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.
Autonomous agentic engineering tools have matured into a distinct category, with the Yegge ecosystem becoming its center of gravity: Gastown reached v1.0 with 15.9K stars and a Kilo-hosted cloud versi…
Axios, a for-profit media company majority-owned by Cox Enterprises, has signed a three-year agreement with OpenAI to underwrite 13 local newsletters, giving OpenAI access to all Axios content to trai…
Ram Bala, an associate professor of AI and analytics at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business, said the AI buildout is replicating Enron's financial tactics—off-balance-sheet financing, m…
OpenAI has disbanded its dedicated safety team, shifting safety oversight into general management to accelerate product development, according to internal reports. Employees describe a 'burbling sense…
OpenAI previewed Ultrafast, a new API tier delivering GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 output tokens per second, 14 times faster than Standard mode, using Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine with 44 GB of on-chip SRAM. Th…
Corma, an AI security startup founded by CEO Alon Pluda, announced $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, alongside Khosla Ventures and Coatue, to close the 'defense gap' in cybersecurity…
Two AI labeling laws—Article 50 of the EU AI Act and California's AI Transparency Act—took effect on August 2, 2026, imposing transparency duties on AI-generated content. The EU law splits obligations…
A developer who logged AI crawler traffic on a small business site for 34 days found that ChatGPT's live retrieval bot (ChatGPT-User) outpaces Googlebot, fetching pages 40.3 times per day versus 35.8.…
OpenAI has updated its privacy policy to support ad personalization as it expands sponsored content in ChatGPT to the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea, following a US launch on February 9, 2…
SpaceX closed its $60 billion acquisition of Anysphere, the company behind Cursor, on August 14, marking the largest acquisition of a VC-backed startup ever and the largest deal in AI developer toolin…
Wynd Kaufmyn, a 69-year-old retired engineering professor, was sentenced to 14 days in jail for chaining shut OpenAI's San Francisco headquarters, becoming the first person imprisoned for protesting A…
OpenAI dissolved its Preparedness team, which was responsible for evaluating catastrophic AI risks, and reassigned its work to existing groups, according to The Decoder. Several safety staffers have l…
Wynd Kaufman, 69, surrendered to authorities in San Francisco on Friday after a jury found her guilty for her role in chaining and locking the front doors of OpenAI's headquarters last year with the g…
Apple has trained its own large language model for the China market with support from Alibaba Group, according to three people familiar with the matter, marking a strategic shift from its earlier reli…
A single misconfigured AI agent loop can burn through a month's cloud budget in an afternoon, according to production engineering guidance, and token budgets and rate limits are distinct mechanisms th…
A daily AI news digest published on Aug 16 lists 30 stories, including reports that OpenAI is losing key personnel ahead of a potential IPO, Qwen 3.8 27B outperforms the larger Qwen 3.7 Plus in coding…
OpenAI has shipped cross-model delegation for Codex's Multi Agents v2 system, allowing a model to assign work to any supported model, including GPT-5.6 Luna, as announced by Eric Provencher on X on Au…
Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn said on the company's August 5th earnings call that the cost of an AI-powered video call dropped from roughly $0.30 to less than $0.01, driven by a shift to op…
Anthropic reported more than $11.5 billion in Q2 2026 revenue on August 15, a 14-fold year-over-year increase from $787 million in Q2 2025, and confirmed its first quarter of positive adjusted operati…
More than 21,000 internet-facing Model Context Protocol (MCP) server instances are exposed, with 91.8% of 640 audited production servers lacking OAuth authentication, according to research published i…