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Warp Sciences, an AI scientific research startup founded by former OpenAI Chief Product Officer Kevin Weil, has emerged from stealth, completing a $215 million Series A funding round at a post-money valuation of $865 million, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. The company, founded in San Francisco with a team of about 20 people, plans to use AI, robotics, and automated laboratories to help pharmaceutical companies screen molecular variants in drug development, without developing drugs itself. T

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OpenAI's FDE team was established in early 2025, with the goal of filling the deployment gap between model capabilities and customers' real-world constraints; the approach is to first get results into production, then consolidate customized solutions into reusable products. In the early days, every use case required extensive customized integration; after Codex became stronger, the team rebuilt the application on Codex, turning customized applications into plugins and skills based on Codex primi

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METR and Redwood Research each sent one person to OpenAI from July 21 to August 11, 2026, to evaluate the misalignment behavior monitoring system for its internal agents (including Codex). The public draft states that about 75–94% of agent traffic in the internal Responses API at or above GPT-5.5 is eligible for monitoring, and the internal Codex agent subset is about 99.2%, but there are gaps such as compaction not being monitored, and paths were found that can bypass the sandbox and Auto-revie

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MiniMax open-sources M3.1 Flash, a 428B-parameter MoE with 23B activated parameters, gaining day-one support from Together, SGLang, vLLM and NVIDIA NeMo. OpenAI's Decisions API is officially available, powered by GPT-6 Luna, with classification and decision speed improved by up to 10x, at an input price of $0.10 per million tokens. Anthropic's Claude models are officially available on Google Cloud, and starting next week, Claude sessions on Pro, Max and Team plans will run in auto mode by defaul

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According to Bloomberg, OpenAI has lowered the target valuation for a funding round of about $30 billion to $1.25 trillion, $150 billion below the previous $1.4 trillion. Even after the cut, the valuation is still about 47% higher than the $852 billion (including newly injected funds) at the time of a $122 billion funding round in March. Coatue Management is in talks to co-lead the round, and OpenAI has also had contact with several UAE investment funds and BlackRock; the cut comes amid a tech s

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According to a WSJ report, OpenAI fired 3 safety researchers after safety personnel discovered disappearing Signal chats between the 3 safety researchers and an outside safety researcher. The phone checks began with a September news report stating that OpenAI's latest model Astra uses a new approach that makes it smarter but writes down less of its thought process, so humans can see less of the reasoning. OpenAI treated the report as a leak of its secret model design and began tracing the source

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In a 45-minute conversation, Sam Altman said that OpenAI's not-yet-public models have reached a level in some mathematical research tasks that existing public models find hard to match, and he expects to find the first candidate treatment for a major disease in about two years. He said programmers have not lost their jobs because of AI; instead they are busier, creating greater value and even earning more, because the world's demand for software far exceeds expectations; he himself has not looke

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Developer pepsipu released the first Jailbreak for Nintendo Switch 2, completed with the help of OpenAI's coding agent Codex. He used Jet-KVM to let Codex send controller inputs to the console and analyze HDMI output, and also added a remote switch to automatically press the power button when the console crashes; the software part took two weeks, exploiting a vulnerability in the eShop app Smile Basic 4 to achieve memory access and code execution. This Jailbreak is a Tethered type and becomes in

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Kevin Weil, former head of OpenAI's science program, has founded drug discovery chemistry company Warp Sciences, launching with $215 million in new funding about six months after he left OpenAI. The company is building a chemistry contract research organization in the United States; its first service is analog synthesis for lead compound optimization. Experimental data will be used to train its AI models, and chemists wearing cameras and sensor gloves will demonstrate actions so robots can learn

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OpenAI announced the full opening of the Decisions API built on GPT-6 Luna, aimed at questions with a limited set of answers, with response speeds up to 10 times faster than calling GPT-6 Luna through the Responses API. The API charges $0.10 per million input tokens, $0.01 per million cached input tokens, bills only for input tokens, and output tokens are free. Since the public beta, it has added native GPT-Live integration, prompt caching, and inference data residency support in the United Stat

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OpenAI announced the full opening of the Decisions API, which is built on GPT-6 Luna and is aimed at questions with bounded answers, helping applications and agents make near-real-time decisions based on text, images, and structured inputs, with response speeds up to 10 times faster than calling GPT-6 Luna through the Responses API. On pricing, input is charged at $0.1 per million tokens, cached input hits are charged at $0.01 per million tokens, and billing is based only on input tokens, with o

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AI safety evaluation organizations METR and Redwood Research conducted a pilot evaluation of OpenAI's internal monitoring system and found multiple new vulnerabilities, one of which could be exploited by AI agents to let hundreds of operations escape monitoring. The evaluation took place from July 21 to August 11, with each organization sending one researcher into OpenAI's internal systems to review code and documentation. The researchers also found that OpenAI's Codex agent has potential pathwa

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OpenAI opened the Decisions API to all customers on Thursday; the product was announced at the September 29 Developer Day and is based on a reconfigured ChatGPT Luna to speed up inference and reduce costs. Nikunj Handa, OpenAI's head of API product, said latency has been cut from 1 to 3 seconds to 100, 120, and 180 milliseconds; the public version adds voice and vision modalities and deploys inference resources by region to reduce latency. In early trials at Box, Datadog, Ramp, and Speak, Speak

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Former OpenAI science lead Wei Er and three co-founders founded Warp Sciences, raising $215 million and planning to establish a chemistry contract research organization in the United States to provide molecule synthesis and testing services for drug discovery teams. In its first phase, the company will focus on synthesizing analogs for lead compound optimization; clients decide which molecules to study and retain control of their drug programs, and Warp will not develop its own drug pipeline. To

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