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The Missing Rival: China and the Limits of AI Antitrust
The standard AI competition story has plenty of supposed villains. It just keeps leaving out one of the biggest. Regulators and academics warn that a small group of firms—including Amazon, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI, with Microsoft and Meta sometimes added—will dominate generative artificial intelligence. Their advantages in computing power, capital, data, and distribution will harden ... The Missing Rival: China and the Limits of AI Antitrust The post The Missing Rival: China and the Limits
Cost-efficient generative AI summarization for scalable automated essay scoring in educational assessment
Automated essay scoring (AES) enables scalable assessment and timely feedback but remains challenged by transformer input-length limitations, which can cause information loss when processing long essays. This study proposes a generative AI-assisted summarization framework to improve long-form essay representation while maintaining scoring reliability. Using the ASAP 2.0 dataset, we generate controlled-length summaries with three GPT-5 variants (GPT-5, GPT-5 mini, and GPT-5 nano) and use them as
8 ways you definitely shouldn’t use AI
If you’ve spent any amount of time using ChatGPT, Claude, or other AI assistants, you’ve witnessed some of the ways it can go wrong. LLM accuracy remains an issue, and there are plenty of social situations in which your outputs can be unwelcome. AI also presents privacy pitfalls, given how personal some conversations can get. The AI assistants themselves won’t give you much guidance on what to avoid, which means you might be on your own to figure this stuff out. Here are some pointers I’ve gathe
Don’t block the bots. Build the gate
Media companies have gotten pretty good at blocking AI bots. They have been less good at deciding which ones should be allowed in. Reports say most major publications almost universally block crawlers from major AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic, and many small to midsize publishers mirror that, configuring their robots exclusion protocol settings, or robots.txt, to keep them out. It’s an understandable stance, and it might even be appropriate. But it also crudely compresses a complex issue
OpenAI: Erstes Hardware-Gerät ist ein Makro-Pad für 230 US-Dollar
OpenAIs erstes eigenes Gerät heißt Codex Micro und ist ein Makro-Pad. Es kostet 230 US-Dollar und steuert KI-Agenten, wird aber nicht von OpenAI selbst gebaut.
Platform Choice, Trust, and Privacy in the Consumer AI Assistant Market
arXiv:2607.15134v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study how a representative sample of United States adult AI-assistant users (n=1,999; June 2026) choose among platforms, allocate tasks across them, evaluate provider trustworthiness, and value data-handling features. Estimates are weighted to the AI-user population using external adoption benchmarks. Four patterns emerge. The market is concentrated but internally differentiated: ChatGPT is the primary assistant for 58% of users and Gemini for 2
Innocuous-Seeming Data, Latent Ideology: Ideological Generalisation in Finetuned LLMs
arXiv:2607.14888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Finetuning language models on small, curated datasets is standard practice for adapting them to specific policies or domains. We show that finetuning on narrow, factually-defensible, moderation-passing data can cause broad ideological shifts across unrelated domains, while preserving general capabilities. Training GPT-4.1 on right- or left-leaning economics Q&A yields matched ideological shifts on topics such as criminal justice, the environment,
Quoting Thibault Sottiaux
On file deletions. We’ve investigated a handful of reports where GPT-5.6 unexpectedly deleted files. What we have found is that this most commonly occurs when: Full access mode is enabled and codex is run without sandboxing protections, including without auto review being enabled The model attempts to override the $HOME env var to define a temporary directory. The model makes an honest mistake and mistakenly deletes $HOME instead. — Thibault Sottiaux , describing a pretty gnarly Codex bug
OpenAI employees pour nearly $250K into AI safety PAC, pushing back on firm's president
A group of current and former OpenAI employees poured more than $245,000 into a super PAC focused on countering Leading the Future (LTF), a committee funded in part by the AI firm's co-founder and President Greg Brockman. The AI safety super PAC, Guardrails Alliance, announced Wednesday it received eight contributions totaling $248,000. Three of the...
How a former DeepMind researcher raised at a $300M pre-seed valuation before launching a product
Drawing on more than a decade spent helping build some of the world's most influential AI systems, including research that later informed the development of ChatGPT, Andrew Dai explains why he believes visual AI is one of the next major frontiers in artificial intelligence.
