Fidji Simo, OpenAI's chief of applications and de facto number two executive, is stepping down after a three-month medical leave for postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome did not lead to a full re…
Fidji Simo is stepping down as OpenAI's AGI chief and transitioning to a part-time advisor role due to a chronic neuroimmune condition. Simo, who took medical leave in April, said her recovery is more…
OpenAI hired Noam Shazeer, a co-author of the seminal 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and former Google DeepMind executive, and Dean Ball, a former Trump White House AI policy official, ahead of its…
OpenAI hired former White House AI adviser Dean Ball to lead a new Strategic Futures unit starting July 6, 2026, reporting to Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon. Ball, a primary author of the White Hou…
Dean Ball will join OpenAI on July 6 as Head of Strategic Futures, a new team focused on frontier AI policy including catastrophic risk, recursive self-improvement, labor market impact, and government…
Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama announced that OpenAI has granted select Japanese financial institutions access to its GPT-5.5 model to bolster defenses against cyberattacks. The three larg…
South Korea has joined OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) program, making it one of the first two Asian countries to participate. Vice Minister Ryu Je-myung formalized Seoul's participation on Ma…
OpenAI will grant the Korean government, public institutions, and private companies access to its latest cybersecurity AI models through its Daybreak initiative, marking the first such partnership in …