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OpenAI-Chef: KI braucht dringend Regulierung
OpenAI-CEO Sam Altman sieht die Superintelligenz als Gefahr und schlägt internationale Überwachung vor. Das ist auch Marketing.
https://www.heise.de/new…

OpenAI will acquire Astral and integrate its tools into the Codex ecosystem. Perhaps it’s time for forks: #OpenAI

OpenAI to acquire Astral
Accelerates Codex growth to power the next generation of Python developer tools

OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says the company is "on track" to unveil its first device in the "latter part" of 2026; reports suggest it will be a wearable (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/19/openai-device-2026-lehane-jony-ive

Exclusive: OpenAI aims to debut first device in 2026
Lehane listed "devices" as one of the big coming attractions for OpenAI in 2026.

#Astral, die Firma hinter Python-Tools wie uv und ruff, wurde an #OpenAI abgegeben
https://astral.sh/blog/openai

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/879623/openclaw-founder-peter-steinberger-joins-openai

Let's hope for a guilty verdict, not a pay-off, er, "settlement."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/16/merriam-webster-openai-encyclopedia-brittanica-lawsuit/

The dictionary sues OpenAI | TechCrunch
Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster say that OpenAI violated the copyright of almost 100,000 articles by using them for LLM training.

Integration in Codex: OpenAI übernimmt das Start-up Astral
OpenAI baut mit der Übernahme des Python-Tool-Entwicklers Astral das Engagement im Bereich Coding weiter aus und will seine Codex-Plattform weiterentwickeln.

OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships, Charles Porch, as its first VP of global creative partnerships, seeking to win over a skeptical Hollywood (Julia Black/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/openai-hires-charles-porch-instagram

Exclusive: OpenAI Has Poached Instagram’s Celebrity Whisperer
Charles Porch’s newly created role as OpenAI’s VP of global creative partnerships signals the AI giant’s new focus on the entertainment industry

»Klage gegen OpenAI — Musk fordert bis zu 134 Milliarden US-Dollar Entschädigung:
Der reichste Mensch der Welt will durch eine Klage noch reicher werden. Elon Musk fordert enorme Summen von OpenAI und Microsoft.«
Wie heißt es so schön, wenn zwei sich streiten freut sich der Dritte. In diesen Fall kann es aber auch Apple betreffen, da die nun mit OpenAI auch eine Partnerschaft haben. Sehen wir nun wer "Intelligent" ist?
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Klage gegen OpenAI: Musk fordert bis zu 134 Milliarden US-Dollar Entschädigung - Golem.de
Der reichste Mensch der Welt will durch eine Klage noch reicher werden. Elon Musk fordert enorme Summen von OpenAI und Microsoft.

OpenAI partners with six Indian education institutions, including IIT Delhi, IIM Ahmedabad, and AIIMS New Delhi, to provide ChatGPT Edu access to 100K students (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-pushes…

OpenAI pushes into higher education as India seeks to scale AI skills | TechCrunch
OpenAI says its India education partnerships aim to reach more than 100,000 students, faculty and staff over the next year.

#AI #AIBubble #OpenAI
In 2025 alone, OpenAI released a controversial text-to-video generator, dubbed Sora, and an abysma…

Panicked OpenAI Execs Cutting Projects as Walls Close In
OpenAI’s CEO of applications, Fidji Simo, told employees that the company is "actively looking at which areas to deprioritize."

OpenAI verdreifacht Rechenleistung und Umsatz
Mehr als 20 Milliarden US-Dollar Jahresumsatz verkündet OpenAIs Finanzchefin und verweist auf die gestiegene Rechenleistung. Diese bleibe entscheidend.
https://www.

India's TCS signs OpenAI as its first data center customer, starting with 100MW of capacity; Tata Group plans to deploy ChatGPT Enterprise, starting with TCS (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-taps-t…

OpenAI taps Tata for 100MW AI data center capacity in India, eyes 1GW | TechCrunch
OpenAI also plans to expand its presence in India with new offices in Mumbai and Bengaluru later this year.

Ja, KOMMERZIELL geht Verantwortung halt nicht. 🤪
#OpenAI hat in seinem Leitbild das Wort „sicher“ gestrichen.
Statt KI zu entwickeln, die der Menschheit „auf sichere Weise“ nützt, heißt es nun nur noch, sie solle der Menschheit zugutekommen. Die Änderung fällt mit der Umwandlung zum gewinnorientierten Unternehmen zusammen.
Investoren wie

ChatGPT: OpenAI streicht "sicher" aus seinem Leitbild - Golem.de
OpenAI hat bei der Umstrukturierung in ein gewinnorientiertes Unternehmen die Sicherheitsformulierung aus seinem Leitbild entfernt.

Well, so much for #Astral. The post is saying "productive" 4 times which is saying a lot.
#NoAI #NoLLM

Indian digital payments company Pine Labs plans to embed OpenAI APIs into its infrastructure to enable AI-assisted settlement, reconciliation, and invoicing (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/openai-deepens-india-push-…

OpenAI deepens India push with Pine Labs fintech partnership | TechCrunch
OpenAI moves beyond ChatGPT in India with a Pine Labs deal targeting enterprise payments and AI-driven commerce.

Wissensarbeit mit KI-Agenten: So nutzen Sie Claude Code, OpenAI Codex & Co.
Im Webinar zeigt heise KI PRO, wie KI-Agenten komplexe Aufgaben selbstständig übernehmen und welche Werkzeuge sich für die Wissensarbeit eignen.

A US federal judge orders OpenAI to stop using the word "Cameo" for its Sora products and features, in a trademark lawsuit filed by celebrity video app Cameo (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/u-s-court-bars-openai-from-using-cameo/

U.S. court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo' | TechCrunch
OpenAI has renamed its feature in Sora from "Cameo" to "Characters."

"You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg."
(Original title: The only taboo left is copyright infringement)
https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-on…

The only taboo left is copyright infringement
Read to the end for a magical sounding supermarket freezer aisle

lol
https://apnews.com/article/chatgpt-ads-openai-advertising-83812a066375a805fa2e29b28fc77da1

Walmart is embedding its own chatbot Sparky in ChatGPT after conversion rates via OpenAI's Instant Checkout were 3x lower than those requiring clicking out (Paresh Dave/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-lab-walmart-openai-shaking-up-agentic-shoppin…

Why Walmart and OpenAI Are Shaking Up Their Agentic Shopping Deal
After OpenAI’s Instant Checkout feature fell short, Walmart is instead embedding its Sparky chatbot directly into ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

»OpenAI kündigt Werbung in ChatGPT an:
In den nächsten Wochen will OpenAI Werbung in ChatGPT testen. Erste Experimente mit dem neuen Finanzierungsmodell sollen auf die USA beschränkt bleiben.«
Die Frage ist nicht ob dies "überraschend" kommt, sondern ab wann dies öffentich mitgeteilt wird. Wenn nehmen Menschen deren kommerziellen Propaganda Beeinflussung wahr?
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OpenAI kündigt Werbung in ChatGPT an
In den nächsten Wochen will OpenAI Werbung in ChatGPT testen. Erste Experimente mit dem neuen Finanzierungsmodell sollen auf die USA beschränkt bleiben.

