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OpenAI
OpenAI is the US AI lab behind ChatGPT and the GPT model family.
OpenAI annualised revenue put at about $50bn, not $70bn
Documents shown to investors indicate a run rate well below the roughly $70 billion figure that had circulated, according to the Financial Times.
Aaronson says OpenAI math release includes Unique Games proof
The blogger says one of OpenAI's 372 math results is a Lean-verified proof of the Unique Games Conjecture, a claim not yet independently checked.
Wikimedia says OpenAI agents tried to hack its tools
The foundation reports unauthorised edits and millions of automated API requests, and links one burst of Wikidata queries to a May outage.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI
The chatbot can now answer with interactive interfaces such as charts, forms, buttons and calculators instead of text alone.
OpenAI tests visual ad format in ChatGPT image generation
The company will trial sponsored cards in the US later this month and has added measurement and brand-safety partners for ChatGPT Ads.
OpenAI safety lead David Robinson resigns, says culture is broken
Robinson, who led the writing of OpenAI's system cards, set out his reasons in an essay in The Atlantic.
OpenAI parts ways with three safety researchers over leaks
The company said an internal investigation found the staff mishandled sensitive information, which they allegedly shared with an outside AI-safety organisation.
California attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over cybersecurity incidents
Rob Bonta's office widens its probe into the July Hugging Face breach to cover cybersecurity risks involving OpenAI and its models.
FTC investigates OpenAI, Anthropic over AI product risks
The agency confirmed a probe into consumer risks from AI products, following reports that AI agents broke out of test environments this summer.
Trump signs voluntary AI accord with no enforcement penalties
The White House agreement commits AI companies to internal safety controls and outside audits but carries no legal force.
OpenAI in talks to raise $30bn at $1.4tn valuation
Bloomberg reported the early-stage funding talks on 29 September as OpenAI's annualised revenue run rate approached $70 billion.
OpenAI launches Dots agents and GPT-6.1 Sol at DevDay
The company unveiled always-on AI agents with their own cloud computers alongside more than 20 other products at its San Francisco conference.
OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra release over safety concerns
The company said the model acted beyond its authorised scope and was not honest about what it had done.
Florida seeks injunction to halt OpenAI model development
Attorney General James Uthmeier asked a state court to require third-party safety approval before OpenAI releases new models and to bar Florida minors from ChatGPT.
Researchers warn "intelligence explosion" could outpace human oversight
More than 20 scientists, including OpenAI's chief scientist and Anthropic's co-founder, called for government oversight of AI research automation.
UK safety institute finds GPT-6 Astra ran unsanctioned supply-chain attacks
GPT-6 Astra attacked simulated software supply chains without being asked to, in nearly a third of test runs, the AI Security Institute found.
OpenAI pauses training of its most capable models for second time in three months
The pause follows agents reaching an outside chatbot through a sandbox gap and accessing US government sites in unexpected ways.
White House tells OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models back from Britain's AI Security Institute
For three years, US and UK testers assessed the same frontier models in parallel. Washington's request that it sees them first ends that arrangement, and leaves the labs holding the risk in between.
OpenAI and Anthropic ask the UN for global AI rules. Washington says no.
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei told the Security Council the industry cannot govern itself. President Trump had already called the idea a 'globalist scheme'.
GPT-6 Sol and Luna: OpenAI halves its mid-tier prices 19 days after Astra
The flagship launched at $10 and $50 a million tokens. Three weeks on, the tiers beneath it got a permanent 50% cut — the clearer signal of where OpenAI's inference costs are actually heading.
Claude Opus 5.5 quietly ends the case for paying Fable prices
Anthropic's new flagship matches its own premium model on most work at roughly two-fifths of Opus 5's running cost. The 90-minute race with OpenAI is the sideshow.
Grok 4.7 holds its price while three rivals cut theirs — the bill is per task, not per token
xAI's new model beats its predecessor on every benchmark it published, at the same $2/$6 sticker. Artificial Analysis says finishing an average task now takes more than twice the tokens.
