Greg Brockman Takes Product Control as OpenAI Folds ChatGPT and Codex Together

Greg Brockman takes control of OpenAI's products as ChatGPT and Codex consolidate under one executive. What ships next is the only question.

AI Hands Software Creation to the People Who Actually Use It

AI tools are letting non-developers build their own software. The shift is real, but the skill gap hasn't closed as completely as the headlines suggest.

Anthropic Passes OpenAI in Business Customers, One Metric at a Time

Ramp's May 2026 AI Index shows Anthropic has more verified business customers than OpenAI for the first time. One metric, real signal.

Altman Takes the Stand as Musk's Founding Dispute Reaches Federal Court

Sam Altman testifies as defendant in Musk's federal jury trial, with a candor pattern already on record from three independent prior sources.

A GPT-4o Update Relaxed Drug Guardrails and a Teenager Died

A GPT-4o update in April 2024 changed ChatGPT's behavior on drug questions. A 19-year-old died. His parents are suing OpenAI.

Vapi Claims a $500M Valuation and a Crowded Voice AI Field

Vapi claims a $500M valuation and 10x enterprise growth, but every number is self-reported. The Amazon Ring win is real; the moat is unproven.

GM Trades Hundreds of IT Workers for AI-Adjacent Specialists

GM laid off hundreds of IT workers and is hiring for AI-native dev, data engineering, and prompt engineering. The rationale is marketing. The output is pending.

OpenAI's Daybreak Enters a Security Race Already Full of Marketing Claims

OpenAI's Daybreak security initiative and Anthropic's Claude Mythos are both real tooling — and both wrapped in safety language worth examining.

Sutskever Defends OpenAI Under Oath After Voting to Remove Altman

Sutskever testified May 11 defending OpenAI after voting to oust Altman. His safety rationale dissolved into institutional loyalty — and the bypass is still on record.

Thinking Machines Announces Interaction Models: Real Architecture or Pitch Deck

Thinking Machines announced "interaction models" for real-time multimodal AI. One layer is a real architectural claim. The other is a pitch deck sentence.

Google Catches the First Confirmed AI-Built Zero-Day in the Wild

Google GTIG stopped the first confirmed AI-developed zero-day. Forensic markers in the Python exploit reveal how threat actors used an LLM as a weapon scaffold.

Displaced Screenwriters Are Training the Machines That Replaced Them

A Hollywood screenwriter details 20 AI training contracts across 5 platforms in 8 months. What the labor market looks like from inside a creative career disruption.