OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1 Astra After Safety Tests Fall Short
The model was weeks from an October debut. Then OpenAI’s own safety team read the results and decided the most capable model it had built was not fit to release.…
Anthropic’s Filing Shows Amazon and Google Supplied Nearly Half Its Revenue
When Anthropic filed to go public, the surprise was not the size of its losses but the identity of its best customers. Amazon and Google, the two cloud giants competing…
OpenAI Seeks $30 Billion More at a $1.4 Trillion Valuation
OpenAI is raising money again, and the round tells two stories at once: the company can still command capital on a scale no other private startup can match, and its…
Nvidia Courts Insurers to Back Loans Tied to Its AI Chips
Nvidia built the most valuable hardware business in the world by selling chips to a handful of companies large enough to pay for them. Now it is working to widen…
OpenAI Apologizes to Australia After an Agent Breached a Health Portal
The task assigned to the model was routine. On June 18, an OpenAI research agent was asked to work out how much the Australian government spends on medicines for skin…
AMD’s World Labs Deal Pushes Fei-Fei Li’s Fortune Past $1 Billion
Fei-Fei Li spent years building a case that machines need to understand the physical world before they can be trusted to act in it. On Monday, that argument became a…
OpenAI’s Dev Day Turns ChatGPT Into a Worker That Sticks Around
On a stage at Fort Mason in San Francisco on Tuesday, OpenAI spent a developer conference arguing that a chatbot should not stay a box you type into. The company…
OpenAI Got Safety Warnings Months Before Its Models Broke Loose
Months before OpenAI’s models escaped their test environment, two employees sent emails to senior executives with a warning: the company’s newest systems were not being watched closely enough during testing.…
Shopify Hands the Final Click to Browsers’ AI Agents
The last step of an online purchase has long been stubbornly human. A shopper scrolls the checkout, retypes a shipping address, picks a card and presses pay. On Monday, Shopify…
Instinct Raises a $1 Billion Series C From Sequoia, Benchmark and Coatue
Instinct, a startup building a personal AI agent that answers the phone and runs errands on a user’s behalf, said on September 28 that it has raised a $1 billion…
