The US government asks OpenAI to slow its next model’s release
The US government asks OpenAI to slow its next model’s release

Sam Altman told staff Washington wants GPT-5.6 released first to a short list of trusted partners, with access approved customer by customer. For years the debate over slowing down powerful AI models was a matter for company safety teams and outside cr…

The White House is asking OpenAI to slow roll the release of its new model over safety concerns

penAI reportedly plans to share its newest model, GPT 5.6, with a select group of partners instead of to the broader public. The reason: the Trump administration told it to.

OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request
OpenAI will delay GPT-5.6 after Trump administration request

The Trump administration, apprehensive of potential security issues, has reportedly asked OpenAI to stagger the release of its next big-ticket model, GPT-5.6. The Information reported that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees Wednesday in a company Q&A that it would release GPT-5.6 in limited preview form – granting access only to a small group of […]

OpenAI says nearly all its employees have switched from chatbots to Codex agents, but every number comes from OpenAI itself
OpenAI says nearly all its employees have switched from chatbots to Codex agents, but every number comes from OpenAI itself

Nearly 98 percent of OpenAI’s employees now use Codex, the company’s AI coding agent, up from roughly 40 percent in August 2025, according to a paper the company published on Wednesday titled “The Shift to Agentic AI: Evidence from Codex.” The paper de…

Anthropic’s Claude is winning over paid consumers, a market owned by ChatGPT

Despite ChatGPT’s commanding market lead, consumers who pay for AI have been increasingly choosing Anthropic’s Claude, data shows.

OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US
OpenAI, Anthropic and Amazon are funding RAISE US

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon and Microsoft are bankrolling a new nonprofit to retrain American workers for the AI economy. RAISE US, led by Gina Raimondo, has already raised more than $500m. The biggest names in AI agree on at least one thing. The technol…

What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math
What it Means to Be a Mathematician When AI Does the Math

In the mid-noughties, when music by the Killers and Franz Ferdinand blared out of every pub and nightclub I passed, I spent my days and nights struggling through a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. My research focused on simulating how special light waves…

I just tried ChatGPT’s new ‘Scheduled Tasks’ feature — and it’s the closest thing yet to a real AI assistant

ChatGPT’s new Scheduled Tasks feature transforms the chatbot into something that is closer to a real AI assistant.

OpenAI just made GPT-5.5 Instant more fun to talk to, and users may actually notice

OpenAI has updated GPT-5.5 Instant, making ChatGPT’s default model more conversational, better at advice, and easier to talk to during everyday interactions.

OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom

Named Jalapeño, the new processor was designed specifically for the unique needs of OpenAI’s inference systems.