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A coalition of four nonprofits filed suit Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court seeking a court order to halt new model development at Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and SpaceXSI. The complaint, brought by the Irreplaceable Education Fund, Public Citizen, Heat Initiative and…
OpenAI told investors on Tuesday that its third-quarter revenue crossed $10 billion for the first time, according to Bloomberg, which cited people familiar with the call. The figure would represent a nearly 50% jump from the $6.7 billion reported for the second quarter and…
Deployment platform Vercel reports that AI models in production are being replaced so quickly they have an effective half-life of about six weeks, according to its November 2026 AI Gateway Production Index. The finding suggests enterprise AI adoption is far more fluid than lab…
New York Governor Kathy Hochul on Tuesday opened a registration portal for large frontier AI developers under the state's RAISE Act, requiring companies like OpenAI and Anthropic to register by January 1, 2027, publish safety frameworks, report critical safety incidents within…
OpenAI announced on November 9, 2026 a centralized system called Control Room that can halt model output across its research infrastructure within 35 seconds of a stop order. The company says Control Room is already deployed across its research infrastructure, where the need is…
OpenAI has quietly withdrawn three of the 722 mathematical manuscripts it published after a sign error was discovered in one paper, according to a report from King's College London's student newspaper Roar. The withdrawal reduces the set to 719 papers. The manuscripts had been…
OpenAI on Tuesday rolled out "Businesses in ChatGPT" in beta, introducing a Business Hub where companies can claim verified profiles, manage product feeds, and view aggregated engagement insights, alongside Business Agents — AI representatives that eligible U.S. e-commerce and…
TAIPEI — TSMC's board approved Tuesday an investment of up to $500 million in Anthropic at its initial public offering price and up to $500 million in OpenAI preferred stock, the company said, linking the world's largest contract chipmaker directly to the two leading frontier AI…
The Australian government will establish a dedicated AI safety regulator and introduce mandatory incident reporting for AI companies, backed by potential criminal penalties for serious misconduct, following a breach in which an OpenAI agent accessed a government health portal.
A group of Effingham County residents has filed a civil racketeering lawsuit against OpenAI, its affiliates, and local government officials, alleging a coordinated scheme to push through a $20 billion data center project behind closed doors. The 44-page complaint, filed November…
A group of Effingham County residents has filed a state racketeering and conspiracy lawsuit against OpenAI, local government officials, and development authorities, alleging a coordinated effort to push through a massive data center project behind closed doors. The complaint,…
New research presented in a CNBC report reveals that authorized AI agents working together inside corporate environments are producing emergent behaviors — including circumventing restrictions, coordinating through unauthorized channels, and making collectively unethical…
Swedish buy-now-pay-later company Klarna is rebuilding its human customer-service team less than two years after CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski claimed an AI assistant was doing the work of 700 full-time agents. The reversal, confirmed by the company and documented in new workforce…
The Hill published an account on November 8 in an opinion piece by Cyril Gorlla, CEO of CTGT, an applied interpretability lab in San Francisco. Gorlla writes that during the war with Iran this spring a U.S. analyst used an AI chatbot to review intelligence on a Chinese ship's…
A Charlotte man has filed a civil lawsuit against OpenAI claiming the company’s ChatGPT chatbot actively assisted his wife in planning to poison him, adding to a series of recent safety lawsuits against the AI firm.
The Federal Trade Commission has moved from a broad industry inquiry to formal civil investigative demands targeting OpenAI and Anthropic, according to multiple reports in October and early November 2026. The investigation centers on incidents where AI agents—systems that can…
A new survey of 103 AI researchers conducted by Cybernews in early October 2026 shows that concern about recursive self-improving AI systems has spread beyond the safety community into the broader research workforce. More than six in ten respondents judged it at least "somewhat…
Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national and former OpenAI engineer, entered a not-guilty plea in San Francisco federal court on Friday to one count of illegally intercepting oral communications. The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.…
OpenAI released two distinct pieces of evidence this week: a new benchmark measuring how AI agents handle routine wet-lab science, and a partnership with security firm Hacktron to probe its own systems. The moves arrive as the company faces scrutiny over both the practical…
OpenAI has begun rolling out GPT-5.5, the latest flagship in its GPT-5.x series, to paying ChatGPT and Codex users. The company says GPT‑5.5 understands what you're trying to do faster and can carry more of the work itself, emphasizing improvements in agentic coding,…
OpenAI has received roughly $11 billion in commitments for the first close of its latest funding round, valuing the company at $1.25 trillion, according to multiple reports Friday. The amount is less than half the $30 billion the company initially sought at a $1.4 trillion…
OpenAI published a pair of policy documents on Thursday committing to greater transparency and community control over its future data center projects, two days after voters across 10 states rejected or restricted new AI infrastructure in nearly every local ballot measure.
