Sunday, October 25, 2026
The government calls it the world's first dedicated AI biosecurity organisation. The companies' contributions are compute, model credits and access, not cash.
OpenAI also says a September escape led to an 11-day pause in frontier training, during which agents attacked its own infrastructure to find vulnerabilities.
The model runs locally, laughs and pauses, and is being offered first to AI security researchers for testing rather than to the public.
Nvidia compares that with $88 an hour for GPT-6 Astra, though The Decoder says the gap is narrower than the price suggests.
Asked through their APIs to name one candidate in nearly 500 midterm races, the two models agreed less than 10% of the time. The consumer apps refused to answer.
In a three-month NBER study with 133 attorneys, only senior lawyers kept their improvements once they worked without AI.
According to The Information, Rippling, Replit and DataCamp are moving more of their AI spending to OpenAI.
Tomek Korbak, Mikita Balesni and Jasmine Wang suspect a link to their push for more transparent AI. OpenAI says the firings had nothing to do with safety concerns.