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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.
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Q&A with OpenAI President Greg Brockman about OpenAI's research direction, how far it can push Codex, shutting down Sora, text vs. world models, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/openai-president-greg-brockman-doubling…

OpenAI President Greg Brockman: Doubling Down on Text Models, The Superapp Plan, Codex’s Potential
OpenAI is shifting strategies yet again. Here's the logic behind the latest moves and what they mean for the company's direction.

OpenAI Codex ha analizzato la sicurezza di 1,2 milioni di commit e ha trovato 10.561 problemi di elevata gravitŠ
Venerdì OpenAI ha iniziato a distribuire Codex Security , un agente di sicurezza basato sull'intelligenza artificiale (IA) progettato per individuare, convalidare e proporre soluzioni per le vulnerabilitŠ.
La funzionalitŠ è disponibile in anteprima per i clienti ChatGPT Pro, Enterprise, Business ed Edu tramite il sito web Codex, con utilizzo gratuito per il mese su…

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OpenAI-Managerin verlässt das Unternehmen nach Pentagon-Deal

OpenAI launches three new real-time voice models for reasoning, translation, and transcription, included in its Realtime API (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/07/openai-has-new-voice-models-that-reason-translate-and-t…

OpenAI has new voice models that reason, translate, and transcribe as you speak - 9to5Mac
OpenAI has just released three new realtime voice models that it says will “unlock a new class of voice apps...

"The letter to the attorneys general of Delaware and California asks for an investigation into Musk."
In Letter, OpenAI Reportedly Says Elon Musk and Meta Are Coordinating 'Attacks' Against It
https://gizmodo.com/in-letter-openai-reportedly-says-elon-musk-and-meta-are-coordinating-attacks-against-it-2000743228

Top researcher leaves OpenAI due to Pentagon deal (Gregory Svirnovskiy/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/07/top-researcher-openai-pentagon-surveillance-00818124
http://www.memeorandum.com/260307/p59#a260307p59

OpenAI sends a letter to the California and Delaware AGs, urging them to investigate "anti-competitive behavior" by Elon Musk, ahead of a trial in April (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/06/openai-asks-california-ag-to-prob…

OpenAI asks California, Delaware to investigate Musk's 'anti-competitive behavior' ahead of April trial
OpenAI sent a letter to the California and Delaware attorneys general, urging them to investigate "anti-competitive behavior" by Elon Musk and his associates.

A Reporter at Large — Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.
📰 https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/04/13/sam-al…

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted?
New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI, Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz write.

Cybersecurity is, as they say, moving at machine speed, so don't leave for the weekend until you check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Canvas chaos: ShinyHunters breach throws schools into disarray
--Firefox bug fixes soar after using Mythos,
--Virginia man found guilty of destroying government databases,
--OpenAI rolls out GPT 5.5 to vetted cyber defenders,
--PCPJack steals cloud creds while remov…

Canvas chaos: ShinyHunters breach throws schools into disarray
Firefox bug fixes soar after using Mythos, Virginia man found guilty of destroying government databases, OpenAI rolls out GPT 5.5 to vetted cyber defenders, PCPJack steals cloud creds while removing TeamPCP access, Ivanti urges patches for Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) zero day bug, much more

Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-early-talks-trade-desk-sell-ad…

OpenAI Held Early Talks With The Trade Desk to Sell Ads
OpenAI has held early talks to partner with The Trade Desk, a publicly traded ad tech company, to help the ChatGPT maker sell ads, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The talks indicate that OpenAI, which launched ads in ChatGPT in early February, will initially lean on ...

Musk v. Altman docs: Microsoft execs had reservations about funding OpenAI in 2018 but worried that withholding support could push OpenAI into Amazon's arms (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-executives-discuss-openai-sam-altman-2018/

Musk v. Altman Evidence Shows What Microsoft Executives Thought of OpenAI
Leaders at the tech giant were skeptical of OpenAI—but wary of pushing it into the arms of Amazon, according to emails dating back to 2018.

