… The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment. OpenAI’s newest model, GPT-5.5, was released with enhanced coding skills earlier this month. The company is in a fierce race with rivals, especially Anthropic, to deliver cutting-edge AI, and coding has emerged as a killer capability. …
… The response was filed in a federal court in San Francisco, one of two venues where Anthropic is challenging the Pentagon’s decision to sanction the company with a label that can bar companies from defense contracts over concerns about potential security vulnerabilities. …
… That approach has repeatedly landed the company in the crosshairs of the Trump administration, which has tried to curb state-level AI regulations that it argues could hamper development. …
… DHS later withdrew its request, and the social media platform dropped its lawsuit in response, meaning a judge was never able to rule on whether the practice was actually illegal. …
… The company plans to allow Spark to connect through Gemini to third-party apps, like OpenTable and Instacart, for additional automation opportunities in the coming weeks. …
… Interacting with real people involves friction: You have to find the person or wait for their response or listen to a response that is not what you’re looking for. …
… It depicted the rear end of a donkey—with two legs, a butt, and a tail—and was inscribed with the message, “Joshua Achiam, never stop being a jackass for safety.” OpenAI employees at the time, Dario Amodei and David Luan, presented the gift to chief futurist Achiam, who started at the company as an… …
… In February, the offices of US senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal discovered that Miko had exposed “the audio responses of the toy” in a publicly accessible, unsecured database containing thousands of responses. …
… Emails released as part of Anthropic’s lawsuit against the DOD, in response to the Trump administration’s Anthropic ban after the company refused to remove restrictions about how its tools could be used by the military, reveal that Kliger was involved in the agency’s negotiations with the company. …
… The pilot describes the situation with a matter-of-factness that is perhaps the most unsettling detail of all: “GPS jamming has become pretty standard in the region.” Mitigation procedures were only introduced industry-wide a few years ago, in response to jamming during the Russia-Ukraine war. …