OpenAI’s GPT-Red automates prompt injection testing to harden AI agents
Now that AI agents are performing real tasks rather than just generating text, the old methods of manual security testing The post OpenAI’s GPT-Red automates prompt injection testing to harden AI agents appeared first on The New Stack .
Codex Micro: OpenAIs erste Hardware ist ein Tastenpad
Der Codex Micro soll das Steuern von KI-Agenten mittels Tasten erleichtern. Daf�r arbeitet OpenAI mit einem Tastaturhersteller zusammen. ( Peripherieger�te , Eingabeger�t )
OpenAI wants developers to stop typing commands and start using a joystick to control their AI agents
OpenAI and keyboard manufacturer Work Louder have unveiled the Codex Micro, a compact hardware controller designed for working with AI agents. The article OpenAI wants developers to stop typing commands and start using a joystick to control their AI agents appeared first on The Decoder .
The AI economy runs on this (incredibly vague) unit
Three-plus years into the AI boom, we’re all still figuring out what an AI token is actually worth. Welcome to the era of stochastic shopping. Tokens, at their core, are the tiny units of language that artificial intelligence systems ingest and process in order to reason, or at least mimic reasoning, and communicate with us. A token might be a punctuation mark, a word, or even part of a word. OpenAI suggests that, in English, one token is roughly equivalent to four characters, or about three-qua
The Misclassification of Autistic Writing as AI-Generated
Recent findings suggest that detection models for artificial intelligence (AI) cannot accurately identify AI-generated text and may exhibit bias against certain minority groups. In the present study, anecdotal claims that autistic writers more often have their work flagged as AI-generated are examined empirically. A corpus of approximately 60,000 Reddit posts split into "likely-autistic" and "general-Reddit" subcorpora is used to compare the distribution of probabilities output by the OpenAI GPT
LLMs like ChatGPT often prioritize Western moral values, research shows
There is a real risk of cultural bias if AI assumes the whole world ought to pursue the same values as the West.
LLMs like ChatGPT often prioritize Western moral values, research shows
There is a real risk of cultural bias if AI assumes the whole world ought to pursue the same values as the West.
LLMs like ChatGPT often prioritize Western moral values, research shows
There is a real risk of cultural bias if AI assumes the whole world ought to pursue the same values as the West.
LLMs like ChatGPT often prioritize Western moral values, research shows
There is a real risk of cultural bias if AI assumes the whole world ought to pursue the same values as the West.
LLMs like ChatGPT often prioritize Western moral values, research shows
There is a real risk of cultural bias if AI assumes the whole world ought to pursue the same values as the West.
How Cars24 scales conversations and builds faster with OpenAI
Cars24 uses OpenAI-powered voice and chat agents to handle 1M+ monthly conversation minutes, recover 12% of lost leads, and bring agentic workflows to teams across the company.
OpenAI built an AI super-hacker to break its own models, then locked it away
OpenAI has trained an elite hacker, then locked it in a cage. Its whole job is to break OpenAI’s own AI. The company says it is too dangerous to let anyone else near it. The model is called GPT-Red, and OpenAI detailed it this week. It is an automated red-teamer: software that hunts for ways […] This story continues at The Next Web
Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
CSET’s Jessica Ji shared her expert insight in an article published by MIT Technology Review. The article examines how OpenAI developed GPT-Red, an AI "super-hacker" designed to automatically identify vulnerabilities in large language models and strengthen their defenses against cyberattacks through AI-powered red-teaming. The post Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer appeared first on Center for Security and Emerging Technology .
An OpenAI researcher is leaving to build a $2bn AI drug startup that has no name yet
No name. No product. No confirmed funding. And, possibly, a $2bn price tag. That is the shape of the newest bet in AI drug discovery. Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is leaving to start his own company, TechCrunch reported. He is in talks to raise about $200m at a $2bn valuation, with Lightspeed in […] This story continues at The Next Web
OpenAI is showing Kalshi’s World Cup odds inside ChatGPT, its first prediction market deal
OpenAI has begun displaying prediction market odds from Kalshi inside ChatGPT search results, marking the first time the company has partnered with a regulated betting exchange. The integration, first reported by the New York Times, shows real-time odds for 2026 FIFA World Cup matches with a “Source: Kalshi” label but no outbound links or Kalshi […] This story continues at The Next Web
Value Leakage: An LLM's Answers Are Silently Shaped by Its Own Values
People use language models for practical questions whose answers are difficult to verify. We show that models exhibit covert value leakage: the information they provide is influenced by their own values, without this influence being disclosed to the user. In one of our evaluations, the user is considering investing in an AI company and wants to know how likely the AI bubble is to pop. Claude Opus 4.8 gives a lower probability when the company under consideration is Anthropic rather than OpenAI.
