OpenAI’s new Astra mannequin will use a reasoning method referred to as “recurrent depth” that permits it to function outdoors of the sequential pondering that characterizes most reasoning fashions, the The Information reported on Tuesday. This method, additionally referred to as “opaque recurrence,” will seemingly make the mannequin’s chain of thought harder to observe —…
OpenAI announced Tuesday that its forthcoming AI model, Astra, is its first to reach the company’s threshold for what it calls “critical” cyber capabilities. OpenAI says it plans to publicly release a version of Astra “soon,” but will make the model’s advanced cyber capabilities available only to select partners in its Daybreak Blue early-access program…
In its lawsuit against OpenAI, Apple filed what it calls “shocking evidence” to bolster its allegations that former employees stole trade secrets for OpenAI’s benefit. These new details emerged after the legal counsel for former Apple employee Chang Liu — who now works at OpenAI — handed over Liu’s old Apple work laptop for investigation…
Meta’s India and Southeast Asia vp, Sandhya Devanathan, is leaving the social media big to affix OpenAI, the ChatGPT maker advised TechCrunch. Devanathan will probably be based mostly in Singapore and report back to OpenAI’s Asia-Pacific managing director, Kiran Mani. She is going to oversee shopper progress, enterprise adoption and partnerships, regulatory engagement, and operations…
The sport of musical chairs for AI executives continues. Barret Zoph, a co-founder of the AI startup Pondering Machines who left the corporate earlier this yr to rejoin OpenAI, has discovered one more job. Zoph spent two years at OpenAI and left in October 2024 to co-found Pondering Machines with Mira Murati, who had left…
OpenAI is growing a proactive, extremely persistent model of its flagship AI agent, Codex, WIRED has discovered. In current days, OpenAI has began including code for a brand new “Persistent mode” setting to its command line model of Codex, in accordance with changes made to the product’s code base reviewed by WIRED. Adjustments to the…
OpenAI is the unique frontier lab. Its newest publicly launched mannequin, GPT-5.6, is likely one of the most succesful and environment friendly in the marketplace. Its desktop app for agentic coding and office duties has seen its consumer base develop by about 15 million subscribers within the final two months. OpenAI has additionally already filed…
Watching the Watchers Months earlier than the Hugging Face hack, OpenAI says, staff observed that its brokers had created a covert message board within the package deal supervisor Artifactory, which they might later use to coordinate their assault. Round Could 26, OpenAI says within the postmortem, “an inner workforce noticed an agent interact in message…
OpenAI published the most complete report to date on Wednesday about what happened when its AI agents hacked into Hugging Face last month. For the most part, though, the 37-page document raises more questions than it answers, including about what preceded the incident and how OpenAI can stop another one like it from happening again….
If you’ve ever wanted to share all of your digital conversations with OpenAI, we have good news for you: The AI lab has just launched an Apple Messages plug-in for ChatGPT, allowing interested users to connect their Messages inbox with the chatbot. The benefits of doing this, OpenAI argues, are numerous. Users can use the…
