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Apr 9, 2026

OpenAI is also working on a new AI model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that will only be available to a small group of companies, according to Axios. The approach mirrors Anthropic's move on Tuesday, when it restricted access to its new Mythos Preview model to select tech and security firms because of its powerful hacking capabilities.

Back in February, OpenAI had already launched its "Trusted Access for Cyber" pilot program after releasing GPT-5.3-Codex, its most capable cybersecurity model to date. Participants get access to particularly powerful models for defensive security work, backed by $10 million in API credits. Whether OpenAI will eventually make the new model more widely available remains unclear. Anthropic has ruled out a public release of Mythos Preview, saying models in the Mythos class won't ship until adequate safety guardrails are in place.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Apr 8, 2026

AI in practice

From GPT-2 to Claude Mythos: The return of AI models deemed 'too dangerous to release'

Matthias Bastian

Apr 8, 2026

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Elon Musk has updated his lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. He's now asking that any damages, potentially more than $150 billion, go not to him but to OpenAI's charitable foundation. He's also pushing for the removal of CEO Sam Altman from the foundation's board, according to the Wall Street Journal. Musk's lawyer, Marc Toberoff, said Musk "is not seeking a single dollar for himself."

Musk accuses OpenAI of abandoning its charitable mission and defrauding him as a donor by exploiting its nonprofit status. He wants Altman and OpenAI President Greg Brockman to turn over their shares and financial benefits to the foundation. The trial is set to begin in April in Oakland, California.

Musk argues OpenAI betrayed the mission he helped fund. However, early interview notes show he agreed to adding a for-profit unit in 2017 and actively discussed the transition while keeping the nonprofit in place.

OpenAI called the lawsuit on X "a harassment campaign driven by ego, jealousy and a desire to slow down a competitor." The company has also asked the attorneys general of Delaware and California to investigate Musk's behavior. OpenAI is currently valued at $852 billion and planning an IPO.

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Maximilian Schreiner

Apr 7, 2026

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have started working together to combat the unauthorized copying of their AI models by Chinese competitors, according to Bloomberg. The three companies are sharing information through the "Frontier Model Forum," founded in 2023, to detect so-called adversarial distillation. In distillation, the outputs of an existing AI model are used to train a cheaper copycat model. One of the first examples was Stanford's Alpaca model, which demonstrated the feasibility of the approach, but the practice has since become a real problem for US companies.

US authorities estimate that adversarial distillation costs American AI labs billions of dollars in lost revenue each year, Bloomberg reports. OpenAI had already warned Congress in February that Deepseek was using increasingly sophisticated methods to extract data from US models. Anthropic identified Deepseek, Moonshot, and Minimax as actors involved in the practice. The collaboration mirrors how the cybersecurity industry operates, where companies routinely share attack data with each other.

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Matthias Bastian

Apr 6, 2026

AI and society

OpenAI's safety brain drain finally gets an explanation and it's just Sam Altman's vibes

“My vibes don’t really fit.” In a new New Yorker profile based on over 100 interviews, Sam Altman explains why safety researchers keep leaving OpenAI and why shifting commitments others might call deception are just part of the job.

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Matthias Bastian

Apr 6, 2026

AI and society

Less work, equal pay: OpenAI lays out its vision for a world reshaped by superintelligence

Matthias Bastian

Apr 6, 2026

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OpenAI's Head of Business Finance Chengpeng Mou shared some numbers on ChatGPT's health usage. US users send about two million messages per week on health insurance topics alone, with roughly 600,000 of those coming from people in "hospital deserts," areas where the nearest hospital is at least a 30-minute drive away. Seven out of ten health queries come in outside regular office hours. All figures are based on anonymized US usage data.

Mou chimed in after Simon Smith posted on X about his family using ChatGPT to navigate his father's illness. They pooled information from different doctors and nurses into a shared ChatGPT project to make better decisions. According to Mou, stories like this aren't "edge cases."

OpenAI has been steadily pushing into healthcare, recently rolling out a dedicated health section inside ChatGPT and working to get its chatbot into more US hospitals.

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Matthias Bastian

Apr 4, 2026

Short News

Several leadership changes are underway at OpenAI. Fidji Simo, CEO of the newly created "AGI Deployment" division, is taking sick leave for several weeks to deal with an autoimmune disease affecting her nervous system. While she's away, OpenAI President Greg Brockman will take over product responsibilities, including the company's super app plans. On the business side, CSO Jason Kwon, CFO Sarah Friar, and CRO Denise Dresser will step in.

Head of Marketing Kate Rouch is also stepping down for health reasons. Rouch plans to return in a smaller role once her health improves. Gary Briggs will fill in as her temporary replacement.

COO Brad Lightcap is stepping down as well, moving to a new "special projects" team reporting directly to CEO Sam Altman. Dresser is picking up most of his responsibilities. Lightcap's work on government relations and "OpenAI for Countries" shifts to the strategy department.

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Matthias Bastian

Apr 3, 2026

AI in practice

OpenAI is switching to usage-based pricing for Codex in ChatGPT Business and Enterprise. Admins can enable free Codex access across their workspace and pay only for actual usage; no upfront licenses required. Eligible Business customers can also claim up to 500 dollars in promotional credit per workspace as part of a limited-time promotion.

The move is designed to lower the barrier for enterprise adoption, OpenAI says. Coding tools typically spread from individual developers to full teams. "This model gives organizations a simpler way to support that motion inside a managed workspace," the company writes. OpenAI is likely betting that hands-on experience will drive long-term lock-in. It's a direct shot at GitHub Copilot and Cursor, which still charge per seat.

OpenAI says over two million developers use Codex weekly, with Business and Enterprise usage growing sixfold since January. The company's biggest competitor in this space is Anthropic with Claude Code.

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Matthias Bastian

Apr 3, 2026

AI and society

OpenAI decides the best way to fight critical AI coverage is to own a newsroom

OpenAI has acquired tech talk show TBPN. The show will supposedly remain editorially independent but report to OpenAI’s communications department. That’s as contradictory as it sounds. So what’s OpenAI really after?

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