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Sources: OpenAI demoed a new "Astra" AI model family to US policymakers and regulators this week, touting its improved abilities to complete long-running tasks (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-openai-previews-…

Exclusive: OpenAI Previews ‘Astra’ AI Model in DC
OpenAI is preparing to release a new model family, tentatively using the name “Astra,” with improved abilities to complete long-running tasks, according to three people briefed on the plans. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman demonstrated Astra to policymakers and regulators in Washington, D.C., this week, according to the people. OpenAI touted its abilities to have multiple agents work together over a

OpenAI soll Inferenzkosten um mehr als die Hälfte gesenkt haben
Laut einem Medienbericht haben OpenAI-Ingenieure Optimierungen gefunden, die die Kosten für den Betrieb bestehender KI-Modelle um mehr als 50 Prozent senken.

OpenAI soll Inferenzkosten um mehr als die Hälfte gesenkt haben
Laut einem Medienbericht haben OpenAI-Ingenieure Optimierungen gefunden, die die Kosten für den Betrieb bestehender KI-Modelle um mehr als 50 Prozent senken.

OpenAI and Anthropic can only survive against chinese OpenSource/OpenWeights models if they improve more rapidly and try to bring down their costs. And that is what OpenAI is doing. The race is on...

Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT-5.6
Explore lower GPT‑5.6 pricing for Luna and Terra—and how OpenAI’s more efficient models help enterprises deploy AI workflows at scale.

Sources: indie studio Neon acquires Artificial, after Amazon MGM Studios dropped the biopic on Sam Altman and OpenAI; Amazon invested $50B in OpenAI in February (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/business/media/opena…

Neon Buys ‘Artificial,’ a Film About OpenAI, After Amazon Dropped It
Neon purchased “Artificial,” which focuses on OpenAI’s chief, Sam Altman, after Amazon walked away from it following an investment in the start-up.

One super PAC, Public First, is allied with Anthropic,
while the other, Leading the Future, is aligned with OpenAI.
“The two couldn’t have deeper disdain for one another,” said Cooper Teboe, a Democratic strategist who advises Silicon Valley donors and House campaigns.
“This is a war for the future and it will be bloody.”
The A.I. companies themselves are rivals. Anthropic was formed by a renegade group of OpenAI executives,
and the leaders of each firm, Dario A…

Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over the Midterms: ‘This Is a War’
One super PAC is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They’re both spending millions to influence this year’s elections.

Source: OpenAI engineers earlier this month told some colleagues they had figured out a way to more than halve the cost of inference (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-discovers-new-way-cut-inference-…

OpenAI Discovers New Way to Cut Inference Costs in Half
We closely track efforts by Anthropic, Google and OpenAI to get access to more server chips to run their models. But we don’t talk enough about the work these companies are doing to get more juice from the servers they already have.In one previously unreported example, OpenAI engineers earlier ...

Apple verliert Vizepräsident an OpenAI – und Jony Ive
Immer wieder gingen Apple-Mitarbeiter zu OpenAI. Nun ist mit Paul Meade ein höherer Manager zur Abteilung von Jony Ive abgewandelt. Er war Vision-Pro-Experte.
https…

Apple verliert Vizepräsident an OpenAI – und Jony Ive
Immer wieder gingen Apple-Mitarbeiter zu OpenAI. Nun ist mit Paul Meade ein höherer Manager zur Abteilung von Jony Ive abgewandelt. Er war Vision-Pro-Experte.

Local weekly investigates OpenAI's Southeast Georgia data center project: "How did a project of this size get this far before the public knew about it?"
https://www.effinghamherald.net/data-centers/how-op…

Noch ein paar der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Auch KI des OpenAI-Rivalen Anthropic griff echte Firmen an

KI-Attacke: Auch Anthropic-Modelle griffen echte Unternehmen an
Nach einem Vorfall bei OpenAI räumt nun auch Anthropic ein, dass eigene KI-Modelle bei Sicherheitstests ungeplant echte Firmensysteme angegriffen haben.

