The use of AI is never a purely technical matter: when it enters processes that affect people’s lives, it touches on rights, opportunities, status and freedom"
—Pope Leo XIV
Comprehensive coverage of OpenAI, ChatGPT developments, frontier model releases, executive leadership, and research safety.
OpenAI plans to nearly double its workforce from 4,500 to 8,000 by end of 2026, with majority of new hires in engineering, product and sales — as the company faces growing competitive pressure from Anthropic and DeepSeek
The protestors under the banner of “Stop The AI Race” called for immediate halt of frontier AI model development.
Sam Altman expressing gratitude to software engineers for writing code from scratch reads more as erasure as the world awaits massive job disruption due to AI.
The fresh lawsuit against OpenAI by Britannica over copyright infringement has intensified debate over “fair-use” policy adopted by AI companies.
“Diabolical psychopath”, “Delusional Tech Bro” and “Misanthropic Altman” were some of the eulogies showered on OpenAI CEO after his comments about selling AI like a utility went viral.
Citing concerns about the company’s agreement over the Pentagon deal, Caitlin Kalinowski, the Robotics Head of OpenAI has quit her post.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called his company’s deal with the U.S. Department of War (DOW) sloppy and opportunistic after the public fallout of Anthropic and DOW.
OpenAI has secured $110 billion in its biggest fundraising round to date, pushing the company’s valuation to $730 billion.. Major investors include SoftBank, NVIDIA, and Amazon, reflecting the growing role of AI in everyday business and consumer life
India has become OpenAI’s second-largest market, surpassing 100 million weekly ChatGPT users. The rapid growth highlights extraordinary adoption, even as questions intensify around ownership, jobs, and who stands to benefit most from the AI boom.
OpenAI has released GABRIEL, an open-source toolkit that uses GPT to turn unstructured text and images into measurable data. Designed for social science research, the tool enables large-scale analysis of qualitative material while maintaining human-level evaluation accuracy.