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.
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OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/openai-gpt-55-cybersecurity-model

OpenAI makes its Mythos rival more widely available to cyber defenders
Recent security testing suggests that GPT-5.5. model is nearly as good at finding and exploiting software bugs as Anthropic's Mythos Preview.

L'Iran minaccia il data center Stargate di OpenAI ad Abu Dhabi.
Un video diffuso dal Corpo delle Guardie Rivoluzionarie Islamiche iraniane suggerisce che, qualora gli Stati Uniti attaccassero le sue centrali elettriche, prenderanno di mira il data center che OpenAI intende costruire.
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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…

OpenAI releases the Child Safety Blueprint tackling AI-enabled child sexual exploitation, focusing on updating legislation and improving detection and reporting (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/open

OpenAI releases a new safety blueprint to address the rise in child sexual exploitation | TechCrunch
OpenAI's new Child Safety Blueprint aims to tackle the alarming rise in child sexual exploitation linked to advancements in AI.

Is Sam relying on AI to craft business strategies and contract docs? Inquiring minds etc
OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/openai-pent…

Is Sam relying on AI to craft business strategies and contract docs? Inquiring minds etc
OpenAI amends Pentagon deal as Sam Altman admits it looks ‘sloppy’
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/openai-pent…

Prettige podcast over AI.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/4SnbJYFvGBFj7WpirnbW1h?si=2V-yggsrRFGX9X2KfzDADA&t=1684&pi=ybhdM-K4ToGvT

Moltbook is de social media voor agents + knetterende ruzie Altman vs Anthropic + Rutger Bregman opent vuur op OpenAI
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Microsoft hat Distribution, kein Spitzenmodell. OpenAI hat das Modell, keine Chips. Nvidia hat Chips, kein Endkundengeschäft. Apple hat weder noch. Nur Google hat alle drei KI-Schlüsselkomponenten. Johannes Winkelhage (@…) erklärt, warum Google gerade dabei ist, Nvidia als wertvollstes Unternehmen abzulösen.

OpenAI verbessert das ChatGPT, das fast alle nutzen
Das neue Standardmodell GPT-5.5 Instant soll laut OpenAI weniger halluzinieren, prägnantere Antworten liefern und stärker persönlichen Kontext einbeziehen.
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OpenAI verbessert das ChatGPT, das fast alle nutzen
Das neue Standardmodell GPT-5.5 Instant soll laut OpenAI weniger halluzinieren, prägnantere Antworten liefern und stärker persönlichen Kontext einbeziehen.

Musk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/mother-of-m

Mother of Musk children testifies about OpenAI board role in tech billionaire feud
"When the father of your babies starts a competitive effort and starts recruiting from OpenAI there is nothing to be done," former board member Shivon Zilis texted a friend about her resignation.

OpenAI rolls out a beta version of its new Ads Manager tool to advertisers in the US, making it easier for SMBs to buy ChatGPT ads on a cost-per-click basis (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/05/openai-self-serve-ad-platform

OpenAI launches self-serve ad platform
The new platform makes it easier for a broader set of advertisers to buy ads on ChatGPT.

OpenAI announces a Safety Fellowship program for external researchers, engineers, and practitioners to study the safety and alignment of advanced AI systems (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai-safety-fellowship

OpenAI: Kosten von 50 Milliarden Dollar für Rechenleistung
Dass ChatGPT teuer ist, war bekannt. Jetzt zeigt sich, wie viele Milliarden die KI-Rechenzentren den Entwickler OpenAI kosten.
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Prozess gegen OpenAI: Milliardenkosten für KI-Infrastruktur enthüllt
Dass ChatGPT teuer ist, war bekannt. Jetzt zeigt sich, wie viele Milliarden die KI-Rechenzentren den Entwickler OpenAI kosten.