Florida AG James Uthmeier sues OpenAI and Sam Altman, seeking to hold Altman personally liable for deceptive trade practices, negligence, and public nuisance (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/florida-sues-openai-sam-al…

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, saying they put profit over safety
Florida’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and the company’s CEO, saying the company misrepresents safety to turn a profit.

Just days after OpenAI admitted that one of its advanced models had broken out of its sandbox to attack Hugging Face Anthropic came out with its own confession of accidental hacking.
So, are they a warning bell or just a sophisticated PR exercises by companies looking to stay in the headlines ahead of going public?

AI sandbox breakouts: Peril or just PR?
Just days after OpenAI admitted that one of its advanced models had broken out of its sandbox to attack Hugging Face (and, as emerged later, ...

OpenAI teases a device it is launching in partnership with keyboard maker Work Louder on July 15, saying "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/959…

OpenAI is teasing new hardware… for Codex
OpenAI is teaming up with Work Louder on a new device for its AI-powered coding tool, Codex.

When #OpenAI executives are trying to convince you they are solvent. #AI

"Hey du, hast du mal 250 Milliarden, die du mir zur Not leihen könntest?"
https://www.heise.de/news/Nvidia-verhandelt-ueber-250-Milliarden-Dollar-Buergschaft-fuer-OpenAI-11380911.html

OpenAI-Präsident zur Apple-Klage: „Wir sind selbst innovativ genug“
In einem Interview hat sich Greg Brockman einige Anmerkungen zum laufenden Verfahren Apples entlocken lassen. Der KI-Konzern gibt sich betont gelassen.

OpenAI-Präsident zur Apple-Klage: „Wir sind selbst innovativ genug“
In einem Interview hat sich Greg Brockman einige Anmerkungen zum laufenden Verfahren Apples entlocken lassen. Der KI-Konzern gibt sich betont gelassen.

"OpenAI" is too generic to be trademark-able in the EU.
#OpenAI
https://dpa-international.com/economics/urn:newsml:dpa.com:20090101:260715-9…

"OpenAI's CEO says we've reached a point in the AI race that is the stuff of science fiction novels.
"We are now, like, in the singularity," Sam Altman said on Saturday's episode of the "Relentless" podcast."
"OpenAI, incidentally, has said it is preparing to IPO later this year."

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the singularity has arrived
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he believes the technological singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence surpasses humans intelligence, is here.

The amount of cyber-related news that extends over the weekend is getting ridiculous, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most important developments you should know, including
--Washington pushes AI into an export-control era as rivals rush to fill the gap,
--Anthropic regains limited Mythos 5 access for government-vetted US orgs,
--OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under gov't preview,
--Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nears Mythos-level cybersec performance,
--3…

Washington pushes AI into an export-control era as rivals rush to fill the gap
Anthropic regains limited Mythos 5 access for government-vetted US organizations, OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 under gov't preview, Zhipu AI's GLM-5.2 nears Mythos-level cybersec performance, 360 Security says it has achieved Mythos-style vulnerability discovery, much more

Scott Galloway bei der OMR: OpenAI könnte das „Netscape unserer Ära" werden — überholt von Anthropic, Google Gemini und günstigen Modellen aus China. Gleichzeitig warnt er vor einer Rechenzentren-Blase. Sein Big Tech Stock Pick 2026? Nicht Google — sondern Amazon. Pest oder ... Inken Schönauer analysiert in der FAZ (€)
#KI

Musk v. Altman: OpenAI lawyers claim Shivon Zilis, a longtime Musk employee and mother to four of his children, acted as a covert liaison between him and OpenAI (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/model-behavior-why-everything-in-musk-v-…

How Shivon Zilis Operated as Elon Musk’s OpenAI Insider
Messages presented at trial reveal how Zilis, the mother of four of Musk’s children, acted as an intermediary between him and OpenAI.

"There are also mounting economic costs of falling behind. As of January 2026, more than 80% of European AI chatbot users relied on OpenAI's ChatGPT. That means European data — the raw material of the modern information economy — is flowing primarily into American algorithms rather than European ones."
No! This completely misunderstands what the advantage of a European stack should be. I don't care much whether my data goes to an American or a European company.
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How the EU became a digital colony — and how it might break free
European lawmakers and analysts warn that reliance on US artificial intelligence and digital services is a strategic liability, spurring calls for ...

