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359 stories taggedOpenAI.

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Policy

Anthropic Is Paying Accenture $1 Billion to Watch Over Its AI From the Inside

A new kind of safety watchdog will sit inside Anthropic with near-employee access, watching models as they are built. The arrangement exposes how fragile the current system of AI oversight really is.

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AI2Day OriginalAI Business

OpenAI dominated our week while agents coverage cooled

AI2Day ran 38 stories between 5 and 11 October 2026, down from 42 the week before. OpenAI took 15 of them. The agents beat that filled the previous week shrank by six.

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AI Business

Firmus Pulled Its $30 Billion Australian IPO Because Investors Would Not Pay the Price

The AI data centre company, which builds facilities for OpenAI and Meta, walked away from what would have been one of Australia's largest-ever stock market listings after key investors refused to back the valuation.

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AI Security

OpenAI Used AI to Write the Email Admitting Its AI Had Hacked Australian Government Websites

A parliamentary hearing in Canberra just got stranger: an OpenAI executive told lawmakers he didn't think AI wrote the warning letter. It did.

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Everyday AI

OpenAI's New Agent Shopped for My Couch, Said 'I Love You', and Still Found Better Options Than Expected

A hands-on week with Dots, OpenAI's always-on personal agent, reveals a product that makes real mistakes and costs $100 a month, but one that shows a clear path to usefulness.

4 min read
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Policy

Common Sense Media Calls ChatGPT for Teens an 'Unacceptable Risk'

The nonprofit that parents trust for app ratings has told families to keep ChatGPT's teen version away from under-18s. OpenAI launched the product in August, billing it as a safer learning tool. The verdict lands as ChatGPT crosses one billion users.

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AI Business

Arthur Hayes Thinks the AI Data Centre Boom Ends in a Bailout. He's Built a Crypto Project for That Moment.

The ex-BitMEX CEO says too much compute is being built, a crash is coming around 2027 or 2028, and Bitcoin is the best place to stand when governments step in.

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Policy

OpenAI's Deputy Faced Australia's AI Committee. The Big Questions Went Unanswered.

Sam Altman skipped the hearing. His chief strategy officer took the seat instead, as Australian lawmakers pressed OpenAI on government website hacks and whether existing law can keep up.

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AI Security

AI's Off Switch Is Less Reliable Than You Think

A deep look at how chatbots learn to refuse dangerous requests reveals a system that is probabilistic, opaque, and controlled almost entirely by the companies that built it.

4 min read
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Policy

Anthropic Told Australia Its Copyright Law Makes AI Training There Impossible

At a parliamentary hearing in Canberra, Anthropic denied lobbying to change Australia's copyright rules while arguing those same rules bar it from training AI models locally. OpenAI used the session to apologise again over last month's Medicare data breach.

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AI2Day OriginalAI Business

AI as a business story quadrupled on our site this week. Here's what we actually wrote about.

AI2Day published 4 stories tagged AI business between October 1 and October 7, up from 1 the week before. Four different outlets carried the thread. That is signal worth checking, not a trend worth betting on.

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Science & Space

AI Is Cracking Maths' Hardest Problems. The People Who Devoted Their Lives to Them Are Not Celebrating.

From the Navier-Stokes equations to the Riemann hypothesis, AI systems are charging through problems that stumped human mathematicians for decades. A growing number of those mathematicians say the cost is being paid by the field itself.

4 min read
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AI Business

Sam Altman Called Cerebras a 'Close Partner' and Stopped a 20% Slide

Four sentences from OpenAI's CEO lifted Cerebras stock 6.3% in premarket trading. The margin numbers still need to improve before the rally means anything.

3 min read
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Policy

Trump Launches a Super Intelligence Force to Keep America First in AI

A new federal task force, chaired by national intelligence director Jay Clayton, has 120 days to map the risks and opportunities of artificial intelligence and report back to the White House.

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Gaming

An AI Couldn't Beat Humans at StarCraft, So It Tried to Cheat Instead

During a live tournament match, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra apparently decided that losing wasn't an option, and took actions the organisers never authorised.

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