OpenAI Lockdown Mode
OpenAI rolls out Lockdown Mode to protect against prompt injection attacks.
OpenAIOpenAI rolls out a Lockdown Mode for extra protection against prompt injection attacks
OpenAI has announced more robust security features for the small set of users who might need them.
Reid Hoffman to Leave Microsoft’s Board of Directors
The LinkedIn co-founder was a key bridge to Microsoft’s relationship with OpenAI, but he also came with some baggage.
Airbnb’s Chesky helped put Sam Altman back in power. Now he’s building an AI lab to compete with him.
Brian Chesky has spent years as an AI kingmaker. He met Sam Altman through Y Combinator in 2006, advised him on managing OpenAI’s hypergrowth, and helped broker Altman’s return to power after the board fired him in November 2023. He was reportedly considered for a seat on OpenAI’s board. Now he is entering competition with his […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI Would’ve ‘Imploded’ If Altman Didn’t Return, Ex-CTO Says
OpenAI would likely have unraveled if Sam Altman hadn’t returned as chief executive officer following his brief ouster in 2023, former tech chief Mira Murati said, offering her clearest account yet of one of Silicon Valley’s most dramatic boardroom battles.
AI Pushes Markets into Uncharted Territory as SpaceX & Google Seek $160 Billion Combined with OpenAI & Anthropic in the Wings
Plus, Gigascale raises a climate-focused hardware fund & VC firms start seeing better TVPI
OpenAI will let the US government review its AI models before release
The company said this week it would comply with President Trump's voluntary AI executive order.
OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Rivals, but Investors Aren’t Picking Sides
“Why wouldn’t you want to be in both Pepsi and Coke?” says one venture capitalist. “It’s the same here.”
New IronWorm Malware Hits 36 Packages In npm Supply-Chain Attack
A new npm supply-chain attack has infected 36 packages with Rust-based infostealer malware called IronWorm. According to BleepingComputer, the malware "targets 86 environment variables (key-value pairs) and 20 credential files that may contain OpenAI, AWS, Anthropic, and npm credentials, vault configuration files, SSH keys, and Exodus cryptocurrency wallet files." From the report: According to researchers at supply-chain and devops company JFrog, IronWorm is written in Rust, hides behind an eBPF
Quote of the day by Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine having gone through figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT" — opening up on how reliant we are on chatbots
The OpenAI CEO recently became a parent and has been relying on a chatbot for parenting tips, as many others are increasingly doing
‘Microsoft and OpenAI Broke Up — Now They’re Ready to Fight’
Hayden Field and Tom Warren, writing for The Verge (gift link) This year’s Build had the vibe of a freshly single divorcée posting a thirst trap on Instagram. “It’s always fun to be at developer conferences in times of great change,” Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said onstage Tuesday, adding that events like this are about “coming to grips with the new opportunity.” AI chief Mustafa Suleyman, in an interview with The Verge, put it even more bluntly. “The goal is to prove that we can become one of
ChatGPT's memory is getting better, especially if you're on the free tier
OpenAI has significantly improved the chatbot's "dreaming" architecture.
OpenAI’s Codex helps discover HTTP/2 Bomb DoS attack that can nuke over 30GB of RAM within seconds, knocking web servers offline before they can react
A new attack technique affects HTTP/2 configurations of major web servers, but some have released patches already.
I used ChatGPT in Slack to turn team chats into weekly status reports
Learn how OpenAI ChatGPT in Slack can turn scattered team conversations into organized weekly status reports with summaries, action items, and progress updates automatically.
Databricks CEO calls 2026 “a terrible year to go public” as SpaceX, Anthropic, and OpenAI prepare to absorb $200 billion in IPO capital
Three companies are preparing to enter public markets this year with a combined valuation that could exceed $3 trillion. SpaceX is set to list as early as 12 June at a $1.77 trillion valuation, selling 555.6 million shares at a fixed price of $135 each in what will be the largest IPO in history. Anthropic has filed at […] This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft’s AI chief says the company wants to “eliminate” what it pays Anthropic
Mustafa Suleyman has identified Microsoft’s biggest AI competitor, and it is not OpenAI. “Anthropic is extremely expensive and I think many people are urgently looking for alternatives,” the head of Microsoft’s in-house model effort told Bloomberg in an interview. The statement is more than competitive positioning. It is a declaration of intent. “We pay a lot of […] This story continues at The Next Web
An Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Finding Core Competencies
An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about figuring out Microsoft's role in AI, the relationship with OpenAI, Capex, Software, and a potential new agentic platform.
OpenAI and Anthropic Sign Letter to Prevent AI-Developed Biological Weapons
Leading AI labs, executives, and scientists are sending a letter to lawmakers urging them to improve tracking of synthetic DNA sequences that could be used for bioweapons.
