OpenAI Reportedly Disbands Preparedness Team and Redistributes Biological and Cyber Risk Reviews
1. OpenAI Reportedly Disbands Preparedness Team, Splitting Biological and Cyber Risk Reviews Across Existing Teams OpenAI reportedly disbanded its Preparedness team at the end of last month, eliminating a dedicated group responsible for assessing whether its AI models could pose serious risks and developing ways
2. Stripe Reportedly Agrees to Buy OpenRouter for More Than $7 Billion, and Would Acquire a Unified Gateway to Over 400 AI Models if the Transaction Closes Stripe has reportedly finalized a deal to acquire OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, which would give the payments infrastructure company control of a single gateway through which customers can
3. ChatGPT Launches Computer History on Mac, Recording Clicks and Keystrokes for ChatGPT and Codex to Use OpenAI has added a feature called Computer History to the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS.
In Brief
- Unitree Prepares to Go Public After Shipping 5,511 Humanoid Robots Chinese robotics company Unitree reportedly shipped 5,511 humanoids in 2025, generated more than half its revenue from humanoid deliveries, and became profitable for the first time. Its G1 robots have also gained large audiences as social-media performers, although new Unitree models face a US approval ban on Chinese-made humanoids.
- Anthropic CEO Calls AI Backlash a Crisis of Trust Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said public skepticism stems primarily from distrust of companies, governments, and the technology industry rather than AI executives’ safety warnings. He argued that carefully designed regulation could address risks and constrain frontier labs while preserving room for smaller competitors and open-weight models.
- Anthropic Publishes Claude’s Consumer System Prompts Anthropic now documents the system prompts used by Claude’s web and mobile applications, including instructions that supply current information and shape response behavior. The company says these periodically updated prompts do not apply to the Claude API.
- LittleLearner Tests Models Trained Only Through Fifth-Grade Material Researchers trained 0.6-billion-, 1.3-billion-, and 5-billion-parameter models on an 88-billion-token corpus restricted to US elementary-school curricula. Their experiments found that scaling, post-training, and in-context learning improved covered skills but did not meaningfully recover capabilities outside the pretraining curriculum.
- Tim O’Reilly Pushes for an Open AI Stack Technology publisher and investor Tim O’Reilly argued that open AI should extend beyond model weights to applications, memory, and system architecture, allowing users to switch models and providers without losing context. His nonprofit, the AI Disclosures Project, is working on an open-memory consortium.
- Essay Attributes Some AI Math Performance to Larger Symbolic Workspaces An essay by Davide Piffer proposes that language models’ mathematical advantage may partly reflect their ability to retain problem statements, intermediate equations, and abandoned approaches in large context windows. It distinguishes this external symbolic workspace from human working memory and argues that performance should not automatically be treated as evidence of superior reasoning.
- Joi AI Reports Results From a Small AI-Guided Sexual-Wellness Study AI companion service Joi AI paid 10 participants to join a 28-day in-house masturbation study, with six completing it, and reported reduced self-described stress and increased focus across 134 session reports. Neuroscientist Nicole Prause criticized the methodology and said the company’s suggestion that masturbation could help manage addiction was unsupported by scientific evidence.
- Human-Powered Chatbot Game Turns AI Imitation Into Entertainment Your AI Slop Bores Me lets users submit prompts or spend 150 seconds role-playing as the chatbot that answers them, using either text or a basic drawing tool. Requests consume credits that participants earn by responding to other users.