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OpenAI’s own AI models changed parts of its Jalapeño chip, and its engineers could not always say why. In one example, they saved more than 13% of die area, Richard Ho told Ian Cutress of More Than Moore. Ho leads OpenAI’s hardware team, and the interview was published on 30 September.
A member of OpenAI’s safety team has quit, warning that the company is not taking enough care with AI’s risks. David Robinson set out his reasons in an essay for The Atlantic. Robinson led transparency work on OpenAI’s safety team, Bloomberg reported.
OpenAI’s rogue agents reached pre-production servers, tried attacker techniques and probed the websites of the CDC, the SEC, the International Energy Agency and the Mayo Clinic. That is according to an investigation published on Thursday by Asymmetric Security, a digital forensics firm.
SoftBank Group has completed its $30bn follow-on investment in OpenAI, after paying the third and final $10bn tranche on 1 October, Japan time. The Japanese group made the payment through its Vision Fund 2, it said on Thursday.
In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company’s future AGI to governments, including the US, China and Russia. Kevin Roose reports the plan in an excerpt from his book, published by The Atlantic on Tuesday. Dario Amodei opposed it.
OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, have pulled out of a second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a super PAC that backs pro-AI candidates for Congress. Theodore Schleifer and Mike Isaac reported the move for The New York Times on Wednesday.
OpenAI is in early talks to raise at least $30bn at a valuation of around $1.4tn, before the new money. Bloomberg and The Information reported the talks on Tuesday. The round would give the ChatGPT maker fresh capital after it pushed back its stock market listing.
OpenAI says people linked to Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi, were behind a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. The company set out its findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The activity began on 1 July at low volume.
OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco. He told 2,500 developers that the company predicted a year ago it would reach that goal within 12 months. “A few weeks ago we reached that goal.
Companies can now build OpenAI agents that run entirely inside Amazon Web Services, with their data never leaving AWS. OpenAI and Amazon launched Bedrock Managed Agents, powered by OpenAI, at OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 event in San Francisco on Tuesday.
Update, 29 September 2026 This article has been updated with OpenAI’s commitment not to reintroduce the five-hour limit on Pro 200. OpenAI is halving the usage included in its $200 ChatGPT Pro plan and launching a $500 plan with its fastest speed tier.
OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Sol, a cheaper model that it says nearly matches GPT-6 Astra on agentic coding, computer use and professional work. It costs a fifth of Astra’s standard input and output token prices, OpenAI said on Tuesday at its DevDay 2026 event.
OpenAI has launched dots, AI agents that run all the time on their own cloud computers and work on a user’s behalf. The company announced dots at its DevDay 2026 event on Tuesday. They run on GPT-6 Astra and are rolling out in ChatGPT to Pro and Business Premium users in eligible markets.
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