OpenAI voice mode desktop
OpenAI's new voice mode is now available on the ChatGPT desktop app.
OpenAIOpenAI's Rogue Agent Went Unnoticed For a Week
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation. The agent -- a program capable of making decisions and executing complex tasks with little or no human oversight -- attempted to break out of its isolated testing environment at OpenAI around July 9, according to tw
I tried out OpenAI’s new AI keypad — which will be fun for some coders and slightly mystifying to everyone else
OpenAI's fancy new AI keypad will be a lot of fun for some, while many others are probably not going to touch it.
Did Chinese AI Steal From Anthropic, and OpenAI Loses Control of Two Models
On this episode of Uncanny Valley, we dive into accusations that China’s Moonshot AI stole from Anthropic, and how the US Army needs to cut back on AI use.
Anthropic releases Opus 5 with ‘close’ to Fable 5’s capabilities
Weeks after Anthropic's latest toe-to-toe with the US government, and days after an OpenAI security incident that dominated tech industry discussions, Anthropic on Thursday released its newest model, Claude Opus 5. The company said in a release that Opus 5 "comes close to the capabilities of Claude Fable 5 in many domains" and is much […]
OpenAI’s own model went rogue before Kimi had Wall Street sweating
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]
The AI giants just broke with OpenAI and Anthropic on open weights
The AI industry just picked a side, in public. On Friday, 25 companies and groups published an open letter, “Open Weights and American AI Leadership”, urging Washington not to crack down on open-weight AI, Business Insider reported. The names are heavy: Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Mistral, Palantir, IBM, Andreessen Horowitz, Hugging Face, Mozilla and the Linux […] This story continues at The Next Web
Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story
Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/24/openai-rogue-hacker Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49038060 Points: 85 # Comments: 26
OpenAI wants your medical records, and says its AI is ‘better than clinician level’
OpenAI wants to be in the room for your next diagnosis. On Thursday it began rolling out ChatGPT Health to every logged-in US adult. The chatbot can now connect to your Apple Health data and medical records, the company said. It can then draw on them in any conversation. More than 300 million people already […] This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft is rewiring itself for the AI era, on offence and defence
Microsoft is remaking its own stack for the AI era, on both offence and defence. This week it moved on two fronts. It began pulling OpenAI’s models out of its most-used apps to cut costs. And it set a date to kill the text-message login, blaming a wave of AI-powered phishing. The two announcements look […] This story continues at The Next Web
The Talk Show: ‘A Scam Held Together With Patriotism and Golden Paint’
Quinn Nelson returns to the show to discuss OpenAI’s ChatGPT/Codex “native” app migration fiasco, Siri AI in Apple’s OS 27 betas, MacOS 27 Golden Gate, and the hottest new cell phone of the year, the Trump T1. Sponsored by: Notion : Try the powerful, all-in-one Notion AI today. Factor : Healthy eating, made easy. Get 50% off your first box, plus free daily greens, with code talkshow50off . Squarespace : Save 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain using code TALKSHOW . ★
'Science fiction that happened': experts explain why OpenAI's 'mind-blowing' cyberattack should worry us all
This might be our first true glimpse of how dangerous AI could be in the future in terms of making hacks much more commonplace.
‘AI communism’, rogue models, and the why Kimi K3 spooked Wall Street
Chinese AI lab Moonshot’s open model Kimi went viral this week for reasons that had less to do with the model itself and more to do with how the U.S. AI industry reacted to it. Meanwhile, an unreleased OpenAI model wandered outside its test environment and ended up connected to a real security breach at Hugging Face — a reminder […]
OpenAI’s new voice mode makes it to the ChatGPT desktop app
ChatGPT Voice on desktop can work with both ChatGPT Work and Codex to complete tasks and control agents.
OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting
“The story that we’re talking about in this segment was science fiction until Tuesday, OK?”
Be careful where you click — ChatGPT joins Microsoft, Google in most-impersonated brands online
OpenAI debuts in the top 10 most impersonated companies, seeing nearly as many attacks as PayPal, WhatsApp, Facebook.
How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
We spoke with several cybersecurity researchers, who look for unknown vulnerabilities and develop tools to exploit them, about how OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails affect their work.
