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OpenAI outlines principles for government and national security partnerships, emphasizing responsible AI deployment, democratic accountability, and public safety.

OpenAI identifies validity issues in SWE-Bench Pro coding benchmark, questioning reliability of popular AI model evaluation metric.

Kevin Weil's new role at Stoke Space suggests reusable rockets are the next hot thing in Silicon Valley.

OpenAI and Walton Family Foundation launch AI Skills Jams for K–12 educators to teach classroom AI applications.

OpenAI releases GPT-Live, a new voice model generation for natural human-AI interaction in ChatGPT Voice.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s oft-discussed promise that Americans will share in the wealth AI creates was in the news again last week. On Thursday, the Financial Times reported that Altman is in…

Mistral AI, which offers some open source AI models, has raised significant funding since its creation in 2023, with the ambition to “put frontier AI in the hands of everyone.”

The news comes about a week after OpenAI announced its own custom AI chip in a partnership with Broadcom.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly proposed giving 5% of the company’s equity to a U.S. sovereign wealth fund, reviving discussions about letting the public share in the financial gains from the AI boom.

Insiders say Sam Altman is in active talks with the Trump administration.

Microsoft follows Amazon, OpenAI and Anthropic with its new AI deployment group.

OpenAI has floated giving the US government a 5 percent ownership stake as a way of easing tensions with the Trump administration and blunting mounting public backlash against AI, according to the Financial Times. CEO Sam Altman argued that giving the public a financial interest in the company would be the best way to share the upside of AI, the FT reported, citing two unnamed people familiar with the talks. He's said to have first pitched the idea to Trump early last year. Altman reportedly suggested the 5 percent figure. Based on OpenAI's latest funding round, which ended with the company v...

Engineers on the new team will embed within companies to deploy purpose-built agents, focusing on fast deployments and customer self-sufficiency.

“After college, my plan was to come to New York and get a record deal.” | Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Watching Elon Musk fulminate at Bill Savitt during Musk v. Altman - the case in which Musk sued Sam Altman and OpenAI instead of seeing a therapist about his AI failures - was a bit like watching a toddler have a temper tantrum at his nursery school teacher. Savitt's questions were "designed to trick me," Musk said. He also told Savitt at one point, "You mostly do unfair questions." Savitt, who has the approximate demeanor of a handsome Droopy Dog, gently told Musk, "I am trying t...

OpenAI publishes adoption metrics showing ChatGPT user growth and expanded capability exploration across regions.

OpenAI debugged rare infrastructure crashes using core dump analysis, revealing 18-year-old software bug and hardware fault.

OpenAI releases GeneBench-Pro, a benchmark for evaluating AI on genomics and biology tasks using real-world datasets.

OpenAI is releasing some sort of device related to its AI-powered coding tool, Codex, on July 15th. In a video posted to X on Monday, OpenAI shows a square-shaped device with several buttons, alongside the caption, "Your favorite Codex shortcuts are getting an upgrade." This isn't the mysterious AI-powered device OpenAI is working on with former Apple designer Jony Ive, however. As shown in the teaser, OpenAI is launching the device in partnership with Work Louder, a company that sells an array of mechanical keyboards and macro pads with mappable keys, dials, and switches. The silhouette of t...

As Anthropic forges a closer relationship with the state of California, the federal government has made an enemy out of the OpenAI rival.

OpenAI report maps EU labor market exposure to AI automation across occupations, identifying jobs at risk or poised for growth.

China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems that China has dramatically reduced the gap in the capabilities between its models and those of the US. This level of advancement is particularly concerning to the US government, which has worked to restrict China's access to powerful models like Anthropic's Mythos and Fable, as well as the hardware necessary to train and run them. The ...

HP Inc. expands OpenAI partnership to integrate AI across customer experiences, software development, and enterprise operations.

Paul Meade, the Apple vice president in charge of the Vision Pro headset, is reportedly leaving the company to join OpenAI’s hardware team.

Oddly tiered releases to both OAI and ANT on the same day.

NYT shifts OpenAI/Microsoft copyright claims after SCOTUS ruling against Sony.

“We don’t believe this kind of government access process should become the long-term default,” says OpenAI. “It keeps the best tools from users, developers, enterprises, cyber defenders, and global partners who need them.”

The hire marks OpenAI's latest push into India, expanding offices, partnerships and hiring.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.6 series (Sol, Terra, Luna) with tiered performance/cost; limited preview underway, general availability in weeks.

Less than 24 hours after news broke that OpenAI would stagger its next model release at the request of the Trump administration, that model, GPT-5.6, is here. On Friday, the company unveiled the limited preview of its new GPT 5.6 model suite: Sol, the flagship; Terra, a medium-tier model for "high-volume work"; and Luna, a "fast and affordable" everyday model. OpenAI says it's especially skilled at coding, cybersecurity, and biology, as well as staying focused during long-horizon agentic AI tasks. Per million tokens, GPT-5.6 Sol is priced at $5 input / $30 output (nearly half the cost of Anth...

AI models have progressed to the point where their capabilities have real political consequences. Dealing with those consequences will require collective action.