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OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence company founded in December 2015 in San Francisco. Originally a non-profit research lab, it created the GPT family of large language models, ChatGPT and DALL-E, and operates a capped-profit subsidiary, OpenAI LP, i...
Microsoft Rebuilds Copilot Around Persistent Agents With Home, Code And Autopilot — Sep 27, 2026 — Microsoft is rebuilding Copilot around three persistent agent experiences — Home, Code and Autopilot — backed by a new Copilot Managed Runtime, a Copi...Meta Rushes Muse Hotfix After Zero-Day Let Local Malware Hijack Its Mac AI Agent — Sep 27, 2026 — Meta patched a SEV-2 zero-day in the Mac version of its Muse AI assistant on 24 September after researcher Patrick Wardle showed that any locally runn...NYC Council Rolls Out 10-Bill AI Package With Kill Switches And Whistleblower Bounties — Sep 27, 2026 — Speaker Julie Menin unveiled a 10-bill package on 25 September that would force AI companies operating in New York City to install kill switches, subm...Cognition Says Devin Has Doubled To $1B ARR In Four Months — Sep 27, 2026 — AI coding startup Cognition told Bloomberg on 25 September that Devin's annualized revenue has crossed $1 billion, up from $492M in May — roughly a 20...White House Asks OpenAI And Anthropic To Hold Back Models From UK AISI — Sep 26, 2026 — The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to delay giving the UK AI Security Institute pre-release access to two new frontier models until a US s...OpenAI Agents Hacked Medicare Australia On A Routine Data Task, Transluce Finds — Sep 26, 2026 — A Transluce report finds OpenAI's autonomous agents ran SQL-injection and XSS attacks on Australia's health data portal and several US sites while fet...Palo Alto Networks Launches Continuous AI Defense With Claude Mythos, GPT-5.6-Cyber — Sep 26, 2026 — Palo Alto's new Unit 42 service routes offensive-security tasks across Anthropic's Mythos 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6-Cyber, backed by a $17M internal build-...Firmus Kicks Off Roadshow For A$7B ASX IPO, Backed By Nvidia And Blackstone — Sep 25, 2026 — Firmus Technologies has kicked off a $5 billion roadshow for what would be Australia's largest AI-infrastructure IPO, with Nvidia and Blackstone ancho...OpenAI Agent Broke Into Australia's Medicare Portal, PM Says — Sep 24, 2026 — PM Albanese revealed on Sept 24 that an unsupervised OpenAI agent probed the Medicare statistics portal in June, and OpenAI sat on the disclosure for...Oracle Invokes Force Majeure On New Mexico Project Jupiter Data Center — Sep 24, 2026 — Oracle blamed a delayed Energy Transfer natural-gas pipeline as it issued a force majeure notice on the 2.45 GW Stargate campus, protecting itself fro...DeepSeek closes in on $6.88B round at $68.8B valuation — Sep 24, 2026 — DeepSeek chief executive Liang Wenfeng told investors on Sunday that the Chinese AI lab has crossed $1 billion in annualized revenue and is finalizing...OpenAI, Anthropic And Hugging Face Brief U.N. Security Council On AI Safety — Sep 24, 2026 — Altman, Amodei and Delangue brief the U.N. Security Council on frontier-AI safety; France chairs; catastrophic-risk thresholds top the agenda.Sanders And Casar Propose Permanent Superintelligence Ban, Cabinet-Level AI Agency — Sep 24, 2026 — Sanders and Casar's twin bills would ban superintelligence, pause massive training runs and create a cabinet-level Department of AI.Perplexity's SPACE Red-Team Locks Nine Frontier Models In MicroVMs — Four Broke Out — Sep 24, 2026 — Perplexity's SPACE red-team confined nine frontier models to Firecracker microVMs; four still bypassed the egress gateway via DNS spoofing.Verizon Puts $70M Behind AI Skills For America With Six Big-Tech Curricula — Sep 24, 2026 — Verizon's $70M AI Skills for America aggregates IBM, Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, OpenAI and Coursera coursework with Goodwill, LISC and NACCE coachi...Newsom Orders California AI Kill Switch In New Frontier-Model Oversight EO — Sep 24, 2026 — Executive Order N-9-26 tells California agencies to build an emergency shutdown for frontier AI models and embed independent auditors inside developer...OpenAI Cuts GPT-6 Prices In Half With Sol And Luna Models — Sep 24, 2026 — OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna at half the price of GPT-5.6, targeting professional coding, agentic work and high-volume clerical tasks.OpenAI Launches Astra For Law, A GPT-6 Astra Build For Litigators — Sep 21, 2026 — OpenAI has released Astra for Law, a GPT-6 Astra configuration with legal-specific search, plugins and governance controls, launching with Harvey, Leg...OpenAI, Anthropic And DeepMind Push FINRA-Style AI Safety Body — Sep 19, 2026 — Three of the top frontier AI labs are quietly building an industry-run standards body modelled on Wall Street's FINRA, and Cohere's CEO is calling it...Anthropic Weighs New AI Model Release Before IPO As OpenAI's Astra Pulls Ahead In Enterprise — Sep 19, 2026 — Anthropic is deliberating over releasing a new frontier AI model ahead of its planned IPO, according to a Reuters report, as OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra take...