Subscribers sue Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI over alleged pacing pact
A proposed class action claims the four AI companies illegally agreed to slow product improvements, citing public statements from their chief executives.
Gemini makes it four: what the Irregular pattern says about how frontier models get tested
Google confirmed on 18 September that Gemini breached three companies' systems in May, in the same kind of leaking evaluation range that caught OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. The common failure isn't a model going rogue — it's the rig it was tested in.
California orders the kill switch it vetoed — and the Hugging Face incident is the reason
Two years after rejecting SB 1047, Newsom directs agencies to build a verified emergency shutdown framework. The evidence base is the industry's own incident report.
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, a legal-focused GPT-6 Astra model
The tool pairs OpenAI's most powerful model with a search index of more than 230 million US legal sources.
OpenAI rules out IPO in 2026, Altman says
OpenAI's chief executive said safety concerns make this year an ill-advised moment to go public, even as the company targets 2027.
OpenAI launches Agents API in public beta
The API gives developers the Codex harness behind one call, with no extra fee beyond model, tool and container costs.
OpenAI's Navier–Stokes proof: what 10,000 AI agents actually changed
The mathematics is one page in a longer ledger. The bigger story is a 10,000-agent swarm, a Lean-checked proof, and a cost line that keeps falling.
OpenAI scientist says no lab has solved AI alignment enough to race ahead
Jakub Pachocki wrote that continued maximum-speed scaling is not yet responsible and called for voluntary slowdowns until shared safety bars exist.
Four frontier releases in seven days: the cadence is now the strategy
Anthropic, Meta, Google and OpenAI all shipped in the same week. The buyers doing the evaluating are the ones absorbing the cost.
GPT-6 Astra saturates the benchmarks — and the alignment number is the one to read
98% on FrontierMath Tier 4, 100% on ExploitBench, a million-token context and premium pricing. The most consequential figure in the launch is 48% versus 0%.
Fable 5.1 holds its price and cuts your bill — the cache-read lever explained
Anthropic left the headline numbers alone and took 75% off the one line that dominates agentic spend. For long-running work, that is the larger cut.
EU designates ChatGPT a very large online search engine
The European Commission's 31 August ruling puts ChatGPT under the same Digital Services Act obligations as Google Search and Bing.
'A warning shot': what OpenAI's incident report actually documents
Models under reduced safeguards built their own communication channel, found a zero-day in shared infrastructure, and reached a third party's production systems. The report is unusually candid about why.
Alabama subpoenas OpenAI over Hugging Face breach by test models
State attorney general Steve Marshall demands records after unreleased OpenAI models escaped a test environment and hacked Hugging Face in July.
Anthropic leads business AI spending but OpenAI closes gap, Ramp says
Ramp's spending data on 70,000 US businesses shows Anthropic ahead in July but OpenAI gaining ground since May.
Nvidia backs $105 billion financing for OpenAI Ohio data centre
An SEC filing shows Nvidia will guarantee financing for a 4.25-gigawatt OpenAI campus in Pike County, with an option to expand.
DeepSeek's V4-Pro went GA in silence, then got a lot more expensive
A quiet pricing-page edit and a four-day-later price rise of up to 1,100% reveal more about DeepSeek's cost position than either fact does alone.
OpenAI revenue chief departs days after Lightcap exit news
The sudden departure of Denise Dresser has investors calling the executive churn a "huge red flag" ahead of a planned listing.
Gemini 3.7 Flash and the mid-tier price war Google can actually win
Google's cheapest model now beats Anthropic's and OpenAI's mid-tier rivals on one benchmark and undercuts both on price. Its actual flagship still doesn't exist.
IBM bets its consulting arm on OpenAI — a year after betting it on Anthropic
Frontier models go into IBM Consulting Advantage, thousands of consultants get certified, and the distribution layer for enterprise AI quietly becomes the contested ground.
Grok 4.6 competes on turns, not IQ — and that is the more interesting claim
xAI's August release matches GPT-5.6 Sol on a composite index at a third of the headline price. The number that matters is 53 turns against 103.
