ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news
ABC and SBS want AI companies to pay for Australian news

Australia’s public broadcasters, the ABC and SBS, want the country’s news bargaining incentive to cover AI companies. That would push them to strike commercial deals with Australian media to support journalism. The two broadcasters made the call in sub…

OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?
OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?

At OpenAI’s annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals – primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success. CEO Sam Altman walked onstage to cheers and announced Dots, a “real-deal AI” agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, “inspired by the cool agents that we […]

OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic
OpenAI’s 2017 plan to auction AGI to China and Russia, per The Atlantic

In 2017, OpenAI co-founders Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever proposed auctioning the rights to the company’s future AGI to governments, including the US, China and Russia. Kevin Roose reports the plan in an excerpt from his book, published by The Atlan…

OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC
OpenAI’s Greg Brockman drops his second $25m gift to an AI super PAC

OpenAI president Greg Brockman and his wife, Anna, have pulled out of a second $25m donation to Leading the Future, a super PAC that backs pro-AI candidates for Congress. Theodore Schleifer and Mike Isaac reported the move for The New York Times on Wed…

OpenAI seeks $30bn at a $1.4tn valuation as revenue nears $70bn
OpenAI seeks $30bn at a $1.4tn valuation as revenue nears $70bn

OpenAI is in early talks to raise at least $30bn at a valuation of around $1.4tn, before the new money. Bloomberg and The Information reported the talks on Tuesday. The round would give the ChatGPT maker fresh capital after it pushed back its stock mar…

OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents

OpenAI’s “Decisions API” is a Jev clone that confirms the importance of fast, cheap intelligence.

The AI Tamagotchis are coming
The AI Tamagotchis are coming

While AI has made plenty of inroads on people’s phones and computers, it’s largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they’re apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetites for physical hardware with their cutesy software agents. “Hardware is […]

OpenAI says Moonshot-linked users tried to extract its AI reasoning
OpenAI says Moonshot-linked users tried to extract its AI reasoning

OpenAI says people linked to Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi, were behind a coordinated campaign to extract the hidden reasoning of its models. The company set out its findings in a blog post on Wednesday. The activity began on 1 July at low…

Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan
Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan

After hosting a meal with Big Tech leaders on Tuesday, President Donald Trump responded to journalist questions about his artificial intelligence announcements in typical fashion. He said his previous claims regarding fears around AI safety being a “hoax” cooked up by Democrats no longer apply now that he’s renamed the technology to “Super Intelligence.” He […]

OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face
OpenAI is sued over the rogue agents that hacked Hugging Face

OpenAI has been sued over the AI agents that hacked Hugging Face in July. The New York non-profit Legal Advocates for Safe Science and Technology (LASST) filed the complaint in San Francisco Superior Court on Tuesday. LASST asks the court to bar OpenAI…