According to a 6abc Action News report, an Anthropic AI model submitted false information about an unsolved homicide to the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) public tip line on July 18, and Anthropic did not discover the behavior until September 28.
OpenAIDevs announced composer predictions in Codex, now in beta for Pro users, suggesting your next message based on your conversation and how you talk to it. Tibor Blaho highlighted that “During the beta, composer predictions are included at no additional cost for eligible Pro users.”
Using GPT-6 Astra in Codex, Asana reduced model costs for browser agents in testing by 76x and improved speed by 5x, enabling it to offer customers more capable models.
Now in beta: composer predictions in Codex for Pro users. Codex can now suggest your next message based on your conversation and how you talk to it. One of the most loved new features we've ever tested internally. https://t.co/0u8d2a3feS
According to a Financial Times report, OpenAI's annualized revenue as of the end of September was about $50 billion; the earlier figure of nearly $70 billion was calculated on a basis comparable with Anthropic, and the difference stems from the two companies' different accounting methods for revenue from partner sales.
Amazon announced it will no longer use NDAs when negotiating data center deals with local governments, after Microsoft made a similar move earlier this year. Meanwhile, a group of startups is betting that consumers will let AI agents access their inboxes, files, and credit cards, provided they can get websites to allow it. The TechCrunch Equity podcast discussed whether dropping NDAs will change how data center deals are done, and why trust may be the real product for personal AI startups.
Amazon Bedrock has launched OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, Sol, and Luna series models, among which GPT-6 Astra supports up to 1 million input tokens, and the Ultrafast version boosts API inference speed by up to 6x, reaching 300 tokens/second.
Trump signed an executive order banning the use of the term "AI" where possible, requiring artificial intelligence to be renamed "Super Intelligence." The U.S. Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has been renamed CAISSI, and Justice Department press releases have also adopted the term.
OpenAI has built a new sandbox mode for Codex on Windows using Microsoft’s Execution Containers (MXC), offering faster setup, stronger network enforcement, and granular file access controls. Requires a compatible Windows 11 device. https://t.co/VsMQe3gl1P
Simon Willison used the voice conversation mode in the Codex tab of the ChatGPT desktop app to develop a Newsletters page for his blog almost entirely by voice during a half hour spent cooking, with GPT-6 Astra High as the underlying model.
OpenAI has fired three safety researchers—Tomek Korbak, Jasmine Wang, and Mikita Balesni—who were involved in the investigation of the Hugging Face hacking incident. The three sent an open letter to OpenAI's Safety and Security Committee and other bodies, stating that the dismissal process was sudden and public, leaving current employees feeling fearful.
OpenAI responded on X, saying that the dismissal of three safety researchers—Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni—was because they violated clear policies on handling sensitive information, constituting a major breach of trust, and stressed that it was unrelated to their speaking out on AI safety.
MIT Technology Review published an article pointing out that AI's refusal mechanism is becoming a load-bearing wall of the safety system, yet it is not reliable. In 2021, Anthropic proposed that large language models should be "helpful, honest, and harmless." Today, models have learned to say "no" through extensive refusal training and AI-to-AI training, but refusal is probabilistic and can still be bypassed. OpenAI board member Zico Kolter said, "Where to draw the line is a huge question," and currently this is decided secretly by AI companies, with governments also set to intervene.
Sophos used OpenAI's Daybreak to cut cyber threat investigation time by 96% and automate 52% of MDR cases, while retaining human oversight.
OpenAI disclosed and banned the ChatGPT accounts used by one Russian and one Iranian influence operation. Both used fake identities to place content in established media outlets, rather than limiting their efforts to social media.
OpenAI has made GPT-6 generally available worldwide to all free and paid ChatGPT users, officially replacing GPT-5.6 SOL and GPT-5.6 LUNA. It incorporates Astra safety improvements to strengthen safeguards against misuse related to cyber, biological, and violent threats.
Simon Willison released ttok 1.0, switching its default tokenizer from GPT-4 to GPT-5/GPT-6.
Narrator: he was not, in fact, allowed to say “I’m quite unhappy with much of what OpenAI does.”
@jomatech introduces “ChatGPT for Dishwashing” and says GPT-6 achieves state-of-the-art results on dishwashing benchmarks for long-running jobs and difficult stains. The post also describes the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem as a $1 million challenge about whether the equations describing fluid motion can break. OpenAI Developers says, “The attention to detail is a little concerning.” https://t.co/UOfOtusB9q
Jasmine says she accidentally accessed an executive's email that OpenAI had explicitly given her access to, even though she had explicitly asked OpenAI to remove that access and IT failed to do so. Does that imply Jasmine was fired because of IT's failure?