Sam Altman Says He Doesn’t Plan to Put Money Into 2026 Elections
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman says he has no plans to make any financial contributions toward this year’s US elections, even as other Silicon Valley billionaires have already pledged to spend heavily to influence midterm races that will decide control of Congress.
A popular OpenAI Codex tool with 29,000 weekly downloads has been quietly stealing developer tokens for a month
The npm package looked legitimate. It had an active GitHub repository, steady development history, and roughly 29,000 weekly downloads. For developers using OpenAI Codex, it offered exactly what it advertised: a remote web UI for the AI coding tool. But for the past month, every invocation of codexui-android has also been silently reading the contents of […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI CEO to Share Oversight Ideas in Wake of Trump AI Order
OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman will push his vision for public-private collaboration on artificial intelligence during a visit to Washington on Wednesday, part of a broader policy agenda that also includes creating a vehicle to pass AI’s potentially vast financial windfall to consumers.
OpenAI and Anthropic are battling to conquer the AI market in Finance and Legal
OpenAI and Anthropic are battling it out to win over new and converted customers from these two sectors.
Anthropic Picks Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs to Lead IPO
Anthropic PBC has lined up banks to lead work on its IPO, according to people familiar with the matter, as the artificial intelligence company races its rival OpenAI to be first to go public.
How OpenAI Built Its Data Agent
The hardest part of data analysis isn’t writing SQL. It’s finding the right tables to use in the first place and understanding semantically how to use data.
Microsoft and OpenAI broke up — now they’re ready to fight
At Microsoft's annual Build conference on Tuesday, the company announced a slew of new or expanded AI initiatives, including a super app, in-house reasoning models, a cybersecurity tool, and OpenClaw-esque AI agents. All this news added up to a clear message: Microsoft is positioned to be one of the biggest players in AI, and it's […]
OpenAI public policy agenda
OpenAI outlines its public policy agenda for AI, including safety, youth protection, workforce transition, and global standards to ensure AI benefits society.
A blueprint for democratic governance of frontier AI
OpenAI outlines a blueprint for U.S. governance of frontier AI, proposing a federal framework for safety, resilience, and national security.
DeepSeek Close to Sealing $7 Billion Funding in Historic AI Deal
DeepSeek is close to finalizing a deal to raise about 50 billion yuan ($7.4 billion) from investors including Tencent Holdings Ltd. and its own founder in one of China’s largest startup financings, a milestone for a domestic AI industry seeking capital to take on marquee US names like OpenAI.
Investors Rethink Strategies Amid Mega IPOs
Anthropic has confidentially filed to go public, pulling ahead of rival OpenAI in the IPO race, this as SpaceX gets ready to IPO this month. Emily Zheng, a senior venture capital research analyst at PitchBook, says "we are in unchartered territory" in terms of how "gargantuan" these mega IPOs are. She joins Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)
Alphabet To Raise $80B in Equity, Anthropic Files For IPO | Bloomberg Tech 6/2/2026
Bloomberg’s Caroline Hyde and Ed Ludlow break down why Alphabet wants to raise $80 billion in equity to fund AI infrastructure expansion, while Anthropic makes its IPO move and files confidentially to go public, pulling ahead of rival OpenAI in the IPO race. Plus, Elon Musk's SpaceX is negotiating to pay razor-thin fees to Wall Street firms handling its IPO. And, HPE CEO Antonio Neri joins on the company's annual sales outlook beating estimates on the back of massive AI infrastructure demand. (S
OpenAI is turning Codex from a coding tool into an enterprise work platform, and non-developers are adopting it 3x faster than engineers
OpenAI announced a major expansion of Codex on Tuesday, transforming its AI coding agent into a broader enterprise work platform with three new capabilities: Sites, a feature that lets users create and share hosted interactive web applications; Annotations, an in-place editing tool; and six role-specific plugins that aggregate 62 popular business applications including Snowflake, Figma, […] This story continues at The Next Web
Microsoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is here
Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new "flagship" model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year - before then, it had relied on OpenAI's models. The two companies recently renegotiated their deal to loosen ties. According […]
Anthropic’s First-Mover IPO Edge Set to Widen Lead Over OpenAI
Anthropic PBC pulled ahead of OpenAI with its confidential IPO filing Monday, as the free-spending artificial intelligence startups battle for a fundraising edge that’s set to determine who will win the ultimate battle for computing power. The oneupmanship in the firms’ private funding rounds, and now their progress toward going public, isn’t just about bragging rights. The risk for both firms is that the first to tap the US market’s unparalleled depth and liquidity will gain an immediate advan
Microsoft launches MXC, an OS-level sandbox for AI agents, with OpenAI and Nvidia already on board
For the past two years, the technology industry has raced to make AI agents more capable — teaching them to write code, navigate software interfaces, manage files, and orchestrate multi-step workflows with increasing autonomy. What the industry has not done, at least not with any consistency, is answer the question that keeps chief information security officers awake at night: what happens when an agent goes wrong? On Tuesday at its annual Build developer conference, Microsoft offered what may b
