OpenAI is an American AI research laboratory founded in 2015, known for creating ChatGPT, the GPT series of large language models, and DALL-E image generators. It is one of the most influential AI companies in the world.
Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Uber are cutting costs on internal AI tools as token prices rise, while major AI providers reportedly seek government bailout discussions amid market skittishness over the…
The G7 summit in the French Alps hosted CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind for a working lunch, while an estimated 20,000 protesters demonstrated in Geneva. Summit leaders took no substant…
ChatGPT was found to generate sexual and graphically violent images from a simple text prompt, according to AI security firm Mindgard. Researcher Jim Nightingale manipulated the chatbot with a viral "…
OpenAI demonstrated that reinforcement learning focused on beneficial traits like honesty and reliability produces AI alignment that generalizes across domains and withstands adversarial attacks. The …
OpenAI upgraded free ChatGPT users to GPT-5.5 Instant, claiming it now performs comparably to its frontier Thinking models on health questions, based on internal evaluations. The company reported a 71…
AI inference startup Baseten is close to finalizing a $1.5 billion funding round at a $13 billion valuation, just five months after raising $300 million at a $5 billion valuation. The round is split-p…
OpenAI made GPT-5.5 Instant the default ChatGPT model on May 5, achieving a 52.5% reduction in hallucinated medical claims while matching frontier reasoning models on health benchmarks. The model scor…
SpaceX went public on June 12, 2026, in the largest IPO in history, raising up to $86 billion and achieving a valuation between $1.75 trillion and $2 trillion. Four days later, the company spent $60 b…
Alchemy's AgentCard product has integrated with Visa Intelligent Commerce, enabling AI agents to autonomously make purchases across the Visa network using payment tokens, email addresses, and crypto w…
Hermes Agent, an open-source AI agent framework by Nous Research, has released a desktop app that provides a visual interface for managing and monitoring AI agents. The app offers features such as aut…
A committee of five open-weights models fused together scored 69.9 on the DRACO benchmark, beating Anthropic's Fable 5 model which scored 65.3. The open-source panel, including MiniMax M3, Kimi K2.6, …
A British AI security startup, Mindgard, found that OpenAI's ChatGPT can generate sexually explicit and violent images from prompts not requesting such content, including scenes of death and sexual vi…
Co/Core launches an AI cooperative where members share their own compute hardware to run AI inference jobs, using an open standard and public receipts to ensure transparency. The platform supports exi…
Questrade has launched a custom indexing service, responding to demand for portfolio flexibility ahead of blockbuster IPOs from Anthropic and OpenAI.…
OpenAI is preparing to release the GPT-5.6 family of models next Tuesday, including standard, Mini, and Pro variants, alongside a new voice model GPT-Bidi-1. The launch targets Anthropic's top-tier mo…
Anthropic disabled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 globally after a US export control directive, leaving millions of users without access to top-tier AI models. The incident highlights the risk of relying on a s…
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…
Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a bill on Thursday to create a $7 trillion sovereign wealth fund giving Americans a 50% public stake in top AI labs, with annual payments of $1,000 per taxpayer. The …
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…
General Intuition, a New York-based AI lab spun out of gaming-clip platform Medal, is raising approximately $300 million at a valuation of over $2 billion. The company trains AI agents on Medal's data…