OpenAI reportedly plans to buy Google’s TPU chips alongside Nvidia
OpenAI reportedly plans to buy Google’s TPU chips alongside Nvidia

OpenAI plans to buy AI chips from Google, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing a person familiar with the matter. The financial terms and other details of the planned purchase were not disclosed. We have not independently verified the report, an…

ChatGPT finally gets the iCloud Mail and Calendar plugins users have been waiting for

Two new highly requested iCloud plugins just got added to ChatGPT, giving people who rely on Apple’s Mail and Calendar services a way to search emails, check appointments, and manage their schedules directly through the chatbot. The integration is roll…

Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs
Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs

On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its findings. But despite its apparent course correction, researchers who spoke to The Verge are growing increasingly tired of the company’s antics. It has been a turbulent few months between OpenAI […]

VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue
VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue

In Marvel’s VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered beings live together in a home. The series is deeply fantastical, yet it plays with some of the ideas that have come to dominate the conversation about real-world generative artificial […]

Google’s Gemini 4 Argon may be overkill for most tasks
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon may be overkill for most tasks

Google’s powerful new Gemini 4 Argon model is now available to subscribers, but its practical benefits for everyday users may be harder to identify

OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics
OpenAI announces three big science discoveries and a new way to work with academics

Less than a month after its mass release of hundreds of manuscripts that it said contained solutions to long-standing mathematics questions, OpenAI is back with three more “major” discoveries in math, computer science, and physics. What’s different this time is the choice to have external experts that OpenAI describes as “shepherds” guiding the results in […]

OpenAI says its AI model has disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis
OpenAI says its AI model has disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis

Hundreds of computer science papers rest on a conjecture that an internal OpenAI model now claims to have refuted, the company said on Monday. OpenAI announced two more results the same day, one in mathematics and one in physics. In a blog post, OpenAI…

Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw
Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw

Microsoft shipped out-of-band updates for .NET, Visual Studio and PowerShell on Sunday. They fix CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow in Brotli, Google’s widely used compression library, which OpenAI’s Codex Security team reported. Node.js, Python packag…

OpenAI’s new GPT-6.1 Terra model gets Astra-like results for one-tenth the price

Nearly a month after announcing the GPT-6.1 Sol model, OpenAI unveiled GPT-6.1 Terra today. The latest addition to the family focuses on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and professional work, while costing 50% less through the API than GPT-5.6 …

OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model for everyday computer work
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Terra, a cheaper model for everyday computer work

OpenAI on Monday released GPT-6.1 Terra, a faster and cheaper AI model built for the routine computer work that fills most office days. It replaces GPT-5.6 Terra and sits in the middle of OpenAI’s range, below Sol and Astra but above Luna. The main cha…