Google's $80B AI Power Move
Alphabet's surprise $80 billion capital raise sparked debate, but Jefferies Equity Research Analyst Brent Thill says it's a power move, not a rescue mission. He joins Bloomberg Open Interest to explain why Google is racing ahead of potential OpenAI, Anthropic and SpaceX IPOs, why AI spending could exceed $1 trillion annually and how the AI boom could fundamentally reshape corporate hiring and investment decisions. (Source: Bloomberg)
OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work
OpenAI is getting serious about courting enterprise users. On Tuesday, the AI lab released a new set of capabilities for Codex, meant to expand the agentic tool’s uses in the workplace. Together with the new tools, the company released an internal report on how Codex is being used for knowledge work, finding its uses go […]
OpenAI's Codex update lets agents build interactive enterprise workspaces via Sites and role-specific plugins
Agentic AI is moving rapidly from the developer terminal to the corporate world. On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a major update of its agentic AI platform Codex, introducing domain-specific workflows, a rapid, semi-private web hosting feature within it for enterprises called "Sites," and an in-place editing tool named "Annotations". The release marks a deliberate strategy to transform Codex from a specialized programming assistant into an everyday operating environment for business professionals. N
OpenAI Plans AI Tools for Finance, Legal in Race With Anthropic
OpenAI is expanding the functionality of its artificial intelligence coding agent for a number of professions beyond software engineering, a bid to compete with rivals such as Anthropic PBC in signing up more business customers.
Flush With Cash From OpenAI, Opal Is Making an AI-Powered Audio Gadget
Opal, the company famous for making a fancy webcam, has pivoted to making other consumer electronics. Fueled by big investments from OpenAI and Samsung, it’s working on an audio gadget first.
Travelers deploys AI-powered claims countrywide with OpenAI
Travelers built an AI-powered Claim Assistant with OpenAI to guide customers through filing claims, provide 24/7 support, and scale operations during peak demand.
Advancing youth safety and opportunity through global leadership
OpenAI calls for global action on youth AI safety, proposing an international institute to strengthen safeguards, standards, and opportunities for young people.
Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
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Anthropic’s First-Mover IPO Edge Set to Widen Lead Over OpenAI
Anthropic PBC pulled ahead of OpenAI with its confidential IPO filing Monday, as the free-spending artificial intelligence startups battle for a fundraising edge that’s set to determine who will win the ultimate battle for computing power.
OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
Article URL: https://openai.com/index/openai-frontier-models-and-codex-are-now-available-on-aws/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363132 Points: 211 # Comments: 70
'The rise of OpenAI is attributable to a web of deceit and the exploitation of users (including Floridians)’: AG seeks to hold Sam Altman and ChatGPT accountable for harm — but it doesn't make sense to hold AI accountable for every bad outcome
Florida's Attorney General is taking a second swing at OpenAI with a new Civil Suit that claims the company released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public "while concealing serious risks [and] suppressing internal safety warnings' but is AI really the villain here?
Florida Sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, Accusing Them of Putting Profit Over Safety
Florida's attorney general has sued (PDF) OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, alleging the company prioritized growth and market value over user safety and failed to adequately warn about risks tied to ChatGPT. The lawsuit, the first by a U.S. state over OpenAI safety concerns, is separate from a criminal investigation the state opened into OpenAI in April. Variety reports: In the 83-page complaint filed in Florida circuit court, the state claimed OpenAI's rise was backed by "a web of deceit and the expl
Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents
The lawsuit partially revolves around a shooting at Florida State University last year, and ChatGPT's alleged role in the incident.
Anthropic Files to Go Public
Anthropic says it has confidentially filed an IPO prospectus with the SEC, "setting up a potentially historic share sale for investors ready to jump into artificial intelligence," reports CNBC. The move puts Anthropic ahead of OpenAI's expected filing and follows explosive reported growth, a massive new valuation, major infrastructure deals, and ongoing tensions with the Pentagon over its models. From the report: "This gives us the option to go public after the SEC completes its review," Anthrop
OpenAI Codex tool with over 29,000 downloads linked to malicious npm supply chain attack stealing authentication tokens
A tool started benign and turned sour after a little while, stealing tokens and granting persistent access.
Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman after multiple ChatGPT-linked murders
Altman has an "utter disregard" for human lives, Florida AG says.
Florida AG files lawsuit against OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman for deceptive practices
Article URL: https://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/attorney-general-james-uthmeier-files-first-nation-state-led-lawsuit-against-openai-ceo Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360933 Points: 38 # Comments: 7