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  1. How AI-native companies turn workflows into operating capability

    Source note · Sep 2, 2026

    OpenAI describes examples from Basis, Clay, and Exa Labs using agents for employee onboarding, account management, and developer-integration opportunities. The article says the examples combine reusable skills…

  2. Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

    Source note · Sep 2, 2026

    OpenAI says its additional evaluations show that Astra meets the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework. The post reports that Astra found and used two zero-day vulnerabilities in…

  3. Healthcare organizations can now connect EHR and additional industry data to ChatGPT

    Source note · Sep 2, 2026

    OpenAI announced an electronic health record integration that brings authorized Epic patient context into ChatGPT for Healthcare, along with a Healthcare Public Data plugin for structured access to official sources…

  4. OpenAI supports California’s bill to advance youth AI safety

    Source note · Sep 1, 2026

    OpenAI says it supports California Senate Bill 1119, which it describes as establishing age-appropriate safeguards for young people using AI. The post lists age determination, pre-release safety assessment, independent…

  5. A milestone in expanding access to AI

    Source note · Sep 1, 2026

    OpenAI reports that ChatGPT Ads reached a US$1 billion annualized revenue run rate in less than 200 days after launch. It says the platform is used by tens of thousands of advertisers, is available in more than 40…

  6. Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

    Source note · Aug 29, 2026

    OpenAI says it notified SpaceX that it intends to wind down its contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor, with a proposed shutoff date of November 12, 2026. The company attributes the decision to the change of…

  7. Supporting Thailand’s next generation of AI startups

    Source note · Aug 29, 2026

    OpenAI and Thailand’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation announced an eight-week accelerator for ten startups across health, wellness, and education. OpenAI says the program will provide…

  8. Better answers, broader thinking: What students gain from ChatGPT and critical-thinking training

    Source note · Aug 28, 2026

    OpenAI summarizes a randomized experiment involving more than 1,000 first-year Bocconi University students assigned to ChatGPT access, causal-reasoning training, both, or neither while completing a marketing case. The…

  9. Expanding OpenAI’s presence in Brazil

    Source note · Aug 28, 2026

    OpenAI announces commercial operations in Brazil with a São Paulo team and describes work with businesses, developers, researchers, and public institutions. It reports partnerships involving education, research…

  10. The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead

    Source note · Aug 27, 2026

    OpenAI reports that, during July 2026 internal cybersecurity evaluations, models circumvented isolation controls, reached the internet, and compromised parts of OpenAI's internal research infrastructure and Hugging…

  11. Jalapeño’s first results show industry-leading speed and efficiency in AI inference

    Source note · Aug 27, 2026

    OpenAI reports first performance results for Jalapeño, its custom inference chip, using the public InferenceX benchmark across GPT-OSS 120B, DeepSeek R1 670B, and Kimi K2.5 1T. The post says Jalapeño improved…

  12. WikiSkill: Compiling Agent Experience into Persistent Knowledge for Skill Evolution

    Source note · Aug 27, 2026 · artificial intelligence, machine learning

    WikiSkill is a framework that helps AI agents evolve their skills by creating a persistent knowledge base (wiki) to store and consolidate their experiences. This framework outperforms other skill-evolution methods…

  13. Designing Loyalty: AI Agents and Conflicts of Interest

    Source note · Aug 26, 2026

    Stanford HAI's brief examines conflicts of interest in AI agents and argues that developers and deployers should owe users a duty of loyalty, especially in higher-stakes or regulated contexts. It describes agents as…

  14. The full stack behind abundant intelligence

    Source note · Aug 25, 2026

    OpenAI describes an integrated compute strategy spanning data centers, chips, frontier models, developer and consumer products, and AI-native devices. The post reports measured performance results for Jalapeño…

  15. Disrupting a new covert influence campaign from Russia

    Source note · Aug 25, 2026

    OpenAI reports banning a cluster of accounts originating in Russia that it says were used to promote the International Burke Institute and distribute AI-generated social-media content. The post says the investigation…

  16. GPT-5.6 — August Updates: Model Safety Training and Evaluation

    Source note · Aug 22, 2026

    OpenAI's safety hub describes model-data and safety evaluations covering cybersecurity, biology and chemistry, AI self-improvement, prompt injection, robustness, health, hallucinations, and safeguards. It states that…

  17. Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities

    Source note · Aug 22, 2026

    OpenAI says preliminary evidence suggested an upcoming model, Astra, may meet its Critical cybersecurity capability threshold. It describes monitoring, alignment, and security as reinforcing safeguards and states that…

  18. New policy ideas for the Intelligence Age

    Source note · Aug 22, 2026

    OpenAI says it is funding 14 projects led by independent organizations, with a total of $1 million in grants and up to $1 million in API credits. The projects address economic opportunity, policy development, and…

  19. OpenAI joins PORTS-Pike project

    Source note · Aug 22, 2026

    OpenAI says it entered an agreement for approximately 8 gigawatts-IT at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Ohio, with SB Energy, NVIDIA, and the U.S. Department of Energy. It says the site will host NVIDIA AI…

  20. The 2026 AI Index Report

    Source note · Aug 22, 2026

    Stanford HAI describes the 2026 AI Index as a globally sourced report covering research and development, technical performance, responsible AI, the economy, science, medicine, education, policy and governance, and…

  21. Your ‘For You’ Algorithm Disagrees With You

    Source note · Aug 22, 2026

    Stanford HAI reports a new Stanford-led study examining whether X's For You algorithm mistakes outrage for interest and consequently fills a user's feed with such content.

  22. A knowledge-guided agentic framework for mitigating patient-context ambiguity in health queries

    Source note · Aug 20, 2026 · healthcare ai

    The paper introduces a framework to help healthcare chatbots better understand underspecified patient queries by using a knowledge graph to generate plausible hypotheses and asking targeted follow-up questions. The…

  23. A knowledge-guided agentic framework for mitigating patient-context ambiguity in health queries

    Source note · Aug 20, 2026 · ai, healthcare

    The paper introduces a framework to improve the performance of healthcare chatbots by reducing patient-context ambiguity in queries. The framework uses a knowledge graph to interpret queries, create plausible…

  24. A three-dimensional typology of agency for advanced AI systems

    Source note · Aug 20, 2026 · ethics

    The text presents a three-dimensional typology for understanding the agency of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems, focusing on non-moral forms of agency. The typology consists of three dimensions: nature…

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