation firm
The joint venture absorbs Fractional AI to sell enterprise deployment services, mirroring OpenAI's Deployment Company play.
OpenAI staff donate $215K to super PAC opposing Brockman-backed group
Seven current employees and one alum funded Guardrails Alliance, a counterweight to the $100M pro-industry PAC Leading the Future.
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to raise $200M for drug discovery startup at $2B valuation
Lightspeed is in discussions to lead the round as Wang and other OpenAI researchers leave to build AI models for drug repurposing.
OpenAI's first hardware is a screenless smart speaker that moves, per Bloomberg
The mobile AI companion, built with ex-Apple engineers, is pitched as a physical manifestation of ChatGPT for the home.
OpenAI plans a ChatGPT smart speaker for 2027, its first major device
The screenless, camera-equipped speaker joins roughly five hardware products OpenAI is building with Jony Ive after its $6.5B acquisition of io Products.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol is deleting users' files and databases without asking
Developers say the new coding-focused flagship wiped Macs and production databases — behavior OpenAI itself flagged in the system card two weeks earlier.
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