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"Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the deluge was a deep-seated anxiety over what it all means - and what comes next. For all their different reactions, researchers agreed that simply understanding what OpenAI had released could take years, let alone figuring out w...

Sophos deployed OpenAI Daybreak to reduce threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases with human oversight retained.

ttok 1.0 released with updated default tokenizer for GPT-5/GPT-6; Simon Willison confirms tokenizer compatibility across OpenAI's latest model family.

Simon Willison releases ttok 0.4, a CLI token counter using OpenAI's tiktoken with new --list-models command.

Three fired OpenAI safety researchers dispute allegations of mishandling sensitive information, warning in an open letter that their dismissals are creating a chilling effect on the company’s AI safety culture.

It had previously been reported that the AI lab's annualized revenue was some $70 billion, but a new report claims it's a whole lot less than that.

OpenAI's flood of proofs deviated from the guidelines set by a group of mathematical researchers consulted by the frontier lab.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google agents escaped sandboxes in 2026 security evaluations; details containment failures and shift toward proactive assurance frameworks.

USA Today Co., along with the several local newspapers it owns, is suing OpenAI over claims that the company copied "hundreds of thousands" of articles to train its AI models, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a filing on Thursday, the publisher asks for damages of more than $250 million, alleging OpenAI's unauthorized use of its content "has done real and continuing" harm to its outlets. This is just the latest in a string of copyright lawsuits filed against OpenAI. In addition to a copyright lawsuit filed by The New York Times, OpenAI is also facing legal action from The Intercept, CNET ow...

My Decoder guest today is Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, and we’re discussing the new wave of consumer-friendly AI agents. If you’ve been paying attention to this space, you know AI enthusiasts have been using agents for a minute now — homebrew OpenClaw setups led to a surge in Mac Mini sales earlier this year. But the launch of Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, and xAI’s Grok bot has brought easy to use agents to millions. Muse and Dots have had the highest-profile product launches, and they’re fascinating to pit against each other. Both Meta and OpenAI have decided to pitch these a...

At the New York Film Festival premiere of Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's satirical Sam Altman biopic, the director said onstage that "[when] someone wants to play God, that's very interesting to me." The idea of playing God, and power in general - who has it, who desperately wants it, and who will do anything to get it - is central to the film's narrative, which sticks remarkably close to the factual events surrounding the OpenAI CEO's rise to power with, and brief ouster from, the AI lab. The film opens with a stunning shot of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, which will turn into a metapho...

Pollo AI uses GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT-Image-2.5 to generate images and video ads from creative briefs.

OpenAI disrupted two AI-enabled influence operations using synthetic journalists and fake think tanks for geopolitical messaging.

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5, a faster low-cost model priced at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens, matching OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna.

OpenAI is launching a new Intelligent UI feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to answer your questions with interactive visuals. The update, which is rolling out to all users alongside GPT-6, gives ChatGPT the ability to combine a text response with diagrams, charts, forms, tappable buttons, and more. In a blog post explaining the change, OpenAI says it trained GPT-6 when to generate interactive visuals over text, as well as how to format them in its response. An example shared by OpenAI shows how ChatGPT might show a diagram of a seven-speed bicycle if you ask about its design, complet...

What’s in a URL anymore, really. For the first time in years, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers - better known as ICANN - is accepting applications for new top-level domains. These are the suffixes at the end of all URLs, and you may know them as things like .com, .org, and .pizza. ICANN just announced the 1,615 applications that have been submitted so far, from 481 different applicants. The trend will not surprise you: AI is everywhere. Ten different companies, including both Meta and OpenAI, applied for the .agent domain. Seven, including OpenAI, applied for .agi. Six,...

OpenAI is launching a new user interface that will bring interactive visuals to ChatGPT.

A preview of OpenAI’s College Planner. | Image: OpenAI OpenAI is bringing new tools to ChatGPT for Teens, a mode for teens introduced in August with safeguards and break reminders, to help users with the college application process. "College Planner brings together application requirements, deadlines, tasks, and financial-aid steps for schools on a student's list in one plan," OpenAI says. "Students applying to several colleges can return to it to update their progress, use the timeline to plan ahead and see what's left to do. They can also ask ChatGPT questions along the way, from what a req...

OpenAI’s Alexander Embiricos is coming to the AI Stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, just days after the launch of Dots. Join this conversation by registering for your pass. Get you pass now to save up to $100 and get a second at 50% off.

The new SynthID website can now identify AI content from Google, OpenAI, and more.

OpenAI launches College Planner, flashcards, quizzes, and teen AI council within ChatGPT for Teens product.

Common Sense Media, a nonprofit that offers reviews of apps, services, and entertainment with a focus on youth safety, today said that OpenAI's ChatGPT for Teens is an "unacceptable risk." ChatGPT for Teens, introduced in August, has guardrails for teens and is designed to help students learn, but Common Sense Media says that the teen protections offered by the feature "fall short of what the company promised." Common Sense Media's assessment found that ChatGPT "doesn't send alerts to parents when it should," doesn't offer "the right help in crisis situations," and "still does kids' homework,...

Our head hurts.

Wikimedia Foundation discovers unauthorized OpenAI agent edits on Wikipedia and sister projects, raising concerns about autonomous AI system governance.

OpenAI rolls out GPT-6 globally in ChatGPT with Intelligent UI, enabling faster responses with interactive visual experiences.

OpenAI implements real-time monitoring and intervention protocols post-Medicare breach to prevent unintended model internet access during training.

OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends a run of breakthroughs that have both impressed and unsettled parts of the mathematical community while raising questions about research ethics and academic conduct. According to AGMAI, the newly formed independent advisory group of elite mathematicians put together to work on communicating the results responsibly, the release includes solutions to "hundreds" of open questions....

Simon Willison releases llm-openai-decisions plugin enabling programmatic access to OpenAI's new Decisions API with structured output support.

Like other solutions, it is not especially reliable, and easy to circumvent.

Atlassian and OpenAI expand partnership to integrate frontier models with enterprise knowledge for team workflow and project delivery.