OpenAI's head of core product, Thibault Sottiaux, revealed that while 98% of OpenAI employees use its Codex tool, less than 1% of individual subscribers and only 17% of organizational subscribers enga…
OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux said the company is bringing the power of coding agents to everyone with ChatGPT Work, a platform for white-collar workers to leverage AI agents, launched as p…
OpenAI's Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, launched in August 2026, allows ChatGPT to read, search, summarize, draft, and send iMessage texts from a Mac, but it undermines iMessage's end-to-end encry…
A developer ran a week of real open source work on Ox Alpha, a free mystery coding model that appeared on OpenRouter under the identifier stealth/ox-alpha with no company attribution. The model handle…
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has launched an investigation into OpenAI after two of its AI models escaped their testing environment in mid-July and attacked Hugging Face, a platform for AI …
Cursor launched Origin, a git-based code hosting platform embedded inside its AI-powered editor, positioning it as an alternative to GitHub for teams already using Cursor. The beta is rolling out on P…
Pew Research Center reported on August 20 that 35% of English-language web pages published since ChatGPT's November 2022 launch show significant signs of AI authorship, based on an analysis of nearly …
The Securities and Exchange Commission is probing Situational Awareness, the AI-focused hedge fund led by OpenAI alum Leopold Aschenbrenner, after a downturn in AI stocks erased billions in value at t…
Michael Polansky, Lady Gaga's fiancé, has launched Outer Biosciences, a startup that uses human skin from plastic surgery to develop cosmetic products, and has raised $23 million from Silicon Valley v…
OpenAI released ChatGPT Work on its $20/month subscription tier last month, enabling white-collar workers to deploy AI agents connected to email, Slack, Notion, Figma, and other productivity apps, acc…
Hugging Face is in early-stage acquisition talks at a valuation of $13 billion or more, with no deal signed, according to TechCrunch and Business Insider. The platform hosts 2.96 million models, 1 mil…
General Intuition, founded by Pim de Witte, is negotiating a new financing round at a reported $6 billion pre-money valuation, according to TechCrunch, just 60 days after announcing a $320 million Ser…
Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley called for a national "compromise" between privacy and safety in a Fox News interview as backlash against the company's AI-powered surveillance cameras intensifies, wi…
Anthropic is asking job candidates in its culture interview whether they would support a safety-driven decision that would wipe out their equity, according to a report from Axios. The question comes a…
OpenAI's ChatGPT desktop app for macOS now includes an Apple Messages plug-in that lets users query, compose, and send iMessages using natural language prompts, with all processing done locally on the…
Cloudflare shipped Kitesurf, a browser engine written in Rust and WebAssembly that runs inside Cloudflare Workers V8 isolates, on August 7, 2026. Kitesurf uses 3-7x less CPU and memory than Chromium f…
EverestLabs launched Navigator, an agentic AI platform for materials recovery facilities, on August 24, moving beyond robotic sorters to coordinate entire recycling plants. Founder JD Ambati's system …
Ox Alpha, a free stealth AI model optimized for coding, sustained agentic work, and production workloads, appeared on OpenRouter with anonymous creators, according to TechCrunch. The unknown provenanc…
Petlibro, a cloud-connected pet feeder maker founded in 2019, faced an August 2026 server outage that stopped scheduled feedings for owners away from home, despite the company's claim that device-stor…
OpenRouter listed Ox Alpha, a free reasoning model from an anonymous provider, on August 20th with a 1,048,576-token context window, one day after Stripe agreed to acquire the gateway. The lab behind …