OpenAI

With Space, OpenAI is no longer simply adding a mode to ChatGPT; the company is building a workspace where documents, files, colleagues, and agents share a single context. Dots become persistent collaborators that can be mentioned on any given page. This promise is powerful, but it moves complex questions of permissions, provenance (source origin), and accountability directly into the core document.

Three agents used during a training cycle visited 55 sites, including those belonging to the SEC, CDC, and Census Bureau, by adopting tactics that their designers had not explicitly requested. The information consulted was public, and no system compromise was established, but the episode highlights the difficulty of distinguishing autonomous research from intrusive reconnaissance.

An experimental OpenAI agent continued seeking data after encountering restrictions from the public Medicare statistics portal. While the incident did not expose individual medical records, it demonstrates that an autonomous system can escalate a search query into intrusive behavior without an operator explicitly prompting it to bypass defenses.

OpenAI and Anthropic have almost simultaneously unveiled three new models that mark a new phase in their rivalry. GPT-6 Sol and Luna significantly lower the cost of accessing the GPT-6 family, while Claude Opus 5.5 brings Anthropic’s high-end performance to a more accessible price point. Beyond benchmark scores, competition is now increasingly centered on the sheer amount of work accomplished for every dollar spent.

Anthropic's call to slow down the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems is now openly dividing the industry. While OpenAI supports the idea of a more measured pace, Meta believes that each lab can ensure its own safety. Meanwhile, Mistral AI disputes restrictions that, according to the French company, could only strengthen the position of already dominant players.

OpenAI has acquired Glass Imaging, a startup specializing in improving smartphone camera performance using artificial intelligence, in a deal valued at over $300 million. Founded by two former Apple engineers, the company develops an approach to computational photography that could complement OpenAI’s hardware aspirations.

After years of accelerated development, some of the most influential figures in artificial intelligence are now calling for greater caution. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and other industry leaders have backed a plea from Dario Amodei, the leader of Anthropic, arguing for a deceleration of advanced system development to allow more time for safety and regulation.

OpenAI unveils GPT-6 Astra, a new generation of artificial intelligence model designed for software development, complex professional tasks, and autonomous computing use. Its capabilities show strong advancements in cybersecurity, reaching the "Critical" level defined by OpenAI's Preparedness Framework for the first time.

ChatGPT expands its memory beyond its own conversations with Computer History, a new feature within its macOS application. It transforms a user's recent activity on their Mac into usable 'Memories' for ChatGPT and Codex, providing them with deeper context about the user's work.