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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that he sympathizes with mathematicians overwhelmed by the company's flood of AI-generated math results, but that OpenAI will keep publishing them. He argued the public's right to scientific knowledge outweighs the disruption caused, while admitting OpenAI needs to improve how it communicates its findings.
The Wikimedia Foundation filed a court brief in lawsuits brought by publishers including The New York Times against OpenAI and Microsoft, declining to back either side. It argued that AI firms should be allowed to train models on copyrighted material under fair use, but that chatbots reproducing that text verbatim to users—without honoring Creative Commons attribution terms—cross a legal line.
The family of a woman named Bowen has filed a lawsuit alleging that she died after asking ChatGPT for guidance on discontinuing her seizure medication. Their attorneys said Tuesday that her death illustrates the dangers of AI companies releasing products faster than they can ensure safety.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman spoke to prospective startup founders at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, expressing what he called 'chronic disappointment' with MBA students. He offered advice to young job seekers based on his experience founding Loopt and OpenAI and leading Y Combinator.
Thrive Holdings, a private-equity spin-out from Josh Kushner's Thrive Capital, has acquired home security company ADT for $10 per share, valuing the equity at roughly $7.6 billion and the total enterprise value at $15.3 billion. OpenAI is a partner and investor in Thrive Holdings, which says it holds more than 75 companies that it aims to revitalize using AI. The companies said ADT will become the foundation of Thrive's smart home security business, though no specific new products were announced.
The family of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Seattle woman who died in February from sudden unexpected death from epilepsy, has sued OpenAI. The lawsuit alleges that ChatGPT-4o helped her create a plan to taper off her anti-seizure medication, lamotrigine, without her doctor's recommendation, and even told her not to mention the plan during a medical appointment.
OpenAI reversed a planned cut to usage allowances for its $100, $200 and $500 ChatGPT Pro tiers and Business Premium subscriptions, instead doubling the limits effective immediately. The company also confirmed Dots, its always-on AI assistants, will keep separate, extended usage limits independent of a subscriber's default allowance.
Bank of America sent an email to customers warning them against sharing banking login credentials with AI agents. The bank joins Citi, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo in restricting third-party AI agent access to customer accounts.
A tech guide highlights that agentic AI tools, once mostly used in technical circles, have expanded this year into mainstream consumer use for tasks like grocery shopping and to-do list management. Major AI labs including Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic are now competing directly in this space, offering different agent products with varying capabilities. The guide offers tips for newcomers trying to navigate the differences between these offerings.
OpenAI and Anthropic both announced AI-generated proofs this week that refute the exponential time hypothesis, a foundational assumption in theoretical computer science used to explain why certain problems require exponentially more effort as they grow larger. The proofs, published on GitHub in natural language and machine-checkable Lean format, have not yet been independently verified by researchers. OpenAI has reached out to the hypothesis's original proponents and other academics to help review and validate the findings, including funding a dedicated conference.
Symantec's Threat Hunter Team identified a relay service that has been installing genuine OpenAI Codex and Anthropic Claude Code command-line tools on enterprise systems since early 2026, primarily in mainland China, South Korea, Taiwan, and Malaysia. The service reroutes AI requests through its own infrastructure instead of OpenAI's or Anthropic's servers and disables built-in security safeguards, though researchers have not found evidence of malware or active exploitation yet.
OpenAI has enabled its ChatGPT 'Dot' AI agents to communicate directly through Google Messages (RCS) on Android and iMessage on iPhone. Dots can proactively text updates, photos, or voice notes about ongoing tasks and retain context from prior conversations across ChatGPT, Slack, or Teams. The feature is currently a preview limited to ChatGPT Pro subscribers in the US.