AINov 2, 2026OpenAI
LifeVal
OpenAI built a benchmark around kindergarten forms, groceries and caregiving, a welcome shift toward real life that we can't yet check from the outside.
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AINov 1, 2026OpenAI
OpenAI appoints Dan Driscoll as Senior Counselor for National Security Modernization
OpenAI hired a former Army secretary to help sell AI to allied militaries and security agencies, a deliberate step deeper into defense work.
AINov 1, 2026OpenAI
Qodo builds context into AI code review with Codex
Qodo's pitch is that a coding agent needs a second agent checking its work with company context, a sensible idea told here in an OpenAI customer story.
AINov 1, 2026TechCrunch
OpenAI might rebrand its data centers as ‘AI compute campuses’
Calling data centers 'AI compute campuses' won't win anyone over. Paying the bills, giving power back at peak and being accountable to the town might.
AIOct 31, 2026TechCrunch
OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round
OpenAI cutting its raise from thirty to twenty billion dollars is less a crisis than a temperature reading, and the temperature on AI infrastructure money is dropping.
AIOct 30, 2026The Verge
Sam Altman says it’s better for RAM to be in a data center than on your desk
Sam Altman's efficiency case for keeping memory in the cloud has real logic, but it lands hard while his own buying spree is helping push up the price of everyone's hardware.
AIOct 30, 2026The Verge
A single robots.txt line to block AI training: what the OpenAI-Google-Microsoft-Anthropic pledge does and doesn’t fix
Four big AI labs say they will honor one shared opt-out signal for AI training. Publishers would no longer need to track every crawler, but the scheme still relies on sites saying no, Meta hasn’t committed, and it offers no payment.
AIOct 30, 2026MarkTechPost
AI Security Agents Compared: Claude, Codex, Mantis, Cloudflare
Four big labs built AI bug hunters and landed on the same rule: the agent that finds a flaw never gets to confirm it. That rule is the real story.
AIOct 30, 2026The Verge
Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but says OpenAI’s math onslaught won’t stop
OpenAI's CEO says humanity deserves the math his models are producing. We agree on the goal, and think the way it's being delivered is pushing the cost onto the researchers left to check it.
AIOct 30, 2026The Verge
Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web
Wikipedia's nonprofit steps into the Times-versus-OpenAI fight with a middle path we find persuasive: training can be fair use, but handing readers a substitute for the original shouldn't be.
AIOct 30, 2026OpenAI
ChatGPT’s new violence rules and 200+ police referrals put OpenAI’s safety judgments on the record
OpenAI is restricting violence and weapons content, especially for users it predicts are teens, can end chats that show fixation on harming others, and promises a twice-yearly Community Safety Report. The test is whether that report includes error rates and appeals.
AIOct 29, 2026OpenAI
OpenAI rallies librarians, startups and Washington for its fair-use defense against the Times
OpenAI published excerpts from amicus briefs supporting its position that training on copyrighted work is fair use. Some arguments are strong, especially from libraries and accessibility groups. The market-dilution question is where journalism’s real losses could go unremedied.