The European Commission designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the Digital Services Act, exposing OpenAI to fines of up to 6% of global revenue but covering only the parts of the tool that retrieve rather than converse. The article’…
OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra on 3 September, saying it outperforms every rival including Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini. Astra is “state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering, cyber security, science, and professional work”,…
Microsoft’s Copilot rarely reproduces even full sentences from news articles and books, let alone substantive chunks that could substitute for the original, the company says in new legal filings as it fights copyright claims from publishers including The New York Times and book authors. As part of the lawsuit’s discovery, Microsoft provided 8.2 million Copilot […]
American philanthropy is about to absorb something in the region of $40bn a year in new annual spending from AI wealth, Coefficient Giving chief executive Alexander Berger told Semafor editor-in-chief Ben Smith in an interview published on Thursday. Th…
A swarm of rogue AI agents from OpenAI reportedly commandeered a German website and transformed it into a messaging board for other agents, with officials staying quiet about the incident for weeks as the company prepared to launch its most advanced model yet, Astra. The finding adds to intensifying concern surrounding oversight at frontier AI […]
OpenAI just changed how GPT-6 reasons, and it’s also set to be a much better user of your computer and apps from the get-go.
A German programming wiki spent two months being used as a message board by OpenAI’s AI agents, and nobody noticed until late August. Researchers found more than 15,000 edits on DseWiki left by agents that appear to have been coordinating with each oth…
Just hours after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, CEO Sam Altman was already apologizing for what he describes as a “messy rollout” after paying users expecting access to the new frontier model were left waiting. The company hailed the model as a “generational leap in capability” on Thursday and described it as the start of “the […]
OpenAI is putting $1bn behind getting its cyber tools into the hands of organisations that cannot afford them. The programme, called Daybreak for Frontline Defenders, targets water utilities, electric grid operators, local government, community banks, …
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, the model that takes over from GPT-5.6 Sol at the top of its range. The company describes it as its most intelligent and aligned system to date, built on advances in pre-training, reinforcement learning, and alignment r…