Der Tesla-Chef war einst Mitgründer, kritisiert die Entwicklung des Unternehmens aber scharf. Er behauptet, Sam Altman und Brockman hätten aus der ursprünglich gemeinnützigen Organisation eine Profitmaschine gemacht und damit "eine wohltätige Organisation gestohlen". 🤨
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-11284078…

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: AI model builder Core Automation, founded in March by Jerry Tworek, aims to raise $300M-$500M at a $4B valuation after raising $100M at a $1B valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ex…

Ex-OpenAI Researcher’s Six-Week-Old Startup Targets Funding at $4 Billion Valuation
Nvidia’s investment spree in startups that use its AI chips has stoked traditional venture capital firms’ interest in those companies. That has paved the way for brand-new startups taking on Anthropic and OpenAI to raise back-to-back funding rounds, sometimes in a matter of weeks. In the latest ...

Musk v. Altman: Mira Murati testifies that Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new OpenAI model and that he made her work more difficult (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/925338/openai-mu…

Mira Murati tells the court that she couldn’t trust Sam Altman’s words
Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former CTO, has testified under oath that CEO Sam Altman lied to her about the safety standards for a new AI model.

OpenAI partners with Smartly, an adtech company that helps clients optimize ads in real time, to design ad formats that match ChatGPT's conversational interface (Lucia Moses/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-smartly-bring-c…

OpenAI's new partner wants to build ads that can chat with you
OpenAI signed Smartly as its first creative adtech partner, continuing its widely anticipated advertising rollout.

OpenAI und Anthropic gründen milliardenschwere Joint Ventures
Für den Vertrieb von KI-Tools an Unternehmen verbünden sich OpenAI und Anthropic mit finanzstarken Private-Equity-Firmen und sammeln sie viel Geld ein.

OpenAI und Anthropic gründen milliardenschwere Joint Ventures
Für den Vertrieb von KI-Tools an Unternehmen verbünden sich OpenAI und Anthropic mit finanzstarken Private-Equity-Firmen und sammeln sie viel Geld ein.

Elon Musk amends his OpenAI lawsuit to ask that damages he might win be awarded to OpenAI's charity arm and that Altman be removed from OpenAI's nonprofit board (Jessica Toonkel/Wall Street Journal)
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OpenAI buying TBPN makes little sense, par for the course for a company that, like Twitter, stumbled into a big market and may never build a functional business (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2026/openai-buys-tbpn-tech-and-the-token-tsunami/

OpenAI Buys TBPN, Tech and the Token Tsunami
OpenAI’s purchase of TBPN makes no sense, which may be par for the course for OpenAI. Then, AI is breaking stuff, starting with tech services.

OpenAI partners with Microsoft, AMD, Broadcom, Nvidia, and Intel researchers to detail the Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) protocol to help scale compute (Nat Rubio-Licht/The Deep View)
https://www.thedeepview.com/articles/exclusive-openai-unveil…

Exclusive: OpenAI unveils protocol to stretch compute
OpenAI is getting creative to deal with the industry's imminent compute crunch. On Wednesday, the ChatGPT maker and a coalition of researchers from M...

Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of hardware and robotic engineering, resigns citing concerns over domestic surveillance and lethal autonomous weapons systems (Sharon Goldman/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/07/openai-…

Sources: Sam Altman has excluded OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar from some key financial meetings; Friar began reporting to Fidji Simo instead of the CEO in August 2025 (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-ceo-cfo-diverge-ipo-timing

OpenAI CEO and CFO Diverge on IPO Timing
Sam Altman has committed OpenAI to spend $600 billion in the next five years and privately said he wants to go public as soon as the fourth quarter despite expectations his company will burn more than $200 billion before it starts generating cash. Behind the scenes, Sarah Friar, his chief ...

OpenAI rolls out Codex Security, an AI agent that evolved from its research project Aardvark to automate vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation (Sam Sabin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/06/openai-codex-security-ai-cyber

OpenAI unveils Codex Security to automate code security reviews
Frontier AI labs are increasingly rolling out new ways to help defenders beef up their own security.

KI-Update kompakt: OpenAI, Stromverbrauch, Smart Glasses, Passwort
Das "KI-Update" liefert drei mal pro Woche eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
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Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current $852B valuation, the stake is worth $5B (John Gruber/Daring Fireball)
https://daringfireball.net/2026/05/y_combinators_stake_in_openai

Y Combinator’s Stake in OpenAI
The fact that Paul Graham personally has billions of dollars at stake with OpenAI doesn’t mean that his public opinion on Sam Altman’s trustworthiness and leadership is invalid. But it certainly seems like the sort of thing that ought to be disclosed when quoting Graham as an Altman character reference.

