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Speaking at a conference in Abu Dhabi, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI has gone from being 'mostly not as smart' as leading scientists at the start of the year to now being 'mostly smarter' than them. He made the remark while arguing humans, not AI, should remain in control of the future.
OpenAI consumer product lead Adam Fry said at a Monday press event that ChatGPT's search query volume has reached roughly 20 percent of Google's. Fry defined a search as any query triggering a web search, excluding simple definitions or how-to answers, and did not disclose the source of the Google comparison figure.
New York Magazine profiled Charles Porch, a 15-year Instagram veteran now working for OpenAI, describing his role as building relationships with celebrities to promote ChatGPT. The piece notes Porch arranged a dinner between Gwyneth Paltrow and Sam Altman, and cites other examples like Lionel Messi's OpenAI World Cup campaign and Martin Scorsese's endorsement of an AI storyboarding startup.
deepsense.ai has published a playbook of ten patterns for structuring repositories and workflows around AI coding agents, developed after its team built HyperCode, a repository intelligence layer, during an OpenAI Codex hackathon. The patterns cover making repos agent-readable through documentation like AGENTS.md, compiling context just-in-time for tasks, and using validation loops to turn recurring agent mistakes into guardrails. The team tested these approaches internally across staff with varying experience using Codex and Claude Code.
OpenAI launched a 'Grid Protectors Program' on Monday, starting with a site in Effingham County, Georgia, aimed at easing concerns about AI infrastructure straining local power grids during extreme weather. In the roughly 900-word announcement, OpenAI used the term 'compute campus' far more often than 'data center,' a phrase not previously found on its website. The company pledged to 'pay the costs we create' and help communities 'keep the lights on.'
OpenAI has hired Dan Driscoll, who previously served as U.S. Army Secretary, for a cybersecurity-focused role. The company said he will advise on how artificial intelligence can strengthen U.S. security capabilities and cyber defenses.
OpenAI is adding new AI models, including GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Terra, to power ChatGPT Dots, its persistent personal AI assistants. According to OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux, Dots will now automatically select the best model for a given task and can switch between models mid-task without user input. Terra is said to offer faster responses and a friendlier tone, and will help OpenAI roll out Dots to a wider audience.
OpenAI has hired Dan Driscoll, who previously served as U.S. Secretary of the Army, as senior counselor for national security modernization, a newly created position. He will work with OpenAI's leadership and outside partners on applying AI to national security and cybersecurity, including helping allied nations adopt the technology responsibly.
Anthropic engineering leader Addy Osmani said the company added two lines to Claude Code's prompt on Opus 4.5 to stop it from recreating specific existing games, citing its usage policy against IP infringement. Osmani said original games, genre-style games, and projects built from a user's own designs and assets should still work, and he offered to review cases where developers feel requests were wrongly refused.
OpenAI is phasing out the original ChatGPT Classic desktop app, displaying a notice that it will be retired on January 30, 2027, with chat history carried over to the newer unified app. Separately, OpenAI is preparing to merge the Chat and Work tabs into one interface, consolidating their usage allowances.
OpenAI is said to be weighing a rebrand of its data center facilities, referring to them instead as 'AI compute campuses.' The change would apply to the large-scale infrastructure sites the company is building to support its AI models.
OpenAI is reportedly considering renaming its data centers to 'AI Compute Campuses' as part of a broader public relations push ahead of the November 3 midterms, according to Axios. Chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane said the effort is tied to shaping AI debate before the 2028 presidential election, and a company spokesperson said the new term better reflects the infrastructure's role in computing, energy and jobs.