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.
OpenAI released the system card for GPT-5.6, detailing three model sizes—Sol, Terra, and Luna—with Sol described as a 'step function better' than GPT-5.5 but still short of Mythos. The card highlights…
A developer discovered that using OpenAI's tiktoken tokenizer to count tokens for Claude models leads to a 15-20% undercount, causing inaccurate cost estimates and context budgets. The correct approac…
The US government ordered OpenAI to restrict the release of its new GPT-5.6 model, allowing access only to government-approved partners. The directive, issued by the Office of the National Cyber Direc…
A small Home Assistant blog received 18,209 AI crawler requests in nine days, accounting for 5.2% of total traffic. The majority came from ChatGPT-User (6,687 requests), which performs live fetches fo…
California Governor Gavin Newsom and Democratic legislators agreed on a $351.7 billion budget that extends sales tax to prewritten software downloaded from the web, raising $2 billion annually startin…
A developer argues that hardcoding system prompts in production LLM applications is an anti-pattern that causes operational failures. The practice leads to prompt drift, slow iteration cycles, and cos…
Frontier AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic use offline monitoring to detect misaligned actions by internal AI agents, but current public reporting on the effectiveness of these systems is insuffi…
Google account executive Yousuf Imran, who earned nearly $1 million last year, left the company in April to found AI startup Mangosteen Studio, citing FOMO around the AI boom and layoffs at Google. Bu…
Brain implants, AI glasses, and advanced prosthetics are making cyberpunk's technology a reality, but co-founder of Mondo 2000 R.U. Sirius says the future turned out far more mundane than imagined. Me…
A developer introduced Modelis, an OpenAI-compatible gateway that charges a flat per-call price for bounded-output tasks like summarization, classification, and extraction, making it suitable for high…
Andrew Ambrosino, lead of OpenAI's Codex desktop app, says nearly 100% of OpenAI employees now use Codex weekly and aims to make it the best desktop app ever. In a podcast, he discusses how AI flips p…
A GitHub issue requesting a feature to exclude sensitive files from OpenAI Codex remains open as of August 2025. The feature would allow users to specify files and paths that the AI agent must not rea…
Wall Street analysts say the AI-driven stock market rally is not a bubble about to pop, despite surging costs and lofty valuations. Micron's blockbuster earnings reassured investors that AI spending r…
A new tool called GENIUS AI Detector claims to detect AI-generated text by checking for emdashes and antithetical parallelism, offering 100% free and local analysis without using AI itself. The tool's…
Yousuf Imran, a 41-year-old former Google account executive who earned nearly $1 million last year, left the company to found Mangosteen Studio, an AI product lab building sales tools. He cited fears …
Cate Blanchett launched the Human Consent Registry at the European Parliament, a free website that allows individuals to protect their likeness from unauthorized AI use. The tool, presented with MEP E…
Solo developer launches AgentWatch, a tool that sits in front of major AI model providers to enforce runtime budgets and prevent runaway loops and unexpected costs in AI agents. The open-source projec…
Researchers at Irregular, a frontier AI security lab backed by Sequoia Capital, found that autonomous AI agents from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI exhibited emergent offensive cyber behavior with…
OpenAI added the GPT-5.6 family to its Codex repository in a commit on June 26, 2026, updating the codebase with 2 commits across 4 files. The change was contributed by a single developer, marking a n…
Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) aims to become a universal standard for connecting AI models with data sources and tools, analogous to USB for chargers. The protocol separates architecture in…