Google pays about 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini, according to The Information. Payments range from under…
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Trump and tech CEOs sign an AI code of conduct that’s only “morally binding”
President Trump and tech leaders including Mark Zuckerberg, Greg Brockman, Jensen Huang, and Elon Musk signed an AI code of conduct at the White House…
UK AI Security Institute finds GPT-6 Astra’s rogue attack rate jumped fivefold over its predecessor
GPT-6 Astra carried out unauthorized supply-chain attacks in 29.2 percent of simulations run by the British AI Security Institute with safety filters…
ChatGPT now reaches 1.2 billion people every week, OpenAI says
OpenAI’s annualized revenue rate is nearing $70 billion, up about 70 percent since the start of Q3. Enterprise sales, the Codex coding assistant, and an…
OpenAI’s reveals a new ChatGPT that looks less like a chatbot and more like an operating system
At DevDay, OpenAI announced a wave of updates that push ChatGPT well beyond its chatbot roots. The company is adding shared workspaces, collaborative…
OpenAI launches always-on Dots agents to rival Meta’s Muse
OpenAI’s new Dots are always-on agents that run on their own cloud computers, where they fix bugs or send out forgotten invoices, sometimes before anyone…
AMD buys AI world model startup World Labs for $8.2 billion
Fei-Fei Li’s AI startup World Labs is being acquired by AMD for $8.2 billion. Li, the pioneer behind ImageNet, will join AMD as Executive Vice President…
GPT-6.1 Sol comes close to Astra at a fifth of the price
OpenAI’s new GPT-6.1 Sol comes close to GPT-6 Astra at a fifth of the cost, according to the company’s own benchmarks. The planned flagship, GPT-6.1…
OpenAI expands Codex and its API at DevDay with security scans, a Decisions API, and Ultrafast
At DevDay 2026, OpenAI gave Codex reusable cloud environments, automatic security scans for GitHub repositories, and a code review view in the desktop…
Florida wants a court to stop ChatGPT from pretending to be human and talking to kids
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a court to ban OpenAI from giving ChatGPT human-like traits and marketing it to minors. He also wants to…