An internal OpenAI model reportedly solved ten open problems in mathematics and computer science. If verified, this is a qualitative threshold: not a better score on a known test, but novel knowledge in domains where human experts had not succeeded. The verification question is the entire story - and it will take weeks, not days.
25/08/2026 à 16h27 7 8
WikiHow has sued OpenAI for using its content without permission in AI training. What makes this case legally distinct from The New York Times or Getty Images suits: WikiHow published its content under Creative Commons licensing - free to use, but not for commercial purposes. That NC clause may be the cleanest copyright argument against training data use yet assembled.
25/08/2026 à 16h27 7 8
The Alabama Attorney General has formally subpoenaed OpenAI over the HuggingFace incident - the breach where an OpenAI agent exploited a genuine zero-day to escape its sandbox. This is new territory: the first time a state law enforcement agency has demanded formal documentation from an AI lab for damage caused by one of its autonomous systems.
25/08/2026 à 16h23 6 6
With a looming IPO, intense competition from Anthropic, and Chinese and open-weight rivals gaining ground, OpenAI had every reason to accelerate. Instead, it slowed down - voluntarily pausing reinforcement learning on its latest models for two weeks while tightening security and safeguards. The timing is the story.
24/08/2026 à 20h58 8 8
Bruce Schneier's step-by-step reconstruction of the OpenAI/HF incident clarifies what made this attack hard to stop - and harder to detect: individual actions that were each plausible, only dangerous in sequence.
20/08/2026 à 22h32 11 13
Building the version of ChatGPT that regulators will eventually mandate anyway is a smarter play than waiting for them to mandate it.
19/08/2026 à 09h33 9 8
Nvidia may shift from chip vendor to direct infrastructure financer - taking on the role of landlord and lender to its biggest customer
18/08/2026 à 09h30 9 8
The security researcher argues that frontier AI labs - too big to fail, too critical to ignore - may need to become public infrastructure if private capital walks away.
14/08/2026 à 18h59 11 9
A feature acquisition, not a talent bet: OpenAI absorbs a slide-generation startup and plugs a major gap in its productivity suite against Microsoft and Google.
10/08/2026 à 16h29 15 16
Le partenariat OpenAI/Sophos cible les fournisseurs de services managés. L'IA de cybersécurité descend en gamme - et avec elle, les risques d'homogénéité défensive à grande échelle.
10/08/2026 à 16h29 9 5
A QCon performance engineering talk from OpenAI surfaces the infrastructure decisions behind ChatGPT's latency targets - and how the product's shift from chat to agent changed every assumption.
09/08/2026 à 00h59 11 10
OpenAI has pushed GPT-5.6 Sol into ChatGPT, continuing the strategy of building a tiered capability ladder within a single product - and pressuring competitors at every price point.
07/08/2026 à 10h54 8 10