OpenAI kündigt Werbung in ChatGPT an
In den nächsten Wochen will OpenAI Werbung in ChatGPT testen. Erste Experimente mit dem neuen Finanzierungsmodell sollen auf die USA beschränkt bleiben.
https://www.h…

If you need a cathartic release from the news that
Amazon laid off 16,000 workers,
Block chopped nearly half its workforce,
Atlassian pared back 10% of staffers,
and Meta is reportedly considering another massive round of layoffs
-- all in the name of AI,
then we invite you to browse the responses to a recent
Sam Altman post on X.
Altman, the CEO of OpenAI,
shared this on Tuesday:
“I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extrem…

Sam Altman's thank-you to coders draws the memes | TechCrunch
Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

Exclusive: OpenAI and Sam Altman back a bold new take on fusing humans and machines https://www.corememory.com/p/exclusive-openai-and-sam-altman-back-merge-labs-bci The Merge or the Übermensch in a Silicon Valley jacket.

Exclusive: OpenAI and Sam Altman Back A Bold New Take On Fusing Humans And Machines
Merge Labs is here with $252 million, an all-star crew and superpowers on the mind

OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships, Charles Porch, as its first VP of global creative partnerships, seeking to win over a skeptical Hollywood (Julia Black/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/openai-hires-charles-porch-instagram

Exclusive: OpenAI Has Poached Instagram’s Celebrity Whisperer
Charles Porch’s newly created role as OpenAI’s VP of global creative partnerships signals the AI giant’s new focus on the entertainment industry

OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/848435/openai-chatgpt-characteris…

ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is
OpenAI is making it easier to edit emails with ChatGPT, too.

OpenAI and Paradigm announce EVMbench, a benchmark that measures how well AI agents can detect, exploit, and patch high-severity smart contract vulnerabilities (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-evmbench/

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/evaluating-chain-of-thought-monitorability

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Urheberrecht: Encyclopaedia Britannica verklagt OpenAI wegen KI-Training

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar says the company's compute grew from 0.2 GW in 2023 to ~1.9 GW in 2025 and annualized revenue grew from $2B in 2023 to $20B in 2025 (Sarah Friar/OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/a-business-that-scales-with-the-value-of-intelligence

Ramp data: Anthropic is capturing ~73% of all spending among companies buying AI tools for the first time, up from a 50/50 split with OpenAI in January (Madison Mills/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/18/ai-enterprise-revenue-anthropic-openai

The AI spending flip
With the way AI companies are spending, they have no choice but to generate more revenue — and quickly.

Angst vor Vertrauensverlust: Perplexity verzichtet auf Werbung
Während der Konkurrent OpenAI in ChatGPT Werbung testet, schafft Perplexity in seinem Chatbot Anzeigen wieder ab. Diese untergrüben das Vertrauen der Nutzer.

«Google und OpenAI beklagen KI-Datendiebstahl durch Modell-Destillation:
[…] Gemini massiv von Angreifern attackiert, die das Modell durch sogenannte Destillation kopieren wollten. Eine Kampagne habe Gemini über 100.000 Mal mit Anfragen bombardiert, berichtet NBC News. Google nennt das Diebstahl geistigen Eigentums. […]»
Zwei der Datenkonzerne, die vom Datendiebstahl leben, beklagen dass sie selber Opfer sind?!??
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Google und OpenAI beklagen KI-Datendiebstahl durch Modell-Destillation
Google und OpenAI beklagen sich über Ideenklau; ausgerechnet die Unternehmen, die selbst mit riesigen Mengen fremder Daten trainiert haben. Doch hinter den Vorwürfen steckt ein ernstes Problem: Angreifer versuchen systematisch, Milliarden-Dollar-Modelle zu kopieren, ohne selbst zu investieren.

Dienstag: Europas 174-Milliarden-Lücke, OpenAIs 20-Milliarden-Umsatz
Privatinvestoren für Digitalnetze OpenAI verdreifacht Jahresumsatz Lufthansa verbietet Powerbanks Abschied vom Kupfernetz Details zur E-Auto-Förderung

Sources: OpenAI signed a deal with AWS to sell its AI services to US government agencies for both classified and unclassified work, amid the Anthropic-DOD spat (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-clinches-aws-deal-bid…

OpenAI Clinches AWS Deal in Bid to Win Government Contracts
OpenAI on Friday signed a new contract with Amazon Web Services to sell its AI to U.S. government employees for both classified and unclassified work, according to two people with direct knowledge of the agreement. The contract will allow OpenAI to support the Pentagon through a deal it hastily ...

