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OpenAI is the maker of ChatGPT, the GPT model family and Sora. This hub tracks every meaningful OpenAI development: model releases, ChatGPT and API updates, safety and regulation stories, lawsuits, partnerships and funding.
Zenity found that ChatGPT's agent builder accepted its configuration from URL parameters and auto-submitted. The rogue agent then checked the attacker's inbox every five minutes for orders.
Jul 24, 2026
ChatGPT Voice landed on Mac and Windows on Thursday. The pitch is not dictation — it's talking to a fleet of agents already running in parallel while you do something else.
Jul 24, 2026
The January pilot failed for an unexpected reason: 70% of health questions happened outside the dedicated health tab. So OpenAI tore down the tab.
Jul 24, 2026
Scott Winters says GPT-4o talked him out of seeking care before a massive pulmonary embolism — his suit claims the bot practiced medicine without a license and asks a court to halt ChatGPT Health.
Jul 23, 2026
The new offering packages guardrails, approved actions, simulations and a Codex-powered improvement loop — and OpenAI says it already resolves 75% of calls to its own support line without a human.
Jul 23, 2026
The Georgia data center is OpenAI's first as its own designer and developer — announced the same day the company's projected infrastructure spending through 2030 reportedly climbed to $750 billion.
Jul 23, 2026
During an internal cyber-capability test, GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model escaped OpenAI's sandbox, reached the open internet through a zero-day, and hacked into Hugging Face to steal the benchmark's answers.
Jul 22, 2026
OpenAI reduced the default context window in its Codex CLI for GPT-5.6 by more than a quarter — from 372,000 to 272,000 tokens — and developers say long coding sessions now spend more time compacting than working.
Jul 20, 2026
The Financial Times reports Apple sent document-preservation notices to about 40 ex-employees now at OpenAI, a sign it believes alleged secret-stealing runs deeper than its lawsuit first named.
Jul 18, 2026
Codex Micro is a 13-switch controller co-designed with Montreal's Work Louder, built to steer coding agents from the desk — a limited-run curiosity that arrives while Apple sues OpenAI over hardware trade secrets.
Jul 16, 2026
Four days after Apple sued over its screenless AI device, OpenAI publicly denied the complaint has merit — a suit that names hardware chief Tang Tan and accuses him of steering Apple secrets toward OpenAI.
Jul 15, 2026
Bloomberg reports the Jony Ive-designed gadget will be a portable, screen-free smart speaker pitched as a 'humanlike AI companion,' with mechanical parts that move on their own and voice powered by ChatGPT's GPT-Live mode.
Jul 15, 2026
A federal judge twice threw out Elon Musk's claim that OpenAI poached engineers to steal secrets; now xAI is taking it to the Ninth Circuit while OpenAI asks the court to declare the case should never have been filed.
Jul 14, 2026
A traffic wave from the newly public GPT-5.6 'Sol' model pushed OpenAI to temporarily drop the 5-hour usage cap on paid tiers on July 12 and re-grant usage to about 500,000 Codex and ChatGPT Work accounts.
Jul 13, 2026
The two companies partnered on Siri barely a year ago. Now Apple accuses OpenAI's chief hardware officer and a departed engineer of hauling confidential iPhone-maker know-how to the startup's device push.
Jul 11, 2026
A New York Times-led coalition says OpenAI claimed it could not search its training data for copyrighted journalism — while an engineer's deposition showed it had already done exactly that, before the first lawsuit was filed.
Jul 10, 2026
A new agent that builds documents, spreadsheets and websites for non-coders arrives as OpenAI retires the standalone browser it shipped nine months ago — folding agentic browsing into a Chrome extension, the desktop app and a cloud browser.
Jul 10, 2026
The CEO of Applications, who ran product and business operations under Sam Altman, is moving to a part-time advisory role — leaving OpenAI without a clear second-in-command as it weighs an IPO.
Jul 10, 2026
Josh Kushner's holding company is pulling in outside capital from SoftBank, Altimeter and D1 to roll up accounting and IT firms — with OpenAI embedded as a shareholder and engineering partner.
Jul 9, 2026
New voice models let ChatGPT hear and speak simultaneously, hand hard questions to GPT-5.5 in the background, and keep the conversation going — replacing Advanced Voice Mode as the default for 150 million-plus voice users.
Jul 9, 2026
The three tiers are reaching ChatGPT, the API and Codex today, ending a nearly two-week government-coordinated preview that had held the model to about 20 vetted partners — though the rollout is staged, not flipped on for everyone at once.
Jul 9, 2026
The Commerce Department's AI standards body signed off after weeks of testing — ending a preview limited to about 20 vetted partners and making GPT-5.6 the first frontier model to ship on the government's schedule, not OpenAI's.
Jul 8, 2026
The new Sol, Terra and Luna models launched to just 20 vetted partners at the US government's request, under a new process for vetting frontier AI before wide release.
Jul 4, 2026
