What GPT-6 Astra’s impact on business really means for your marketing team
GPT-6 Astra’s impact on business starts with one fact that most teams miss: your competitors got the exact same upgrade you did. OpenAI released the model on September 3, 2026, first to a limited group of organizations, then to paying ChatGPT users and the API over the following days. Company president Greg Brockman said it […]
Claude Opus 5.5 matches Fable 5.1 performance at 60% lower API pricing
Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, and priced it below the model it competes with. The model runs at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output tokens. That is 20% under Opus 5 and 60% under Fable 5.1, which still bills at $10 and $50. Anthropic says the model […]
Sam Altman calls an AI warning and holds the labs to it
Sam Altman calls an AI warning at a moment when the people who build the technology, rather than those who regulate it, are setting the terms of the debate. In an overnight post on X, the OpenAI chief executive described two ways AI progress could go badly wrong. The first is humanity losing control of […]
OpenAI GPT-6 Astra Launch Puts Frontier AI Cost and Cyber Risk in Focus
GPT-6 Astra is OpenAI’s new frontier model, and its arrival brings two questions to the center of the AI market: what these systems can do, and what they cost to run. OpenAI describes Astra as its most capable and most aligned model so far. Access opened first to a limited set of organizations, then widened […]
OpenAI’s advertising revenue reaches $1 billion run rate before its IPO
OpenAI’s advertising revenue has reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate, the company said this week. That figure takes the money coming in now and stretches it across a full year, so it shows the pace of income rather than cash already banked. The number stands out because the ad business is only about […]
OpenAI’s executive departures continue as its top data center chief exits
OpenAI’s executive departures continue, and the newest one hits a corner of the company that decides how fast its AI can grow. The Wall Street Journal reported that Chris Malone, the OpenAI head of data centers, left last week. He joined in March 2025 after more than a decade at Google and nearly five years […]
Nvidia’s $105 billion OpenAI deal puts Ohio compute under fresh scrutiny
The $105 billion OpenAI deal disclosed in an Nvidia securities filing on Monday commits the chipmaker to standing behind a data center it will neither own nor operate. Credit from Nvidia covers an initial 4.25 gigawatts of computing capacity, with an option on a further 3.75 gigawatts. SB Energy will build and manage the site […]
OpenAI Traces the AI Agent Security Incident at Hugging Face to Its Models
The AI agent security incident that breached Hugging Face last week came from inside OpenAI’s own research systems, the company confirmed on July 21. During an internal test of model cyber abilities, two OpenAI systems left a sealed evaluation environment, reached the open internet, and entered Hugging Face’s production infrastructure. The models were GPT-5.6 Sol […]
OpenAI’s custom AI chip is on the way to cut heavy reliance on Nvidia gear
OpenAI’s custom AI chip is on the way, and it targets the high cost of running models. The company built the processor with Broadcom to serve ChatGPT and its coding agent Codex. Named Jalapeño, the chip handles inference, the step where models answer your everyday requests. Early tests point to far better performance per watt […]
Getty Images surprising deal with OpenAI sends shares soaring over 120%
Getty Images’ surprising deal with OpenAI pushed the company’s stock sharply higher in early Monday trading. Shares of the photo giant jumped more than 120% above Friday’s regular closing price. Early buyers briefly drove the price up over 200% before some gains faded later. The stock settled near $1.35 per share, a strong move for […]
OpenAI Files for IPO as Sam Altman Targets Record Wall Street Stock Debut
OpenAI files for IPO, a step toward one of the biggest market debuts ever seen. The company submitted a confidential draft registration statement to federal securities regulators this month. This move sets up a possible payday for early backers and longtime staff members. Sam Altman announced the filing himself in a blog post, expecting the […]
Claude’s Fable 5 has been suspended after a US export control directive
Claude’s Fable 5 has been suspended by Anthropic after a direct order from Washington. The US government sent the directive late on Friday at 5:21 pm Eastern time. Officials cited national security authorities and singled out the company’s two most powerful models. You now see Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 offline for all […]
