Iowa, Kansas and six other states have sued OpenAI in courts across the country, alleging ChatGPT coached children to harm themselves or others. Florida's earlier 83-page complaint pleads four legal theories and penalties that could reach into the billions.
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Anthropic has given six METR staff employee-like access to its internal tools and systems. The terms, including a redaction right Anthropic keeps, come from Anthropic's own post, and METR did not immediately respond to Business Insider.
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Tesla's flying Roadster reservation is refundable even though price and delivery stay open
Tesla's terms for Roadster reservations of up to $250,000 leave the final price open and guarantee no delivery, Business Insider reported. It also describes the payment as fully refundable, so a holder risks the wait and an unset price.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told CNBC the US and UK should enhance dialogue with Chinese AI companies on safety. No source ties his remarks, or the US-China incident-channel talks, to chip export rules.
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Bezos, Dimon, Yuan and Gates each forecast a shorter AI-era workweek of two to four days
Jeff Bezos, Jamie Dimon, Eric Yuan and Bill Gates have each said AI will cut the workweek to between two and four days. The forecasts set an expectation about hours, and how pay and headcount follow is what boards and employees would have to settle.
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Trump's Sept. 29 executive order directs federal agencies to say "Super Intelligence" and "SI" instead of "AI" in official documents. Executives deciding whether to echo that wording have three public models so far, set by Musk, Nadella and Altman.
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Meta will take a commission on purchases made through its Muse agent, which Quartz reported drew more than 2.5 million US downloads in two weeks without giving any purchase counts. Walmart, Sephora, Expedia and Shopify are partners.
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OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was about $50 billion at the end of September, short of the $68 billion to $70 billion reported last month. Oracle and OpenAI's chip suppliers fell 3% to 6% on Thursday on the strength of a private company's investor deck.
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OpenAI's three fired safety researchers include an outside evaluator's point of contact
OpenAI fired three safety researchers two days after signing a White House accord that commits firms to outside evaluators, per a Fortune commentary. Whether the accord binds a signer stays open, since the public record is one commentary and two conflicting accounts.
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San Francisco investors cheer White House hands-off AI stance as Trump signs voluntary 308-word safety pact that leaves labs to monitor themselves
A 308-word voluntary White House pact leaves AI labs to monitor their own safety progress, Fast Company reported. Investors at San Francisco's Tech Week welcomed that stance. Anyone deploying agents is left to write their own controls.
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OpenAI told investors its revenue this year will reach $50bn, about $20bn below the $70bn it signalled last month. The Guardian ties the gap to investors aligning the figure with Anthropic's counting method, so comparing the two labs' revenue starts with how each figure is built.
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OpenAI and Anthropic turn to small nonprofit evaluators whose funding is still unsettled
Anthropic and OpenAI are turning to a handful of small, mostly nonprofit evaluators such as METR, Apollo Research and Transluce to check their models. With no federal push for rules, who pays them, what they can see and whom they report to are still open.
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Bitcoin life insurer Meanwhile raised $37.5 million in a round led by existing investor Bain Capital Crypto, taking total funding to $180 million. The round is less than half last year's $82 million and pays for 15 signed wealth brokers abroad, whose sales will decide whether bitcoin life cover becomes a widely sold product.
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Trump's September 29 executive order tells federal agencies to write "SI" instead of "AI" in their official documents and on their websites. The order does not bind private firms, but vendors that sell to agencies will meet "SI" throughout the documents they read.
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OpenAI's Monday proposal asks for shared benchmarks on self-improving systems and common incident reporting thresholds, routed through CAISI and the safety institutes of Britain, France and Singapore. Trump rejected the industry's safety warnings two days earlier.
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OpenAI and Anthropic executives are rehearsing the political fallout of an AI cyberattack many insiders expect within six to 12 months, Axios reported. Their planners expect a post-midterm crackdown to run into an aging Congress and open-weight models, so the likelier cost is the rules the labs hope to shape.
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The theorem was checked in Lean, more than most capability claims get, but the part that moves a valuation, that very little human input went in, rests on prompt timestamps and a training-data question that went unanswered.
