OpenAI wants its cleverest model to also be its quickest. The company has previewed Ultrafast, a new tier of its API that runs the flagship GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14 times the usual speed, reaching around 750 output tokens a second, on hardware built by the wafer-scale chipmaker Cerebras. Ultrafast is not a new model […]
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OpenAI chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving after eight months, replaced by Dali Rajic, formerly president and chief operating officer of Wiz. The company has also hired recruiters to rebuild its go-to-market team, two days after longtime executive Brad Lightcap said he was leaving. OpenAI’s chief revenue officer is leaving after eight months in […]
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Almost every AI business sells a product. Someone builds a model or a tool, licenses it, and hopes the customer works out what to do with it. Thrive Holdings inverts that. It buys accounting firms and IT services companies outright, puts its own engineers inside them, and rebuilds how the work gets done. It now […]
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Sundar Pichai announced on Tuesday that the Gemini app had passed a billion monthly users. He called it “our fastest growing product ever” and the 14th Google product to hit the mark, alongside Search, Gmail, Android, Maps, Chrome, Play and YouTube. His post has been seen more than 1.5 million times. Google published the engagement […]
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OpenAI is recruiting a power-trading lead for its data centres. The role will own commodity hedging strategy across the company’s power portfolio. It will have no direct reports at first. Bloomberg’s Julian Hast reported the listing on Monday. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The company’s own job posting places the […]
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OpenAI released GPT-5.6-Cyber on Monday. It is a model built on GPT-5.6 Sol and trained for zero-day discovery and exploit-chain development, and the company says it was also trained to refuse fewer higher-risk dual-use cyber requests. Access runs only through Daybreak, the vetted cybersecurity programme OpenAI is now expanding. Axios’ Sam Sabin reported it first. […]
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The one everybody covered went to Speaker Mike Johnson. CNBC’s Megan Cassella reported it first. House Democrats want public hearings on the AI security incidents of the past month, and they want the chief executives of the largest AI companies in the witness chair. Casar chairs the Congressional Progressive Caucus. His letter does not open […]
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TL;DR APK teardown reveals ChatGPT may soon let users generate stickers and export them directly to WhatsApp via an “Add to WhatsApp” button. Not announced by OpenAI. Not live yet. Hidden code in ChatGPT’s latest Android app suggests OpenAI is building a feature that would let users generate stickers and export them directly to WhatsApp. […]
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OpenAI has introduced major ChatGPT upgrades, enhancing model performance for subscribers while expanding access to unlimited text chat for free users. OpenAI is deploying a refined GPT-5.6 Sol tailored for daily ChatGPT interactions. The updated AI model generates concise, context-aware answers while minimizing formatting clutter. Internal testing across legal, medical, and financial prompts revealed a […]
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OpenAI has overhauled its ChatGPT voice mode by introducing a new model called GPT-Live-1. Designed to simulate natural human conversation, the updated model is engineered to minimize unnecessary interruptions and wait for users to finish speaking if they pause mid-sentence. According to OpenAI research lead Kundan Kumar, GPT-Live-1 represents the company’s most intelligent voice model […]
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TL;DR AI executives who funded Trump’s deregulation push now want a formal framework after chaotic export controls and model restrictions. The AI industry that donated heavily to elect Donald Trump on the promise he would leave the technology alone is now asking for formal regulation, Politico reported on Friday. Executives at frontier AI companies told […]
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The Trump administration has instructed OpenAI to restrict the upcoming release of its next-generation artificial intelligence model, GPT-5.6. Rather than making the software available to the general public upon launch, the White House requires the company to limit distribution to a select group of government-approved partners. According to a report by The Information, OpenAI Chief […]
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For the first time, OpenAI’s ChatGPT has lost its majority hold on the artificial intelligence assistant market. According to a Sensor Tower report, while ChatGPT remains the top-ranked AI assistant product, it now holds a plurality rather than a majority of the user base. At the beginning of the year, ChatGPT controlled over 50% of […]
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OpenAI still rules AI by sheer size, but it is no longer running away with it. ChatGPT’s apps crossed 1 billion monthly users in May, the fastest any app has reached the milestone, according to Sensor Tower’s State of AI 2026 report. Yet on the metric that pays the bills, Anthropic’s Claude is pulling ahead: […]
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However, Trump added that while he has instructed Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Dan Caine, and other military leaders to hold off, he wrote that he has “further instructed them to be prepared to go forward with a full, large scale assault of Iran, on a moment’s […]
Read MoreTL;DR OpenAI is preparing possible legal action against Apple over their two-year-old ChatGPT-Siri partnership, which OpenAI says has failed to deliver expected subscription revenue. OpenAI lawyers are working with an outside firm on options including a breach-of-contract notice. OpenAI believed the deal could generate billions per year; instead, Apple’s implementation buried ChatGPT behind friction, and […]
