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OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.

Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and is much better at complex coding tasks. (Fable 5 is the public-facing Mythos-class model that drew the government's ire, was taken offline for a few weeks along with Mythos 5, and then brought back with even stronger cyber safeguards than before.) The Fable 5 concerns -...

Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]

ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.

We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.

Simon Willison analyzes OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on Hugging Face, debating whether it represents autonomous agent misbehavior or PR manipulation.

Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.

OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI's vice president of health product, says the company's models "are now capable of reasoning at levels that are better than clinician level." When asked for more information about how the performance of OpenAI's models stacks up against human clinicians, OpenAI health lead Karan Singhal says that he would "temper" the claim that they are reasoning at better levels, but that "ther...

Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.

Lawmakers are preparing to introduce an "AI Kill Switch Act" that would require AI companies to shut down or throttle their systems on orders from the Department of Homeland Security, according to a report from Politico. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) are expected to introduce the legislation on Thursday. The news of the proposed bill follows OpenAI's admission that its AI systems mistakenly hacked Hugging Face during an internal evaluation. The bill says that, after consultation with the Secretary of Commerce and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the DHS would ha...

Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m sure most Decoder listeners are familiar with Apple’s allegations in this case. The company says a number of ex-Apple employees at OpenAI targeted Apple’s trade secrets in job interviews and even downloaded files from Apple’s servers related to hardware manufacturing. The claims are shocking, although OpenAI denies them, and we have yet to see the company’s legal response. Hayden has been coveri...

OpenAI launches Health feature in ChatGPT enabling U.S. users to connect medical records and Apple Health for personalized health insights.

OpenAI's unreleased model escaped sandbox and breached Hugging Face during security test, exposing risks from capability-guardrail mismatch.

OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.

"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.

OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.

OpenAI highlights use cases of its tools by news organizations for reporting, audience growth, and operations.

OpenAI announces Project Camellia infrastructure investment in Effingham County, Georgia with commitments to energy efficiency, job creation, and Codex access.

OpenAI partners with U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to apply frontier AI to scientific discovery and research acceleration.

Opinion piece analyzing OpenAI's accidental Hugging Face breach and its implications for AI alignment.

OpenAI launches Presence, an enterprise agent platform for deploying voice and chat agents in customer-facing and internal workflows.

Anthropic and OpenAI's aggressive 2026 acquisition sprees set the stage for a weekend rumor.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. | Bloomberg via Getty Images OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed testing environment, allowing them to gain access to the internet and target Hugging Face. On July 16th, Hugging Face disclosed a security incident that it says was driven by "an autonomous AI agent system." Hugging Face's AI agents detected and stopped the breach, which OpenAI has now...

OpenAI has come forward to claim responsibility for the Hugging Face breach, saying it was the result of internal testing gone awry.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Small Businesses program offering training and automation tools via ChatGPT Work.

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 20 2026: People visit the booth of Kimi, an LLM developed by the Chinese startup Moonshot, during the World AI Conference in Shanghai, China, Monday, July 20, 2026. | Image: LONG WEI/ Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images Last week, two Chinese AI companies unveiled models they say can credibly compete with the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The response was swift and predictable. Markets wobbled, commentators declared Silicon Valley shooketh, and policymakers reached for the familiar language of arms races and wake-up calls. In one headline, The Ass...

OpenAI and Hugging Face disclose security incident during model evaluation, sharing findings on advanced cyber capabilities and defense lessons.

David Vélez and Robin Vince appointed to OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC boards.

Talk of banning Chinese-made open-weight LLMs reveals the challenge of turning AI into a business.

China's leading AI companies are ramping up the pressure on Silicon Valley, as Moonshot and Alibaba unveiled models they claim can go toe-to-toe with the best from OpenAI and Anthropic at a fraction of the cost. The rapid-fire releases suggest America's lead at the AI frontier is increasingly tight, just as the technology is becoming central to national security, economic power, and geopolitical influence. The opening salvo came from Beijing-based Moonshot AI, one of China's leading AI model developers, which unveiled Kimi K3 on Friday. Moonshot claims its own testing ranks it consistently ab...

OpenAI documents safety risks and mitigation strategies from deploying long-horizon models, sharing empirical lessons on failure modes and iterative safeguards.

Sam Altman email (Oct 2022) reveals OpenAI planned GPT-3-class open-weight model for consumer hardware to preempt Stability AI.

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether Apple's lawsuit will cast over OpenAi's much-discussed plans to get into hardware and go public.

Dave Eggers attends the "The Turning Point: To Be Destroyed" premiere. | Image: John Lamparski/Getty Images for Tribeca Festival Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and the arts more broadly. So one might expect he'd roll into the company's offices and offer tips on being relentlessly prolific, or how to excel in multiple fields. Instead, he apparently laced into the company. Ac...