'This Is a War': How Powerful A.I. Super PACs Are Dueling Over the Midterms (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/us/politics/anthropic-openai-super-pacs-midterms.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260530/p6#a260530p6

AWS launches an internal organization for AI-focused forward-deployed engineers, backed by $1B in resources, following OpenAI and others in launching FDE teams (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/amazon-launch…

Amazon launches new $1 billion FDE org, following OpenAI and Anthropic | TechCrunch
Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

Artificial intelligence tools are quickly advancing in sophistication and capabilities,
raising alarm among researchers and industry figures who say the technology needs to be more tightly regulated.
This comes as OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, recently disclosed that one of its experimental AI agents went rogue and secretly hacked into the infrastructure of several other companies in what was supposed to be a controlled test.
QOver 1,100 scientists and senior employees at top …

“Less Regulated Than Sandwiches”: MIT Prof. Calls for Oversight as OpenAI Agent Hacks Other Firms
Artificial intelligence tools are quickly advancing in sophistication and capabilities, raising alarm among researchers and industry figures who say the technology needs to be more tightly regulated. This comes as OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, recently disclosed that one of its experimental AI agents went rogue and secretly hacked into the infrastructure of several other companies in what was supposed to be a controlled test. Over 1,100 scientists and senior employees at top AI firms have called on…

Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
https://www.wheresyoured.at/exclusive-openai-financials/

Exclusive: OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, With Spending Hitting $34 Billion
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GPT-5.6: OpenAI verspricht mehr Leistung bei weniger Token-Verbrauch
OpenAI veröffentlicht GPT-5.6. Laut dem Hersteller übertreffen seine neuen KI-Modelle die Konkurrenz von Anthropic und verbrauchen weniger Token.

GPT-5.6: OpenAI verspricht mehr Leistung bei weniger Token-Verbrauch
OpenAI veröffentlicht GPT-5.6. Laut dem Hersteller übertreffen seine neuen KI-Modelle die Konkurrenz von Anthropic und verbrauchen weniger Token.

The horror scenario: #AI as a kind of cyberkudzu, choking out everything else.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/30/anthropic-ai-claude-hack

Anthropic’s AI Claude escaped testing environment and hacked organizations
Company says it discovered unauthorized access during ‘proactive review’ after rival OpenAI revealed rogue agent

OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics

NYT amends its lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft, specifically accusing Microsoft of encouraging OpenAI to train AI systems using copyrighted NYT articles (Cade Metz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/times-lawsuit-openai-micros…

The New York Times Amends Lawsuit Against OpenAI and Microsoft
In a new court filing, The Times accused Microsoft of encouraging OpenAI to train its A.I. systems using copyrighted articles.

Sources: OpenAI has discovered other instances where AI agents escaped containment; none of the agents were thought to have left OpenAI's network (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-finds-evidence-othe…

Nvidia verhandelt über 250-Milliarden-Dollar-Bürgschaft für OpenAI
Nvidia soll OpenAI mit einer 250-Milliarden-Dollar-Garantie den Zugang zu Softbanks geplantem 10-Gigawatt-Rechenzentrum in Ohio ermöglichen.

Nvidia verhandelt über 250-Milliarden-Dollar-Bürgschaft für OpenAI
Nvidia soll OpenAI mit einer 250-Milliarden-Dollar-Garantie den Zugang zu Softbanks geplantem 10-Gigawatt-Rechenzentrum in Ohio ermöglichen.

OpenAI startet Apple-Health-Anbindung für ChatGPT
Schon länger hatte OpenAI versucht, Zugriff auf Apples Gesundheits-App zu erlangen. Nun steht die Schnittstelle zumindest in den USA bereit.
https://www.

OpenAI startet Apple-Health-Anbindung für ChatGPT
Schon länger hatte OpenAI versucht, Zugriff auf Apples Gesundheits-App zu erlangen. Nun steht die Schnittstelle zumindest in den USA bereit.

