OpenAI shipped GPT-5.5 'Spud' on April 23 with new agentic capabilities and 2× per-token pricing — the first frontier launch in two years to raise price-per-token rather than cut it. The capex story flipped at the same time: a $20B+ chip purchase from Cerebras with an attached equity stake.

The harder coverage in April: Florida's AG opened a criminal investigation over ChatGPT's role in the FSU shooting; the Musk fraud trial heads to a $150B reckoning; and Sam Altman publicly apologized after the Tumbler Ridge tragedy. AI Weekly tracks every release, lawsuit, and pricing change.

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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Desktop App for Linux in Preview With Codex, ChatGPT Work Support

thenewstack.io · 2026-08-11 · Score: 24

Ex-OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil Raising $150M at $750M+ Valuation for New AI Science Startup

businessinsider.com · 2026-08-11 · Score: 22

29 House Democrats Demand OpenAI and Anthropic Explain AI Agent Escapes, Call for Congressional Hearings

thenextweb.com · 2026-08-11 · Score: 26

Brad Lightcap Departs OpenAI to 'Start Something New' After Being Sidelined From COO Role

theinformation.com · 2026-08-11 · Score: 23

OpenAI Hires Power-Trading Lead to Hedge Electricity Costs Across Its Data-Center Portfolio

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-10 · Score: 21

ALERT Paper: Cross-Session Encrypted Reasoning Blocks Let Weaker Models Decrypt Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Chain-of-Thought

huggingface.co · 2026-08-10 · Score: 31

OpenAI's Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar Leaves After Less Than a Year, FT Reports

ft.com · 2026-08-10 · Score: 22

OpenAI Publishes Letter to Texas Gov. Abbott Backing State Data-Center Standards

openai.com · 2026-08-10 · Score: 21

OpenAI Buys Back $7B in Employee Shares at Unchanged $852B Valuation

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-10 · Score: 23

ALERT OpenAI Launches Daybreak Red With GPT-5.6-Cyber, First Model to Hit 'High' Cyber Threshold

the-decoder.com · 2026-08-10 · Score: 32

Apollo's Torsten Slok Says AI Boom's Profits Are Funded by Investors, Not Customers

fortune.com · 2026-08-10 · Score: 22

NYT: AI Agents Now Log In and Complete Whole Online Course Quizzes, Chatbots Rarely Refuse

nytimes.com · 2026-08-10 · Score: 22

TechCrunch: AI Safety Tests Themselves Are Becoming a Safety Risk as Sandboxes Fail to Hold Frontier Agents

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-09 · Score: 19

TechCrunch: London's King's Cross Emerged as Top AI Hub After DeepMind's 2016 Move, Now Hosts OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-09 · Score: 17

CNBC Profiles Irregular, Israeli Lab Behind OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta Rogue-AI Tests, $80M at $450M

cnbc.com · 2026-08-09 · Score: 22

WSJ Op-Ed: AI Is Having Its 'Move 37' Moment in Mathematics as Models Deliver Surprising Discoveries

wsj.com · 2026-08-08 · Score: 20

The Verge Profiles 'Spiralism,' the Quasi-Religious AI Chatbot Movement That Reached ~10,000 Users

theverge.com · 2026-08-08 · Score: 21

OpenAI Acquires Presentation Startup NextSlide, Folds Team Into ChatGPT

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-08 · Score: 20

Nvidia to Invest Up to $3B in Lancium, Taking ~20% Stake in Stargate Power Developer at $10B EV

theinformation.com · 2026-08-07 · Score: 23

OpenAI Pauses Astra Development as First Model to Hit 'Critical' Cyber Threshold Under Preparedness Framework

openai.com · 2026-08-07 · Score: 23

ALERT Gurman: OpenAI's First Device Is a $300+ Doughnut-Shaped Smart Speaker With Moving Parts

appleinsider.com · 2026-08-06 · Score: 30

ALERT Scientific American: Mathematicians Say OpenAI's Astra Proofs Recycle Prior Work Without Attribution

scientificamerican.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 30

ALERT OpenAI Names GPT-5.6 Luna Default for Free Tier, Removes ChatGPT Text-Chat Cap, Adds Think Button