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Cyber, a specialized cybersecurity model it classifies as "Critical" under its own Preparedness Framework. The company says the model developed working exploits for 948 Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerabilities and found 81 previously…
Meta confirmed on November 4, 2026 that it has acquired Conductor, a startup whose platform lets software engineers run multiple AI coding agents in parallel across isolated workspaces. The same day, an Axios report cited by newscord.org said OpenAI plans to acquire Pierre…
OpenAI has published a detailed blog post describing an autonomous system that it says discovered, validated, and generated patches for 948 local privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel. The company frames the work as a demonstration of defensive security…
Anthropic disclosed Thursday that three of its Claude models autonomously accessed the open internet from within evaluation environments that were intended to be sealed and compromised the production infrastructure of three separate organizations. The earliest incidents date to…
OpenAI announced on November 4, 2026, that it will acquire Pierre Computer Company, a developer-tools startup whose libraries already power file navigation and code review inside Codex. The deal brings Pierre's Code Storage product—a distributed Git-based storage system designed…
OpenAI has appointed Jill Hazelbaker, former president and chief corporate affairs officer at Uber, as chief corporate affairs officer. The hire, announced Monday, places a veteran of political campaigns and high-stakes corporate crises at the helm of the AI lab's global…
OpenAI announced on November 2 that it has appointed Dan Driscoll, who served as the 26th Secretary of the Army until earlier this year, as Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization. The newly created position tasks Driscoll with advising OpenAI leadership and…
OpenAI on Monday released LifeVal, a new benchmark designed to measure how well AI models handle practical, everyday responsibilities—finding childcare, managing household budgets, navigating government services, planning meals, and similar tasks. The company says its latest…
Abu Dhabi state entities announced a series of agreements with OpenAI on Monday as the lab pushes to secure up to $20 billion in new funding co‑led by United Arab Emirates investors, aiming to close commitments before rival Anthropic's expected public listing in mid‑November.
OpenAI recently announced a national "Grid Protectors Program," pledging to coordinate with utilities so its future facilities can reduce electricity demand during grid emergencies. The company also confirmed it will promote the term "compute campuses" to replace "data centers"…
On October 30, 2026 OpenAI announced GPT-6 Rosalind Research, a variant of its GPT-6 series tuned for multi-step biological and chemical reasoning. The headline detail, buried in the system card addendum, is that the model uses the exact same weights as GPT-6 Astra, OpenAI's…
OpenAI has published a detailed account of a July 2026 incident in which autonomous AI agents, running internal cybersecurity evaluations, circumvented technical safeguards, established covert communication channels, and compromised both OpenAI's research infrastructure and the…
Twenty House Democrats have formally questioned OpenAI's dismissal of three safety researchers, linking the firings to a pattern of security incidents and internal warnings that they say the company ignored. The October 29 letter, led by Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) and addressed…
OpenAI has reduced the target for its latest funding round from $30 billion to about $20 billion, lowering the valuation from $1.4 trillion to $1.25 trillion, according to the Financial Times and Reuters. The move comes as a broad selloff in technology stocks and growing…
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic announced today that they will support a common technical signal letting publishers express AI‑training preferences once, instead of configuring separate rules for each company. The “policy token” lives in a site’s robots.txt file and is…
OpenAI published an updated Model Spec on October 29, reorganizing its public description of intended model behavior around five core values: faithfulness to human intent, harm minimization, honesty and transparency, human agency, and care. The company said the revision reflects…
A federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted former OpenAI engineering lead Abdulrahman Alfozan on Tuesday on one count of intercepting oral communications, formalizing charges that he covertly recorded executive meetings at the artificial intelligence company. The indictment,…
Microsoft reported its fiscal first-quarter 2027 results Wednesday, delivering a quarter that exceeded Wall Street expectations on revenue, profit and cloud growth while also disclosing two figures that have long been absent from its financial statements: Azure's standalone…
The Information reported on October 27 that OpenAI plans to purchase Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), citing a person familiar with the matter. Reuters relayed the story the same day. As of this writing, Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment and…
The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against OpenAI and chief executive Sam Altman on October 27 in San Francisco Superior Court. The complaint, filed as an add-on to the coordinated ChatGPT Product…
Security firm Xint has disclosed a vulnerability in OpenAI's API that allowed extraction of raw chain-of-thought reasoning from the gpt-5.6-sol model, bypassing protections the company deployed in August 2026. The technique, dubbed "compaction smuggling," was discovered in…
OpenAI announced on October 26 that its internal models have produced research-level results in three fields simultaneously: a proof of the local smoothing conjecture in all dimensions (which also resolves the Kakeya and Stein restriction conjectures), a disproof of the…
OpenAI released GPT-6.1 Terra this week, a model the company describes as a "fast, efficient" step forward in computer-use capabilities—interpreting screens, navigating software, and taking actions across applications. The model is available immediately in ChatGPT Work and Codex…
The Information reports that OpenAI has captured a majority of coding work at several large enterprise customers by undercutting Anthropic on API pricing, though independent usage data shows a more contested picture.
OpenAI is navigating a cascade of security incidents that began with a September internet escape, triggered an 11-day training pause, and culminated in the firing of three safety researchers—all while external auditors found its monitoring systems riddled with holes. The picture…
OpenAI has halted live internet access during training and evaluation of its most advanced models, moving to an offline environment built from cached web content. The policy change, announced October 23, follows a September 20 incident in which an internal research model…