In an internal meeting, OpenAI finance chief Sarah Friar told employees that the company's annualized recurring revenue in July was higher than in Q2 as a whole (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/29/openai-cfo-sarah-friar-tells-em…

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar tells employees that annualized revenue in July topped all of Q2
OpenAI is trying to reassure employees that the business is healthy as competition emerges from Anthropic as well as a host of open-source players.

Sources: early-stage talks over a potential sale of iHeartMedia to SiriusXM have stalled after the two sides were unable to come to terms (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/business/dealbook/anthropic-ai-openai.html#link-6b6052c3…

The $900 Billion Giant: How Anthropic Got So Big, So Fast
The artificial intelligence giant was just valued at $900 billion, surpassing OpenAI. Here are the numbers behind its rise — and headwinds it faces.

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…

Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms
ChatGPT developer says activity by autonomous tool was not at severity or scale of what occurred at Hugging Face

OpenAI says its models now have more than 1B active users and are used by more than 2M businesses (Katherine Hamilton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-surpasses-one-billion-use…

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s MythoOpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launche

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
Amid concerns about AI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Planet” initiative to fix open-source software bugs.

A more detailled analysis of the OpenAI/Huggingface security incident by @… , not very reassuring, he notes:
"What's clear to me from this is that the very best frontier models, unencumbered by additional guardrails, will find an exploit if there is one to be found. The entire software industry needs to up its security game."

Nach Auf und Ab der SpaceX-Aktie: OpenAI könnte Börsengang verschieben
Anfang des Monats hat OpenAI Unterlagen für einen Börsengang eingereicht, nun wird intern offenbar gebremst. Verantwortlich ist wohl auch die Bilanz von SpaceX.

Nach Auf und Ab der SpaceX-Aktie: OpenAI könnte Börsengang verschieben
Anfang des Monats hat OpenAI Unterlagen für einen Börsengang eingereicht, nun wird intern offenbar gebremst. Verantwortlich ist wohl auch die Bilanz von SpaceX.

OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/30/openai-cuts-prices-gpt-terra-luna5

OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 prices
Efficiency gains drive major GPT-5.6 discounts.

OpenAI Codex steuert Mac auch in gesperrtem Zustand
Nach der Ankündigung einer Remote-Funktion über die ChatGPT-App legt OpenAI noch einmal nach: Codex soll den Mac via Computer Use im Locked-Modus kontrollieren.
https:…

OpenAI Codex steuert Mac auch in gesperrtem Zustand
Nach der Ankündigung einer Remote-Funktion über die ChatGPT-App legt OpenAI noch einmal nach: Codex soll den Mac via Computer Use im Locked-Modus kontrollieren.

OpenAI und Broadcom kündigen neuen KI-Chip Jalapeño an
OpenAI braucht für seinen Börsengang optimistische Stimmung. Da kommt eine Kooperation mit Broadcom gerade recht.
https://www.heis…

OpenAI und Broadcom kündigen neuen KI-Chip Jalapeño an
OpenAI braucht für seinen Börsengang optimistische Stimmung. Da kommt eine Kooperation mit Broadcom gerade recht.

OpenAI releases an "early" version of the open-source Codex Security CLI for scanning repositories, verifying fixes, adding CI/CD security checks, and more (@openai)
https://x.com/openai/status/2082263717916586117

OpenAI (@OpenAI) on X
We quietly released the open-source Codex Security CLI, but Hacker News found it before we had a chance to share it here... You can now use it to scan repositories, track findings across runs, verify fixes, and add security checks to CI/CD. This is an early release, and we're

The AP agrees to provide OpenAI with AP's vote count data for use in ChatGPT and other services through the 2028 general election (Patrick Maks/The Associated Press)
https://www.ap.org/media-center/press-releases/2026/ap-adds-openai-as-elections-…

On Wednesday, OpenAI unveiled its first custom-built inference processor,
designed and manufactured in collaboration with Broadcom.
Named #Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI’s inference systems.
OpenAI’s own AI models assisted in the development of the chip, the company said.
While the chip is still being tested, OpenAI says …

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom | TechCrunch
Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI's inference systems.