Read MoreThe contradictions surrounding AI have become impossible to ignore. The companies building it warn about catastrophic risk while simultaneously speeding up deployment, competing to dominate what we’re told is the most consequential technological transformation in history. Every player in the race, including governments, which are rushing to integrate AI deeper into military, educational, and administrative […]
Read MoreTwo corporate laptops, some credential material, and a forced macOS app update. The interesting part is how the malicious packages got published in the first place: not by a stolen npm password, but by TanStack’s own legitimate release pipeline, after the attacker code took over the runner mid-build. OpenAI said on Wednesday that it found […]
Read MoreTL;DR OpenAI is acquiring Tomoro, the Edinburgh-based AI consulting firm it was born alongside, as the founding acquisition of its $14 billion Deployment Company — copying Palantir’s forward-deployed engineer model to close the gap between AI capability and enterprise adoption. Tomoro was created in 2023 in alliance with OpenAI. The Edinburgh and London-based firm built […]
Read MoreThe new platform pairs GPT-5.5 variants with Codex Security and a roster of enterprise security partners, all aimed at defenders. OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, a cybersecurity initiative aimed at finding software vulnerabilities, generating patches, and validating fixes inside enterprise codebases. The launch positions OpenAI directly against Anthropic’s Mythos, which has spent the past few months […]
Read MoreThe former OpenAI chief scientist, who now runs Safe Superintelligence, gave the figure under oath. It places him among the largest individual shareholders in the company. Ilya Sutskever, the former chief scientist of OpenAI who now runs Safe Superintelligence Inc., disclosed during testimony in the Musk-OpenAI litigation on Monday that his ownership stake in OpenAI […]
Read MoreOpenAI has set up a new venture called OpenAI Deployment Company, with more than $4bn in initial funding from a syndicate of 19 firms led by TPG and including Advent International, Bain Capital and Brookfield as co-lead founding partners, the company said on Monday. The new entity, which will be majority-owned and controlled by OpenAI, […]
Read MoreTL;DR Court documents from the Musk v. Altman trial revealed that the University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed. The stake is now worth two billion dollars. The University of Michigan invested 20 million dollars in OpenAI before ChatGPT existed, before Microsoft committed billions, and before the company was worth […]
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The scheme could be a porthole into the Trump administration’s recent machinations, which involve an unprecedented effort to access state voter rolls nationwide and, with them, sensitive voter data on tens of millions of Americans. The Justice Department has so far filed lawsuits against 30 states in an attempt to force the data’s release before […]
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OpenAI has officially unveiled Workspace Agents for ChatGPT, a new category of autonomous assistants designed specifically for organizational workflows. Unlike standard GPTs that respond to individual prompts, these agents function as persistent team collaborators capable of executing long-running tasks. Operating in the cloud, they can work independently even when users are offline, integrating directly into […]
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Here again there is a gap between public statements and on-the-ground facts. Microsoft’s Community-First Initiative sounds great but does not have any form of independent accountability mechanism built in. OpenAI’s new white paper signals a move toward progressive tech policy, but its president, Greg Brockman, has funneled millions into a SuperPAC opposing state-level AI regulation […]
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“And I just looked at a little chart, World War I, four years and three months. World War II, six years. Korean War, three years. Vietnam, 19 years. Iraq, eight years. I’m five months. OK, five months,” Trump said. “I would have won Vietnam very quickly. I would have, if I were president, I would […]
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OpenAI is currently navigating a period of internal and external scrutiny as investors and financial backers begin to express reservations regarding Sam Altman’s leadership. According to reports from The Wall Street Journal, a segment of the investment community is questioning whether Altman remains the most suitable executive to lead the organization, particularly as discussions regarding […]
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In March, The Wall Street Journal’s Meghan Bobrowsky broke the news that Mark Zuckerberg was “building a CEO agent to help him do his job.” The purpose of AI Zuck was to help flesh-and-blood Zuck “get information faster—for instance, by retrieving answers for him that he would typically have to go through layers of people […]
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Data center construction isn’t going as planned. Bloomberg reported earlier this month that nearly half of the 12 gigawatts in computing power worth of data centers planned for this year have been delayed or canceled. Just a third of those projects are currently under construction, the market intelligence firm Sightline Climate estimates in a forthcoming […]
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Source: SOPA Images / Getty On Thursday, Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier announced his office has opened an investigation into OpenAI in relation to a man accused of last year’s shooting at Florida State University (FSU), where two people were killed, and six were injured. According to the New York Times, the suspect in the […]
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