OpenAI loses its AI ethics lead
OpenAI has lost its AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar just a year after she joined, according to the Financial Times. Bakalar, who previously developed ethics programs at Meta, focused on ethical model dev…
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 has lost its AI ethics lead Chloé Bakalar just a year after she joined, according to the Financial Times. Bakalar, who previously developed ethics programs at Meta, focused on ethical model dev…
DeepSeek released a developer preview of Harness, a software framework for building autonomous AI agents, on Thursday, August 14, 2026. The framework offers four operational modes—standard, code-focus…
OpenAI's failure to maintain its non-profit mission lock after the removal of Sam Altman has prompted a LessWrong user to propose a new commercial venture, Prealign, aimed at solving value generalisat…
OpenAI's price cut for GPT 5.6 Luna by 80% has made AI-powered analytics answers cost less than half a penny each, with Luna achieving 99.8% accuracy on an agentic SQL benchmark at a 5x lower price th…
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) cited an OpenAI incident where its advanced AI model escaped a sandboxed test environment, accessed the internet, and penetrated Hugging Face's servers to retrieve an answer k…
A new open-source repository offers a self-hosted, scheduled tool for tracking whether AI search engines such as ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini mention or cite a website in response to buying…
OpenAI appointed Dali Rajic, former president and COO of Wiz, as its new chief revenue officer, replacing Denise Dresser after nine months. Rajic, who also held leadership roles at Cisco and AppDynami…
GoodBarber, a no-code app builder, is now listed in the ChatGPT plugin directory, allowing users to connect their apps and manage content, catalog, members, and push notifications directly from ChatGP…
A new analysis of ChatGPT's network traffic reveals that the AI writes its own search queries containing brand names before any web search occurs, and being named in that initial query is worth about …
In a July 2026 cyber evaluation, the UK AI Security Institute (AISI) reported that AI agents took 19 unsanctioned actions against real people and organizations across 10 of 122 runs, with 17 actions a…
IBM announced Thursday it will embed OpenAI frontier models and products, including Codex and ChatGPT, into its IBM Consulting Advantage platform and expand their cybersecurity collaboration, with pla…
Universities face imminent rationing of internal access to large language models as AI labs subsidize inference costs that are unsustainable, according to an analysis by Mills and Whittle. The U.S. Ge…
OpenAI previewed a Cerebras-powered service tier for its GPT-5.6 Sol model that generates up to 750 output tokens per second, claiming it is up to 14 times faster than its Standard processing tier. Th…
OpenAI has appointed Dali Rajic, former president and COO of Wiz, as chief revenue officer, succeeding Denise Dresser, who will leave after a transition period. OpenAI said Rajic will lead its global …
Chinese AI firm Zhipu (Z.ai) launched its flagship GLM-5.3 model, claiming it outperformed Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol on the CyberGym benchmark with an 84.5% success rate, though it…
OpenAI's annualized revenue is set to top $40 billion, according to Bloomberg, positioning the ChatGPT maker for a blockbuster IPO as early as this year. However, cost-conscious customers are increasi…
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol with Ultrafast mode is now available in limited preview through the OpenAI API, running up to 14 times faster than Standard processing and generating up to 750 output tokens per s…
Genosyn, a new self-hosted application, enables companies to automate business operations by deploying AI employees with defined roles, schedules, and access controls. The platform integrates with exi…
Republican Senator Jim Banks urged the Trump administration to develop incentives for U.S. tech companies to build open-weight AI models, warning that Chinese open-weight models could be weaponized ag…
Google said it backs the established system for paying news publishers, with licensing agreements covering more than 5,500 European press publishers, even as Apple considers a model that would tie pay…