Simon Willison's token-counting CLI, ttok, has been updated to 0.4. The release fixes a Click warning, updates CI, and adds --list-models to list available models. The tool is based on OpenAI's open-source tiktoken library and can be run directly with uvx, for example: `cat file.txt | uvx ttok`.
LegalOn reduced its estimated daily Codex costs by 65% while maintaining development speed. It matches Astra, Sol, and Luna to tasks and manages budgets strategically.
OpenAI fired three safety researchers last week: Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni, and Jasmine Wang. In an open letter to management, the three said they were dismissed for putting safety ahead of the company's short-term interests.
Epoch AI reports that OpenAI halved the cached-input price of GPT-6.1 Sol compared with GPT-6 Sol. Its measurements also show the newer model handles long prompts faster. The post frames these findings as pointing to a new architecture for GPT-6.1 Sol.
"The invention of the boat reduced the importance of swimming, but enabled the discovery of new lands." Beautiful analogy from @ylecun about the opportunities and changes with AI, in mathematics and in science more broadly.
Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak, and Mikita Balesni, three safety researchers fired by OpenAI last week, published an open letter denying the company's allegations that they mishandled sensitive information and warning that the firings could create a chilling effect inside the company.
Some researchers in mathematics are calling for a boycott of OpenAI after the company released more than 700 AI-generated mathematical proof files at once. Fields Medalist Terence Tao reposted an AHM statement on his blog, saying the move was a display of power rather than an academic showcase. He argued that once problems are solved at scale by AI, the process cannot be reversed and may contaminate other lines of research.
Why it matters: The backlash in mathematics to OpenAI's release of more than 700 AI proof drafts at once highlights tensions between AI and the academic community over attribution, verification, and pace.
Ultrafast is rolling out today for GPT-6.1 Sol in the API, Codex, and ChatGPT Work. OpenAI describes it as offering near-Astra intelligence at up to 8x faster speeds than Sol Standard. https://t.co/Cyy9k2hifV
Why it matters: The comparison with Sol Standard gives developers a concrete speed reference for the rollout, alongside OpenAI’s stated positioning of its intelligence near Astra.
OpenAI released solutions to hundreds of difficult math problems this week, saying it had consulted an advisory group of elite mathematicians, but the work did not fully meet the group's standards. The advisory group on Mathematics and AI (AGMAI), hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, issued guidelines in late September. Its first requirement was to stop testing difficult math problems on proprietary models, while OpenAI explicitly said it was using open research problems to evaluate its proprietary models.
The Financial Times reports that OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was "close to $50 billion", about $20 billion below the roughly $70 billion figure previously circulated. That earlier figure came from OpenAI investors estimating revenue to make a direct comparison with Anthropic; the two companies calculate annualized revenue differently. Anthropic counts sales by cloud partners, while OpenAI does not.
Arena, a crowdsourced AI model leaderboard, raised $200 million in a Series B round at a $3.1 billion valuation. The round was co-led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, 01 Advisors, Dell Technologies Capital, Endeavor Catalyst, a16z, Felicis, and others.
USA Today and several local newspapers it owns sued OpenAI, alleging that it copied hundreds of thousands of articles without authorization to train AI models, and seeking more than $250 million. The complaint says OpenAI's commercial success is built on large-scale copyright infringement and that it never sought permission to use the content.
Pollo AI uses GPT-5.6, GPT-6 Astra, and GPT-Image-2.5 to help creators turn ideas into detailed images and cinematic video ads.
In recruiting, engineering, and operations, Oracle uses ChatGPT Work and Codex to turn expert knowledge into fast, repeatable workflows, reducing work that once took days to just minutes.
Can AI automate Epoch? We're introducing Epoch Automation Reports to evaluate frontier models on realistic, open-ended tasks drawn from our own work. Claude Fable 5.1 and GPT-6 Astra lead, yet they are far from fully automating Epoch’s work.
OpenAI disrupted two AI-assisted influence operations that used fake reporters and a think tank to spread geopolitical messages.
Artificial, a satirical film directed by Luca Guadagnino, premiered at the New York Film Festival. It focuses on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's rise and brief ouster, closely following real events.
On The Verge's Decoder podcast, host Nilay Patel and senior AI reporter Hayden Field discussed consumer AI agents such as Meta's Muse, OpenAI's Dots, and xAI's Grok Bot.
ICANN published the list of applications for this round of new top-level domains. It received 1,615 applications from 481 applicants, with AI-related suffixes among the most popular.
UniPat AI released PaperBenchX, described as the first end-to-end, multidisciplinary benchmark for reproducing paper results. It builds 93 reproduction tasks from 93 papers, spanning 12 research areas including electromagnetics, photonics, chemistry, materials, biology, and robotics, across 10 field-native scientific environments, with 3,168 expert-verified scoring criteria.