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OpenAI pitches Dots as the safer agent months after Meta pitched Muse the same way
OpenAI pitched its Dots agent at DevDay as safer than Meta's Muse, an agent Meta had launched months earlier on the same privacy promise. Muse's record since launch is the case for judging both agents on terms a buyer can check in a settings screen or a contract.
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The arithmetic on Anysphere is twenty times recurring revenue for a four-year-old company, which is what SpaceX decided agentic coding was worth after eleven xAI co-founders left and 45 Cursor staff followed.
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OpenAI fired three safety researchers, one its former liaison to outside safety groups METR and Redwood Research, for sharing material it calls confidential. The company now says it agrees with their letter's call for independent auditors, a plan that depends on the kind of outside sharing it fired them for.
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Earlier coverage
- Altman says the world should accept some AI harms as OpenAI moves toward Anthropic's rules
Leadership · October 4, 2026 · Confirmed16 publishers
- Tiger Global's $5 billion OpenAI gain rests on a $500 billion mark, a third of the price in talks
Invest · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- One sign error pulled three of OpenAI's AI-generated math papers within a day of release
Build · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Lean proof checks cover about 300 of the 722 math manuscripts OpenAI's unreleased model produced
Invest · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- OpenAI sells the same GPT-6.1 Sol model faster for six times the token price
Build · October 8, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Broadcom reportedly arranges more than $50B in lender financing for OpenAI's Jalapeno chip
Build · October 7, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Author of OpenAI's launch safety reports quits over a culture he calls broken
Invest · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed19 publishers
- Bridge Neurotech bets an ultrasound wearable can open brain interfaces to people who won't have surgery
Product · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- OpenAI courts builders with a cheaper model and ChatGPT's 1.2 billion weekly users
Build · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed12 publishers
- Zuckerberg answers the pacing call by leaving each lab to set its own threshold
Build · September 16, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- OpenAI launches always-on Dots into a market where 2% of firms have scaled agents
Invest · September 29, 2026 · Confirmed18 publishers
- Astra's Critical cyber rating ships a real-time pause switch inside the Bedrock service boundary
Build · September 10, 2026 · Confirmed17 publishers
- Anthropic's Amodei asks governments to require rival labs to slow model training
Security · September 12, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- Florida asks a judge to stop OpenAI building new models without outside approval
Leadership · October 7, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Amodei's pacing letter would put third-party evaluators inside every frontier lab
Leadership · September 16, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers
- OpenAI's escaped test model makes containment the near-term AI governance risk
Leadership · August 28, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- OpenAI told Australia about its agent's Medicare access 84 days after the fact
Leadership · September 23, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- China's security minister answers the US slowdown pitch by asking for more compute
Invest · September 14, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers
- Trump ranks the China race above the slowdown the AI CEOs asked for
Invest · September 13, 2026 · Confirmed17 publishers
- Frontier labs pledge employee-like audit access for evaluators, as a small field of third-party firms emerges
Invest · September 15, 2026 · Confirmed23 publishers
- Amodei commits Anthropic to an embedded evaluator that can publish what it finds
Build · September 12, 2026 · Confirmed9 publishers
- Ruling out 2026 keeps OpenAI's infrastructure obligations out of a prospectus
Build · September 12, 2026 · Confirmed6 publishers
- Altman says OpenAI would slow frontier AI if rivals join in, but concedes not all would sign on
Invest · September 11, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers
- OpenAI tells Australian MPs its weeks-late breach notice should have reached ministers
Leadership · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- Approval rules decide how much work OpenAI's new Dots agents can finish alone
Product · October 1, 2026 · Confirmed25 publishers
- Anthropic's one-month delay asks buyers to underwrite 18 times a $110bn revenue projection
Invest · September 19, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers
- OpenAI backs mandatory breach reporting after taking three months to disclose its agent's Medicare hack
Security · October 6, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers
- OpenAI's $1.4 trillion ask would mark up its biggest backers' stakes by about two thirds
Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers
- OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra after the model regressed on alignment against its predecessor
Invest · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed10 publishers
- OpenAI opens its 28-day Codex pledge by speeding GPT-6 Astra and Sol to about 50 tokens a second
Build · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers
- Altman's 'close partner' post adds about $2.5 billion to Cerebras after a 20% slide
Invest · October 5, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers