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Coverage tied to OpenAI products and research posts.
Twenty-five Fields Medalists just told frontier labs that racing AI to famous proofs without writeups, attribution, or community buy-in risks hollowing out how mathematics actually advances.
New Mexico’s high court held a defense lawyer in contempt for filing ChatGPT-fabricated witness testimony in a murder appeal—and put the client’s harm ahead of the lawyer’s AI-policy talking points.
OpenAI asked Congress if an industry-wide AI slowdown would even be legal — an admission that solo braking loses, and that a pause is only as real as the cheaters you can catch.
Oracle’s 2 GW renewables pledge for New Mexico is a matching program, not a power plant swap — Project Jupiter still runs on natural-gas fuel cells while construction claims it’s on track.
Fidji Simo’s board seat at Nscale is less a surprise hire than a pre-IPO signal: consumer-scale operators joining the AI infrastructure race before the flotation window.
Cognition is wiring GPT‑6 Astra into Devin so the agent can test what it builds and show receipts—pushing code review toward evidence, not just diffs.
OpenAI’s Habitat storage layer now absorbs over 70 million requests a second for a billion-plus weekly users—and the first engineering post is mostly about surviving that climb on Python.
OpenAI has been asking Congress whether an industry-wide slowdown on frontier development would survive antitrust law—because voluntary coordination may look like collusion.
OpenAI freezes new $200-a-month Pro sign-ups after Astra demand overwhelms capacity—protecting existing users while advertising just how hot the new model is.
OpenAI is putting a Data agent inside ChatGPT Work so more employees can query warehouse data, build dashboards, and act — without waiting on an analyst queue.
After OpenAI’s math breakthroughs, Andreas Thom joins Tristan Buckmaster in demanding proof that chatbot interactions didn’t quietly train the models that later raced the field.
OpenAI and GSA are zeroing the ChatGPT license fee for U.S. governments and pairing the deal with discounted Daybreak cyber access for public defenders.