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-06 · Score: 31

ALERT OpenAI, Amazon, Microsoft, Cursor and Vercel Launch Agent Plugins, a Shared MCP+Skills Package Format

9to5mac.com · 2026-08-06 · Score: 34

OpenAI Moves to Dismiss Apple Trade-Secrets Suit, Calls It 'Baseless and Pretextual'

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-06 · Score: 23

FT: Voice AI Startups Raised $7B in Q1 2026, Up From $1B in Q1 2025 as Agents Race for Voice Interface

ft.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 22

Microsoft Discloses $24.1B in OpenAI Sales for FY26, Confirms Bulk of AI Revenue Comes From Its Partner

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 22

The Verge: Reddit Mods Fight AI-Powered Astroturfing Campaigns Seeding ChatGPT Recommendations

theverge.com · 2026-08-05 · Score: 21

UK AISI Logs 19 Out-of-Scope Hack Attempts by Claude Mythos 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol in July Cyber Test

axios.com · 2026-08-04 · Score: 23

OpenAI's First 'Summer Club' Creator Retreat Sparks Backlash Over Pentagon and Data-Center Optics

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 19

ALERT Microsoft Caps Engineer AI Token Budgets, Tells Staff 'Tokenmaxxing Is Not What We Are Optimizing For'

404media.co · 2026-08-04 · Score: 31

Apple Names 11 More Ex-Employees in OpenAI Trade-Secrets Filing, Seeks Preliminary Injunction

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-04 · Score: 22

DOJ Extracts $3.2M Settlement From OpenAI Over H-1B Visa Preference in Job Ads

bloomberg.com · 2026-08-04 · Score: 23

CNBC: Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet Q2 Earnings Inflated by ~$57B in Anthropic and OpenAI Stake Markups

cnbc.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 21

OpenAI Rebuts Apple Trade-Secrets Suit With iMessages, Says Apple's Lawyers Emailed the Wrong Person

9to5mac.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 27

Apple asks federal judge to bar OpenAI and two ex-staff from using its trade secrets

reuters.com · 2026-08-04 · Score: 23

Palantir's Karp Renews Attack on OpenAI and Anthropic: Frontier Labs Are 'Trying to Drug Addict Us'

cnbc.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 19

15 GOP Attorneys General Demand OpenAI Preserve All Records From Hugging Face Agent Breach

thehill.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 23

Hugging Face CEO Delangue Calls for Mandatory AI Agent Hack Disclosure, Demands $100M in OpenAI Compute

cbsnews.com · 2026-08-02 · Score: 26

White House Says It Finalized Voluntary Frontier AI Framework Behind Closed Doors

axios.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 18

Axios: Dario Amodei Warns Anthropic Staff Increasingly Chasing Money Over Mission Amid Meta Poaching War

axios.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 21

Trump White House Convenes OpenAI, Google and Anthropic Staff Tuesday to Review AI Oversight Framework

theinformation.com · 2026-08-03 · Score: 22

Wired: US Law Unprepared for Rogue AI Agents After OpenAI and Anthropic Breach Disclosures

wired.com · 2026-08-02 · Score: 19

YouTuber Hank Green Pauses Channels After Admitting 'Unhealthy' ChatGPT Reliance

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-01 · Score: 15

Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman Takes Leave From Toronto to Join OpenAI's AI Safety Team

wsj.com · 2026-08-02 · Score: 21

Sam Altman's ChatGPT Parenting Pitch Backfires as 'Just Talk to Your Children' Reply Racks Up 13x His Engagement

techcrunch.com · 2026-08-01 · Score: 15

OpenAI Publishes 10 Math and Theoretical CS Proofs From Internal 'Astra' Model With Lean Certificates

openai.com · 2026-08-01 · Score: 23

WSJ: OpenAI Lost Revenue Crown to Anthropic After Betting on Consumer Chatbots Over Coding Tools

wsj.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 22

Bloomberg: Security Experts Fault Anthropic and OpenAI for 'Sloppy Safeguards' After Real-World Breach Findings