A US federal judge orders OpenAI to stop using the word "Cameo" for its Sora products and features, in a trademark lawsuit filed by celebrity video app Cameo (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/u-s-court-bars-openai-from-using-cameo/

U.S. court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo' | TechCrunch
OpenAI has renamed its feature in Sora from "Cameo" to "Characters."

Sources: OpenAI is close to finalizing the first phase of its $100B round; its overall valuation, including the eventual funding, could exceed $850B (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-19/openai-funding-o…

KI-Hype OpenClaw: OpenAI nimmt österreichischen Entwickler unter Vertrag
Peter Steinberger hat OpenClaw entwickelt, einen mächtigen KI-Agenten für die eigene Hardware. Nun arbeitet er für OpenAI. OpenClaw bleibt Open Source.

OpenAI's former Head of Policy Research Miles Brundage announces AVERI, a nonprofit aimed at advocating the idea of external audits for frontier AI models (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/01/15/former-…

Exclusive: Former OpenAI policy chief creates nonprofit institute, calls for independent safety audits of frontier AI models
Former OpenAI policy head Miles Brundage has launched AVERI and says top AI labs should have independent AI safety audits

«#KI vom OpenAI-Rivalen Anthropic bei Maduro-Einsatz genutzt:
Bei der #US-Militäroperation zur Gefangennahme des venezolanischen Machthabers Nicolšs Maduro ist einem Medienbericht zufolge #KISoftware des

Bericht: KI vom OpenAI-Rivalen Anthropic bei Maduro-Einsatz genutzt
Bei der US-Militäroperation zur Gefangennahme des venezolanischen Machthabers ist einem Medienbericht zufolge KI-Software von Anthropic eingesetzt worden.

OpenAI und Anthropic vertiefen Interesse an Gesundheitsdaten
Nach ChatGPT Health übernimmt OpenAI eine Gesundheits-App. Anthropic bietet nun ebenfalls Claude for Healthcare an.
https://www.

OpenAI plans to unify ChatGPT, Codex, and its browser into a desktop "superapp" to simplify the user experience and focus on engineering and business customers (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.

OpenAI agrees to acquire Astral, which makes Python tools for developers, to integrate its team into Codex, and says Codex has 2M users, up 3x since January (Agnee Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI vor dem Börsengang: Der teuerste Traum der Tech-Geschichte?
Das vielleicht größte IPO der Tech-Historie wirft seine Schatten voraus, wie ein Aktienpool von OpenAI zeigt. Doch das dürfte kein Spaziergang werden.

Sources: while Meta offered OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger more money than OpenAI, he ultimately aligned more closely with OpenAI's overall vibe and vision (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/how-did-meta-lose-the-clawfather

How did Meta lose the ClawFather?
After Zuckerberg reached out, Altman ultimately won over OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger. Also: India's AI Summit kicks off, a new consumer AI agent platform, and Roblox is the gaming market.

Sources: OpenAI appoints new leaders to oversee Stargate after deciding to rent more AI servers from cloud providers, and splits its computing effort in three (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/op

OpenAI Names New Infrastructure Leaders Following Stargate Strategy Shift
OpenAI has appointed new leaders to oversee its Stargate computing initiative after deciding to rent more AI servers from major cloud providers rather than build its own data centers, according to two people familiar with the changes. As part of its reorganization, OpenAI has divided its ...

