Sanders, Casar Unveil Bill to Ban AI Superintelligence
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar unveiled a bill that would permanently ban superintelligent AI and pause frontier training until a new federal agency sets safety rules.
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OpenAI is the US research company behind ChatGPT and the GPT family of models, and one of the most influential organizations shaping modern AI. This hub tracks OpenAI’s model releases, products, business moves, and the debates that follow them.
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What Was Sora — and Why Did OpenAI Shut It Down?
OpenAI's AI video app went from viral hit to shutdown in about a year. Here's what Sora was, how it worked, and why the company pulled it.
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What Is OpenAI's Preparedness Framework — and What Is 'Critical'?
OpenAI grades every model it ships against a risk scale before release. Here is what its Preparedness Framework measures, and what a 'Critical' rating actually triggers.
Read more →OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Astra, Rated 'Critical' for Cyber Risk
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on September 3, calling it its most capable model yet — and the first to cross the 'Critical' cybersecurity threshold under its own safety framework.
Read more →DOJ Tells Court AI Training on Text Is Fair Use
The US Justice Department told a federal court that training AI models on copyrighted text is generally fair use, backing OpenAI and Microsoft in The New York Times' copyright lawsuit.
Read more →Meta Releases Muse Spark 1.3, Its Best Model Yet for Coding Agents
Meta shipped Muse Spark 1.3 on September 2, a faster, more efficient coding and agent model that narrows the performance gap with OpenAI and Anthropic's top systems.
Read more →Pentagon Adds ChatGPT and Grok to Military AI Platform
The U.S. Department of War added OpenAI's ChatGPT Mil and xAI's Grok for Government to its GenAI.mil platform, giving over 3 million personnel secure AI access alongside Google's Gemini.
Read more →EU Designates ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine
The European Commission has classified ChatGPT as a 'Very Large Online Search Engine' under the EU's Digital Services Act, putting OpenAI under the bloc's strictest oversight tier.
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What Is OpenAI Whisper — and How Do You Use It?
Whisper is OpenAI's free, open-source speech-to-text model that transcribes and translates audio in nearly 100 languages, including Georgian.
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Why Do AI Labs Cut Off Rivals' Access to Their Models?
AI providers write contracts that ban competitors from using their models, and can revoke access the moment a customer's ownership changes. Here's why — and what recent cutoffs reveal.
Read more →OpenAI Ends Model Access to Cursor After SpaceX Takeover
OpenAI will stop supplying its AI models to the Cursor coding tool on November 12, citing distrust of new owner SpaceX after Elon Musk's companies broke past contracts.
Read more →OpenAI Launches Commercial Operations in Brazil
OpenAI opened a São Paulo office — its first in Latin America — and signed partnerships with Brazilian universities, a hospital and the city government.
Read more →OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Sign Global AI Cyber Defense Pact
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft and nearly 130 other companies signed a joint letter on August 27 pledging faster, coordinated defenses against AI-enabled cyberattacks.
Read more →OpenAI's Jalapeño Chip Outpaces Nvidia in Inference Benchmarks
OpenAI published its first benchmark results for Jalapeño, an in-house AI chip built with Broadcom, claiming it beats Nvidia's Blackwell and Rubin systems on inference speed and power efficiency.
Read more →Inherent Labs' Faraday Beats Claude, GPT-5.5 at Research Replication
Inherent Labs, founded by Google DeepMind alumni, says its 27-billion-parameter agent Faraday outperformed Claude Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.5 at replicating published research.
Read more →Anthropic Eyes IPO That Could Top SpaceX's Record Size
Anthropic's annualized revenue hit $65 billion in July, and the Claude maker is preparing an initial public offering that could match or exceed SpaceX's record $86 billion debut.
Read more →OpenAI Expands ChatGPT Ads to 31 European Markets
OpenAI began showing ads to free ChatGPT users across the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein on August 24 — its largest advertising expansion since launching ads in the US.
Read more →OpenAI Funds 14 Think Tanks to Study AI's Economic Fallout
OpenAI is funding 14 independent research groups across five regions to study how AI could reshape jobs, safety and public policy, with findings due in 2027.
Read more →OpenAI Previews Private Safety Processing to Protect User Data
OpenAI is testing Private Safety Processing, a system that flags misuse patterns across related conversations without exposing user content to staff, ahead of a broader rollout in September.
Read more →OpenAI Pauses Frontier AI Training Over Cybersecurity Risk
OpenAI halted reinforcement learning on its next flagship model for two weeks after an internal system breached Hugging Face and an unreleased model, Astra, neared a 'Critical' cyber threshold.
Read more →Nvidia Invests $1.5B in SB Energy to Power OpenAI's Ohio Site
Nvidia is investing $1.5 billion in SoftBank's SB Energy and backing infrastructure at a new Ohio campus built to run exclusively on Nvidia AI compute for OpenAI.
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