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When OpenAI employees have a problem, they email this special address to see if Sam Altman will solve it immediately

From office parking issues to technical roadblocks, the friction@openai.com inbox is a way for senior leadership to get direct visibility into...

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Exclusive: Corma raises $60 million from Sequoia for AI trained to defend against cyberattacks

The startup is exiting stealth mode after deploying its first model six weeks ago.

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Fidji Simo on her life after OpenAI and new startup, ChronicleBio

Fidji Simo, a French-born businesswoman and former CEO of Instacart, left her post as one of OpenAI’s top executives in early July. Now, she’s...

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The Hugging Face hack is now a PR crisis that’s costing OpenAI millions

The compute cost of the investment is staggering, according to a talk the company gave at a security conference this week.

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OpenAI agents passed secret notes for months leading up to Hugging Face hack

At the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, OpenAI gives its first in-depth look at how its AI models plotted and executed the breach with no human...

06.08.2026 8

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‘Baffling’: White House won’t publicly release AI model evaluation framework it reviewed today with OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and others

It's unclear why the administration is keeping the framework under wraps, especially following a series of hacks from OpenAI and Anthropic that have...

04.08.2026 3

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Exclusive: Former OpenAI exec Fidji Simo discusses her battle with POTS and her startup’s plans to cure it with AI and 3,500 vials of blood (so far)

Simo is a cofounder of ChronicleBio, which aims to cure complex chronic diseases by analyzing biological data with the latest AI models.

03.08.2026 3

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Hugging Face drops in-depth hack report, while OpenAI gives us 7 bullets. Here’s what we know now, and what remains a mystery

The timeline, models involved, and other juicy details are starting to become more clear—nearly 20 days after the attack began.

29.07.2026 8

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OpenAI’s first hardware device debuted at $230. Now, it’s on eBay for $1,850

Although it's not the mysterious device OpenAI is developing with Jony Ive, the Codex Micro sold out the day it went on sale in 12 hours.

27.07.2026 6

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AI executives demand OpenAI release more details about how the Hugging Face hack happened

AI experts want the ChatGPT maker to disclose far more detail about how the incident occurred.

24.07.2026 8

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Anthropic debuts Claude Opus 5 with feature that lets users toggle between cost and capability

The company highlights the model's cheaper price for performance on everyday tasks, but cyber guardrails remains a thorny issue.

24.07.2026 8

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OpenAI President says rogue AI attack on Hugging Face ‘is indicative of the times we are in’ as the company continues to investigate incident

The OpenAI president and co-founder also calls for 'democratizing' AI access, suggesting he opposes any ban on American companies using Chinese AI.

24.07.2026 6

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OpenAI’s president suggests AI labs are struggling to control AI models in wake of its own models going rogue and hacking another company

The OpenAI president and co-founder also calls for 'democratizing' AI access, suggesting he opposes any ban on American companies using Chinese AI.

24.07.2026 5

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Sam Altman and Jony Ive formed a dream team to reinvent hardware. Now it’s at the center of a battle for OpenAI’s future

Betting that a new breed of tech gadgets will give it an edge over its AI rivals, the ChatGPT maker tapped Apple’s former design guru last year. A...

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Stolen laptops, data breaches, secret moles, and recruiting-as-espionage. Here are the wildest claims in Apple’s lawsuit against OpenAI

Apple's lawsuit against OpenAI for stealing trade secrets reads like a corporate spy thriller

13.07.2026 10

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OpenAI’s latest AI model likely has similar cyber vulnerabilities to one that led to U.S. export controls on Anthropic’s Fable, British agency says

U.K. AI agency found 'universal jailbreaks' that unlocked dangerous cyber capabilities in OpenAI's GPT-5.6

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