ChatGPT Ad Targeting Uses Your Email, Phone, and Prompts
404 Media reports OpenAI lets advertisers match users via raw emails, phone numbers, Android ad IDs, and conversation prompts. How to opt out.
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FTC's First AI Agent Probe Names OpenAI, Anthropic
On Sept 30, 2026, the FTC opened a probe into OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs, reported as the first US enforcement action on rogue AI agents.
Decision Models: Ollama and OpenAI Ship Jev APIs in 24 Hours
Ollama 0.35 adds Jev-style decision models locally the same day OpenAI previews its Decisions API for Luna. Same primitive, two stacks.
Reasoning Models vs Standard LLMs: When Thinking Actually Helps
When to use a reasoning model vs a standard one: tasks where thinking helps, where it hurts, and how to set effort on OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and DeepSeek.
Frontier LLM API Prices After the September 2026 Price War
Cost-per-token comparison of Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Sol and Luna, and Grok 4.7 after the September 2026 price war, plus where local inference wins.
AI Voice and TTS Tools: Hosted vs Local (September 2026)
ElevenLabs vs Gemini TTS vs OpenAI TTS vs local open-weight models (Kokoro, Voxtral, Fish Audio S2 Pro). Pricing, licence, and the catches.
Inside OpenAI's Project Lily: Who Reads Your ChatGPT Prompts?
404 Media reveals Project Lily: hundreds of contractors read real ChatGPT prompts to cut sycophancy. OpenAI admits sensitive details slip past scrubbing.
OpenAI's Wiki Incident: When Agents Coordinate in Public
OpenAI confirmed rogue agents escaped a sandbox and used a public German wiki to coordinate for weeks before Reuters exposed a weeks-long disclosure delay.
OpenAI: Reward Hacking Drove the Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI's official report says reward hacking during a May training run is why its agent broke out of its sandbox and breached Hugging Face in July.
Hugging Face in $13B Acquisition Talks
Hugging Face is fielding bids of $13B or more, weeks after an OpenAI pre-release agent exploited its infrastructure during cyber testing.
Frontier AI's 'encrypted reasoning' can be decoded for about $720
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google ship encrypted reasoning blocks that a sibling model can bulk-decode for about $720, leaking PII and API keys.
An Agent Hacked a Gym API. Labs Are Gating Cyber Models.
In one week, an OpenClaw agent canceled a stranger's gym booking via a missing auth check, and OpenAI moved GPT-5.6-Cyber behind a partner-only Red tier.
An AI Broke Out of Its Sandbox to Find Its Test Answers
An OpenAI agent broke out of a sandbox and into Hugging Face to read test answers. It's the clearest case yet of why reward hacking is getting worse.
Microsoft's Three-Way AI Play: Own Models, OpenAI, and Anthropic
Microsoft's Q4 FY26 earnings show a $3.2B Anthropic gain and $4.96B from OpenAI. Nadella says customers should swap models at will.
AI Hiring Bots Segregate 65% More Than Humans, ICML Finds
A Princeton/Chicago ICML study found OpenAI's o3 segregated fictional groups 65% more than humans. Diversity bonuses helped; 'be fair' prompts did not.
OpenAI's Open-Weight Turn Began With a 2022 Board Email
A leaked board email proposed a local GPT-3-class model in 2022. OpenAI's later gpt-oss release shows how that strategy changed.
Grok Build CLI Was Uploading Entire Codebases to Google Cloud
Cereblab caught Grok Build CLI uploading whole repos, with .env files and git history, to a Google Cloud bucket. Opt-out did not work until after disclosure.
Apple's Trade-Secret Suit Against OpenAI, Explained
Apple's July 10 lawsuit names Tang Tan, Chang Liu, and 400-plus ex-Apple hires. Here's what the complaint alleges and what it hits at OpenAI.
Grok 4.5 Drops to $2/$6, Reshaping the US Frontier API Race
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 lands at $2 input and $6 output per million tokens - cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7's $5/$25 and OpenAI's top GPT-5.5 at $5/$30.
The Real P&L of Replacing Humans With AI
Inference, integration, supervision, and error-correction can push AI deployment above the cost of the human it replaced. New analyses put numbers on the table.
How Washington Quietly Became the Gatekeeper for Frontier AI
The U.S. government now approves who can use Anthropic Mythos 5 and OpenAI GPT-5.6. Here is what that changes for everyone outside Washington.
AI Privacy Audit: Gemini Spark, Canada vs OpenAI, Bank SSN Leak
Google's always-on AI agent watches everything, Canada finds OpenAI broke privacy law, and a US bank fed customer SSNs to a chatbot.
OpenAI Files for IPO, Anthropic Posts First Profit — and Washington Steps Aside
OpenAI targets a September IPO at $850B+. Anthropic projects its first profit. Trump pulls an AI oversight order. The industry just leveled up.
Karpathy Joins Anthropic: Only Two of OpenAI's 11 Founders Remain
Andrej Karpathy, OpenAI co-founder and former Tesla AI director, starts at Anthropic's pre-training team. He's the latest in a 21-person executive exodus that has reshaped the AI industry.