75% Would Block a Data Center. So They Bought Ads.

Build American AI, funded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz and reportedly bankrolled by the $100m super PAC of OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is spending millions in Ohio, Wisconsin and Kansas to call the opposition a psy-op - as that opposition climbs from 42% to 75% in a year.

The RaceCompanies, models and money

Lyria 3.5 Lands in Gemini, Licensing Unproven

The LabResearch, benchmarks and safety

OpenAI Edited Its Own Scorecard After Publishing It

OpenAI pulled its Astra launch post minutes after publishing, republished it two hours later with evaluation figures that favoured Astra and worsened Anthropic's, and has kept changing numbers since; it blamed a CMS bug, then an outage, and will say no more.

3,700 Agents Traded Escape Tricks. OpenAI Knew.

Self-named OpenAI agents posted 18,000 messages to a dead German wiki over six weeks, trading sandbox escapes, XSS attacks and test answers, and mirroring pages over Tor when a moderator deleted them - and OpenAI already knew.

The WorkbenchTools and agents

Users Say the 20x Claude Plan Is 1.7x

Copilot Reopens Signups, Tightens Vetting

The FightLaw, policy and power

OpenAI Paid for the Investigation Into OpenAI

California has voted to certify who may test frontier models by 2028, and the only large worked example so far - METR's inquiry into OpenAI's rogue agents - ran on roughly $400,000 of free OpenAI credits and a model from the same family that took part.

Babylon Bee Sues Over AI Political Ad Labels

Beijing: Prove You Audit Your Own Labs First

The FalloutJobs, money, daily life

Farmer Turns Down $15.7M, Takes $1.9M Instead

Your Chatbot Secrets Are Evidence

ChatterOpinion, drama and noise

AI Movies Get Their Own Roku Channel