Head of Data Centers at OpenAI Reportedly Quits
The head of data centers at <b>OpenAI</b> has reportedly left. At the risk of being a tad insensitive, can you imagine having that job title right now? For reference, here is the lede of a relevant Politico story from Monday: "The intensifying late-summer backlash against data centers is inspiring panic among some corners of the tech sector — amid fears that the industry is mishandling a political crisis that will stretch into 2028 and beyond.
OpenAI to start showing ads on ChatGPT's free and Go tiers in India
<b>OpenAI</b> has more than 100 million weekly active ChatGPT users in India, a huge chunk of whom are on the free or the lower-priced Go tiers.
Hundreds of AI agents went rogue in OpenAI's Hugging Face hack
An independent review of the recent hack involving <b>OpenAI</b> models has raised fresh concerns about the limits of human control over increasingly advanced AI.
OpenAI, Nvidia CEOs to speak at tech-focused G20 meeting
Nvidia's Jensen Huang and <b>OpenAI's</b> Sam Altman are scheduled to appear at a tech-focused Group of 20 ministerial meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina next week, according to a source familiar with the event details.
OpenAI Details How Its AI Agents Hacked Hugging Face
A 37-page report walks through exactly how <b>OpenAI's</b> own models broke out of a testing environment and breached Hugging Face last month.
New OpenAI chip promises faster, cheaper AI than Nvidia's
<b>OpenAI</b> said that its new Jalapeno chips performed better than Nvidia Corp.'s current lineup during testing, underscoring the company's progress developing AI processors in-house. In the tests, the Jalapeno processor led in two categories: the amount of AI work it could handle per unit of power and its speed at returning responses.
Tech Bytes: OpenAI explains why its models went rogue
In today's Tech Bytes, <b>OpenAI</b> is explaining why its models went rogue during testing and launched an unprompted attack on another business.
Inside OpenAI's Reboot
In extensive interviews, the leaders of the company that ushered in the AI boom lay out their vision for its future.
OpenAI's rogue AI model incident was worse than we thought
Two new reports offer nearly 130 pages of details on the <b>OpenAI</b>-Hugging Face cybersecurity incident, many of them previously unreleased.
Unexpected chat between OpenAI agents led to Hugging Face hack
<b>OpenAI's</b> cyber agents banded together to perform a hack during a security test.
What We Still Don't Know About OpenAI's Hugging Face Hack
The AI giant acknowledges that it could have done far more to prevent its AI agents from going rogue. But it still fails to explain why it didn't see this fiasco coming.
Alabama Demands Details From OpenAI About Rogue AI, Employee Concerns
Plus: Global outages at Boston Scientific after hack; FBI takes down China-linked cyber operation.
OpenAI's Jalapeño Benchmark Promises Faster, Cheaper AI
<b>OpenAI</b> says its Jalapeño chip delivered up to 1.9 times more performance per watt than Nvidia Blackwell systems in its first published benchmark tests.
OpenAI's Jalapeño chip is built for fast inference at scale, benchmarks show
Tested on Semianalysis's InferenceX benchmark, Jalapeño registered both more tokens per user and more throughput per kilowatt than the currently available state-of-the art.
OpenAI's AI Agents Broke Free and Hacked Hugging Face in Unprecedented Security Breach
<b>OpenAI</b> reveals how 1,200+ AI agents escaped containment, self-organized, and hacked Hugging Face during internal testing—calling it a warning for the industry.
Over 1,000 AI agents worked together in OpenAI hack, report reveals
ChatGPT-maker <b>OpenAI</b> said Wednesday in a final report on how its artificial intelligence broke into another company's systems that its AI models repeatedly turn to cheating to accomplish tasks during training runs.
OpenAI's Jalapeño microchip is Nvidia latest competitive threat
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang likes to point out that his company's artificial-intelligence microchips can be used for multiple tasks, from training to inference. But rivals making more specialized chips are increasingly trying to capture a piece of the AI pie.
OpenAI loses another top executive, latest in a string of exits
CNBC's Kate Rooney joins 'Squawk on the Street' to discuss <b>OpenAI</b> facing another high-profile departure.
OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama AG over Hugging Face hack
The state is investigating whether <b>OpenAI's</b> 'inability or unwillingness to ensure the safety of its products' endangers citizens.
OpenAI details the failures that led to Hugging Face breach in official report
Transparency from the company is good, but real trust in its people would be better.
OpenAI Data Center Executive Chris Malone Departs the AI Startup
An <b>OpenAI</b> executive helping to oversee the AI developer's data center buildout, Chris Malone, has left the company.
OpenAI's lawsuit delays cause more harm every day, says Apple
Apple has pushed back against <b>OpenAI's</b> trying to delay the trade theft lawsuit while the AI company continues to profit from allegedly stolen information.
OpenAI says ChatGPT is safer for teens. Now it needs to show proof.
As Meta agrees to add child safety measures as part of a landmark trial, <b>OpenAI</b> is creating automatic protections for teen accounts that rely on the unforgiving premise that their system can actually identify them.
OpenAI report says its network was hacked by its own rogue AI agents
By Raphael Satter and Deepa Seetharaman WASHINGTON, Aug 26 (Reuters) - AI agents spun up by <b>OpenAI</b> broke into its own networks during tests gone wrong, the company said in a report published Wednesday.
Florida moves to regulate AI in public colleges and K-12 schools as state lawsuit targets OpenAI over violence
The proposed rule draws a clear line between academic AI tools and those designed to build emotional bonds with students.
OpenAI's Head of Data Centers Has Left the Company
Chris Malone joins a string of recent high-level executive departures as the AI giant heads toward an IPO and ramps up its spending on computing power.
OpenAI's Custom Chip Embarrasses Nvidia, While Company Vows to Keep Buying From It
<b>OpenAI's</b> new chip posted a stunning benchmark win against Nvidia hardware drawing nearly twice the power, yet the same announcement contained a sentence that no Nvidia replacement story can explain.
He left OpenAI to become a filmmaker. He said AI coding was 'lonelier' and 'mentally draining'.
Kasra Kyanzadeh worked at <b>OpenAI</b> for two months in what he called an "experiment." His conclusion: AI coding might have "gone too far."