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Dario Amodei wants embedded evaluators inside every frontier AI lab, and Sam Altman said OpenAI will match the pledge. The evaluators who’d do the work say the plan is short on the details that would prove it’s real.
Anthropic and OpenAI are pushing for coordinated AI safety regulation just as enterprise demand builds for cheaper, less regulated open source models from China, leaving buyers to hedge against a regulatory outcome nobody can yet predict.
OpenAI has acquired smartphone camera startup Glass Imaging in a deal worth more than $300 million, the Wall Street Journal reported. Neither company has confirmed it.
OpenAI published a customer story on how Fyxer built its AI executive assistant. The funding history, independent reviews and security claims tell a messier story than the case study alone.
Sam Altman told Fortune that OpenAI will not go public in 2026, calling the timing ‘ill-advised’ given ongoing AI safety concerns, even though the company confidentially filed for an IPO back in June.
OpenAI published a customer story saying Perplexity now trusts GPT-6 Astra to write communications, edit production code, and monitor live systems with much less check-in than earlier models needed.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published an essay on September 12, 2026 calling for the industry to slow AI capability growth, and committed his own company to giving outside evaluators like METR permanent, employee-level access to verify its safety practices.
OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra now powers testing across Devin’s cloud agent, CLI, and desktop products, with Cognition framing it as a path to less manual code review. The update lands three days after Cognition’s $48 billion valuation.
OpenAI reversed course and is now backing mandatory national AI safety rules, the same week a researcher who worked at both OpenAI and Anthropic resigned warning of existential risk. Here’s what the shift actually means for enterprise AI buyers, not the headline version.
OpenAI has paused new sign-ups and upgrades to its $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro plan after demand for its Astra model strained the company’s infrastructure. Existing Pro subscribers are unaffected.