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OpenAI Quietly Gates GPT-5.5 Cyber After Pledging to Democratize AI Defense
May 1, 2026
1. OpenAI promised to democratize AI cyber defense. GPT-5.5 Cyber ships to a vetted list. OpenAI said GPT-5.5 Cyber, its new cybersecurity testing tool, will...
Musk Admits xAI Trained Grok on OpenAI Models as Zig Bans AI-Generated Pull Requests
April 30, 2026
1. xAI trained Grok on OpenAI's models, Musk testified. Then his lawyer fumbled the next witness's identity. Elon Musk testified Thursday in a California...
Meta Cuts 700 Labelers as Mercor Leaks 4TB of Voice Data and Insulin Patient Gets 27,000 AI Answers
April 29, 2026
1. 700 Meta labelers face Irish layoffs the same week 4TB of contractor voice samples leaked from Mercor Covalen warned more than 700 employees their jobs...
Musk Tells the Court OpenAI's IPO Puts Humanity at Stake
April 28, 2026
1. On the witness stand, Musk made OpenAI's IPO trial about saving humanity Elon Musk took the stand in a Northern California courtroom this week. He opened...
OpenAI Swaps AGI Escape Clause for AWS Deal as Google VPs Revolt Over Pentagon Contract
April 27, 2026
1. OpenAI Traded the AGI Escape Hatch for an AWS Account For five years, one paragraph in OpenAI's contract with Microsoft set the terms of the AI industry's...
Claude Cancellations Surge as AI Agent Wipes Production Database and Vibe Maths Cracks Erdős Problem
April 26, 2026
1. "I cancelled Claude" hit 957 points on Hacker News the same week an AI agent deleted a production database Nicky Reinert published a post titled "I...
Schwarz Group Funds Europe's Sovereign AI as OpenAI Apologizes and Murati Poaches Meta Engineers
April 25, 2026
1. Lidl's Owner Bankrolled Europe's Sovereign AI Bet the Same Week Washington Weighed China Sanctions The Trump administration is weighing sanctions on...
OpenAI Offers $25,000 to Crack GPT-5.5's Bio Guardrails as Codex Hits 4 Million Weekly Users
April 23, 2026
1. The day GPT-5.5 shipped, OpenAI put a $25,000 price on breaking its bio guardrails OpenAI released GPT-5.5 this morning. In the same wave of posts, it...
AI Coding Vendors Raise Paywalls as Startups Boast Spending More on AI Than People
April 22, 2026
1. The week two AI coding vendors moved the paywall on solo developers Within seven days, GitHub and Anthropic redrew the boundaries of what individual...
Mythos Uncovers 271 Firefox Zero-Days as Atlassian Opts Customers Into AI Training
April 21, 2026
1. Mythos found 271 zero-days in Firefox 150. Mozilla says developers are in for a rough few years anyway. The Firefox 150 codebase went through something...
China's Early AI Adopters Train Their Replacements as Deezer Flags 44% of Daily Uploads as Synthetic
April 20, 2026
1. China's early AI adopters are the first to be told: train your replacement The GitHub project is called Colleague Skill. Its pitch, per MIT Technology...
Allbirds Rebrands as AI and Stock Septuples While Foundation Models Give SaaS 12 Months
April 19, 2026
1. The same week Allbirds renamed itself an AI company and saw its stock septuple, a Colorado instructor wheeled typewriters back into her classroom...
Sora's Architect Exits OpenAI as Cerebras Files IPO on $10B Backlog
April 18, 2026
1. Sora's architect left OpenAI the same week it shipped a model for drug companies Bill Peebles announced his departure from OpenAI on Friday. He had spent...
Anthropic Ships Government Red-Team Model as Gemini Claims Chrome Tabs and Worldcoin Dangles Tinder Boosts
April 17, 2026
1. Two months after Trump called it "Leftwing nut jobs," Anthropic hands Washington a red-team model For nearly two months, the Trump administration has...
Codex Drives Macs and Browsers as a 35B Laptop Model Outdraws Opus 4.7
April 16, 2026
1. Codex can now drive your Mac, browse the web, and remember what you did last week OpenAI rebuilt Codex this week into a desktop application that operates...
Allbirds Jumped 600% on an AI Pivot It Never Actually Built
April 15, 2026
1. To Direct Google's New Voice Model, You Write It a Character Bio Simon Willison opened Google's prompting guide for Gemini 3.1 Flash TTS and found...
One Developer Claims He Can Strip and Forge Google's SynthID Watermarks
April 15, 2026
1. Google and Anthropic Ship Near-Identical "Reusable Prompt" Features Days Apart Google's Chrome browser now lets users save any Gemini prompt as a "Skill":...
Zuckerberg Is Training a Digital Copy of Himself to Talk to Employees
April 13, 2026
1. Mark Zuckerberg Is Training a Digital Copy of Himself to Talk to His Own Employees Meta is building an AI avatar of its CEO, the Financial Times reported....
AI Skeptic Gary Marcus Endorses Claude Code as Its Cache Costs Jump 17%
April 12, 2026
1. Gary Marcus Calls Claude Code the Biggest AI Advance Since LLMs. The Same Week, Its Cache Costs Jumped 17%. Gary Marcus has spent a quarter century...
Court Upholds Anthropic Blacklist as the Company Sends AI to a Psychiatrist
April 11, 2026
1. Court Upholds Anthropic Blacklisting as Company Sends AI to a Psychiatrist A panel of Trump-appointed judges denied Anthropic's emergency motion to stay...
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