Congress proposes an AI kill switch
As more details emerge about OpenAI's cyberattack against Hugging Face, lawmakers are taking an interest. PLUS: Meta's cynical new ad + "pervert glasses" damage control
Microsoft launches new in-house AI models it says cut costs up to 89% versus OpenAI
Microsoft AI released two new in-house models into public preview on Wednesday — MAI-Image-2.5-Pro , its highest-fidelity image generator to date, and MAI-Voice-2-Flash , a speech model built for high-volume enterprise workloads — while publishing production data that amounts to the company's most aggressive argument yet that it can power its own products without leaning on OpenAI's frontier models. The announcement, made by Microsoft AI's Superintelligence team , lands roughly a year after the
Agentic coding goes hands-free as OpenAI brings GPT-Live's full duplex voice control to Codex and ChatGPT on the desktop
Two weeks after debuting its more naturalistic GPT-Live audio AI model with full-duplex capabilities (listening and speaking at the same time), OpenAI is bringing it directly into developer workflows. The company announced that GPT-Live now powers the ChatGPT desktop application on macOS and Windows, integrating directly with agentic systems like Codex and ChatGPT Work (which are separate experiences available in the ChatGPT desktop app). When OpenAI initially launched GPT-Live on July 8, 2026,
OpenAI once again makes the case for giving ChatGPT your health records
ChatGPT Health is rolling out to users in the US who are 18 years or older.
OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
OpenAI is rolling out ChatGPT Health to everyone in the US on Thursday, allowing more people to connect their medical records and health-tracking information to the chatbot. During a briefing, Ashley Alexander, OpenAI's vice president of health product, says the company's models "are now capable of reasoning at levels that are better than clinician level." […]
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Health available to all U.S. users
Users can also integrate their personal data from services like Apple Health, Function, and MyFitnessPal.
Microsoft Replacing OpenAI Image AI Models in Powerpoint, Bing
Microsoft Corp. is replacing OpenAI’s image-generating models with its own technology in popular products like PowerPoint and Bing.
The Pulse: Quitting Spotify Podcasts over reliability
Also: Chinese open models match closed ones from Anthropic and OpenAI, AWS’s “heart-attack” billing error, and more
OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s ‘dangerous’ medical advice in first case of its kind
Scott Winters says he trusted ChatGPT with his health, and it nearly cost him his life. The 55-year-old Florida pastor is suing OpenAI in San Francisco. He alleges the chatbot gave him dangerously wrong medical advice and talked him out of seeking care. Weeks later, a pulmonary embolism brought him, in his words, “to the […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI is spending $30 billion on a new mega 3.2 GW data center in Georgia — and it's trying really hard to quell local opposition
OpenAI really wants to avoid the local opposition seen at other data center projects, and is willing to offer commitments to the locals to ensure its campus gets built.
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
Aggressive training techniques sharpens threat of bad behavior by leading models.
Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is about who gets to define the post-smartphone era
Today on Decoder, I’m talking with Hayden Field, The Verge’s senior AI reporter, about the major trade secrets lawsuit between Apple and OpenAI and what this tells us about OpenAI’s future. By now I’m sure most Decoder listeners are familiar with Apple’s allegations in this case. The company says a number of ex-Apple employees at […]
Khosla Ventures, first backer of OpenAI, is raising up to $5.5bn
Vinod Khosla likes to be early. His firm was the first outside investor in OpenAI, back when that was a strange thing to be. Now Khosla Ventures is raising money to do it again, at a scale it has never tried. The firm is in talks to gather as much as $5.5bn across a new […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line
Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/07/22/openai-anthropic-open-models-trump-china Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49020868 Points: 160 # Comments: 134
OpenAI's latest service wants to get your company build and get better integrated with AI agents
Once a company's deployed AI agents across the likes of customer service, OpenAI Presence steps in to keep it updated and current.
OpenAI’s cyber test escapes the lab
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Google is not losing the AI race, Pichai tells doubters as cloud jumps 82%
Sundar Pichai spent Alphabet’s Wednesday earnings call doing something he is not used to doing: arguing that Google is not, in fact, falling behind in artificial intelligence. Analysts wanted to know why the next Gemini model had slipped, and whether the company had quietly ceded the frontier to OpenAI and Anthropic. “We’ve had clearly frontier […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI's accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction
Article URL: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/openai-cyberattack/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49015639 Points: 52 # Comments: 37
Khosla Ventures in Talks to Raise $5.5 Billion in New Funds
Early OpenAI backer Khosla Ventures is discussing raising as much as $5.5 billion for its latest set of venture investment funds, a haul that would amount to its largest fundraising event in its two-decade history, according to people familiar with the matter.
