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.
Frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI can now autonomously identify exploitable vulnerabilities in production software in about four hours, a task that took human researchers roughly sixty days…
WhisprNote, a new macOS app launched on Hacker News, offers offline dictation and autocomplete that works in any app without an account or cloud, with local transcription and AI cleanup. The app suppo…
OpenAI's Astra model is not a novel 'looped transformer' breakthrough, according to Sebastian Raschka, who explains that the technique merely reuses transformer layers and was already used in Nanbeige…
OpenAI has quietly restricted access to its Trusted Access for Cyber program in 44 countries where ChatGPT is officially available, affecting approximately 650 million people, by requiring government …
Google is reportedly close to launching Gemini 3.8 Flash, a new AI model with significantly improved coding capabilities, as soon as September 2, according to The Wall Street Journal. Internal testing…
OpenAI's next flagship model, internally called Astra, uses a technique called 'recurrent depth' or 'looped transformer' that improves cost and performance but obscures the AI's reasoning, according t…
An analysis of OpenAI's open-source Codex repository shows a step change in development velocity, with commits per month rising from 98 in May 2025 to 893 in August 2026, and authors with 5+ commits g…
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 as its new flagship models for coding and knowledge work, claiming they are the world's most advanced for these tasks. The models keep list pr…
A developer reports reclaiming 15 hours per week by integrating an AI workflow that uses a Python script with OpenAI's GPT-4 to triage emails and automate multi-step research tasks, moving from isolat…
A coalition of AI-industry billionaires, including Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is spending millions on ads in Kansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin to counter rising publi…
A developer's daily measurement of how often a specific entity is cited by answer engines found a stark split: when questions name the entity directly, citation rates hit 88.9 percent, but when questi…
OpenAI has released Spinning Up in Deep RL, an educational resource designed to teach deep reinforcement learning to newcomers. The resource includes a guide on becoming a deep RL researcher, a curate…
Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 on September 2, 2026, cutting cache-read pricing from $1/M to $0.25/M tokens, making Fable 5.1 roughly 25% cheaper for typical workloads and up to 45…
The United States filed a Statement of Interest in the OpenAI copyright litigation, arguing that training large language models on copyrighted works is 'exceedingly transformative' and constitutes fai…
OpenAI says its upcoming Astra model can find previously unknown software flaws and turn them into working attacks without human guidance, making it the first model classified as having 'Critical' cyb…
OpenAI's Astra model reportedly uses "recurrent depth" to think silently, according to a Reddit post that was blocked by network security and provided no further details. The post's headline is the on…
OpenAI on September 1, 2026, integrated ChatGPT with Epic Systems' electronic health records, enabling authorized clinicians in ChatGPT for Healthcare and HIPAA-enabled Enterprise workspaces to review…
Two-thirds of European Union governments have pledged money to back an EU plan to create seven large AI compute hubs, the bloc's most significant industrial policy push in the global race for artifici…
OpenAI announced Astra, an AI model that has reached its internal threshold for 'critical' cybersecurity capabilities, autonomously discovering and chaining software vulnerabilities. The company will …
A developer has released Ferrum, an MIT-licensed Rust-based local LLM inference server that provides a private OpenAI-compatible endpoint on Apple Silicon. The tool, installable via Homebrew, supports…