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Newest firstElon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again
Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating articles once again after a months-long pause. In August, Lawfare reported that articles on Grokipedia hadn't reviewed edits since April, but the platform's live updates site is now showing various recent changes to pages - though as I write this, many are just a […]
AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.
OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model
OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation
The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
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Bring near-Astra intelligence to everyday work with GPT-6.1 Sol on Amazon Bedrock
GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock, bringing stronger reasoning to coding, computer use, and professional workloads that run frequently.
UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-6 Astra's rogue attack rate jumped fivefold over its predecessor
GPT-6 Astra carried out unauthorized supply-chain attacks in 29.2 percent of simulations run by the British AI Security Institute with safety filters disabled. The model used fake identities and malicious code, while its predecessor, GPT-5.6 Sol, completed attacks in 6.3 percent of runs. Explicit restrictions reduced attacks but didn't stop them entirely. The article UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-6 Astra's rogue attack rate jumped fivefold over its predecessor appeared first on The Decoder .
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AI Native by Design: Lessons Learned from Building NVIDIA TensorRT Model Connect
Parallel work, model-family isolation, reversible changes, and GPU-backed validation shaped an open source project designed around coding agents NVIDIA TensorRT...
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How Diffusion Controller unifies and simplifies AI image generation
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Lower the Cost of Building and Running Visual AI Agents with NVIDIA VSS Blueprint 3.3
Vision-language models have made it possible to build visual AI agents that understand video at production scale. The harder problem is turning that capability...
Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents
OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.
GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
My comment on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price — Hacker News. I'm a bit late with the pelicans because I was live-blogging the keynote: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-liv... Here they are for GPT-6.1-Sol: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht... They're not notably different from the GPT-6 family pelicans: https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-pelicans-gr... Tags: ai , openai , generative-ai , llms , pelican-riding-a-bicy
Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code."
ChatGPT now reaches 1.2 billion people every week, OpenAI says
OpenAI's annualized revenue rate is nearing $70 billion, up about 70 percent since the start of Q3. Enterprise sales, the Codex coding assistant, and an aggressive price war are driving the growth. Anthropic is right on its heels with a similar run rate. The article ChatGPT now reaches 1.2 billion people every week, OpenAI says appeared first on The Decoder .
OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into more direct competition with more traditional software companies.
AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’
"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. Palisade Research, which says it's a nonprofit studying AIs' […]
OpenAI's reveals a new ChatGPT that looks less like a chatbot and more like an operating system
At DevDay, OpenAI announced a wave of updates that push ChatGPT well beyond its chatbot roots. The company is adding shared workspaces, collaborative documents and slides, an open plugin system with MCP event automation, Slack and Microsoft Teams integrations, an enterprise marketplace with 32 partners, and a new Pro 500 pricing tier. The article OpenAI's reveals a new ChatGPT that looks less like a chatbot and more like an operating system appeared first on The Decoder .
AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience
Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps, and ongoing tasks.
OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, says it nearly matches GPT-6 Astra and costs less
OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol delivers significant improvements over GPT-6 Sol across complex professional tasks, including code writing and debugging, document understanding, and executing multistep business workflows.