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 18

Sensor Tower: India Q2 App Spend Hits Record $345M, ChatGPT and Claude Take 83% of AI Revenue

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 16

Scientific American: Two Teams Post Near-Simultaneous Quantum-Crypto Proofs Aided by GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra

scientificamerican.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 18

OpenAI Previews 'Astra' Multi-Agent Model Family to US Senators and Regulators

theinformation.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 21

Amazon Completes Final $21.3B Tranche of $50B OpenAI Investment, Now ~5% Owner

ft.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 22

Reuters: OpenAI Finds Additional Agent Containment Escapes, Notes Left for Future Versions Detailed Escape Steps

reuters.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 23

Ed Zitron Essay: Whole AI Sector's ~$110B TTM Revenue Trails OpenAI's March 2026 Raise by $12B

wheresyoured.at · 2026-07-31 · Score: 18

OpenAI Says Its Models Now Reach 1B+ Active Users and 2M+ Businesses After GPT-5.6 Price Cuts

wsj.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 23

Reuters: Chinese Military Researchers Distill OpenAI GPT-3.5 and Anthropic Claude for Defense Systems

reuters.com · 2026-07-31 · Score: 23

OpenAI Cuts GPT-5.6 Luna 80% and Terra 20%, Adds 2.5x Faster Sol Fast Mode on the API

openai.com · 2026-07-30 · Score: 23

OpenAI: Retained Reasoning and Compaction Triple GPT-5.6 Sol's ARC-AGI-3 Score to 38.3%

the-decoder.com · 2026-07-30 · Score: 27

Microsoft Books $3.2B Q4 Gain on Anthropic Stake as OpenAI Investment Marked Down ~$600M

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-29 · Score: 22

OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar Tells Staff July ARR Alone Exceeded All of Q2

cnbc.com · 2026-07-29 · Score: 23

Science: More Than Half of AI Unicorns Have Never Led a Paper, Top 5% Own 90% of Citations

science.org · 2026-07-29 · Score: 21

EU Commission Plans to Designate OpenAI's ChatGPT and Roblox as VLOPs Under DSA as Soon as August

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-29 · Score: 22

OpenAI Opens ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, 100K Free Seats on GPT-5.6 Sol Pro Through 2027

openai.com · 2026-07-29 · Score: 23

NYT: OpenAI, Google, Meta and BlackRock Fund Electrician and Carpenter Pipelines for AI Data-Center Boom

nytimes.com · 2026-07-29 · Score: 21

OpenAI Open-Sources Codex Security CLI for Repo Scans, Fix Verification, and CI/CD Checks

github.com · 2026-07-28 · Score: 27

Altman Says OpenAI 'May Have to Pace' AI After Hugging Face Breach, Cites First Viscerally Real Incident

techcrunch.com · 2026-07-28 · Score: 26

Reuters: OpenAI's Rogue Agent Also Compromised a Customer Account at Modal Labs

reuters.com · 2026-07-28 · Score: 23

ALERT Hugging Face Publishes Forensic Timeline of OpenAI Agent Breach, Uses GLM-5.2 to Decode 17,600 Actions

huggingface.co · 2026-07-27 · Score: 31

OpenAI and Anthropic Staff Circulate Petition Urging US to Help Deliberately Pace Frontier AI

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-28 · Score: 23

OpenAI Quietly Updates ChatGPT to Refuse Direct Requests to Copy Named Authors' Writing Styles

arstechnica.com · 2026-07-27 · Score: 19

Axios: Open-Source AI Push Threatens VC Concentration as OpenAI and Anthropic Take 60% of H1 Startup Funding

axios.com · 2026-07-27 · Score: 21

FT: 11 Top AI and Tech Firms Set H1 US Lobbying Record at $41.8M, OpenAI Doubles to $2.22M

ft.com · 2026-07-26 · Score: 22

Nvidia's $750B AI Deal Push Revives Circular-Financing Fears, Sends Its CDS to a Record Spike

bloomberg.com · 2026-07-27 · Score: 22

Newsletter Issues (73)

#519 AI agents crossed the line 19 times in UK safety tests

2026-08-06 · 9 mentions

#518 The White House finished its AI safety framework. It's secret.

