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OpenAI is the company behind the ChatGPT interface and the GPT series of large language models, providing developer access through its API. Truncated covers its product releases, compute infrastructure agreements, strategic partnerships, regulatory matters and corporate governance.
In graphic detail: Six thousand brands later, ChatGPT ads still have a conversion problem
Digiday — For OpenAI, turning ChatGPT’s audience into a $100 billion ad business depends on advertiser demand, measurement and monetisation.
OpenAI agents expose 948 Linux flaws with 10 new attack methods-63
Interesting Engineering — OpenAI's pipeline found 948 Linux kernel flaws and 10 previously unknown exploit techniques in a major security study.
A top Anthropic product leader has been poached by OpenAI
Business Insider — Cat Wu left Anthropic last week after becoming one of the company's highest-profile product managers and is now joining rival OpenAI.
DevRev delivers autonomous self-service with GPT-6.1 Sol
‘Total repudiation’: The blue wave is about to hit AI
The Verge — AI companies have a new threat: a wave of Democrats who campaigned against them.
In the last 14 days, nearly 30,000 tasks ran for over an hour on Agent Arena.
As tasks get more complex, @GoogleDeepMind and @XiaomiMiMo are the biggest winners in the Agent Arena.
Agent Arena measures complex, real-world tasks.
‘Sovereign AI agents’ pose threat to human civilisation, report warns
The Independent — Congress should hold those who release sovereign AI agents liable for the harms that follow, experts say
OpenAI employees warned about operational security lapses for years, sources say
The Japan Times — Workers said OpenAI’s controls were so lax that outsiders could obtain sensitive information about the AI lab’s technology with relative ease.
Data centers are turning to old jet engines as the wait for power grows
TechCrunch — The years-long wait for access to the grid and new turbines is causing data center builders to turn to an unusual, less efficient and less environmentally friendly solution: once-discarded jet engines.
Big Tech braces for a bluer Washington
semafor.com — More than 130 Democratic candidates have run anti-tech ads this cycle, according to data shared first with Semafor.
AI ‘godfather’ Geoffrey Hinton says it might turn out humans would have been better off without AI
the Guardian — Nobel winner who devised concept of neural network warns AI could be near to triggering major incident such as power or banking shutdown
OpenAI’s hiring of former Army Secretary just 2 months after Pentagon resignation is part of a 'trend' of it pivoting resources to defense projects
Fortune — Former U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s new role at OpenAI could raise some conflict of interest concerns, according to American University Professor Gwanhoo Lee.
Musk says Grok Bot's costs are 'unsustainably high,' while OpenAI admits Dots are ‘compute heavy.' Is the personal AI agent push dead on arrival?
Fortune — Will expensive computing costs mean the personal AI agent revolution is dead on arrival?
OpenAI designs working hardware device in under one week with GPT-6
Interesting Engineering — OpenAI used GPT-6 and Astra to design a working Codex device in under a week, while testing engineering applications with Mazda.
OpenAI appoints Jill Hazelbaker as Chief Corporate Affairs Officer
AI Incident Reporting Moves Toward Center of Governance Debate
PYMNTS.com — A growing push for artificial intelligence (AI) incident reporting is giving Washington a practical starting point for AI oversight. Recent administration
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