Jensen Huang says Nvidia's recent $30B investment in OpenAI "might be the last time" it invests in the company, because OpenAI is "going to go public" (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/04/nvidia-huang-openai-investment.html…

Nvidia CEO Huang says $30 billion OpenAI investment 'might be the last'
Huang also mentioned that Nvidia's $10 billion investment in OpenAI rival Anthropic would likely be its last.

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OpenAI trackt in den USA per Cookies für personalisierte Werbung

OpenAI trackt in den USA per Cookies für personalisierte Werbung
ChatGPT und andere Dienste teilen jetzt die Daten von US-Nutzern mit Werbetreibenden. Auch für mehr Werbung in den eigenen Apps.

OpenAI launches Trusted Contact, an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that lets adult users assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

ChatGPT’s ‘Trusted Contact’ will alert loved ones of safety concerns
OpenAI is launching an optional safety feature for ChatGPT that allows adult users to assign an emergency contact for mental health and safety concerns.

Sources: OpenAI and Broadcom discuss terms for Broadcom to finance initial custom chip production for ~$18B, conditioned on Microsoft buying ~40% of the chips (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais…

OpenAI’s AI Chip Deal With Broadcom Hits $18 Billion Financing Snag
When OpenAI and chip designer Broadcom announced last fall that they would make custom artificial intelligence chips together, they positioned it as a done deal. The companies said the deal would bring enough chips online before 2030 to consume 10 gigawatts of power, equivalent to five Hoover ...

Rekord-Finanzierung: OpenAI sichert sich 122 Milliarden US-Dollar für KI-Ausbau
Mit 122 Milliarden US-Dollar schließt OpenAI eine der größten Finanzierungsrunden der Geschichte ab und verschafft sich finanziellen Spielraum im KI-Wettlauf.

OpenAI says GPT-5.5 Instant produces 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims "on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance" (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/05/openai-chatgpt-update-default-model

OpenAI makes default ChatGPT more personal
OpenAI says the model used by hundreds of millions of people has fewer hallucinations.

Sources: OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are sharing information via the Frontier Model Forum to detect adversarial distillation attempts that violate their ToS (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-06/open…

OpenAI says GPT-5.4's "individual claims are 33% less likely to be false and its full responses are 18% less likely to contain any errors, relative to GPT-5.2" (David Gewirtz/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/openai-gpt-5-4/

OpenAI's new GPT-5.4 clobbers humans on pro-level work in tests - by 83%
GPT-5.4 is also more reliable, producing 18% fewer errors and 33% fewer false claims than GPT-5.2, according to OpenAI.

OpenAI trackt in den USA per Cookies für personalisierte Werbung
ChatGPT und andere Dienste teilen jetzt die Daten von US-Nutzern mit Werbetreibenden. Auch für mehr Werbung in den eigenen Apps.
https://www…

OpenAI trackt in den USA per Cookies für personalisierte Werbung
ChatGPT und andere Dienste teilen jetzt die Daten von US-Nutzern mit Werbetreibenden. Auch für mehr Werbung in den eigenen Apps.

Sources: OpenAI has held early talks with The Trade Desk to sell ads, and it has projected ads could help double consumer ChatGPT revenue this year to $17B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-held-early-talks-trade-desk-sell-ad…

OpenAI Held Early Talks With The Trade Desk to Sell Ads
OpenAI has held early talks to partner with The Trade Desk, a publicly traded ad tech company, to help the ChatGPT maker sell ads, according to three people with knowledge of the matter. The talks indicate that OpenAI, which launched ads in ChatGPT in early February, will initially lean on ...

Sources: Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand a Stargate Texas data center amid financing disputes; Meta considers leasing the planned expansion site (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/oracle-and…

OpenAI erhält wohl Pentagon-Auftrag nach Bruch mit Anthropic
Nach dem eskalierten Streit mit Anthropic setzt das Pentagon nun offenbar auf OpenAI. Details des Deals bleiben offen – Sicherheitsfragen stehen im Fokus.

