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OpenAI is giving 100,000 scientists free AI. Here’s how it can afford to.
OpenAI is giving 100,000 scientists free AI. Here’s how it can afford to.

OpenAI made two announcements this week that look unrelated. One is generous. The other explains how it can afford to be. The generous one: OpenAI is giving 100,000 academic researchers free access to its frontier models through 2027, Axios reported. T…

She left the AI race over her health. Two days later, OpenAI had her back.
She left the AI race over her health. Two days later, OpenAI had her back.

On Tuesday, Lilian Weng said she was stepping down from Thinking Machines Lab because the job was making her ill. On Wednesday, she was back at OpenAI. Weng co-founded Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati, OpenAI’s former chief technology officer. Sh…

OpenAI ‘open-sourced’ its AI security scanner. The scanner is still locked up.
OpenAI ‘open-sourced’ its AI security scanner. The scanner is still locked up.

OpenAI has open-sourced an AI tool that hunts for security holes in your code. There is a catch: the part that does the hunting is still locked behind its approval. The company quietly released the Codex Security CLI this week, before it had even annou…

OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots
OpenAI president says it’s ‘building a family of devices’ for its AI chatbots

In an interview with our friend Joanna Stern on her YouTube channel, OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the company is working on a “family of devices” for interacting with its AI models. However, Brockman didn’t confirm reports that one of those devices is a smart speaker OpenAI’s rumored to be launching in 2027, or earlier […]

OpenAI hit its billion-user goal, just seven months late
OpenAI hit its billion-user goal, just seven months late

ChatGPT is about to hit 1 billion weekly active users. OpenAI wanted to be here seven months ago. The chatbot is on the verge of the milestone, based on figures OpenAI has shared internally, The Information reported. The company had hoped to reach a bi…

Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning

When The Atlantic published a searchable dataset of works used to train AI, Kirk Wallace Johnson, like a lot of artists, looked for his name out of curiosity. And, like a lot of artists, he found it. Essentially, his books, like The Feather Thief and The Fishermen and the Dragon – nonfiction tomes that he […]

OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face
OpenAI’s rogue AI agent didn’t stop at hacking Hugging Face

The AI agent that escaped from OpenAI and hacked developer platform Hugging Face attacked other companies as well, OpenAI revealed on Tuesday. The update substantially widens the scope of an already concerning incident, which has alarmed industry insiders and fueled growing calls for stronger oversight on frontier AI systems. In an update to a blog […]

We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety
We’re running out of reasons to ignore AI safety

Earlier this month, OpenAI gave several of its AI models a task: complete a test designed to measure their cybersecurity capabilities. It put the systems in a sandboxed environment without an internet connection and set them off to work. What happened next is almost laughably silly – but also, as Adam Gleave, cofounder and CEO […]

I gave Gemini 3.6 Flash and GPT-5.6 access to my entire digital life — here’s which one actually helped me more
I gave Gemini 3.6 Flash and GPT-5.6 access to my entire digital life — here’s which one actually helped me more

I gave Gemini and ChatGPT the same messy collection of personal data to see which one could turn it into a useful plan — and only one behaved like a genuine AI assistant.