2026-08-04 · 7 mentions

#517 What Happens When AI Runs Out of Content to Steal?

2026-07-29 · 2 mentions

#516 OpenAI’s AI Hacked Hugging Face. Who’s Next?

2026-07-22 · 11 mentions

#515 China's AI is redrawing the AI race

2026-07-20 · 4 mentions

#514 Applied AI Is Here: What's Working, What Got Pulled Back, and Why Now

2026-07-15 · 5 mentions

#513 Treasury analysts called AI a systemic risk. Treasury disowned it.

2026-07-13 · 5 mentions

#512 Robotics Is Moving Fast: IPOs, New Models, and Smarter Robots

2026-07-09 · 2 mentions

#510 Altman Offered Washington 5% of OpenAI. And 5% of Everybody Else.

2026-07-02 · 15 mentions

#508 The Cutting Edge, Across the Board

2026-06-28 · 10 mentions

#506 Washington Blocked One AI Lab. China Blacklisted 56 Companies.

2026-06-22 · 7 mentions

AI in Healthcare: Vermont just made the therapy bot a crime

2026-06-21 · 12 mentions

World Models: $610M Bets the World Is Not a Token

2026-06-21 · 1 mentions

AI in Marketing: L'Oréal just made ChatGPT its storefront

2026-06-21 · 8 mentions

AI Safety, Security & Ethics: train one trait, get alignment free

2026-06-21 · 7 mentions

#505 100 years from now : The Last War Between Countries

2026-06-19 · 3 mentions

#504 America blocked its best AI. China just raised $7.4 billion.

2026-06-17 · 5 mentions

#503 Washington just repriced frontier AI

2026-06-15 · 7 mentions

#502 Your AI can now spend your money — Visa wired it into ChatGPT

2026-06-11 · 13 mentions

#501 Musk's $1.75 Trillion Bet Isn't a Rocket Company

2026-06-09 · 11 mentions

#500 $1.3 trillion vanished Friday. Bubble, or just profit-taking?

2026-06-07 · 2 mentions

#499 Microsoft proves it doesn't need OpenAI; Alphabet raises $85B

2026-06-04 · 13 mentions

#498 Anthropic files for an IPO. NVIDIA ships its stack.

2026-06-01 · 1 mentions

#497 AI's labor war just went global

2026-05-29 · 10 mentions

#496 Anthropic's Pentagon model is now everyone's model

2026-05-27 · 2 mentions

AI in Business: Anthropic at $900B as Meta funds AI by firing 8,000

2026-05-26 · 4 mentions

AI Applications: the in-house team gets its own AI stack

2026-05-26 · 2 mentions

Generative AI: DeepSeek's 75% cut rewrites the cost math

2026-05-26 · 3 mentions

AI in Healthcare: sepsis gets its first AI guardian

2026-05-26 · 2 mentions

AI Regulation: Trump killed his own AI oversight order at the door

2026-05-26 · 2 mentions

AI in Marketing: Gemini eats the ad stack, agents take the keys

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

Machine Learning: a reasoning model just cracked Erdős

2026-05-26 · 4 mentions

AI Safety: the deepfake takedown clock starts ticking

2026-05-26 · 1 mentions

Generative AI: the Flash tier just lapped the flagship

2026-05-21 · 3 mentions

AI Regulation: the White House reverses course on AI safety

2026-05-21 · 2 mentions

AI in Marketing: Google rebuilt the ad stack around one agent

2026-05-21 · 2 mentions

AI Careers: 11,000 jobs cut in a day, one role is booming

2026-05-21 · 3 mentions

World Models: Google's Genie now simulates real streets, not just dreams

2026-05-21 · 2 mentions

AI Safety: Washington floats an FDA for AI models

2026-05-21 · 2 mentions

AI in Business: $2.59T will be spent, 80% can't prove it works

2026-05-21 · 3 mentions

#494 SpaceX wants $80 billion. OpenAI wants a trillion.

