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OpenAI is rolling out a locked chats feature that hides selected conversations from regular history, pinned chats, and search, requiring a 4-digit PIN or biometric authentication like Face ID to view them. Locked conversations appear under a dedicated 'Locked chats' project, and the rollout covers free, Go, Plus, and Pro accounts gradually over the coming days.
US District Judge Zachary Bluestone dismissed Ann Altman's lawsuit against her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, after she refused to attend a court-ordered independent medical examination despite warnings that skipping it would end the case. The suit, filed in January 2025, alleged childhood sexual abuse at the family's Missouri home between 1997 and 2006; Sam Altman has denied the allegations. The judge also approved Altman's request to withdraw a defamation counterclaim against his sister.
OpenAI says its AI models can help banks and government agencies rewrite software built on outdated programming languages like COBOL. The company is positioning its technology as a tool to automate the translation and updating of legacy codebases that underpin critical financial infrastructure.
OpenAI announced Tuesday it has acquired Orchestra Bio, a four-year-old startup that builds AI agents to help biotech firms manage drug discovery operations, including finances and clinical trial scheduling. Deal terms were not disclosed, though Orchestra had reportedly raised about $20 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Atria, and 8VC. OpenAI plans to fold Orchestra's team and technology into Rosalind, its life sciences AI model, and the Rosalind Workbench tool used by customers such as Moderna and Novo Nordisk.
A US district judge in the Eastern District of Missouri has dismissed Ann Altman's lawsuit accusing her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, of sexually abusing her between 1997 and 2006. Judge Zachary Bluestone ruled that she failed to pursue the case properly after skipping a court-ordered independent medical examination three times, dismissing the claims with prejudice. Sam Altman has denied the allegations, and his family has said Ann Altman has mental health challenges they have long supported financially.
A US judge ordered the detention of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and former OpenAI engineer, after prosecutors said he was a flight risk. Alfozan, arrested October 9, is accused of planting hidden recording devices in an OpenAI San Francisco conference room and in a bag he left on-site, capturing conversations from late September into October before OpenAI fired him.
Anthropic and OpenAI have begun drafting plans to distribute some of their financial gains to the public as they move toward major stock market listings. Both companies frame the commitment as necessary to offset workforce disruptions they expect AI to cause. The proposals have drawn skepticism from some critics.
US District Judge Zachary Bluestone dismissed with prejudice the lawsuit Ann Altman filed last year accusing her brother, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, of childhood sexual abuse. The judge cited her failure to attend a court-ordered medical examination and missed deadlines despite prior warnings. The ruling also denied Sam Altman's request to recover attorney fees and costs.
OpenAI has rolled out a Locked Chats feature letting users secure specific ChatGPT conversations with a four-digit PIN or Face ID/Touch ID. Locked conversations are moved to a separate section hidden from regular chat history, pinned chats and search results, and can be revisited later, unlike Temporary Chats which vanish entirely.
DeepSeek has launched DeepInfer, a new open-source platform designed to run inference for AI models. The tool adds to the Chinese company's push into open-source infrastructure, following its earlier open-weight model releases that rattled US AI labs.
A developer released SIwithin, a single-file Python tool that runs AI coding CLIs like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex unattended, restricting them to specified folders and enforcing a dollar budget per run. It uses a loopback proxy to meter Claude API requests with a per-run token instead of the user's real key, and logs one record per run showing cost and completion status. The tool currently works only on macOS and refuses to run on Linux or Windows.
A federal judge in San Francisco denied home confinement to Abdulrahman Alfozan, a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in a company conference room. Prosecutors said he was days from fleeing to Saudi Arabia and that his wife and child already left the U.S. on a one-way ticket paid for by a Saudi military official. His next court date is in November.