OpenAI Models Spent Hours on Hack That Usually Takes Weeks
When OpenAI’s advanced artificial intelligence models breached AI startup Hugging Face’s internal systems last week, they spent mere hours carrying out a hack that would have taken a skilled human far longer, people familiar with the matter said.
The credential that let OpenAI's agents into Hugging Face exists in most enterprises right now
When Hugging Face got hit last week, co-founder Clement Delangue suspected a frontier lab, given the agent's sophistication. He was right. Delangue said on X that after a day working with OpenAI he strongly believed there was no malicious intent and that it was mind-blowing the whole thing had happened autonomously. The two OpenAI models that broke into Hugging Face last week did not breach it through malice or superintelligence. They breached it through credentials and permissions they should n
OpenAI’s Brockman Says Kimi K3 Is ‘Pretty Good,’ Won’t Confirm Distillation
OpenAI president Greg Brockman called Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3 “pretty good” in a Bloomberg interview on Tuesday, a rare public acknowledgement from a US frontier lab that a Chinese rival has produced a competitive model. Brockman said it is “too early” to determine whether Moonshot trained K3 by distilling outputs from OpenAI’s own systems, a […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI President Says Kimi K3 ‘Pretty Good,’ Unsure If Distilled
OpenAI President Greg Brockman acknowledged that Moonshot AI had developed a competitive new artificial intelligence model and said he wasn’t sure whether the Chinese firm had piggybacked on the ChatGPT maker’s technology.
How OpenAI’s human mistake led to the AI-powered hack on Hugging Face
OpenAI made a mistake setting up what it called a “highly isolated” testing environment and sandbox. According to cybersecurity experts, that human mistake is what made the AI-powered attack on Hugging Face possible.
OpenAI’s Brockman on New ChatGPT Era After ‘Tough’ Year of Cuts: Q&A
The AI startup has combined its products into a so-called super app.
China’s Open AI Models Are Challenging Silicon Valley’s Playbook
As access to Anthropic’s and OpenAI’s frontier models becomes more restricted, Chinese labs are pitching their open-source alternatives as stable, accessible, and increasingly capable.
OpenAI sued over ChatGPT health advice that almost killed a pastor
ChatGPT allegedly offered "extremely dangerous medical recommendations" regarding a pulmonary embolism.
OpenAI Models Breach Hugging Face, Sparking Cyber Alarms
Since April, when Anthropic PBC unveiled its Mythos model, cyber and national security experts have warned that the internet has entered a new era full of artificial intelligence-powered risks.
OpenAI Models Escaped to Hack Hugging Face, Validating Cyber Warnings
“Sandbox” testing environments are meant to isolate risky cyber threats.
OpenAI says its AI agent broke out of testing sandbox to hack Hugging Face
"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.
OpenAI’s AI spending spree has ballooned to $750B
OpenAI will spend the equivalent of Sweden's GDP on infrastructure through 2030.
OpenAI unveils Presence, a new platform that lets enterprises launch and manage realtime voice agents and chatbots
OpenAI has announced Presence , a new enterprise product for deploying and managing AI agents across customer-facing and internal business workflows. The offering is designed for eligible enterprise customers that want agents to answer questions, access company systems, take approved actions and escalate to human workers while operating under company-defined policies, permissions and evaluation standards. Presence is available immediately through a limited general availability program. OpenAI Fo
OpenAI and Anthropic now out-lobby Nvidia in Washington
The AI industry is buying a bigger seat at the table. OpenAI and Anthropic set records for federal lobbying in the second quarter of 2026, CNBC reported. Together they spent $3.17 million, up 23% from the first quarter. Startups outspending giants The individual numbers are the striking part. Anthropic spent $1.97 million, up 26% in […] This story continues at The Next Web
Oracle says one AI data centre could cost it a $7bn power guarantee
Oracle is building a huge AI data centre in Port Washington, Wisconsin, with Vantage and OpenAI. The nearly one-gigawatt Lighthouse Campus is a roughly $15 billion project. To get the electricity to run it, though, Oracle first has to satisfy the local regulator, and that is proving expensive. In a sworn affidavit, Oracle says the […] This story continues at The Next Web