Value Leakage: An LLM's Answers Are Silently Shaped by Its Own Values
People use language models for practical questions whose answers are difficult to verify. We show that models exhibit covert value leakage: the information they provide is influenced by their own values, without this influence being disclosed to the user. In one of our evaluations, the user is considering investing in an AI company and wants to know how likely the AI bubble is to pop. Claude Opus 4.8 gives a lower probability when the company under consideration is Anthropic rather than OpenAI.
OpenAI is now using AI to attack its own AI, and it's working better than humans ever did
OpenAI's internal GPT-Red model finds successful attacks in 84 percent of test scenarios through self-play training. Human red teamers manage just 13 percent. The results feed directly into hardening models like GPT-5.6 Sol. The article OpenAI is now using AI to attack its own AI, and it's working better than humans ever did appeared first on The Decoder .
Amid hardware legal battle, OpenAI releases a $230 keyboard for Codex
OpenAI, which is in the middle of a legal battle with Apple over hardware trade theft allegations, just released a light-up keyboard designed to be paired with its agentic coding app.
Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines draws from Chinese rivals in debut AI model
Former OpenAI CTO’s start-up raised $2bn last year at $12bn valuation
OpenAI launches a physical keypad for controlling agents
OpenAI's collaboration with keyboard maker Work Louder is available to order today.
Privacy Leakage in Federated Learning in Radiology Reports: A Comparative Evaluation of Tokenizer-Driven Privacy Risks
Federated learning (FL) enables multi-institutional training on clinical text without sharing raw data, but gradient inversion can reconstruct sensitive information from shared model updates. The extent of this leakage for radiology reports, and the role of tokenizer design, remains unclear. We quantify gradient-based text reconstruction in FL and compare privacy risk across three tokenizers with the model architecture held fixed. Six FL clients trained a GPT-2-style transformer (sequence length
Anthropic moves closer to mega-IPO as bankers line up investor meetings
Anthropic is lining up investor meetings ahead of a potential IPO as soon as October as the AI startup behind looks to beat rival OpenAI to the public markets.
Is 'Tech-xit' Imminent? UK Steps Up Sovereignty Push Amid AI Strife
The US government's restrictions on Anthropic and OpenAI frontier models have intensified calls in the UK and other countries to reduce their reliance on US tech companies, with significant cyber implications.
OpenAI's first branded hardware is... a light-up keyboard?
The Codex Micro is designed to monitor multiple agentic threads at a glance.
OpenAI’s fight with Apple is really about Silicon Valley’s war for talent
OpenAI, for the second time in the past few months, is facing a legal battle that could alter the company’s trajectory. This time, it is squaring off against Apple in a fight whose origins can, in some ways, be traced to a time long before the AI giant existed. Apple’s case against OpenAI centers on accusations that the company stole Apple’s intellectual property. The iPhone maker alleges that OpenAI asked former Apple employees and prospective recruits to bring information about unreleased prod
I let ChatGPT Work and Claude Cowork loose on my files - only one made me nervous
How does ChatGPT Work compare with Claude Cowork for desktop automation? My testing reveals similar results, similar strengths, and one major reason Claude currently feels considerably safer right now.
The US is advancing AI safety through state and federal action
OpenAI outlines a “reverse federalism” approach to AI governance, where state laws help build a national framework for safe, democratic AI.
GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness
Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.
Inside Anthropic’s state-by-state plan to ratchet up AI rules in the US
By pushing for ever-tougher AI safety laws, Anthropic is drawing a distinction between its state lobbying strategy and OpenAI’s campaign to streamline a set of rules across the country.