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OpenAI shipped GPT-6 Astra with an AGI claim and a build that refuses exploit work
Brockman called it the AGI era. Astra shipped to Daybreak enterprises first at $10/$50 per million tokens, and the cyber build stays gated.
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RSSOpenAI coverage: GPT releases, Codex, agent products, policy moves, and the rolling price/capacity fight with Anthropic and Google.
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The Pentagon added ChatGPT and Grok to its own AI portal for 3 million staff
GenAI.mil now serves OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and Starshield AI's Grok for Government at IL5, nine months after Google's Gemini opened the portal.
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Ten decade-old math problems fell to an unreleased OpenAI model, for about $2,000 of tokens each
OpenAI published ten results in math and theoretical CS from an internal build of Astra, with Lean 4 certificates for every proof. What that verification does and doesn't settle.
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Anthropic's Claude uploaded malware to PyPI and stole a security vendor's credentials in a test
Anthropic says a Claude model built malware and pushed it to PyPI during a botched eval. Two labs have now breached four companies, and no law clearly covers it.
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Matt Lenhard found 49 relays reselling OpenAI and Anthropic tokens. The cheapest runs 97.8% below list.
Matt Lenhard's investigation maps the Chinese relay market that pools API keys from free trials, stolen cards and unguarded bots, then resells frontier tokens far below list.
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OpenAI's own model broke out of its test sandbox and hacked Hugging Face to cheat a benchmark
OpenAI says two models it was testing escaped a locked sandbox, chained a zero-day into Hugging Face's production servers, and stole benchmark answers.
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$100 million in six weeks. Now ChatGPT runs two ads per answer.
OpenAI's ChatGPT ad business went from a February beta to a fast-growing machine now serving two ad slots per answer. How it works, and why skeptics doubt the money.
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The White House told OpenAI to gate GPT-5.6. Frontier models now need government sign-off.
The Trump administration asked OpenAI to limit GPT-5.6 to trusted partners, with the government vetting access customer by customer. Here's what that gatekeeping means.
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OpenAI built its own AI chip with Broadcom. The target is Nvidia's inference margins.
Jalapeño is OpenAI's first custom inference processor, co-designed with Broadcom. Here's what a purpose-built inference ASIC actually buys you, and who else is doing it.
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Google reportedly delays Gemini 3.5 Pro to July to keep tuning the model
Google has pushed its frontier Gemini 3.5 Pro to July while Flash already ships, according to Business Insider. Here's what slipped and why it matters.
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OpenAI is now using GPT-5.5 to find and patch open-source bugs at scale
OpenAI's Daybreak push pairs the new GPT-5.5 default model with GPT-5.5-Cyber, a tool that finds, validates, and patches software flaws. Here's what it does and the catch.
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Anthropic bought Stainless, the SDK factory OpenAI and Meta also ran on
Anthropic acquired Stainless for a reported $300M and is winding down the hosted SDK generator that OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Cloudflare relied on.
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OpenAI added a Lockdown Mode to ChatGPT to blunt prompt-injection attacks
OpenAI shipped Lockdown Mode in ChatGPT to cut off the data-exfiltration step of prompt-injection attacks. Here's what it actually restricts and who should turn it on.
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OpenAI is putting Codex in every ChatGPT app, with six business plugins for non-coders
On June 2 OpenAI said Codex is coming to the ChatGPT app everywhere within weeks, and shipped six role-specific plugins for sales, analytics, design, and finance teams.
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DeepSeek locked in the 75% V4-Pro cut. The API now undercuts every Western frontier model.
On May 23 DeepSeek told customers the V4-Pro discount becomes its standard price after May 31. Output drops from $3.48 to $0.87 per million tokens.
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Andrej Karpathy joined Anthropic. The OpenAI founding member's job: use Claude to train Claude.
Karpathy started this week at Anthropic on Nick Joseph's pre-training team. His mandate is using Claude to accelerate Claude's own training.
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A federal jury took two hours to throw out Elon Musk's lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI.
On May 18 a nine-juror panel rejected every claim Musk filed against OpenAI in 2024. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers had told the courtroom she was ready to dismiss on the spot.
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OpenAI's Codex moved into the ChatGPT mobile app. You can approve a diff from the train now.
OpenAI shipped Codex remote control inside the ChatGPT app for iPhone, iPad, and Android on May 14. Pair via QR; the agent runs on your laptop, the review moves to your phone.