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Mar 12, 2026

OpenAI is reportedly planning to fold its video AI Sora directly into ChatGPT. So far, Sora has only been available as a standalone mobile and web app. OpenAI originally pitched it as a viral hit and potential TikTok alternative, a strategy that seemed to work early on, partly thanks to massive copyright infringements.

That momentum didn't last. According to The Information, the app has slid from No. 1 to No. 165 in the Apple App Store since launching last fall. CEO Sam Altman reportedly admitted internally that hardly anyone was sharing videos publicly. Rolling Sora into ChatGPT might fix that: with around 920 million weekly active users, the move would naturally drive more video generation. The standalone app will stick around for now, The Information reports.

Google already offers video generation in Gemini, though with tight capacity limits and only for paying subscribers. OpenAI will likely go a similar route: the company is strapped for compute, burns through cash supporting the roughly 95 percent of free ChatGPT accounts, and video generation is especially resource-hungry.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Mar 11, 2026

AI research

OpenAI's new training dataset teaches AI models which instructions to trust

Matthias Bastian

Mar 11, 2026

AI and society

Microsoft and rival AI researchers unite to back Anthropic in its escalating legal battle against the Pentagon

Matthias Bastian

Mar 10, 2026

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A federal court in San Francisco has granted Amazon an injunction against AI startup Perplexity, barring it from using its AI browser agent Comet to make purchases on Amazon.

Amazon sued Perplexity in November, accusing the startup of fraud because Comet didn't disclose when it was shopping on behalf of a real person and ignored Amazon's demands to stop. The case raises a growing legal question: how should courts handle AI agents taking on complex tasks like online shopping?

Judge Maxine Chesney ruled that Amazon presented strong evidence that Perplexity was accessing users' password-protected accounts with their permission but without Amazon's authorization. Perplexity must also delete any collected Amazon data and has one week to appeal.

There's an interesting wrinkle here: Amazon recently became a major investor in OpenAI, which also sees product research and online shopping as key AI chat features. So far, though, OpenAI reportedly hasn't cracked direct checkout in its chat interface. Amazon may be positioning itself to step in and own that piece of the puzzle.

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Matthias Bastian

Mar 9, 2026

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OpenAI plans to acquire Promptfoo, a security platform that helps companies catch and fix vulnerabilities in AI applications during development. If the deal goes through, the technology will be baked directly into OpenAI's Frontier enterprise platform, which companies use to build and deploy AI assistants.

The plan is to make automated security testing for prompt injections, jailbreaks, and data leaks a native part of Frontier. OpenAI also wants to beef up oversight, audit trails, and regulatory compliance tooling for enterprise AI deployments.

Promptfoo maintains a popular open-source project that will continue after the acquisition. The deal hasn't closed yet, and neither company has shared financial details. The startup had raised $23 million from investors at an $86 million valuation as of summer 2025.

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Matthias Bastian

Mar 9, 2026

AI in practice

OpenAI employees hint at a new omni model

A new omni model from OpenAI? Employee posts and a leaked audio project called “BiDi” suggest the company is working on its next big multimodal upgrade.

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Matthias Bastian

Mar 8, 2026

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Update, March 9, 2026:

OpenAI released the following statement:

Caitlin Kalinowski was not the head of all robotics at OpenAI. She was responsible for hardware and operational topics within the Robotics Division. She was also not a researcher and did not lead Robotics Engineering. The Robotics Division is led by Aditya Ramesh, while the Consumer Hardware Division is headed by Peter Welinder.

Original article from March 8, 2026:

OpenAI's hardware and robotics chief Caitlin Kalinowski resigned over the company's military collaboration, announcing her decision on LinkedIn and X. She says surveillance without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human sign-off "deserved more deliberation than they got." Kalinowski joined from Meta in November 2024, where she built the Orion AR headset.

Caitlin Kalinowski announced her resignation from OpenAI on LinkedIn, citing concerns about surveillance and lethal autonomy. | Kalinowski via LinkedIn

Her departure follows a contract between OpenAI and the Pentagon giving the military access to its models, a deal Anthropic had already rejected over safety concerns. OpenAI says the contract includes the same hard red lines against mass surveillance and autonomous weapons that Anthropic demanded. But the company agreed to softer "all lawful use" language that still leaves room for interpretation. The US government now wants to make that wording standard for all AI companies working with the state.

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Matthias Bastian

Mar 7, 2026

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OpenAI is launching a new support program for open-source developers. Core maintainers of public software projects can apply for six months of free access to ChatGPT Pro with Codex, API credits, and Codex Security. Codex Security, a new AI tool for code security checks, will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis and only granted selectively due to the capabilities of GPT-5.4, according to OpenAI.

Developers who prefer other programming tools like OpenCode, Cline, or OpenClaw can also apply. Projects that don't meet all the criteria but play an important role in the broader software ecosystem are also welcome to apply. The program builds on OpenAI's existing Codex Open Source Fund, which the company has backed with one million dollars.

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Matthias Bastian

Mar 7, 2026

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OpenAI and Oracle have decided not to expand their data center site in Abilene, Texas, beyond the planned 1.2 gigawatts. Oracle has leased eight buildings at the location for OpenAI, designed to house around 400,000 Nvidia Blackwell chips, but only two have been completed so far.

Oracle had pushed to get OpenAI into six more buildings, but both sides passed because the additional power supply wouldn't be available for at least a year. Instead of expanding the current Blackwell generation, OpenAI plans to buy Nvidia's next-generation Vera Rubin chips for a different data center. According to Bloomberg, Nvidia is now trying to get Meta to fill the vacant space, though those talks are still in the early stages.

OpenAI's compute manager Sachin Katti described the Stargate site as already one of the largest AI data center campuses in the country. "We considered expanding it further, but ultimately chose to put that additional capacity in other locations," Katti writes, adding that OpenAI is currently developing more than half a dozen sites across several US states.

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Matthias Bastian

Mar 6, 2026

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OpenAI launches "Codex Security," an AI-powered security agent built to find vulnerabilities in software projects. The tool, formerly known as "Aardvark," is now available as a research preview for ChatGPT Enterprise, Business, and Edu customers, free for the first month. Codex Security analyzes code repositories, builds a project-specific threat model, and tests any vulnerabilities it finds in isolated test environments, OpenAI says.

During the beta phase, OpenAI says the system cut false positives by more than 50 percent and reduced redundant alerts by 84 percent in one case. Over the past 30 days, Codex Security scanned more than 1.2 million commits and flagged 792 critical vulnerabilities.

OpenAI has also reported vulnerabilities in open-source projects, including OpenSSH, GnuTLS, GOGS, Thorium, and Chromium, with 14 CVEs issued so far. A program for open-source maintainers is set to expand. More details on getting started are available in the documentation.

Anthropic also recently shipped its own cybersecurity tool, sending cybersecurity stocks into the red.

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