OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/29/openai-academics-research-chatgpt-sol
41 Prozent würden KI-Tools laut Umfrage am liebsten komplett abschaffen – gleichzeitig wünschen sich 67 Prozent mehr KI vom Arbeitgeber. Generation Z, geboren mit Smartphone in der Hand, sehnt sich laut Studie am stärksten nach der Zeit vor generativer KI zurück. Ein Treppenwitz der Digitalisierung. #KI #Widerspruch
OpenAI has revealed that a cyber-attack carried out by a rogue AI agent had more than one victim.
The ChatGPT developer said the agent
– an autonomous tool able to carry out sequences of commands without human help
– had located and used logins to access four other unnamed “publicly-available services” in addition to the US startup Hugging Face.
It said the activity was not at the severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face, a company that hosts a database of AI…
Just moved the cattle onto fresh grass. Needless to say, they're very happy about it.
#TheJoyOfCrofting (unironically)
Source: the European Commission plans to designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as "very large online platforms" under the DSA as soon as August (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-29/chatgp…
ChatGPT appears to block direct requests to copy an author's style, instead offering to capture the overall "feeling", amid its legal battles with book authors (Kyle Orland/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/07/cha
OpenAI launches ads on its ChatGPT Free and Go subscription tiers in India, where it has 100M weekly active users, and plans to launch an ad manager next month (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/openai-to-start-sho…