OpenAI delays IPO over AI safety concerns
OpenAI is seeking another $30 billion privately as its IPO plans slip.
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OpenAI’s Greg Brockman Backs Out of Second $25 Million Donation to A.I. Super PAC
Greg Brockman, OpenAI’s president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “distraction” for the A.I. company.
New York Times AI1 min read
The AI Tamagotchis are coming
While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that.
The Verge - All Posts5 min readUS competition watchdog expands investigation of Anthropic and OpenAI
Federal Trade Commission will demand information and seek testimony from the executives of leading AI companies
Financial Times AI1 min read
F.T.C. Investigates OpenAI and Anthropic Over Potential Consumer Harms
The agency will examine whether A.I. labs have broken federal laws prohibiting companies from unfair and deceptive practices.
New York Times AI1 min read
The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer Two months after OpenAI’s agents hacked into the…
MIT Technology Review6 min read“We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
Two months after the bombshell news that a swarm of its agents had broken their containment and hacked into the computers of the AI company Hugging Face, OpenAI is still putting out fires.
MIT Technology Review9 min read
Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe
For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight.
The Verge - All Posts3 min read
Google Gemini 4 Argon closes the gap with OpenAI and Anthropic but doesn't take a clear lead
Gemini 4 Argon is Google's first frontier model in over seven months. It matches GPT-6 Astra in independent testing but can't keep up with Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. The per-token price is low, but Argon burns through more than twice as many tokens per task as Astra.
The Decoder6 min read
OpenAI and Synopsys team up to build an AI model that designs chips like a seasoned engineer
OpenAI and Synopsys are building GPT-Synopsys, a specialized AI model for chip design. It's meant to operate Synopsys' EDA tools like a seasoned engineer and optimize designs on its own. Early tests with semiconductor customers are already underway.
The Decoder1 min read
Google drops Gems for Skills, joining OpenAI and Anthropic in the shift to agent-ready prompt formats
Google is replacing Gems with "Skills" in Gemini chat. Skills are detailed, reusable prompts that users invoke by typing "/" or that Gemini runs automatically. The format is based on an open standard from Anthropic.
The Decoder1 min read
FTC launches sweeping probe into OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs over consumer protection concerns
The FTC is formally investigating OpenAI, Anthropic, and other leading AI labs over potential consumer protection violations. The agency plans to force document handovers and executive testimony through legally binding demands.
The Decoder1 min read
Why Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week
Our DevDay coverage - the first pod on the DevDay lineup - dives in with the leaders of OpenAI’s CUA team and API platform.
Latent Space47 min read
Developers say OpenAI and Anthropic safeguards are flagging routine work and costing them time
OpenAI spent Tuesday's Dev Day keynote emphasizing speed and savings. Out in the hallways and the merch line, developers wanted to talk about the hours they lose working around model safeguards.Read more
VentureBeat AI6 min read
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, retaking benchmark lead over OpenAI and Anthropic — but in limited release
Google today announced Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model that the company says leads rival systems on several enterprise-relevant benchmarks, including long-horizon software engineering, cybersecurity vulnerability remediation, business automation and economic-impact knowledge work.Read more
VentureBeat AI11 min read
AI industry copes with out-of-control agents. Here’s OpenAI’s response
The generative AI vendor delayed the release of GPT-6.1 Astra after testing exposed new safety concerns, showing why AI models need continued evaluation and enterprise runtime controls.
AI Business4 min read
OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU
Today is the 20 year anniversary of Sam Altman’s first startup, and fittingly OpenAI the consumer AI company is so back (as is OpenAI the AI Cloud and OpenAI the Enterprise and Coding Definitely Not Anthropic Hyperscaler), with Dots — their voice-enabled answer to Instinct and Muse, ChatGPT Spaces…
Latent Space12 min read
OpenClaw launches free enterprise control plane for persistent AI agents, backed by OpenAI, Red Hat and Nvidia
The popular open source AI agentic framework OpenClaw is now targeting the enterprise with OpenClaw Enterprise, or OCE, a new, vendor-neutral, MIT Licensed platform designed to allow companies to deploy persistent AI agents while retaining centralized control over security, permissions, auditing…
VentureBeat AI9 min read
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