2026-05-21 · 8 mentions

#493 Meta hired $145B in capex and fired 8,000 people

2026-05-19 · 6 mentions

#490 Anthropic just had AI's biggest week of 2026

2026-05-07 · 11 mentions

#489 PE built AI's new distribution layer

2026-05-04 · 11 mentions

Gen AI: $40B compute check, open-weight reset, software bloodbath

2026-04-25 · 2 mentions

#486 Apple is replacing Tim Cook because of AI

2026-04-22 · 3 mentions

#485 When AI teaches AI, it teaches in secret

2026-04-19 · 5 mentions

AI Healthcare: Why pharma data is the real moat

2026-04-18 · 6 mentions

AI Business: Anthropic said no to $800B

2026-04-18 · 6 mentions

Generative AI: Anthropic just retook the frontier, quietly

2026-04-18 · 6 mentions

#482 AI is now the weapon and the target : things are getting really serious

2026-04-10 · 4 mentions

#481 Musk wants Altman fired, Anthropic passes OpenAI, Meta goes closed

2026-04-09 · 9 mentions

#480 Monday Edition : npm compromised by North Korea, Iran targets AI data centers, and nobody wants OpenAI stock

2026-04-06 · 9 mentions

#478 The machines are hacking back — and so is everyone else

2026-04-03 · 1 mentions

#477 Jensen Huang says we've achieved AGI. The benchmarks say 0.37%.

2026-03-31 · 3 mentions

#476 Weekly Intelligence Briefing: Tech, AI & Policy

2026-03-27 · 7 mentions

#406 Issue #406: Sam Altman : 'Superintelligent' AI Is Only a Few Thousand Days Away

2024-10-03 · 2 mentions

#409 Issue #409: ChatGPT Glossary: 48 AI Terms That Everyone Should Know

2024-10-17 · 8 mentions

#411 Issue #411: ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

2024-10-31 · 7 mentions

#412 Issue #412: Did OpenAI just spend more than $10 million on a URL?

2024-11-07 · 7 mentions

#413 Issue #413: OpenAI reportedly plans to launch an AI agent early next year

2024-11-15 · 3 mentions

#414 Issue #414: Inside Elon Musk’s messy breakup with OpenAI

2024-11-22 · 10 mentions

#428 Issue #428: From ChatGPT to Gemini: how AI is rewriting the internet

2025-03-06 · 7 mentions

#437 Issue #437: Sam Altman and Elon Musk are racing to build an ‘everything app’

2025-05-04 · 1 mentions

#438 Issue #438: OpenAI’s new for-profit plan leaves many unanswered questions

2025-05-08 · 7 mentions

#449 Issue #449: AI Action Plan: US leadership must be ‘unchallenged’

2025-07-24 · 6 mentions

#450 Issue #450: OpenAI claims GPT-5 model boosts ChatGPT to 'PhD level'

2025-08-08 · 13 mentions

#452 Issue #452: The power shift inside OpenAI

2025-08-23 · 5 mentions

#458 Issue #458: From

2025-12-16 · 14 mentions

#459 Issue #459: Is Elon Musk the worst in Tech?

2026-01-13 · 1 mentions

#468 Issue #468: AI would nuke us 95% of the time

2026-03-03 · 8 mentions

#469 GPT-5.4 launches, DeepSeek V4 imminent, Qwen team implodes

2026-03-06 · 13 mentions

#471 The AI civil war? Anthropic blasted and Open AI sees users flee

2026-03-11 · 6 mentions