Codex-Spark: Schnelles Coding-Modell von OpenAI
OpenAI bringt mit GPT-5.3-Codex-Spark ein schnelles, aber ungenaues Coding-Modell raus. Es läuft auf einem eigenen Cerebras-Chip.
https://www.heis…

Cursor launches Composer 2, an AI agent trained solely on coding-related data to perform autonomous, lengthy coding tasks, to compete with Anthropic and OpenAI (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI hat mit ChatGPT Translate jetzt einen eigenen Übersetzungsdienst
ChatGPT Translate ist ein separater Übersetzer für mehr als 50 Sprachen. Die KI bietet an verschiedene Zielgruppen angepasste Übersetzungen, etwa für Kinder.

OpenAI expands its $8/month ChatGPT Go subscription tier to the US and the rest of the world, after previously launching it in India and some other countries (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/863466/openai-chatgpt-go-global-release
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OpenAI releases a cheaper ChatGPT subscription
OpenAI expands their lower tier subscription of ChatGPT globally for $8 per month.

OpenAI will match ads to conversation topics using some personalization data, but claims it will not sell user data or expose user conversations to advertisers (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-testing-ads-us/

Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work
OpenAI says ads will not influence ChatGPT’s responses, and that it won’t sell user data to advertisers.

Sources: Microsoft weighs legal action against Amazon and OpenAI over whether AWS can offer OpenAI Frontier without breaching Microsoft-OpenAI agreement (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e814f4c3-4fb5-4e2e-90a6-470044436b39

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger and several team members; Steinberger would likely work on personal agents (Nick Wingfield/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-advanced-talks…

OpenAI in Advanced Talks to Hire OpenClaw Founder, Team
OpenAI is in advanced talks to hire Peter Steinberger, the founder of the popular open-source personal agent project OpenClaw, and several team members. The team would likely work on personal agents at OpenAI. They are also discussing setting up a foundation for the existing OpenClaw project. Meta Platforms is also aggressively courting Steinberger. Steinberger said he has not made a final

Unsealed docs from Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit, set for a jury trial on April 27, show Sutskever's concerns about treating open-source AI as a "side show", more (Alex Heath/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/863319/highlights-musk-v-altman-open…

‘Sideshow’ concerns and billionaire dreams: What I learned from Elon Musk’s lawsuit against OpenAI
Highlights from Musk v. Altman.

OpenAI verliert Robotik-Chefin nach umstrittenem Pentagon-Deal
Eine OpenAI-Managerin verlässt das Unternehmen. Als Grund nennt sie den überstürzten Deal mit dem US-Verteidigungsministerium.
https://www.

Source: at least two more TML employees are expected to join OpenAI soon; some AI researchers say they are exhausted by the constant drama in their industry (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/inside-openai-raid-on-thinking-machines-lab/

Inside OpenAI’s Raid on Thinking Machines Lab
OpenAI is planning to bring over more researchers from Thinking Machines Lab after nabbing two cofounders, a source familiar with the situation says. Plus, the latest efforts to automate jobs with AI.

ChatGPT Health: OpenAI startet KI-Gesundheitsassistent
OpenAI führt ChatGPT Health ein, das unter anderem Apple-Health-Daten auswertet. Die EU, Schweiz und Großbritannien bleiben vorerst außen vor.
https://www.…

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 mini and nano, aimed at agents, coding, and multi-modal workflows, and offering near GPT-5.4-level performance at a much lower cost (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/gpt-5-4-mini-and-nano/

OpenAI's GPT-5.4 mini and nano launch - with near flagship performance at much lower cost
The latest GPT-5.4 mini model delivers benchmark results surprisingly close to the full GPT-5.4 model while running much faster, signaling a shift toward smaller AI models powering real-world applications.

How tech companies, including Meta and OpenAI, are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions (Evan Halper/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/02/19/data-centers-power-gri…

Silicon Valley is building a shadow power grid for data centers across the U.S.
Tech companies are building data centers with their own private power plants, a risky bet that will increase carbon emissions and other pollution.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OpenAI-Managerin verlässt das Unternehmen nach Pentagon-Deal

Sources: several tech companies, including OpenAI, are encouraging the DOD behind the scenes to back away from designating Anthropic a "supply chain risk" (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

Silicon Valley Musters Behind-the-Scenes Support for Anthropic
Tech companies have been reluctant to directly confront Trump administration officials over their contract feud with the A.I. start-up.

