OpenAI reportedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation
The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
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OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into more direct competition with more traditional software companies.
AMD acquires World Labs AI startup, upping the ante against Nvidia
The deal, which is expected to close by year's end, is worth $8.2 billion.
DriveHierarchy: A Benchmark for Diagnosing VLM Driving Capabilities from Open-Loop Understanding to Closed-Loop Execution
arXiv:2609.31814v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Evaluating VLM-based autonomous driving remains difficult because driving competence is composite, where a capable system must ground traffic participan
SMARtCARE: Privacy-Preserving Agentic AI Systems for Bounded-Autonomy Clinical Decision Support
arXiv:2609.31763v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-context clinical AI systems can miss relevant patient history when prior admissions fall outside the active reasoning context. In ICU monitoring, t
Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model
OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
Reco raises $55M as AI agent security startups crowd the market
The round builds on a $30 million fundraise in February, taking the company's total funding to $140 million.
Choir: An Open Protocol for Distributed Multi-Agent Autoformalization
arXiv:2609.31903v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents can now formalize entire textbooks and major theorems in proof assistants such as Lean, but current efforts are typically centralized: a singl
OpenAI launches Dots, its bubbly agentic avatar
Dots are meant to operate independent of any specific hardware or interface, pursuing user-defined goals continuously in the background with minimal oversight.
Goal-Persistent Coding Agents as Scientific Performance Engineers: A Fixed-Radius Nearest-Neighbor Case Study
arXiv:2609.31980v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Coding agents can pursue persistent objectives across many tool-use turns, but evidence that general-purpose agents can conduct rigorous scientific perf
With Dazzle, Marissa Mayer bets your camera roll has more info on your life than your inbox
Mayer argues that if a photo is worth a thousand words, your camera roll is worth millions. By analyzing all the photos stored on your phone, Dazzle claims to understand your hobbies, interests, food,
DevDay 2026 Recap
Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.
OpenAI expands ChatGPT’s plug-ins with app-like interfaces and automations
OpenAI is expanding ChatGPT plug-ins with dedicated sidebar homes, interactive panels, file viewers, improved discovery, and support for automations.
Here’s why OpenAI is absent from Nvidia’s industry-wide effort to end rogue AI agents
OpenAI isn't a public supporter of Nvidia's Open Agent Safety Platform, but it is privately working with Nvidia, TechCrunch has learned.
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch
For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.
Metro-WM: Long-Horizon Latent Planning with Realisable Sub-Goals
arXiv:2609.31868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model-predictive control with Joint-Embedding Predictive Architectures (JEPAs) provides a strong zero-shot goal-reaching planner, but it is only effecti
Improving Medical Calculation of LLMs with Embedded Coding
arXiv:2609.31908v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) perform well on medical examinations and question-answering benchmarks, but remain unreliable on medical calculation tasks
Here's what actually happened in OpenAI's Australian gov't server hack
Without a "full set of safeguards," agent accessed "system information and source code."
OpenAI says planned GPT-6.1 is too insecure to release
Similar performance, security trade-offs also seen in current public models.
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