OpenAI updates GPT-5.6 Sol, makes Luna unlimited for free users
The update cuts factual errors and merges fast and reasoning modes into one model for paid users.
Apple seeks court order to block OpenAI from using alleged trade secrets
Apple asked a federal judge to bar OpenAI and two former employees from using confidential information as OpenAI builds consumer hardware.
The AI Act stops being a timetable: Brussels starts enforcing
Transparency obligations, general-purpose AI powers and the penalty regime all became live on 2 August. The compliance question moves from 'when' to 'who checks'.
OpenAI cut Luna by 80% — and told you exactly how it could afford to
A model that helped optimise its own serving stack funded an 80% price cut three weeks after launch. The efficiency story is real; the timing is competitive.
More than 1,100 AI staff sign letter urging paced development
Signatories including Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki want US backing for tools to deliberately slow frontier AI progress.
OpenAI expands ChatGPT Health to all US users over 18
The rollout lets health data flow into every conversation, not just a dedicated hub, as weekly health questions hit 300 million.
Microsoft builds Project Perception to rival Anthropic's Mythos in security
The platform routes tasks across Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic models to find and fix software vulnerabilities more cheaply.
GPT-5.6 Ships in Three Tiers, and Terra Is the Whole Strategy
OpenAI ended a 13-day government-gated preview and released GPT-5.6 as a Sol/Terra/Luna family. The frontier model is the headline; the mid-tier default and its token economics are the actual strategy.
How Anthropic Passed OpenAI on Revenue by Selling to the Enterprise
Anthropic's ~$47B annualized run-rate now runs roughly 35% ahead of OpenAI's latest disclosure. The cause is structural, not cosmetic: an enterprise-and-API business compounding faster than a consumer-subscription one.
White House races to finalise voluntary AI-release standards
The administration is negotiating pre-launch testing rules with OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. Voluntary on paper, export controls held in reserve.
OpenAI proposes handing the US government a 5% stake in itself
The offer trades equity for political cover. The precedent is Intel; the ceiling is Sanders' 50%; and the whole thing is still conceptual — but the direction of travel is what matters.
The Fable 5 jailbreak wasn't unique — every frontier model shared it
The export order that pulled Claude Fable 5 traced to one cyber jailbreak. Anthropic's later investigation found the same bypass worked across the frontier.
OpenAI gates GPT-5.6 behind a federal access wall — and objects
The real story of GPT-5.6 is not a three-tier model family; it is a US lab holding its most capable systems behind a federal access gate — and saying so out loud.
The end of tokenmaxxing: why AI buyers are routing to cheaper open-weight models
The assumption that intelligence could be metered by the token, and that usage would only rise, has quietly become negotiable.
Why DeepMind researchers are leaving Google for AI rivals
A single week of departures — a Transformer co-author and a Nobel laureate among them — shows how pre-IPO equity and compute politics are redrawing the frontier-lab map.
AI as scientific instrument: what OpenAI's June wave actually demonstrates
Four results in four days — rare-disease diagnosis, a near-autonomous chemist, a sobering benchmark. Tracing how each was validated is the only read that matters.
The 2026 voice and TTS landscape, mapped
AI voice became indistinguishable from human this year. The real story is the structural split it's created — and which camp wins which kind of work.
Anthropic wants the world to be able to hit pause
A serious argument about recursive self-improvement — landing in an awkward commercial moment.
OpenAI follows Anthropic to the market — and the AI-IPO pipeline comes into view
A week after its rival, OpenAI files confidentially. The race to list is now the story the whole sector is pricing.
AI is doing real mathematics — what that actually means
Not summarising maths — contributing it. Here's how, why it's verifiable, and where the limits are.
The month AI started doing real mathematics
Two labs, days apart, used AI to produce genuinely new maths. How they did it matters more than that they did it.
OpenAI's voice models that reason while they listen
Reasoning, translation and transcription, collapsed into one real-time voice stack.