OpenAI coverage: GPT releases, Codex, agent products, policy moves, and the rolling price/capacity fight with Anthropic and Google.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anthropic acquired Stainless for a reported $300M and is winding down the hosted SDK generator that OpenAI, Meta, Google, and Cloudflare relied on.
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.
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.
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.
Karpathy started this week at Anthropic on Nick Joseph's pre-training team. His mandate is using Claude to accelerate Claude's own training.
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.
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.
Cerebras raised $5.55 billion on May 14 and closed its first day at a $95 billion market cap. The wafer-scale AI chip maker shipped the year's biggest tech IPO.
A federal judge restored $100M+ in grants after two DOGE staffers used ChatGPT to flag 97% of NEH grants as DEI, including an HVAC repair and Holocaust research.