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.
On August 10, 2026, House Democrats led by Representatives Greg Casar and Doris Matsui sent formal letters to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, demanding explanations for incidents…
A developer in Germany used OpenAI's Codex to build a Go-based tool that converts invoice data into EPC QR codes (GiroCode) for SEPA bank transfers, automating the tedious process of manually entering…
Cloudflare unified its Workers AI and AI Gateway platforms on August 7, enabling developers to access 70+ models across 12 providers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, xAI, and DeepSeek, thr…
Stripe has finalized a deal to buy OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, about five times the $1.3 billion valuation OpenRouter raised at in May, according to Bloomberg. The acquisition, which Stripe h…
OpenAI disbanded its Preparedness team at the end of July, marking the third safety-focused team dissolution in two years, according to the Financial Times. The team's responsibilities for bio and cyb…
Nvidia has spent over $40 billion on equity stakes and supply-chain investments in companies that buy its chips, including $30 billion into OpenAI, $21 billion into SpaceX, and $30 billion into Intel,…
OpenAI disbanded its preparedness team at the end of last month, according to the Financial Times, shifting responsibility for specific risk areas like bio and cyber into existing teams. The move foll…
Anthropic cofounder and CEO Dario Amodei acknowledged that AI suffers from a 'crisis of trust,' saying ordinary people suspect companies and governments are 'cooking up some new way to screw them over…
A developer built a scheduled X publishing workflow using OpenAI's Codex and the official X API command-line client, xurl. The system separates editorial decisions made by the AI agent from determinis…
Stripe has agreed to acquire OpenRouter for over $7 billion, a move that could turn the payment processor into the primary gateway for AI intelligence by standardizing access to multiple large languag…
Nvidia has dramatically reduced the amount of OpenAI infrastructure financing it may guarantee, scaling back from a previously reported $250 billion commitment, according to a Wall Street Journal repo…
Anthropic has begun embedding invisible watermarks into all text and images produced by its Claude models launched from 2 August 2026 onwards, applying the feature globally to comply with the European…
MathCode, an open-source terminal AI coding assistant from the Math-AI research community, converts plain-language math problems into Lean 4 theorems and attempts formal proofs, with a project page da…
OpenAI and HubSpot are spending millions to acquire creator businesses, with OpenAI's acquisition of a content platform and HubSpot's purchase of a media company signaling a strategic shift toward own…
Multiple developers on Hacker News report abandoning Anthropic's Claude Code for OpenAI's Codex or other providers after experiencing what they describe as a quality decline over the last 2-3 months, …
Anthropic and OpenAI models are more cost-efficient than Chinese rivals despite higher per-token fees, according to recent analyses, using fewer tokens per task. This efficiency may give U.S. companie…
Stripe Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire OpenRouter, an AI model marketplace, for approximately $10 billion, according to Bloomberg. The deal, reported on July 23, 2026, would value OpenRouter at o…
OpenAI has released Multi-Agent v2, enabling its GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra models to delegate tasks to the speed-optimized Luna variant, resolving a version mismatch that previously blocked interoperabili…
Agent6, a new coding agent that jails model commands and uses editable state machines for long-running tasks, has been released. The agent restricts filesystem and network access via Landlock and secc…
Average prices for AI inference from leading US labs dropped nearly 25% between mid-July and mid-August, according to Silicon Data analysis reported by the Financial Times. OpenAI cut prices on GPT-5.…