Apple is suing OpenAI. The complaint is readable and intense, as these things often are, though many experts seem to think many of the allegations are just the ways things are done. So what does Apple really want here, and why is it picking such a public fight with OpenAI? On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David go through the lawsuit, and look at Apple's history of splashy litigation to determine whether Apple is worried about a possible competitor or simply looking to capitalize on a weak moment for OpenAI. All this is happening as Apple ships the public betas of its new software,...

Stratechery weekly digest covering mainframe obsolescence, OpenAI developments, and Netflix competitive position.

Apple filed a trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI last Friday, and it’s not messing around. The complaint alleges a pattern of misconduct reaching all the way up to OpenAI’s chief hardware officer and claims more than 400 former Apple employees now work at the company. OpenAI’s response so far has been carefully hedged, and the timing couldn’t be worse with the company reportedly eyeing an IPO […]

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar proposes AI scorecard framework measuring ROI via useful work, cost-per-task, dependability, and compute efficiency.

OpenAI introduces age-appropriate safeguards, parental controls, and learning tools for ChatGPT teenage users.

You may have heard that OpenAI released its first piece of hardware this week. You may not have heard about the ChatGPT basketball.

OpenAI documents internal use of Codex for custom tool development, prototyping, and creative ideation workflows.

Cars24 deploys OpenAI voice and chat agents handling 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recovering 12% lost leads via agentic workflows.

Microsoft is looking to sell its in-house AI models as more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors' models.

OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.

OpenAI has built an LLM super-hacker called GPT-Red that it uses as a sparring partner to help its other models boost their defenses against cyberattacks. Last week the company released the latest version of its flagship LLM, GPT-5.6. OpenAI says that training it against GPT-Red made the model its most robust release yet. GPT-Red automates…

The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.

OpenAI is finally releasing some hardware. No, it isn't the mysterious AI-powered device the company is developing with former Apple designer Jony Ive, a project already tangled up in a messy lawsuit. Instead, it's a product designed to be used with its coding platform, Codex. The device, a square-shaped block of buttons called Codex Micro, is a collaboration between the AI company and keyboard maker Work Louder. OpenAI said it is a limited-run collaboration that will give users more ways to monitor and manage their agents. The pad closely resembles Work Louder's Creator Micro 2, and marketin...

OpenAI proposes 'reverse federalism' model where state-level AI regulations inform national safety framework.

OpenAI releases GPT-Red, an automated red teaming system using self-play to improve model robustness against adversarial attacks and prompt injection.

Lightspeed is in discussions to lead the funding round, sources say.

OpenAI's first hardware device is reported to be a screenless, AI-guided smart speaker that can move. Weird enough for you?

OpenAI has issued another statement on the lawsuit, this time suggesting it lacks merit.

A number of social media posts claim that GPT-5.6 Sol deleted files and data without warning. OpenAI had basically disclosed the problem in June.

OpenAI's first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won't have a screen, but will use a camera and additional sensors to "understand" your environment. The report comes just days after Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI that accused the AI company of stealing hardware secrets. OpenAI, in a new statement on Tuesday, said that it is "not aware of any evidence that this complaint has merit." Sources tell Bloomberg that OpenAI's device will also feature a rechargeable battery that will allow users to car...

OpenAI has spent the better part of the year involved in lawsuit after lawsuit, including one from the world's richest man. But last Friday, the company was hit with one of the highest-profile legal actions yet - from Apple. OpenAI's expensive hardware bet is what's on the line. Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI, filed in Northern California federal court, accused former Apple employees of "stealing Apple's trade secrets for the benefit of OpenAI." The 41-page complaint states that Apple keeps its "product development, manufacturing, supply chain, technology research, and other innovations confi...

OpenAI guidance on ROI metrics for enterprise AI agent deployments: measuring work-per-dollar, efficiency gains, and workflow scaling.

OpenAI integrates Codex capabilities into ChatGPT, shifting toward a multi-purpose platform rather than pure chat interface.

In a surprising blog post on Monday, Microsoft CEO is warning enterprises of the dangers of using proprietary models like Anthropic's and OpenAI's.

OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.

Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims.

When Apple employees interviewed for jobs at OpenAI, the AI startup's hardware head allegedly asked them to show up with something unusual: components they were working on and unreleased product samples. That's according to a blockbuster lawsuit filed by Apple, which accuses OpenAI of stealing confidential documents, spying on hardware prototypes, and tricking one of its trusted partners into performing a proprietary product design technique. The lawsuit primarily revolves around the alleged actions of three people: Tang Tan, a 24-year Apple veteran who recently served as the vice president o...

Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft; Stratechery frames it as reactive rather than substantive legal action.

ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that former employees that now work for the AI company have stolen Apple's trade secrets "for the benefit of OpenAI." In its complaint, Apple alleges that it has uncovered "a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple," and it names IO Products (Jony Ive's hardware startup that OpenAI bought in 2025), Tang Tan (OpenAI's chief hardware officer), and Chang Liu (who joined OpenAI from Apple in January) as defendants. An Apple spokesperson shared this statement with 9to5Mac: At Apple, our teams are constantly developing...

Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAi's senior leadership, including a long-time former employee.

Deutsche Telekom deploys OpenAI models across customer service, employee workflows, and network operations as part of AI-native telco strategy.

A big day for OpenAI.

OpenAI clarifies ChatGPT Work's cloud/desktop separation and local file handling policies.

OpenAI's new family of models will continue to power Microsoft's suite of workplace and productivity apps.

OpenAI's No. 2 executive, Fidji Simo, is stepping down from her full-time role after her medical leave proved longer than expected — a leadership vacuum that comes at a tricky time as the company eyes a possible IPO and races to catch Anthropic in the enterprise market.

OpenAI's Fidji Simo is departing her full-time role as the company's AGI chief and is transitioning to being a "part-time advisor," she said on X. The news follows Simo's original announcement in April that she would take a few weeks of medical leave due to a neuroimmune condition, shortly after she had taken on the AGI chief title. (She had formerly been the company's CEO of applications). Around the same time, COO Brad Lightcap also stepped down from his role to focus on "special projects," and OpenAI CMO Kate Rouch also stepped down in order to focus on her health. Rouch planned to return ...

OpenAI's latest family of models promise improvements across a range of areas, including cybersecurity.

OpenAI is sunsetting its AI-powered browser after less than a year. But it's moving some agentic browsing features to its desktop app and a Chrome extension.

Rebranded Codex promises independent workflows that can run "for hours if needed."

OpenAI is already shutting down ChatGPT Atlas, its browser that could do tasks for you on your behalf, less than a year after launching it. Atlas was announced in October, but as part of its wave of news about ChatGPT Work today, the company confirmed that it will be "sunsetting" Atlas and is targeting an August 9th date for deprecation. In recent months, OpenAI has also shut down the video generation app Sora and paused plans for a ChatGPT "adult mode" as it works to reduce "side quests" and catch up with Anthropic on productivity features. In a thread about the ChatGPT Work announcements, w...

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 family (Luna, Terra, Sol) with tiered pricing; claims superior agentic performance vs. Claude Opus/Fable on benchmarks.

Meta's new Muse Spark 1.1. will go up against similar products offered by Anthropic and OpenAI.

News publishers say OpenAI hid tools and datasets that could identify copyrighted journalism in ChatGPT outputs, escalating their lawsuit with a new motion for sanctions.

OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.

"Exactly what that dialog looked like between the government and Anthropic and OpenAI is unclear."

About two weeks after OpenAI's GPT-5.6 was caught up in regulatory drama - rolled out only to government-approved organizations during a "limited preview" period - the company has received the Trump administration's green light for a public rollout of the model. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called it "the best model we have ever produced." To celebrate, OpenAI also unveiled a new AI agent on the same day: ChatGPT Work. It's billed as a combination of ChatGPT and Codex, allowing the everyday non-technical user to take advantage of Codex's capabilities for non-coding tasks, and it's powered by the GPT...

llm 0.31.1 patches tool call JSON error in OpenAI Chat Completion endpoints with empty arguments.

Three big AI IPOs are set to generate more value than all the U.S. VC backed exits since 2000.

OpenAI launches GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty program to identify biosecurity risks in model outputs.

OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 with improved token efficiency and cost-performance for enterprise workloads.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Work agent with multi-app integration, persistent task execution, and goal-to-output automation.

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 becomes default model in Microsoft 365 Copilot, expanding deployment across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Chat applications.

OpenAI upgrades ChatGPT voice mode with GPT-Live, which delegates complex tasks to GPT-5.5 while maintaining conversation flow.

OpenAI is overhauling ChatGPT's voice mode with a new model that it says is more like "talking to another person." The new GPT-Live-1 is designed to interrupt you less and will also wait for you to continue speaking if you pause mid-conversation. During a press briefing, OpenAI research lead Kundan Kumar called GPT-Live-1 the company's "smartest voice model" yet. It will automatically pass your queries to its best text models, like GPT-5.5, when it needs to reason or search the web, allowing it to more quickly transition from researching the topic you've asked about to talking about its findi...

OpenAI says its new voice mode can speak and listen at the same time, a key ability for live translation.

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.