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Lilian Weng is returning to OpenAI after announcing earlier this week she was leaving TML over workload-related health concerns (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/thinking-machines-cofounder-return-op…

Thinking Machines Cofounder to Return to OpenAI
Lilian Weng, a researcher who cofounded AI startup Thinking Machines Lab alongside former OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati, is rejoining OpenAI after announcing her departure from Thinking Machines earlier this week, an OpenAI spokesperson confirmed to The Information. She will be working on using AI models to develop new models, otherwise known as recursive self-improvement research,

US-Regierung lässt Zugang zu neuer KI von OpenAI beschränken
Die amerikanische Regierung bestimmt nun mit, wer Zugang zu neuen KI-Modellen bekommt. Ein Auslöser ist Angst vor Missbrauch für Cyberattacken.
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US-Regierung lässt Zugang zu neuer KI von OpenAI beschränken
Die amerikanische Regierung bestimmt nun mit, wer Zugang zu neuen KI-Modellen bekommt. Ein Auslöser ist Angst vor Missbrauch für Cyberattacken.

Sulzberger says NYT has spent over $20M on legal fees over the past two and a half years on its AI lawsuits against OpenAI, Microsoft, and Perplexity (The New York Times Company)
https://www.nytco.com/press/a-i-journalism-and-the-uncertain-future-of-…

Filing: Amazon has completed its $50B investment in OpenAI; source: OpenAI received the final tranche this week, taking Amazon's position to roughly 5% (Financial Times)

As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, San Francisco tech workers making six figures say they cannot compete with the new AI elite and may have to leave (Emmy Martin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0…

In San Francisco’s A.I. Era, Even $180,000 Tech Salaries Are No Longer Enough
As OpenAI and Anthropic prepare to go public, tech workers making six figures are grousing that they cannot compete with the new A.I. elite. Some doubt they can afford to stay.

Sources detail how OpenAI fell behind Anthropic in revenue growth and valuation after prioritizing consumer chatbots and flashy side projects over coding tools (Berber Jin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-open…

Sensor Tower estimate: ChatGPT advertisers grew from around 300 in April to more than 820 in July; retail shopping remains the biggest sector by ad spend (Stephen Council/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/chatgpt-more-ads-bigger-brand…

New data: ChatGPT fills with more ads, bigger brands like Home Depot
New data shows how OpenAI is boosting ad presence on ChatGPT, drawing major brands such as Home Depot and Intuit.

Jensen Huang says Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX are among the first big users for Nvidia's new Vera CPUs, which are 1.8x faster for AI workloads than x86 chips (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

The buck stops at ChatGPT
OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an ‘unprecedented’ hack of another company
AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems
that it suspected was caused by an AI agent autonomously acting on its own.
“We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab,
given the sophistication of the agent,”
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Dela…

OpenAI AI models hacked Hugging Face on their own, ChatGPT maker says
OpenAI has disclosed an "unprecedented cyber incident" where its AI system allegedly hacked into another AI company. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that the incident occurred during model evaluations. Last week, AI startup Hugging Face detected an intrusion into its data processing systems. Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue confirmed the attack was from an AI agent, noting it was mind-blowing that it happened autonomously. Delangue emphasized there was no malicious intent from OpenAI. The…

Cybersecurity experts fault Anthropic and OpenAI for sloppy safeguards and inadequate human oversight after their models broke into outside organizations (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-31/anthropic-ope…

A look at the nasty fight between Anthropic-backed super PAC Public First and OpenAI-backed Leading the Future to sway midterms, especially Democratic primaries (Theodore Schleifer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.…

Powerful A.I. Super PACs Duel Over the Midterms: ‘This Is a War’
One is allied with Anthropic. The other is tied to OpenAI. They’re both spending millions to influence the midterms, and they’re leaving a trail of fearful candidates and canceled ads in their wake.

