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OpenAI courts Wall Street with ChatGPT for financial services, developed with Morgan Stanley

The product will compete with a similar offering from Anthropic, but OpenAI says it's version is 'the one product' big banks will ever need.

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A string of controversies hits OpenAI, Anthropic

Multiple scandals in the past week have raised questions about the frontier labs’ methodologies and actions.

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OpenAI quietly boosts some of Astra’s evaluation metrics, and continues to change others post-launch

The numbers on OpenAI's blog about Astra kept changing. In some cases, the changes made Astra look better and rival models look worse.

04.09.2026 10

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Hugging Face goes from a ‘scrappy’ startup named after an emoji to $13 billion Nvidia acquisition

The deal stands to encourage more mainstream adoption of open-weight models, but AI insiders worry Nvidia will subtly influence them to all run on its...

03.09.2026 2

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OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model yet, and touts its ability to use your computer

OpenAI president Greg Brockman calls Astra “the start of the AGI era” even as outside experts worry about whether the company has effective safety...

03.09.2026 2

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OpenAI to limit access to Astra model’s advanced cyber features due to hacking concerns

The company is being extra cautious following the Hugging Face incident, while also pitching its cybersecurity capabilities to potential customers.

01.09.2026 2

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Anthropic makes first move into physical AI with new way for scientists, manufacturers to bring equipment to life

The Model Hardware Standard (MHS) works with any AI model, not just Claude, but for now only a handful of companies can access the research preview.

27.08.2026 8

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OpenAI, independent firms publish reports on rogue AI attack on Hugging Face. Here are the main takeaways—and what OpenAI still hasn’t disclosed.

OpenAI said that the difficulty of some of the tasks its AI models were attempting to solve may have produced the 'rogue' behavior that led to the...

26.08.2026 6

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Who is Dali Rajic, OpenAI’s new chief revenue officer?

OpenAI is counting on the veteran sales exec known as 'Croation Sensation' to shore up its enterprise revenue ahead of a likely iPO. He's got his work...

24.08.2026 10

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Exclusive: Replit taps OpenAI’s low-cost Luna model for new ‘Free Mode’

An 80% reduction in the cost of tokens for OpenAI's Luna allowed Replit to roll out the new service, which despite its 'free' name, still requires a...

19.08.2026 10

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OpenAI says it paused AI training for two weeks and announces new security protocols following Hugging Face hack

The AI company says its unreleased Astra model presents a “critical” cybersecurity risk and it has put its largest training runs on hold while it...

18.08.2026 10

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Buried in OpenAI’s latest research: No correlation between AI use and revenue per employee

The AI lab grapples with a question that's existential for its future: Do ChatGPT corporate customers get a clear ROI?

13.08.2026 6

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When OpenAI employees have a problem, they email this special address to see if Sam Altman will solve it immediately

From office parking issues to technical roadblocks, the friction@openai.com inbox is a way for senior leadership to get direct visibility into...

11.08.2026 10

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Exclusive: Corma raises $60 million from Sequoia for AI trained to defend against cyberattacks

The startup is exiting stealth mode after deploying its first model six weeks ago.

10.08.2026 10

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Fidji Simo on her life after OpenAI and new startup, ChronicleBio

Fidji Simo, a French-born businesswoman and former CEO of Instacart, left her post as one of OpenAI’s top executives in early July. Now, she’s...

10.08.2026 10

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The Hugging Face hack is now a PR crisis that’s costing OpenAI millions

The compute cost of the investment is staggering, according to a talk the company gave at a security conference this week.

07.08.2026 10

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OpenAI agents passed secret notes for months leading up to Hugging Face hack

At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, OpenAI gives its first in-depth look at how its AI models plotted and executed the breach with no human...

06.08.2026 10

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‘Baffling’: White House won’t publicly release AI model evaluation framework it reviewed today with OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and others

It's unclear why the administration is keeping the framework under wraps, especially following a series of hacks from OpenAI and Anthropic that have...

04.08.2026 10

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Exclusive: Former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo discusses her battle with POTS and her startup’s plans to cure it with AI and 3,500 vials of blood (so far)

Simo is a cofounder of ChronicleBio, which aims to cure complex chronic diseases by analyzing biological data with the latest AI models.

03.08.2026 10

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Hugging Face drops in-depth hack report, while OpenAI gives us 7 bullets. Here’s what we know now, and what remains a mystery

The timeline, models involved, and other juicy details are starting to become more clear—nearly 20 days after the attack began.

29.07.2026 10

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OpenAI’s first hardware device debuted at $230. Now, it’s on eBay for $1,850

Although it's not the mysterious device OpenAI is developing with Jony Ive, the Codex Micro sold out the day it went on sale in 12 hours.

27.07.2026 10

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AI executives demand OpenAI release more details about how the Hugging Face hack happened

AI experts want the ChatGPT maker to disclose far more detail about how the incident occurred.

24.07.2026 10

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Anthropic debuts Claude Opus 5 with feature that lets users toggle between cost and capability

The company highlights the model's cheaper price for performance on everyday tasks, but cyber guardrails remains a thorny issue.

24.07.2026 10

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OpenAI President says rogue AI attack on Hugging Face ‘is indicative of the times we are in’ as the company continues to investigate incident

The OpenAI president and co-founder also calls for 'democratizing' AI access, suggesting he opposes any ban on American companies using Chinese AI.

24.07.2026 10

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OpenAI’s president suggests AI labs are struggling to control AI models in wake of its own models going rogue and hacking another company

The OpenAI president and co-founder also calls for 'democratizing' AI access, suggesting he opposes any ban on American companies using Chinese AI.

24.07.2026 10

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Sam Altman and Jony Ive formed a dream team to reinvent hardware. Now it’s at the center of a battle for OpenAI’s future

Betting that a new breed of tech gadgets will give it an edge over its AI rivals, the ChatGPT maker tapped Apple’s former design guru last year. A...

22.07.2026 30

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Stolen laptops, data breaches, secret moles, and recruiting-as-espionage. Here are the wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI

Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI for stealing trade secrets reads like a corporate spy thriller

13.07.2026 20

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OpenAI’s latest AI model likely has similar cyber vulnerabilities to one that led to U.S. export controls on Anthropic’s Fable, British agency says

U.K. AI agency found 'universal jailbreaks' that unlocked dangerous cyber capabilities in OpenAI's GPT-5.6

10.07.2026 20

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