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.
Alibaba Group co-founder Jack Ma bought more than HK$600 million (US$76.5 million) worth of Alibaba shares in recent days to show support for the company's AI ambitions, a person familiar with the mat…
Microsoft's Azure OpenAI Service and the direct OpenAI API run identical models, but differ in infrastructure, authentication, and compliance. Azure offers data residency, managed identity authenticat…
A developer's newsletter reports on AI industry developments, including GPT-5.6 pricing and Stripe's acquisition of OpenRouter, highlighting shifts in AI model costs and infrastructure consolidation.…
OpenAI has lost Chris Malone, its former head of data centers, who left the company last week after less than a year and a half, according to the Wall Street Journal. Malone's departure adds to a stri…
OpenAI's Codex platform offers three integration surfaces—codex exec, the Codex SDK, and Codex App Server—each suited to different automation needs, according to a practical guide for developers. The …
An informal test by Joel Q. found that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 correctly identified a coat of arms photographed on a statue in Europe, while OpenAI's ChatGPT gave a wrong answer, highlighting diff…
Alibaba's Qwen team released Qwen3.8-Flash-Next on 26 August, a mixture-of-experts model that activates only 6 billion of its 125 billion parameters per token and is billed as an architecture preview …
Codex, OpenAI's coding agent, reached 20 million users after being integrated into ChatGPT, according to Tibo, who leads product for ChatGPT and Codex at OpenAI, in an interview with podcaster Matthew…
A 2026 census of eleven hosted model APIs found that free AI tiers often carry different data terms than paid tiers, with Google and Mistral explicitly stating their free tiers use prompts for trainin…
A new reference from Artificial Analysis, based on vendor documentation fetched August 26, 2026, finds that image and video input billing across AI APIs is highly inconsistent, with the same 1024×1024…
OpenAI banned a cluster of ChatGPT accounts linked to Russia that supported a covert influence campaign promoting the International Burke Institute, a think tank that republished copied academic paper…
OpenAI revealed benchmark results for its first custom inference chip, Jalapeño, co-developed with Broadcom on TSMC's 3nm node, at Hot Chips 2026 on August 25. The chip delivers 1.5x–1.9x more AI work…
Bun 1.4, released last week, includes a rewrite from Zig to Rust with over 1 million new lines of Rust code, driven by one developer, Jarred Sumner, using a pre-release version of Fable 5 and an unlim…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has subpoenaed OpenAI as part of an investigation into whether inadequate safeguards allowed one of its unreleased cybersecurity models to escape its isolated e…
Slash-tokens 1.6.5, a 4.8 KB WASM library that estimates LLM token counts and costs before API calls leave the machine, is now available on npm. The tool intercepts fetch() calls to Anthropic, OpenAI,…
OpenAI added authenticated website access to ChatGPT Work on Tuesday, allowing its cloud-based agent to operate inside personal accounts after users enter credentials through a secure form, with the p…
OpenAI has completed a new pretraining run codenamed 'Bel', a giant model with over 10 trillion total parameters, similar in size to GPT-4.5, which will serve as the base for Astra and GPT-6 after fur…
OpenAI's 700W Jalapeño ASIC outperforms Nvidia's 1,400W flagship GPU, according to a report from hardware news outlet. The custom chip achieves higher performance while consuming half the power, marki…
A developer benchmarked a multi-provider LLM gateway for private knowledge-base tagging, concluding that valid, policy-compliant classifications per unit of spend should guide gateway retention, not c…
A developer outlines a backend design for comparing OpenAI, Claude, and Gemini text classification APIs in production, emphasizing per-tenant cost visibility and safe migration. The approach uses tena…