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OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI

OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.

India has 100M weekly active ChatGPT users, Sam Altman says

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says India has the largest number of student users of ChatGPT worldwide.

LLMs violate boundaries during mental health dialogues, study finds

Artificial intelligence (AI) agents, particularly those based on large language models (LLMs) like the conversational platform ChatGPT, are now widely used daily by numerous people worldwide. LLMs can generate texts that are highly realistic, to the point that they could be sometimes mistaken for texts written by humans.

[AINews] Why OpenAI Should Build Slack

a quiet day lets us answer a Sam Altman question

Why top talent is walking away from OpenAI and xAI

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature. Watch as TechCrunch’s Equity podcast hosts Kirsten Korosec, Anthony […]

OpenAI removes access to sycophancy-prone GPT-4o model

The model is known for its overly sycophantic nature and its role in several lawsuits involving users' unhealthy relationships to the chatbot.

AI burnout, billion-dollar bets, and Silicon Valley’s Epstein problem

AI companies have been hemorrhaging talent the past few weeks. Half of xAI’s founding team has left the company — some on their own, others through “restructuring” — while OpenAI is facing its own shakeups, from the disbanding of its mission alignment team to the firing of a policy exec who opposed its “adult mode” feature. On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Kirsten […]

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Anthropic’s Super Bowl ads mocking AI with ads helped push Claude’s app into the top 10

The numbers suggest that Anthropic's Super Bowl commercials, combined with Anthropic's recent release of its new Opus 4.6 model, worked to drive attention to Claude's app and its key differentiator from ChatGPT.

Cohere’s $240M year sets stage for IPO

Cohere surpassed $240 million in annual recurring revenue in 2025, highlighting strong enterprise AI demand as the Canadian startup positions itself for a potential IPO amid intensifying competition from OpenAI and Anthropic.

GPT-5.2 derives a new result in theoretical physics

A new preprint shows GPT-5.2 proposing a new formula for a gluon amplitude, later formally proved and verified by OpenAI and academic collaborators.

Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT

Introducing Lockdown Mode and Elevated Risk labels in ChatGPT to help organizations defend against prompt injection and AI-driven data exfiltration.

Scaling social science research

GABRIEL is a new open-source toolkit from OpenAI that uses GPT to turn qualitative text and images into quantitative data, helping social scientists analyze research at scale.

Beyond rate limits: scaling access to Codex and Sora

How OpenAI built a real-time access system combining rate limits, usage tracking, and credits to power continuous access to Sora and Codex.

[AINews] new Gemini 3 Deep Think, Anthropic $30B @ $380B, GPT-5.3-Codex Spark, MiniMax M2.5

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Amid disappointing earnings, Pinterest claims it sees more searches than ChatGPT

Pinterest's stock tumbles after an earnings miss, with higher-than-expected usage its only bright spot.

Anthropic raises another $30B in Series G, with a new value of $380B

The infusion of funding for the AI startup takes place as it is vying for customers and cultural attention with its competitor, OpenAI.

A new version of OpenAI’s Codex is powered by a new dedicated chip

OpenAI calls the new coding tool the "first milestone" in its relationship with the chipmaker.

AI is already making online swindles easier. It could get much worse.

Anton Cherepanov is always on the lookout for something interesting. And in late August last year, he spotted just that. It was a file uploaded to VirusTotal, a site cybersecurity researchers like him use to analyze submissions for potential viruses and other types of malicious software, often known as malware. On the surface it seemed…

What’s next for Chinese open-source AI

The past year has marked a turning point for Chinese AI. Since DeepSeek released its R1 reasoning model in January 2025, Chinese companies have repeatedly delivered AI models that match the performance of leading Western models at a fraction of the cost. Just last week the Chinese firm Moonshot AI released its latest open-weight model,…