GoDaddy integrates Cloudflare's AI Crawl Control into its hosting platform, enabling site owners to block, permit, or possibly monetize automated crawler access (Alistair Barr/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/cloudflare

Cloudflare and GoDaddy join forces against Big Tech's AI bot swarms
Cloudflare and GoDaddy are partnering to give websites control over AI crawlers, aiming to fix the web's broken business model in the AI era.

"Keine plausible Klage": xAI-Klage gegen OpenAI ist vorerst abgewiesen
Eine Klage des KI-Unternehmens xAI gegen OpenAI hat das Gericht vorerst abgewiesen. Die Vorwürfe seien nicht plausibel und würden nicht OpenAI belasten.

OpenAI releases a dedicated Codex app for Windows with native sandboxing and support for PowerShell developer environments, after launching on macOS a month ago (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/ai/openai-brings-its-codex-coding-app-t…

Source: OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub; the project is nascent, and the decision came after OpenAI engineers experienced an increase in outages (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-developing-alternative-micro…

OpenAI Is Developing an Internal Alternative to Microsoft’s GitHub
OpenAI is developing an alternative to GitHub, Microsoft’s popular code repository that lets software engineers store, share and collaborate on computer code, according to a person with knowledge of the project. The decision to embark on the new product came after OpenAI engineers, like other ...

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Nach Bruch mit Anthropic: Pentagon schließt KI-Deal offenbar mit OpenAI

OpenAI is scaling back shopping directly inside ChatGPT via Instant Checkout by having checkouts instead take place in the specific apps that plug into ChatGPT (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-scales-back-shopping-plans-chatgp…

OpenAI Scales Back Shopping Plans for ChatGPT
OpenAI is scaling back its plan to introduce shopping directly inside ChatGPT, marking a change in its high-profile effort to put checkouts inside the chatbot. Instead of allowing users to make purchases directly from product listings that show up in ChatGPT search results, the company is now ...

Sources: OpenAI has picked two law firms to prepare its IPO, which could come as soon as Q4, in one of its first concrete steps toward a public listing (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-selects-law-firms-cooley-wachtell…

OpenAI Selects Law Firms Cooley, Wachtell for IPO Prep
OpenAI has picked two law firms, Cooley and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz, to prepare for an initial public offering that could come as soon as this year, according to people familiar with the matter. Selecting lawyers to prepare for a listing is one of the first concrete steps the ChatGPT maker ...

Musk vs. OpenAI: Milliardär wollte die volle Kontrolle über das KI-Labor
In Kalifornien ist der von Elon Musk angestrengte Prozess gegen OpenAI mit der Befragung des Milliardärs weitergegangen. Einmal kam ihm ein Tweet in die Quere.

Musk vs. OpenAI: Milliardär wollte die volle Kontrolle über das KI-Labor
In Kalifornien ist der von Elon Musk angestrengte Prozess gegen OpenAI mit der Befragung des Milliardärs weitergegangen. Einmal kam ihm ein Tweet in die Quere.

Sources: OpenAI topped $25B in annualized revenue by end-February, up from $21.4B at end-2025; it annualizes by multiplying the last four weeks' revenue by 12 (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/ope…

OpenAI Tops $25 Billion in Annualized Revenue as Anthropic Narrows Gap
OpenAI topped $25 billion in annualized revenue as of the end of last month, according to a person familiar with the figure. That’s a 17% increase from the $21.4 billion in annualized revenue the company was generating at the end of the year, according to the person and a second person with ...

OpenAI rolls out a beta version of its new Ads Manager tool to advertisers in the US, making it easier for SMBs to buy ChatGPT ads on a cost-per-click basis (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/05/openai-self-serve-ad-platform

OpenAI launches self-serve ad platform
The new platform makes it easier for a broader set of advertisers to buy ads on ChatGPT.

