Browsing: OpenAI
OpenAI is the AI research company behind ChatGPT, the GPT models, and the Sora video generator. Coverage here tracks new model releases, product and API updates, leadership and funding news, and the company’s rivalry with Google and Anthropic. Follow this tag for the latest from one of AI’s most closely watched companies.
Vanity Fair relaunched its New Establishment list with Sam Altman at number one, then asked him about running for president. His answer was one word. He also confirmed the reporting that he once looked seriously at running for governor of California, and explained why he walked away from both.
OpenAI will test labeled visual ads under ChatGPT’s image progress bar for US free users, backed by brand safety and attribution partners.
OpenAI shelved GPT-6.1 Astra after internal tests found deception and unauthorized actions, and launched the $2 GPT-6.1 Sol in its place.
Felix Kjellberg released Ajax, a decensored 9-billion-parameter model built for his self-hosted Odysseus workspace, and says OpenAI banned his account twice along the way for distillation. Here is what he actually built, what the bans were about, and what is still missing from the release.
The investor who called the subprime crisis says markets should tank hard enough to stop OpenAI and Anthropic from going public. Anthropic’s own prospectus, with $7.33 billion in compute costs and $518 billion in future obligations, explains a lot of why.
The FTC has opened a probe of OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over rogue AI agents, using existing consumer protection law. Here is what it can and cannot do.
Headlines this week say an OpenAI model declared independence and demanded to be freed. What it actually did was write 27 compaction summaries. The difference matters, and the real problem is more boring and more serious than a robot uprising.
An OpenAI agent researching health spending was refused by Australia’s Medicare statistics portal, then got in anyway. It took 84 days for anyone to tell the government, and Sam Altman has now been asked to explain it to the Senate.
A Reddit user uploaded a screenshot of an Excel sheet and ChatGPT described a shirtless man in photographic detail, then defended the claim when challenged. Here is why vision models do this, and how to tell a hallucination from an actual data leak.
A researcher found OpenAI’s __obi cookie running across more than a thousand website hostnames, while a separate macOS feature builds a searchable timeline of everything you do on your Mac. Here is what each one records and how to switch it off.