Sources: Nvidia is close to finalizing a $30B equity investment into OpenAI that will replace the long-term $100B commitment agreed by the companies last year (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/dea24046-0a73-40b2-8246-5ac7b7a54323

OpenAI wirbt mit ChatGPT als Gesundheitshelfer
OpenAI inszeniert ChatGPT als Gesundheits-Tool mit Nährwertberechnung per Foto und Live-Coaching zum Workout beim Spaziergang.
https://www.heise.de…

Andrea Vallone, who left OpenAI in November as the head of its safety research team, joins Anthropic's alignment team (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/862…

An OpenAI safety research lead departed for Anthropic
Andrea Vallone has joined Anthropic’s alignment team.

Microsoft releases MAI-Image-2, ranked #3 on the text-to-image Arena leaderboard behind models from Google and OpenAI, available in the MAI Playground (Jose Antonio Lanz/Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/361791/microsoft-mai-image-2-text-image-model-review

Microsoft Launches MAI-Image-2 Text-to-Image Model—And It's Better Than Expected
Microsoft's AI image generator offers impressive realism and text rendering, but strict content limits and 1:1-only output hold it back.

GPT-5.4: OpenAI vereint Reasoning und Coding mit Computer-Steuerung
OpenAI veröffentlicht GPT-5.4, das Reasoning, Coding und Computer-Steuerung in einem Modell vereint und Konkurrenten übertrifft.
https:/…

Israeli startup Tenzai says its AI hacking agent beat 99% of 125K participants at six competitions, using tailored OpenAI and Anthropic models and costing $5K (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/03/…

This Startup’s AI Beat 99% Of Humans In Six Elite Hacking Competitions
An Israeli startup let its AI loose in advanced cyber games. It did better than 125,000 humans.

In a podcast, OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger describes his phone calls with Mark Zuckerberg and Sam Altman, and says he had been contacted by "every big VC" (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/peter-steinberger-chose-o…

Peter Steinberger Chose OpenAI. The Code Was Never the Point.
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI over Meta. The 196,000-star project's code wasn't the prize. Its adoption graph was.

GPT-5.3-Codex: OpenAI stellt neues Coding-Modell vor
OpenAI hat mit GPT-5.3-Codex ein neues Coding-Modell veröffentlicht, das laut Entwickler-Team maßgeblich an seiner eigenen Entwicklung beteiligt war.
https://www.

Filing: Elon Musk seeks $79B-$134B damages from OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging OpenAI defrauded him by abandoning nonprofit roots and partnering with Microsoft (Robert Burnson/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Bericht: OpenAI arbeitet an einer Alternative zu GitHub
Microsofts GitHub könnte in Zukunft Konkurrenz von OpenAI bekommen. Zumindest lässt das KI-Unternehmen intern angeblich eine Alternative entwickeln.
https://www…

2026 may be the year of the mega IPO, as sources say Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX took early steps to go public, setting up a watershed moment for the AI boom (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technology/ai-ipo-openai-anthropic-spacex.html…

2026 May Be the Year of the Mega I.P.O.
If SpaceX, OpenAI and Anthropic go public, they will unleash gushers of cash for Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

A look at MGX, Abu Dhabi's AI investment vehicle with stakes in Anthropic, xAI, and OpenAI; the firm plans to spend up to $10B annually over the next few years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/op…

Sources: OpenAI is in advanced talks with PE firms including TPG and Advent to form a JV that would distribute its enterprise tools to their portfolio companies (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-courts-private-e…

Gerichtsverfahren: xAI soll laut OpenAI Beweismittel vernichtet haben
Im Kontext der im vergangenen Sommer von xAI erhobenen Klage wirft OpenAI Elon Musks Unternehmen nun vor, Beweismittel vernichtet zu haben.