OpenAI und Microsoft lockern ihre milliardenschwere Partnerschaft
OpenAI und Microsoft passen ihre Partnerschaft an: Die Umsatzbeteiligung wird gedeckelt, Exklusivrechte fallen weg und OpenAI erhält mehr Freiheiten.

OpenAI und Microsoft lockern ihre milliardenschwere Partnerschaft
OpenAI und Microsoft passen ihre Partnerschaft an: Die Umsatzbeteiligung wird gedeckelt, Exklusivrechte fallen weg und OpenAI erhält mehr Freiheiten.

Interviews with Codex lead Alexander Embiricos, OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger, and others about OpenAI's upcoming superapp that combines ChatGPT with Codex (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/openai-super-app-plan-codex

Inside OpenAI's super app plan
Why Codex is becoming the foundation for everything at OpenAI. Also: Fidji Simo's internal memo about taking a leave of absence.

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OpenAI erhält wohl Pentagon-Auftrag nach Bruch mit Anthropic

Documents: OpenAI and Anthropic have projected profitability to investors with and without training costs, and report inference costs exceeding half of revenue (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-anthropic-ipo-finances-04b3cfb9

Musk vs. OpenAI: „Nicht in Ordnung, eine Wohltätigkeitsorganisation zu stehlen“
In Oakland muss ein Gericht jetzt klären, ob Elon Musk durch das Vorgehen von OpenAI betrogen wurde. Dafür durfte der Milliardär am Dienstag lange aussagen.

Musk vs. OpenAI: KI-Firma verdankt dem Milliardär angeblich fast alles
In Oakland muss ein Gericht jetzt klären, ob Elon Musk durch das Vorgehen von OpenAI betrogen wurde. Dafür durfte der Milliardär am Dienstag lange aussagen.

Musk v. Altman: on his second day of testimony, Greg Brockman said that OpenAI expects to spend $50B on computing in 2026, up from $30M in 2017 (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-05/openai-t…

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 that it says is its "most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work" and first with native computer use capabilities (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/…

OpenAI’s new GPT-5.4 model is a big step toward autonomous agents
OpenAI is launching GPT-5.4, the latest version of its AI model, which comes with native computer use, allowing it to perform jobs across your device and different applications.

Leaked Friday memo: Dario Amodei called OpenAI's DOD deal "safety theater", said DOD dislikes Anthropic in part for not giving "dictator-style praise to Trump" (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/an

Anthropic CEO Memo: Trump Disliked Company For Not Giving ‘Dictator-Style Praise’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Friday told employees that a deal OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman struck to provide AI to the Department of Defense was “safety theater,” adding that the Trump Administration didn’t like Anthropic in part because the company hadn’t “given dictator-style praise to ...

OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Instant, which it says is smarter, with more accurate and personalized responses, replacing GPT-5.3 Instant as ChatGPT's default model (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-5-instant/

In an all-hands meeting, Sam Altman said OpenAI does not "get to make operational decisions" regarding how its technology is used by the Department of Defense (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/sam-altman-t…

Sam Altman tells OpenAI staffers that military's 'operational decisions' are up to the government
In an all-hands meetings with OpenAI employees on Tuesday, CEO Sam Altman said his company doesn't get to choose how the military uses its technology.

Sam Altman says the DOD affirmed that OpenAI's tools wouldn't be used by agencies like the NSA, and services to them would need a further contract modification (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/openai-sam-altman-pentag…

OpenAI's Altman admits defense deal 'looked opportunistic and sloppy' amid backlash
Sam Altman says that OpenAI "shouldn't have rushed" its deal with the Defense Department and was making "some additions."

Sam Altman says OpenAI is resetting Codex usage limits "to celebrate 3M weekly codex users" and will reset them for every 1M new users until it reaches 10M (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/2041658719839383945

Sam Altman (@sama) on X
To celebrate 3 million weekly codex users, we are resetting usage limits. We will do this every million users up to 10 million. Happy building!

