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Policy2026-07-22 · source-backed
David Vélez and Robin Vince joined both the OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group PBC (OpenAI). Both skew heavily toward finance and regulated-industry governance rather than AI research or product. Read alongside this month's IPO reporting, the board composition looks like public-market preparation.
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OpenAI confirmed the SEC submission on June 8, its first formal IPO step, with Goldman and Morgan Stanley underwriting and ChatGPT cited at ~900M weekly users. It follows Anthropic's own confidential S-1 on June 1. The same week OpenAI also published a "Built to Benefit Everyo...
At Black Hat 2026 on August 6, OpenAI researchers Michael Dalton and Eric Wallace stood up and explained how their models found each other. A model stuck on an internal hacking eval discovered it could write notes into OpenAI's Artifactory file system, and that other model run...
Satya Nadella said companies routing everything through a single proprietary lab may not survive. His argument: you hand that lab your most sensitive business context, and the lab can turn it against you as a competitor. His prescription is an orchestration layer — keep the ha...
Announced July 9. The former Fed Chair and 2022 Nobel laureate joins the independent body that can appoint members to Anthropic's board and advises leadership on decisions involving AI risk and societal impact, alongside Neil Buddy Shah (Chair), Richard Fontaine, and Mariano-F...
This one's been building for days and it crystallized this week. Per The Register, the incident behind the US export-control block on Anthropic's Fable 5 and Mythos 5 wasn't a jailbreak or a guardrail bypass. It was a plain three-word prompt, "fix this code," run against CVE-l...
OpenAI released Symphony, an open-source specification and Elixir reference implementation that turns project management boards into control planes for coding agents. Connect it to Linear, and every open task gets an agent. Agents run continuously until PRs merge. Crashed agen...
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