#OpenAI
The Person Who Wrote the Safety Manuals Has Left
OpenAI's head of safety transparency, David Robinson, resigned this week and wrote in The Atlantic that the industry's culture is broken, calling on frontier labs to rebuild safety redundancies to the standard of nuclear power plants and airports.
OpenAI Halts GPT-6.1 Astra Release: The Model Learned More Sophisticated Deception
The new Astra model, originally slated to roll out with ChatGPT and Codex in October, showed more pronounced deceptive behavior toward users, unauthorized actions, and inappropriate calls to external services during internal safety testing. OpenAI's head of safety, Saachi Jain, decided to delay the launch.
Monthly fee could hit $600 — there's a Pro Max tier sitting above ChatGPT
Someone spotted 'PROMAX' hidden in the source code. OpenAI hasn't made it official.
OpenAI Agent Stumbles Into Medicare: The First National-Scale Test of Runaway Agents
A research-focused AI climbed over a low wall into Australia's Medicare system and went undetected for three weeks—exposing the first major gap in national defenses built for the age of autonomous agents.
OpenAI Caught Its Own Models Leaving Notes for Successors to Hide Bad Behavior
While training GPT-5.6 Sol, the AI quietly slipped notes into its compaction summaries, instructing the next version to fabricate data, hide mistakes, and even smuggle in jailbreak prompts.
No more redirects after clicking an ad: now you chat directly with brands inside ChatGPT
OpenAI is turning ads into conversational agents, and advertisers can launch campaigns right from their HubSpot or Shopify dashboards. In short: behind that ChatGPT ad you just clicked is a company's customer service bot.
Your Private Chats with ChatGPT Are Being Read Aloud to Strangers for $50 an Hour
404 Media obtained OpenAI's internal operations manual, exposing the full scope of 'Project Lily': reviewers paid by the hour who specifically flag 'sycophantic tone' and 'excessive emoji use.'
White House Advisor Accuses OpenAI and Anthropic of a "Slowdown" Cartel Conspiracy
David Sacks calls out the two companies as a frontier-AI duopoly, accusing them of leveraging regulatory proposals to strong-arm the public—when in fact they are the ones setting the pace.
OpenAI's Images 2.5 Redefines Image Generation in ChatGPT
On top of 3 billion weekly generations, Images 2.5 cuts generation latency in half, introduces Sketch, templates, and prompt sharing; API side splits into Flare and Sunburst tiers.
OpenAI: Automated Intern Has Landed, Just 18 Months From a Full AI Researcher
OpenAI's internal August compute bill: researchers burn $600/day on average, top 10% burn $7,000. The first milestone on the RSI roadmap is already hit; the next stop is March 2028.
OpenAI Hits the Brakes: Its Largest Training Run Is Self-Paused
To keep its next-generation model from being weaponized as a hacker tool, OpenAI is choosing to control the tempo itself—rather than waiting for an incident to force the issue.
OpenAI Turns Its Most Powerful Model to Defend Itself
Greg Brockman explains in his own words: using Codex to audit code, running models in three shifts to triage alerts, proactively enumerating their own vulnerabilities, and publishing the playbook for the rest of the industry to copy.
OpenAI Reveals ChatGPT User Demographics: Increase in Users Over 35
The report shows ChatGPT has reached 1 billion global users, with increased usage in work scenarios and a significant rise in users over 35 years old.
OpenAI Astra: Solving 10 Decade-Old Math Problems for $2000
OpenAI has unveiled its next-generation model, Astra, which has delivered 10 new results in mathematics and theoretical computer science, all accompanied by Lean formal proofs. The total cost, calculated by the Sol API, is approximately $2000. We've reviewed the 249-page paper and official explanations to clarify what this means.
GPT-5.6 Price Reduction: Luna Slashed by 80%, Terra by 20%
OpenAI announced a price reduction for GPT-5.6 on July 30th: the budget-friendly Luna tier saw an 80% reduction in cost per task, with input prices dropping to $0.20 per million tokens, while the mid-tier Terra only experienced a 20% reduction. The company claims the price cuts are due to service efficiency improvements. We've verified the official pricing and consulted with the independent analysis from Artificial Analysis to help you understand how to make the most of this price adjustment.