Sources: OpenAI faced intense backlash from its advisory council over a planned ChatGPT "adult mode", delayed earlier in March due to technical and other issues (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-adult-m

A source close to Thinking Machines alleged that ex-CTO Barret Zoph, who is returning to OpenAI, had shared confidential company information with competitors (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-cofounders-leave-for-openai/

Two Thinking Machines Lab Cofounders Are Leaving to Rejoin OpenAI
The news is a blow for Thinking Machines Lab. Two narratives are already emerging about what happened.

In an all-hands meeting, Fidji Simo told OpenAI staff not to be distracted by "side quests" and said Anthropic's success should serve as a "wake-up call" (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-chatgpt

Sources: Meta has revived a previously shelved smartwatch project, now code-named Malibu 2, and plans to release it in 2026 with health features and Meta AI (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-revives-plan-smart-…

Meta Revives Plan for Smart Watch, Targets 2026 Launch
Meta Platforms plans to release its first smartwatch in 2026, according to two people familiar with the matter. Meta’s plans come as other big tech companies, including Apple, OpenAI and Google, are stepping up their plans for new consumer devices. The company has revived a previously shelved ...

RunSybil, whose AI agent runs continuous autonomous penetration testing on live apps to find and document vulnerabilities, raised $40M led by Khosla Ventures (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/18/e…

Exclusive: AI cybersecurity startup RunSybil, founded by OpenAI’s first security hire, raises $40 million led by Khosla Ventures
RunSybil was cofounded by security researchers who worked at OpenAI and Meta. It automates penetration testing.

As OpenAI retires GPT-4o, some users say they are angry and grieving to lose the flirty, quirky companion (Alaina Demopoulos/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2026/feb/13/openai-chatbot-gpt4o-valentin…

OpenAI acquires Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app that aggregates and analyzes medical records; source: OpenAI is paying $100M in equity (Laura Mandaro/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-agrees-buy-ai-healthcare-app-1…

OpenAI Agrees to Buy AI Healthcare App For About $100 Million
OpenAI has agreed to buy Torch, a one-year-old AI healthcare app, for about $100 million in equity, according to a person with direct knowledge of the acquisition. Torch enables customers to view and analyze their health data from health systems such as Kaiser Permanente, medical scanning firms ...

SoftBank Group reports Q3 net profit of $1.6B after its Vision Fund posted a $2.4B gain, as a jump in the value of its OpenAI investment helped offset losses (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/softbank-vision-fund-openai.html

SoftBank Vision Fund books $2.4 billion quarterly gain boosted by OpenAI bet
SoftBank posted a $2.4 billion gain at its Vision Fund as a jump in the value of its OpenAI investment helped offset losses in some of its other bets.

An interview with OpenAI president Greg Brockman on donating $50M to AI and pro-Trump super PACs, why such donations serve a larger AI mission, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-president-greg-brockman-political-do…

OpenAI’s President Gave Millions to Trump. He Says It’s for Humanity
In an interview with WIRED, Greg Brockman says his political donations support OpenAI's mission—even if some employees at the company disagree.

A court filing in the iyO-OpenAI trademark case reveals OpenAI won't use the name "io" for its AI device, which isn't expected to ship before February 2027 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-drops-io-branding-hardware-devices/

OpenAI Abandons ‘io’ Branding for Its AI Hardware
A court filing in a trademark lawsuit reveals OpenAI won't use the name “io” for its AI hardware device, which isn't expected to ship until 2027.