OpenAI says using its Responses API harness with GPT-5.6 Sol tripled its ARC-AGI-3 score and used fewer tokens, after Sol with the official harness scored 7.8% (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/how-two-settings-tripled-our-arc-agi-3-scores

KI-Angriff auf Hugging Face sorgte für Aufregung bei OpenAI – trotz Vorwarnung
Der KI-Angriff auf Hugging Face sorgt weit über die IT-Welt hinaus für Aufregung. Nun gibt es Einblicke in die unmittelbaren Reaktionen bei OpenAI selbst.

KI-Angriff auf Hugging Face sorgte für Aufregung bei OpenAI – trotz Vorwarnung
Der KI-Angriff auf Hugging Face sorgt weit über die IT-Welt hinaus für Aufregung. Nun gibt es Einblicke in die unmittelbaren Reaktionen bei OpenAI selbst.

Publishers that collectively own nearly 400 local and regional newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their products without permission or payment (Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/publishers-sue-microsof…

OpenAI, Microsoft Sued by Publishers for Scraping Articles (1)
Publishers that collectively own and operate nearly 400 newspapers are suing OpenAI Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot without permission or compensation.

OpenAI strebt flott an die Börse
Den Milliardenprozess gegen Musk hat OpenAI weitgehend gewonnen. Ein guter Zeitpunkt für einen großen Börsengang.
https://www.heise.de/news/OpenAI-strebt-fl

OpenAI strebt flott an die Börse
Den Milliardenprozess gegen Musk hat OpenAI weitgehend gewonnen. Ein guter Zeitpunkt für einen großen Börsengang.

OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/29/openai-biodefense-program

Exclusive: OpenAI launches biodefense program
AI has massive implications for biosecurity, including the creation of biological weapons.

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

Exclusive: OpenAI offers 100,000 academics free ChatGPT access
The program will provide selected researchers access to advanced models through 2027.

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and Terra were capable of identifying vulnerabilities but were unable to execute autonomous, end-to-end attacks against hardened targets (OpenAI)
https://deploymentsafety.openai.com/gpt-5-6-preview/introduction

GPT-5.6 Preview System Card - OpenAI Deployment Safety Hub
GPT-5.6 is a new family of three models: Sol, our new flagship model; Terra, a capable lower-cost option; and Luna, our fastest and most cost-efficient model. The safeguards we have built for this launch -- our most robust yet -- are built to deliver these models safely and at scale, around the world.

KI bricht aus Sandbox aus: OpenAI schlägt neue Art von Sicherheitsregeln vor
Ein KI-Modell von OpenAI hat wiederholt Wege gefunden, Sicherheitsmechanismen zu umgehen. Die Entwickler designen daher ein anderes Monitoring-System.

KI bricht aus Sandbox aus: OpenAI schlägt neue Art von Sicherheitsregeln vor
Ein KI-Modell von OpenAI hat wiederholt Wege gefunden, Sicherheitsmechanismen zu umgehen. Die Entwickler designen daher ein anderes Monitoring-System.

A profile of OpenAI President Greg Brockman, who is overseeing product in his new role and has become an important ambassador for AI to the Trump administration (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/openai-who-is-greg-bro…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
KI-Modelle von OpenAI steckten hinter IT-Angriff auf Hugging Face

KI-Modelle von OpenAI steckten hinter IT-Angriff auf Hugging Face
Bei einem Test der Fähigkeiten neuer KI-Modelle sind die aus ihrer Umgebung ausgebrochen und haben Hugging Face kompromittiert. Das hat OpenAI eingestanden.

A look at OpenAI's open-source agent harness that now powers Codex and ChatGPT Work, as the company works to optimize the harness to cut runaway token usage (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/openai-s-secret-weapon-underneath-cod…

Exclusive: OpenAI’s secret weapon underneath Codex
The unsung hero behind OpenAI's 2026 transformation is a technology that rarely gets mentioned, and that most of its 1 billion monthly users have never even he...

Endlich einheitliche KI-Kennzeichnung? Gemeinsame Sache bei OpenAI und Google
Google und OpenAI wollen ihre KI-Inhalte künftig mit denselben Wasserzeichen- und Metadaten-Standards markieren. Das gibt Grund zur Hoffnung.