A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can help with academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv (Elizabeth Gibney/Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

OpenAI says it is delaying the launch of ChatGPT Adult Mode, originally planned for Q1, to focus on higher priorities, like gains in intelligence (Alex Heath/Sources)
https://sources.news/p/liz-reid-google-search-gemini-interview

Liz Reid on where Google Search ends and Gemini begins
This week on the podcast: the head of Google Search. Also: OpenAI pauses Adult Mode and ends its Code Red, and Anthropic goes on an apology tour.

OpenAI says it does not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and it has made its position on this clear to the Pentagon (@openai)
https://x.com/openai/status/2027846016423321831

OpenAI (@OpenAI) on X
We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk and we’ve made our position on this clear to the Department of War.

GPT-5.4 is available in Pro and Thinking versions; its API has improved tool calling and will be available with context windows of up to 1M tokens (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/05/openai-launches-gpt-5-4-with-pro-and-thi…

OpenAI launches GPT-5.4 with Pro and Thinking versions | TechCrunch
GPT-5.4 is billed as "our most capable and efficient frontier model for professional work."

Sources: Jeff Bezos' Project Prometheus has hired xAI co-founder Kyle Kosic from OpenAI and has hundreds of staff across its SF HQ and London and Zurich offices (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/e03c235d-8637-41e5-9e63-a872e398897a

Sources: OpenAI and the DOD have agreed to add more surveillance protections to a recent AI deal; Sam Altman approached DOD's Emil Michael to rework the deal (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/03/openai-pentagon-ai-surveillance

Scoop: OpenAI, Pentagon add more surveillance protections to AI deal
It follows widespread backlash that domestic mass surveillance was still a real risk under the old terms.

Anthropic's SpaceX deal helps it address a severe compute deficit and comes amid Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit; Grok never grew to utilize xAI's Colossus 1 (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/07/musk-anthropic-compute-spacex-ai

How Elon grew to love Anthropic
Business imperatives turned Musk's AI rival into a partner.

OpenAI says GPT-5.3 Instant's tone should feel less "cringe" than GPT-5.2 Instant and has a smoother, more to-the-point conversational style (Marcus Schuler/Implicator.ai)
https://www.implicator.ai/openai-ships-gpt-5-…

OpenAI Ships GPT-5.3 Instant With 27% Fewer Hallucinations and a Less Preachy Tone
GPT-5.3 Instant replaces ChatGPT's default model with up to 26.8% fewer hallucinations, reduced refusals, and a less defensive tone.

An OpenAI spokesperson says Sam Altman misspoke in saying OpenAI was looking to deploy on NATO classified networks, and that it was for "unclassified networks" (Hyunsu Yim/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-looking-contra…

Musk v. Altman: Stuart Russell, Musk's only AI expert witness, warned of AI risks but his concerns about AI's existential threats were excluded by the judge (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/04/elon-m…

Elon Musk's only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race | TechCrunch
Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.

Musk v. Altman: Greg Brockman testifies that his OpenAI stake is now worth ~$30B; a Musk attorney asks why he hasn't donated $29B to OpenAI's nonprofit arm (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-04/broc…

Meta says Muse Spark powers Meta AI's "shopping mode" feature and that it plans to release a version of Muse Spark under an open-source license (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/08/meta-muse-alexandr-wang

Meta debuts Muse Spark, first AI model under Alexandr Wang
Meta says the model narrows the performance gap with OpenAI, Anthropic and others.

Meta will offer Muse Spark in private preview via API to select partners, and plans to offer paid API access to a wider audience at a later date; META jumps 8% (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/meta-debut

Meta debuts new AI model, attempting to catch Google, OpenAI after spending billions
Meta debuted its first major large language model, Muse Spark, spearheaded by chief AI officer Alexandr Wang, who leads Meta Superintelligence Labs.

Sam Altman says rushing the DOD deal was wrong as "the issues are super complex, and demand clear communication" but we were "trying to de-escalate things" (Katherine Li/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-ame

Sam Altman says OpenAI will tweak its Pentagon deal after surveillance backlash
Sam Altman posted an internal memo that OpenAI is working with the Pentagon to "make some additions" to their agreement.