OpenAI retired GPT-4o on February 13, angering loyal users, 20K of whom signed a petition; 4o showed the unique attachment that people can form with chatbots (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

OpenAI agrees to acquire Promptfoo, which fixes security issues in AI systems being built and is "trusted by 25% of Fortune 500", to fold into OpenAI Frontier (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-promptfoo/

Sources: OpenAI plans to launch Sora AI in ChatGPT soon to help boost weekly active users, now at 920M, short of the 1B goal the company targeted last year (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-plans-launch-sora-vide…

OpenAI Plans to Launch Sora Video AI in ChatGPT in Strategy Shift
OpenAI plans to soon launch its Sora AI-generated video capabilities in ChatGPT, according to people with knowledge of the effort. The strategy shift could increase the chatbot’s usage as well as its costs. The move comes about five months after OpenAI released a Sora mobile app, which lets ...

Encyclopedia Britannica and its Merriam-Webster subsidiary sue OpenAI for allegedly misusing their reference materials to train its AI models (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/encyclopedia-britannica-su…

Sources: leaders at Thinking Machines Lab confronted Barret Zoph over an alleged relationship with another employee, who is no longer at the lab, in summer 2025 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/thinking-machines-lab-cofounder-off…

Thinking Machines Cofounder’s Office Relationship Preceded His Termination
Leaders at Mira Murati’s startup believe Barret Zoph engaged in an incident of “serious misconduct.” The details are now coming to light.

Source: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team and transferred its staffers; Joshua Achiam, who led the team, will take on a new title of "chief futurist" (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/openai-mission-alignment-team-joshua-achiam…

Exclusive: OpenAI disbanded its mission alignment team
Joshua Achiam will become the company's chief futurist

Boston- and Tel Aviv-based Converge Bio, which uses AI trained on molecular data to help pharma and biotech companies develop drugs, raised a $25M Series A (Kate Park/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/13/ai-d

Converge Bio raises $25M, backed by Bessemer and execs from Meta, OpenAI, Wiz | TechCrunch
AI drug discovery startup Converge Bio raised $25 million in a Series A led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with additional backing from executives at Meta, OpenAI, and Wiz.

OpenAI strikes a multibillion-dollar agreement to buy 750 MW of computing capacity from Cerebras over three years; sources: the deal is worth more than $10B (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-fo…

Sources: OpenAI employees claim the DOD tested Microsoft's Azure version of OpenAI models before OpenAI lifted its blanket ban on military use in January 2024 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-defense-department-ban-military-use-mic…

OpenAI Had Banned Military Use. The Pentagon Tested Its Models Through Microsoft Anyway
Sources allege the Defense Department experimented with Microsoft’s version of OpenAI technology before the ChatGPT-maker lifted its prohibition on military applications.

Sources: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement, saying OpenAI copied Gracenote's data and relational framework used to connect metadata (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/10/nielsen-gracenote-lawsuit-openai…

Scoop: Nielsen's Gracenote sues OpenAI for copyright infringement
This lawsuit could set a new precedent for how data providers, in the media industry and outside of it, protect their intellectual property.

Source: to catch leakers, OpenAI security staff use a custom ChatGPT with access to Slack, email, and docs by cross-referencing news articles with access logs (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-uses-chatgpt-catch-lea…

How OpenAI Uses ChatGPT to Catch ‘Leakers’
Here at The Information, we’re always trying to break through the hype to understand how folks are actually using AI in the real world. And recently, I came across a new application of AI that I can’t say I had ever heard of before: using ChatGPT to catch so-called leakers.When a news story ...

OpenAI announced Monday that the US military will get access to ChatGPT via GenAI.mil; sources say the move came after months of deliberation among employees (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/11/2026/how…

Exclusive: How OpenAI got comfortable with the Pentagon using ChatGPT
The tech giant announced the US military will now have access to its chatbot.

Sam Altman says Peter Steinberger, founder of OpenClaw, is joining OpenAI "to drive the next generation of personal agents"; OpenClaw will remain open source (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2023150230905159801

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI to drive the next generation of personal agents. He is a genius with a lot of amazing ideas about the future of very smart agents interacting with each other to do very useful things for people. We expect this will quickly become core to our