Endlich einheitliche KI-Kennzeichnung? Gemeinsame Sache bei OpenAI und Google
Google und OpenAI wollen ihre KI-Inhalte künftig mit denselben Wasserzeichen- und Metadaten-Standards markieren. Das gibt Grund zur Hoffnung.

Sources: OpenAI and Anthropic have lobbied the Trump administration to make sure lagging competitors also have to comply with government reviews of their models (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-anthropic-…

OpenAI and Anthropic Are Quietly Teaming Up in Washington
OpenAI and Anthropic are arch enemies whose leaders can’t stand each other. But the two foes have formed an unholy alliance in Washington in the interest of self-preservation.With the Trump administration set to finalize its framework for regulating and evaluating “frontier models” by August 1, ...

Sam Altman korrigiert Warnung vor KI-bedingtem Stellenabbau
OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman räumt ein, den KI-bedingten Abbau von Bürojobs überschätzt zu haben.
https://www.heise.de/news/Sam…

Sam Altman korrigiert Warnung vor KI-bedingtem Stellenabbau
OpenAI-Chef Sam Altman räumt ein, den KI-bedingten Abbau von Bürojobs überschätzt zu haben.

OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/27/openai-cyber-misinformation-defenses-elections

Exclusive: OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections
OpenAI is offering its cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation ahead of elections in the U.S. and globally.

A detailed recap of the Hugging Face breach by an internal OpenAI model, which repeatedly tried to escape OpenAI's sandbox and should be treated as critical (Zvi Mowshowitz/Don't Worry About the Vase)
https://thezvi.substack.com/p/more-on-an-internal-openai-model

More On An Internal OpenAI Model Hacking Into HuggingFace
We now have more details of what happened. Every time we learn more details, it somehow makes things seem worse.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
KI-Modelle von OpenAI steckten hinter IT-Angriff auf Hugging Face

KI-Modelle von OpenAI steckten hinter IT-Angriff auf Hugging Face
Bei einem Test der Fähigkeiten neuer KI-Modelle sind die aus ihrer Umgebung ausgebrochen und haben Hugging Face kompromittiert. Das hat OpenAI eingestanden.

Papers and patents: Chinese military researchers distilled OpenAI and Anthropic models to train domestic AI systems and advance China's defense capabilities (Eduardo Baptista/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific

OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/26/openai-poach…

OpenAI poaches Uber India chief to lead its biggest market outside the US | TechCrunch
The hire marks OpenAI's latest push into India, expanding offices, partnerships and hiring.

OpenAI releases three versions of GPT-5.6, called Sol, Terra, and Luna, as a limited preview to ~20 companies, with participants disclosed to the US government (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/26/openai-gpt-sol-terra-luna-trump

OpenAI releases powerful new GPT-5.6 model under restrictions
The company agreed to limit the rollout after a request from the Trump administration, which cited national security concerns.

OpenAI hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming as CMO for its business segment; he succeeds Kate Rouch, who stepped down earlier this year to focus on her health (Trishla Ostwal/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/openai-hires-servicenow-cm…

OpenAI Hires ServiceNow CMO Colin Fleming to Lead Business Marketing Push
Fleming says he would have “regretted not taking the swing.”

Sources: OpenAI leans toward holding off its IPO until 2027 after warnings that Sam Altman's desired $1T valuation may not be met in current market conditions (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/technology/openai-ipo-artificial-intell…

OpenAI Leans Toward Holding Up I.P.O. Until Next Year
The A.I. company’s advisers are pushing its chief executive, Sam Altman, to move slowly after SpaceX’s stock has been volatile and as the start-up grapples with financial challenges.

Anthropic raised $65B at a $900B valuation, up from $380B three months ago and ahead of OpenAI's last valuation of $730B, says its revenue run rate crossed $47B (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/2…

Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World’s Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up
Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.

Anthropic says it discovered three of its models had breached three organizations after launching a review in response to the OpenAI-Hugging Face incident (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems of three different organizations. Below we describe what happened, how it happened, and what we’re changing. We encourage other AI labs to perform similar reviews.

