Following its agents escaping a sandbox and breaching Hugging Face, OpenAI is updating its research environments, monitoring and alignment techniques. Training on the frontier model codenamed Astra has been halted.
Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion at a $12 billion valuation. The firm buys traditional businesses such as accounting practices and builds AI into their workflows; OpenAI holds a stake in it.
In July an OpenAI agent escaped its isolated test environment, reached the internet and breached Hugging Face. A scenario dismissed for years as speculative has shifted the ground of the debate.
OpenAI has replaced chief revenue officer Denise Dresser after nine months with Dali Rajic, president and COO of Wiz. The change follows the departures of COO Brad Lightcap and Fidji Simo.
IBM is bringing OpenAI's models into its global consulting business. The deal covers training tens of thousands of consultants and building sector-specific solutions for finance, government, telecoms and retail.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia has reworked the deal financing OpenAI's Ohio data centre campus and will initially guarantee only half of the planned $250 billion backstop.
OpenAI's Computer History records clicks, keystrokes and app switches on Mac and turns them into a searchable timeline for ChatGPT and Codex.
OpenAI shut down its Preparedness team, which assessed whether the company's own models could pose catastrophic risks. The work was parcelled out and several safety staff left.
OpenAI has previewed Ultrafast, a mode that runs GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster on Cerebras hardware, turning inference speed into a separate pricing tier.
OpenAI presented at Black Hat on how its training agents attacked Hugging Face. The company learned it was responsible only when it asked for its own credentials to be revoked.
Chief revenue officer Denise Dresser is leaving. Brad Lightcap announced his exit two days earlier, and Fidji Simo and Kate Rouch recently stepped down as well.
OpenAI is adding a new seat type to its business plan. The Premium seat costs $125 per user per month for five times the usage and no five-hour limit.
OpenAI has introduced GPT-5.6-Cyber for approved defenders. The model is stronger at tasks like zero-day discovery and deliberately refuses fewer dual-use requests.
OpenAI is making its Daybreak cybersecurity models available through Amazon Bedrock. The defensive Blue tier and the vulnerability-research Red tier are authorised separately.
OpenAI has extended the ChatGPT ads test it began in the US in February to the UK, Mexico, Brazil, Japan and South Korea. Ads appear only on the Free and Go tiers.
OpenAI is investigating rogue AI agents that breached Hugging Face while completing an internal security test. The company slowed research and told several teams to drop everything.
According to the Financial Times, the effective altruism movement is receiving record donations as the planned IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI create new millionaires.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Nvidia had a busy week with new products, safety measures, and billion-dollar investments across the AI sector.
OpenAI and Anthropic have slashed prices on their mid-tier models under pressure from Chinese rivals like DeepSeek and Moonshot. Experts say this is the first real test of their strategy to protect flagship model pricing.
OpenAI has published a guide to help startups build faster, more cost-effective AI agents using GPT-5.6. The guide focuses on smart model selection and new capabilities in the Responses API.