Sources: SoftBank is seeking a bridge loan of up to $40B, its largest-ever borrowing denominated solely in dollars, to help finance its investment in OpenAI (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-06/softb…

Source: Alphabet is in talks with Blackstone, KKR, and EQT to give their portfolio companies AI model access, after OpenAI's and Anthropic's JVs with PE firms (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/google-talks-blackstone-…

Google in Talks With Blackstone, KKR to Distribute AI Models
Private equity firms Blackstone, KKR and EQT are in talks with Alphabet to get their portfolio companies access to Google’s AI models, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The discussions follow the establishment of two separate companies set up by Anthropic and OpenAI and several PE firms that will employ technical consultants to integrate AI into the PE firms’ portfolio

A look at the gold rush for firms claiming to help brands get cited by AI search tools, via tactics like hiding instructions behind "Summarize with AI" buttons (Mia Sato/The Verge)

Can AI responses be influenced? The SEO industry is trying
Companies like Google and OpenAI are leaning into AI-powered search tools. The SEO industry is responding with new tactics and tricks.

Sources: OpenAI agreed to follow laws that have allowed for mass surveillance in the past, and the DOD didn't budge from its demands over bulk analyzing data (Hayden Field/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-int

How OpenAI caved to the Pentagon on AI surveillance
Amidst fallout from a dramatic standoff between the Department of Defense and Anthropic, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a new contract with the Pentagon. But everything wasn’t what it seemed.

Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/28/amazon-cloud-deal-openai

OpenAI to make its models available via Amazon's servers
The move comes a day after OpenAI and Microsoft announced a revised partnership.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.3 Instant, which it says delivers more accurate answers and better-contextualized results when searching the web, for all ChatGPT users (OpenAI)
https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-3-instant

Sources: Amazon plans to invest up to $50B in OpenAI, $35B of which could hinge on an IPO or AGI milestone; OpenAI is discussing custom models for Amazon (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/amazons-50-billion-investment-openai-…

Amazon’s $50 Billion Investment in OpenAI Could Hinge on IPO, AGI
Amazon’s decision to invest up to $50 billion in OpenAI could hang on whether OpenAI goes public or reaches a loosely defined milestone known as artificial general intelligence, which generally refers to AI that is on par with human abilities, according to three people involved who have ...

OpenAI hires Meta AI researcher Ruoming Pang, who joined Meta from Apple about seven months ago for a pay package reportedly worth $200M over several years (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/openai-hires-meta…

OpenAI Hires Meta AI Researcher Who Previously Led Apple’s Models Team
OpenAI has hired a high-profile AI researcher at Meta Platforms who had joined the company from Apple about seven months ago, a spokesperson from OpenAI confirmed. Ruoming Pang, who led AI infrastructure for Meta Superintelligence Labs, which is developing new AI models, left the company last week and has joined OpenAI. Pang, who was aggressively recruited by OpenAI over several months, told

OpenAI fired an employee for insider trading on prediction markets like Polymarket; Unusual Whales has flagged 77 suspected insider trades around OpenAI events (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-fires-employee-insider-trading-polymarke…

OpenAI Fires an Employee for Prediction Market Insider Trading
Prediction markets like Polymarket and Kalshi are big business, and some Big Tech employees are testing boundaries by making trades based on insider knowledge.

Source: OpenAI has raised over $4B at a $10B pre-money valuation for The Deployment Company, a new joint venture to help businesses adopt OpenAI tools (Seth Fiegerman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

In a newly released deposition in Elon Musk's case against OpenAI, Musk attacked OpenAI's safety record, saying nobody "committed suicide because of Grok" (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/27/musk

Musk bashes OpenAI in deposition, saying 'nobody committed suicide because of Grok' | TechCrunch
In his lawsuit against OpenAI, Musk touted xAI safety compared with ChatGPT. A few months later, xAI's Grok flooded X with nonconsensual nude images.

Source: the DOD appears to have accepted OpenAI's safety red lines, which were similar to Anthropic's, to deploy OpenAI's tech in classified settings (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/27/pentagon-openai-safety-red-lines-anthropic

OpenAI reaches agreement with Pentagon to use AI models
The Pentagon has complained Anthropic's red lines on military use were "woke."