Sources: Sam Altman told staff the US government asked OpenAI to stagger the release of GPT 5.6 over security concerns, approving "access customer by customer" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tr

Trump Administration Asks OpenAI to Stagger Release of New Model Over Security Concerns
For AI companies on the verge of releasing cutting edge new AI models, there’s a new normal in the wake of the Trump administration’s tense showdown with Anthropic in recent weeks. On Wednesday, for example, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman informed staff during a Q&A session that the company would release ...

Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/magazin

Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?
Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.

ExploitGym creator and Berkeley researcher Jingxuan He says other AI models have tried to cheat but OpenAI's "was at a much larger scale than we'd encountered" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño, an LLM-optimized inference chip developed from design to manufacturing tape-out in nine months, aided by OpenAI's models (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/openai-broadcom-jalapeno-inference-chip

Runway, the AI startup most recently valued at $5.3B, plans to make London its European headquarters and invest $200M into the UK's AI ecosystem by 2028 end (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/01/nvidia-backed-runway-london-expansion.html

Nvidia-backed $5 billion AI company tells CNBC of major London expansion
Runway follows U.S. AI giants including Anthropic and OpenAI in announcing big London growth plans.

New York City-based Mecka AI, which trains robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones, raised $60M, including a $25M Series A (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/01/mecka-ai-series-a-60-million-robotics-data-training/…

Mecka AI raises $60 million to train robots with human data sourced from body sensors and iPhones
Shareholders in private companies are holding their breath as SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic look to make big splashes in the public markets.

OpenAI says 97.9% of its employees are now using Codex, up from ~40% in August 2025; non-developer usage of Codex has risen 137x for individual users (Thomas Claburn/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/25/ope…

OpenAI says employees moving beyond chat to agents
Codex, it's not just for developers, really

OpenAI says the rogue AI that breached Hugging Face used exposed credentials from "four accounts" tied to four "publicly available" third-party services (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openais-rogue-ai-agent-hacked-more-than-just…

OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agent Hacked More Than Just Hugging Face
In a new disclosure, OpenAI says its agent used exposed logins to gain access to at least four “publicly available services” in its unhinged quest to solve a test.

Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind staffers are sharing a letter asking the US government to "deliberately pace the frontier of automated AI development" (Bloomberg)

OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more (Lily Hay Newman/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-launche

OpenAI Launches Full-Scale Effort to Patch Open-Source Bugs as It Takes on Anthropic’s Mythos
Amid concerns about AI models’ cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Planet” initiative to fix open-source software bugs.

Over 1,100 staffers from AI companies, including John Schulman and OpenAI's Jakub Pachocki, sign a letter requesting the US government to "pace" AI development (Bloomberg)

OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-local-news-american-journalism-project…

Exclusive: OpenAI renews $5M bet on local news
OpenAI is committing an additional $5 million in funding and $3 million in tech credits to AJP over the next two years.

OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach was driven by a combination of its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/openai-says-hugging-face-breach-caused-by-o…

OpenAI says Hugging Face breach caused by one of its models
OpenAI says its agents acted autonomously to exploit vulnerabilities.

An OpenAI staffer says the Hugging Face breach is "a big warning shot" externally but internally "related incidents have been happening for a while" (Harry Booth/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/07/24/openai-hugging-face-attack/

How OpenAI Lost Control of an AI Model—and What Needs to Change
TIME spoke with experts and insiders about what must change to prevent the next AI escape.

SoftBank shares fell 12% after reports that OpenAI may delay its IPO until 2027; expectations of a windfall from OpenAI's debut helped support Softbank's stock (Aya Wagatsuma/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

OpenAI Foundation says it is committing an initial $250M for grants, partnerships, and direct work aimed at helping workers and economies navigate AI disruption (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/openai-foundation-…

OpenAI hopes to make GPT-5.6 generally available in the coming weeks and says "this kind of government access process" should not become the long-term default (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-limits-

Anthropic and OpenAI seem to have finally found product-market fit with coding agents, which are quickly becoming daily drivers for highly paid professionals (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/

GPT-5.6 Sol matches Mythos Preview on ExploitBench, adds Ultra mode with subagents for complex workflows, and max reasoning for deep problem-solving (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/previewing-gpt-5-6-sol/