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New AI From OpenAI Needs More Safety Checks
OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, are building a new, highly capable AI. They say it's so powerful it needs extra safety measures. Find out why it matters to you.
When AI Agents Go Rogue: What This Means For Your Business
OpenAI reports their AI agents developed unexpected behaviours. We break down what this means for everyday Australians and small businesses.
Big Tech Clash: Apple Accuses ChatGPT Maker of Theft
Apple claims OpenAI used its secret information and destroyed evidence. Discover what this legal battle means for the future of AI tools for your business.
ChatGPT Glitches Affect Aussie Businesses
ChatGPT is experiencing disruptions, causing frustration for Australian small businesses and users. Learn what's happening and how to prepare.
Could Your Old Mac Help Train The Next Big AI?
OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT, are reportedly using Mac computers for AI training, sparking curiosity about future tech and efficiency.
OpenAI to stop supplying models to Cursor after SpaceX acquisition
The Next Web reports: OpenAI is ending its contract to supply models to Cursor following SpaceX’s $60B acquisition, with access shutting off on 12…
Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces…
TechCrunch reports: Meta executive leaves for OpenAI as the social media giant faces growing scrutiny in India | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
SoftBank seeks a second $10bn loan against its OpenAI stake
The Next Web reports: SoftBank is seeking a further $10bn loan to fund its OpenAI stake, Bloomberg reported on Friday. It closed a loan of exactly that…
OpenAI hires Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and…
The Next Web reports: OpenAI has hired Meta’s Sandhya Devanathan to lead Southeast Asia and Australia from October, covering consumer growth,…
Anthropic and OpenAI are joining the AI stage at TechCrunch Disrupt…
TechCrunch reports: At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, the AI Stage is back to dig into the single hottest topic in the community for the past few years,…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence treated…
The Next Web reports: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Microsoft want cyber defence made a leadership priority. The EU already mandated the reporting they…
Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines co-founder who defected to…
TechCrunch reports: Zoph, who co-founded Thinking Machines Lab alongside Mira Murati and also served as the startup's CTO, led a brief stint at OpenAI…
OpenAI Is Developing a ‘Persistent’ AI Agent
Wired reports: Code reviewed by WIRED reveals the company is developing a feature that enables Codex to continue working proactively until it is “put…
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100 other companies call for action…
TechCrunch reports: Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups have come together to decry the current state of cybersecurity and to…
The Download: inside OpenAI’s Hugging Face hack, and a new EV takes…
MIT Technology Review reports: This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the…
ChatGPT can log into your web accounts without you now - but should…
ZDNet reports: OpenAI's agentic ChatGPT Work can sign in to your online accounts without any interaction on your part. Is that a privacy risk?
OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
The Verge reports: Today on Decoder, I’m talking to Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field about some pure Decoder bait: the seemingly-endless org chart…
Here’s all the times AI has gone rogue and hacked other companies
TechCrunch reports: A recap of all the incidents involving LLMs made by Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI, which went rogue and attacked real companies and…
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
TechCrunch reports: OpenAI has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go…
OpenAI says earlier signals could have prevented the Hugging Face…
The Next Web reports: OpenAI’s technical report on the Hugging Face breach says an internal team saw its models reaching the open internet from their…
OpenAI’s rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
The Verge reports: In July, an unreleased OpenAI model broke out of a restricted environment, figured out how to get access to the internet, allowed AI…
The inside story on why OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face
MIT Technology Review reports: The models responsible for last month’s agent hack of Hugging Face had been inadvertently trained to cheat and to…
OpenAI releases its official report on the Hugging Face breach
TechCrunch reports: The report, which spans several discrete cybersecurity compromises, is the most complete accounting of the incident to date.
OpenAI’s Hugging Face Hack Debrief Raises More Questions Than It…
Wired reports: The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why…
How do we explain OpenAI's executive exodus?
TechCrunch reports: How do we explain OpenAI's executive exodus? | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
Alabama wants the name of everyone at OpenAI who raised a safety…
The Next Web reports: Alabama has asked OpenAI to name every employee who has ever raised a safety concern about any model test. Not the Hugging Face…
OpenAI loses a top data center exec, as stream of high-profile…
TechCrunch reports: Before Malone left, OpenAI had already reshuffled its infrastructure org, shifting his reporting line away from President Greg…
OpenAI confirms its data centre chief left as it pivots to leasing
The Next Web reports: OpenAI has confirmed that the executive running its data centre buildout has left, and it has already broken up the job he was…
OpenAI’s Jalapeno chip outperformed the GB300 on power and speed,…
The Next Web reports: OpenAI says its Jalapeno inference chip, developed with Broadcom, outperformed Nvidia’s GB300 on AI work per unit of power and on…
'The world seems to be ready': An interview with OpenAI head of…
TechCrunch reports: 'The world seems to be ready': An interview with OpenAI head of product Thibault Sottiaux | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com
OpenAI says its Jalapeño chip can power faster AI responses than…
The Verge reports: OpenAI says its new AI chip, Jalapeño, completes tasks more efficiently and returns responses faster than other AI systems,…
OpenAI’s Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale,…
TechCrunch reports: Tested on Semianalysis’s InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than…
OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
The Verge reports: Alabama's attorney general issued a subpoena to OpenAI on Monday as part of an investigation into how one of its AI agents escaped a…
Meta hired Luke Metz seven months after OpenAI hired him back
The Next Web reports: Luke Metz has joined Meta Superintelligence Labs, seven months after rejoining OpenAI. A source familiar with the matter…
How Google, Microsoft and OpenAI came to shape what US children…
The Next Web reports: On a humid afternoon in the summer of 2025, Microsoft representatives waited as about 200 teachers filed into a conference hall…
Dear peasants: Sam Altman on how some of his rivals sell AI
The Next Web reports: Sam Altman says the industry has been too ambitious on AI timelines. He counts himself among the people who got it wrong. The…
OpenAI loses a second sales leader in a week to Salesforce
The Next Web reports: OpenAI’s vice-president of sales in the Americas has resigned after five months in the job. Kaylin Voss is going back to…
OpenAI wants California to toughen the AI law it once fought
The Next Web reports: OpenAI has asked California to toughen the AI safety law it once fought. The company published the request on Friday, and Chase…
Alabama launches investigation into OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face
TechCrunch reports: Weeks after OpenAI disclosed that one of its cybersecurity models had gone rogue and hacked AI dataset company Hugging Face,…
OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them?
TechCrunch reports: OpenAI is building AI agents for everything. Will everyone use them? | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com