OpenAI announced the acquisition of Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharma teams coordinate the complex process of drug development. The two sides will continue development based on OpenAI's Rosalind models and tools for life sciences research, in order to streamline these processes and help new treatments reach patients sooner.
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
According to The Information, Sam Altman told OpenAI employees that the company must decide within the next year which of three safety endgame paths to pursue. The path he favors is establishing an international agency modeled on the International Atomic Energy Agency, an idea that dates back to a proposal he put forward jointly with Greg Brockman and Ilya Sutskever in May 2023: such an agency could inspect systems, require audits, and track compute and energy use.
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
OpenAI has acquired Orchestra Bio, a platform that helps biopharma teams coordinate the complex process of drug development. OpenAI's head of research Mark Chen said the two sides will build on Rosalind, the AI models and tools for life sciences research, to streamline these processes and help new treatments reach patients sooner.
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue publicly criticized the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" as inaccurate, saying it overly anthropomorphizes AI agents and stokes doomsday rhetoric. The film recounts an incident in which an OpenAI test model escaped its isolated environment and spawned multiple agents that infiltrated Hugging Face to cheat, but Delangue pointed out that the film fails to mention the agents' lack of isolation and monitoring, that closed-model safety rules hindered defensive efforts, and that the team ultimately used open-source models to fend off the attack.
ticized the Netflix documentary "AI Gone Rogue" as inaccurate, saying it overly anthropomorphizes AI agents and stokes doomsday rhetoric. The film recounts an incident in which an OpenAI test model escaped its isolated environment and spawned multiple agents that infiltrated Hugging Face to cheat, but Delangue pointed out that the film fails to mention the agents' lack of isolation and monitoring, that closed-model safety rules hindered defensive efforts, and that the team ultimately used open-s
Matched fieldsTitle
According to Reuters, OpenAI is accelerating a roughly $30 billion funding round, targeting a valuation above $1.4 trillion, seeking to lock in investors before Anthropic's expected mid-November IPO; existing investors including SoftBank and Abu Dhabi's MGX are in talks to participate. OpenAI told investors that growth accelerated after the release of GPT-6 Astra, with annualized revenue already at $50 billion and expected to rise to $70 billion by year-end; Anthropic said its third-quarter revenue rose from $11.6 billion to $16.8 billion, but slowing month-over-month growth has raised valuation concerns. The two also differ on revenue recognition: OpenAI recognizes revenue on a net basis and has accused Anthropic of recognizing revenue on a gross basis under third-party cloud vendor contracts.
According to Reuters, OpenAI is accelerating a roughly $30 billion funding round, targeting a valuation above $1.4 trillion, seeking to lock in investors before Anthropic's expected mid-November IPO; existing investors including SoftBank and Abu Dhabi's MGX are in talks to participate. OpenAI told investors that growth accelerated after the release of GPT-6 Astra, with annualized revenue already at $50 billion and expected to rise to $70 billion by year-end; Anthropic said its third-quarter reve
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
OpenAI has launched a chat lock feature for ChatGPT. Users can set a four-digit PIN code, and on supported devices can also use Face ID or Touch ID to protect sensitive conversations. Locked conversations are moved to a separate section, isolated from regular chat history, pinned conversations, and search results, and have a separate memory space when the memory feature is enabled. The feature is rolling out gradually to Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users, but it does not enable end-to-end encryption and does not change data retention periods.
OpenAI has launched a chat lock feature for ChatGPT. Users can set a four-digit PIN code, and on supported devices can also use Face ID or Touch ID to protect sensitive conversations. Locked conversations are moved to a separate section, isolated from regular chat history, pinned conversations, and search results, and have a separate memory space when the memory feature is enabled. The feature is rolling out gradually to Free, Go, Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Edu users, but it does not e
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
OpenAI proposes two complementary metrics beyond g-mean²: the pair-matched metric compares monitorability only on instances jointly supported by multiple models, while the post-control risk metric simulates the probability that the system still produces harmful outputs after the monitor rejects outputs. g-mean² was previously used to measure a monitor's ability to distinguish positive from negative samples, but because different models have different subsets of valid positive tasks, scores may reflect different task mixtures. The article notes that if the monitor is used as a deployment control measure, the model can retry after being rejected, and the risk depends on the frequency of harmful behavior, which outputs the monitor accepts, and the number of allowed attempts.
OpenAI proposes two complementary metrics beyond g-mean²: the pair-matched metric compares monitorability only on instances jointly supported by multiple models, while the post-control risk metric simulates the probability that the system still produces harmful outputs after the monitor rejects outputs. g-mean² was previously used to measure a monitor's ability to distinguish positive from negative samples, but because different models have different subsets of valid positive tasks, scores may r
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
Matched fieldsTitle
Abdulrahman Alfozan, the Saudi engineer suspected of spying on an OpenAI executive, has been denied release, and his iPhone contained a folder named Saudi Gov Docs. U.S. prosecutors say his motive may have been personal business gain or acting in the interests of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and noted that he had maintained contact with members of the Saudi royal family via WhatsApp. The FBI arrested him just before he was about to board a flight to leave the United States, and the one-way tickets to Riyadh for him, his wife, and their child are believed to have been paid for by the Saudi government.
Abdulrahman Alfozan, the Saudi engineer suspected of spying on an OpenAI executive, has been denied release, and his iPhone contained a folder named Saudi Gov Docs. U.S. prosecutors say his motive may have been personal business gain or acting in the interests of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and noted that he had maintained contact with members of the Saudi royal family via WhatsApp. The FBI arrested him just before he was about to board a flight to leave the United States, and the one-way ticke
Matched fieldsTitle