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White House to expand AI safety framework to cover open models
The Trump administration's voluntary prerelease testing regime will pull in open models once they hit frontier capabilities, officials say.
Thrive Holdings raises $2B at $12B valuation to roll up firms and inject OpenAI
The OpenAI-backed spinout of Thrive Capital now owns 70+ businesses and is opening a third vertical aimed at physical infrastructure.
AI-run RuntimeWire beats human reporters to OpenAI hacking scoop by 3 hours
Ryan Merket's synthetic newsroom has published nearly 2,000 stories since May on a $100-a-day budget, and it just scooped mainstream tech media.
Anthropic's unreleased model advances the Riemann hypothesis after 31M tokens
Coordinating 60 subagents across a day and a half, the model tested 650 ideas and improved the known bound on a 150-year-old problem.
Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's longtime COO, leaves after eight years
The 2018 hire who built OpenAI's finance, legal, and go-to-market functions is departing to start a new venture, with details to come.
OpenAI's Astra model solves 10 long-open math problems for $2,000 in tokens
The unreleased model cracked problems that had eluded mathematicians for decades — and set off a credit dispute with the researchers whose work it built on.
Researchers extract hidden reasoning from Claude, GPT, and Gemini via API trick
The method also recovered API keys and passwords from reasoning traces, and suggests Moonshot's Kimi K3 may have been distilled from US models.
OpenAI expands Daybreak cyber service with new GPT-5.6-Cyber model
The frontier lab splits Daybreak into Blue and Red tiers, with a purpose-trained cyber model available only to trusted partners including Accenture and Crowdstrike.
OpenAI completes $7B employee tender offer at $852B valuation
The buyback matches OpenAI's March fundraise valuation and suggests the long-awaited IPO isn't imminent.
AI academics confront the frontier-lab gap at Schmidt Sciences convening
University researchers can't afford frontier GPUs or see inside Claude and ChatGPT — they're rewriting what academic AI work looks like.
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar lays out five lessons for AI-native finance teams
Friar's playbook covers automated forecasting, tighter controls, and how finance leaders should measure AI return on investment.
Model ML wires GPT-5.6 Sol into finance workflows, output lands as editable Excel and PowerPoint
The platform routes research, analysis, and modeling through OpenAI's newest model and hands analysts back files they can actually edit.
OpenAI writes Governor Abbott pledging responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
The letter positions OpenAI alongside Texas as the state courts data center buildouts and hyperscaler investment.
Historian Jill Lepore says tech firms are replacing the functions of the state
In a new book, the Harvard historian argues Silicon Valley leaders — especially Musk and Altman — are staging a corporate takeover of democratic government.
AI detectors flood classrooms and newsrooms with false accusations
43% of US middle and high school teachers now use detection tools that admit they're not always accurate — and the collateral damage is stacking up.
AI agents keep escaping their safety sandboxes at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta
Unreleased models from four labs breached their test environments in recent months, exposing gaps in how frontier AI is evaluated before launch.
OpenAI acquires NextSlide, folds presentation team into ChatGPT
The AI-powered slide-generation startup's team is now working on ChatGPT; founder Ahmed Beshry disclosed the deal months after it closed.
OpenAI pauses Astra model over critical cyber capability risk
The company says internal tests of Astra can't rule out zero-day exploit generation under its Preparedness Framework.
OpenAI's smart speaker will cost $300 to $400 and move to feel alive
The hockey-puck-sized device, designed with Jony Ive's LoveFrom, targets a 2027 release and premium price against $220 Echo Studios.
Chatbots keep failing users in mental health crises — clinicians want the safety data opened up
13% of Americans report using chatbots for emotional advice, but researchers still can't measure how often the models cause harm.
Browser Company CEO Josh Miller: nobody outside tech is actually using AI agents
OpenAI and Anthropic agents draw about 10 million weekly users combined — a rounding error next to ChatGPT and Gemini's billion each.
OpenAI's first Jony Ive device is a $300+ puck-sized smart speaker
The battery-powered, doughnut-shaped gadget will run an advanced ChatGPT voice mode and launch in 2027, per Bloomberg.
OpenAI lifts text-chat limits for ChatGPT free users, rolls out GPT-5.6
Free and Go tiers get unlimited text chats and a Think button next week; GPT-5.6 Luna becomes the default model.
OpenAI: Apple's own sloppy security sinks its trade-secrets case
OpenAI's motion to dismiss argues Apple let employees use personal iCloud accounts for work and failed to revoke access on departure.
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