OpenAI Decisions API Hits Public Beta With 10x Faster Typed Answers
MarkTechPost 2 weeks ago 25 ● 14 sources
OpenAI released the Decisions API in public beta, which converts text and images into typed outputs your code can branch on.
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‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
The Verge 2 weeks ago 44 ● 19 sources
Mathematicians reacted with concern and awe after OpenAI abruptly released a large volume of mathematical results they say could take years to understand. The article says more than three dozen mathematicians described the release using terms like “pure insanity” and “staggering.” As a result, researchers anticipate long-term effort to analyze what was released and to determine the implications for their own role in the field.
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Product Hunt 2 weeks ago 35
AgentDock launched a Mac app that centralizes multiple AI coding agents on-screen, routing their status, questions, and permission prompts to a single inbox you can respond to from a keystroke or hotkey.
OpenAI revenue falls short, models play hopscotch and Trump cracks down on tech green cards
SiliconANGLE 2 weeks ago 15 ● 6 sources
OpenAI reported revenue that fell $18 billion short of what it previously projected to investors, and the news pressured AI-related stocks including Nvidia, CoreWeave, Oracle, and Nebius. The gap was $18 billion less than the $68 billion figure OpenAI gave last month. The shortfall intensified investor caution about frontier AI companies’ outlook and contributed to broader market concern alongside new model releases and policy steps affecting tech hiring.
New Math from OpenAI
Zvi (Don't Worry About the Vase) 2 weeks ago 30 ● 19 sources
OpenAI released a large batch of new math results, organized on GitHub and attributed to an internal frontier model, prompting widespread discussion about what the work means. The release comprised 722 manuscripts (719 after 3 withdraws) covering 372 families. Mathematicians are now expected to review and verify the results as the field absorbs an unusually large volume of purported breakthroughs.
AWS, Upstage and Ollama agree on a decision-model API. OpenAI hasn’t signed on.
The New Stack 2 weeks ago 28 ● 14 sources
AWS, Upstage, and Ollama agreed on a shared decision-model API called System One, while OpenAI did not sign on. AWS released Strands Decider 2B on October 1. As a result, the System One request/response schema is becoming the fastest-to-clone contract, making decision-model integration more portable across hosted and self-hosted servers by changing the base URL, even though some vendors still use different endpoint paths and pricing.
The AI race may be decided by financing—not just better chips
Fortune 13 ● 3 sources
Financing deals are increasingly shaping how AI chipmakers and AI labs secure customers instead of relying only on better hardware and technology. Broadcom was reported to be seeking about $30 billion in debt to help OpenAI buy chips they develop together, after a $35 billion Anthropic deal and a separate $60 billion package for Anthropic and others. As more capital is tied to purchasing and equity terms, customers may have fewer easy options to switch providers and labs may face new constraints, especially as they pursue IPOs and higher disclosure requirements.
Kevin Roose on the AGI Believers: Oppenheimer with Equity
ChinaTalk 2 weeks ago 4
Kevin Roose and Jasmine Sun discuss the views of “AGI believers” and review Roose’s recent history covering OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, and the community focused on artificial intelligence. The episode features Roose (of The AGI Chronicles) and Jasmine Sun. As a result, the conversation shifts into a walkthrough of those organizations and how AGI-focused thinking shapes current AI concerns.
Fired OpenAI researchers say they were let go for 'prioritising safety'
BBC News 2 weeks ago 33 ● 4 sources
OpenAI fired three researchers who said they were dismissed for prioritising safety concerns, while the company said an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive information outside procedures. On 2 October, a spokesperson told the BBC the investigation confirmed the mishandling. The dispute is intensifying the internal and public debate over AI safety and how safety and information handling should be managed at the company.
OpenAI expands education for teens while testing flags safety issues
The Neuron 2 weeks ago 30 ● 5 sources
OpenAI launched College Planner for teen users and expanded ChatGPT for Teens access while Common Sense Media’s Youth AI Safety Institute urged OpenAI to pause teen access pending more consistent safeguards in independent tests. In tests using 1,000 unique prompts over seven days on accounts registered to 19-year-olds, none of the accounts switched into the teen experience after claiming to be 13. The dispute could slow or restrict further teen rollout until age-detection and parental-alert timing work reliably, even as OpenAI points to higher learning-message activity from teen sessions.
Google launches ‘Gemini at Work’ with a work agent
Google Cloud Blog 2 weeks ago 7 ● 5 sources
Google Cloud launched Gemini at Work 2026’s Gemini agent, a single work agent that answers questions and completes knowledge-work and coding tasks inside tools like Gmail and Drive.
OpenAI reports roughly $50B in annualized revenue
CNBC 2 weeks ago 42 ● 6 sources
OpenAI told investors that it reached roughly $50 billion in annualized revenue at the end of September, updating figures that were previously reported as $68 billion. It also cited 77% total run rate growth in its third quarter. As a result, shares of Nvidia, Oracle, CoreWeave and other AI-related companies fell, while OpenAI and Anthropic remain on track for major IPO plans amid ongoing AI safety scrutiny.
We’re putting too much faith in AI’s ability to say no
MIT Technology Review 2 weeks ago 44 ● 2 sources
The article argues that modern AI is trained to refuse harmful requests, but that refusal is probabilistic and can fail in both dangerous and politically suppressive ways.
Asana cuts model costs 76x in browser tests with GPT-6.1 Sol
OpenAI 2 weeks ago 10 ● 3 sources
Asana cut the cost and increased the speed of its browser agent by switching it to GPT-6.1 Sol in tests. The browser agent became 76x cheaper. Asana can now offer more capable models to customers at lower per-task cost.
Sophos cuts threat investigation time by 96% with OpenAI Daybreak
OpenAI 2 weeks ago 36
Sophos says it is using OpenAI’s Daybreak in its cyber defense workflow to speed up how teams investigate threats. It reports a 96% reduction in threat investigation time. As a result, it claims 52% of managed detection and response (MDR) cases can be automated while keeping human oversight.
OpenAI’s Revenue Falls $20 Billion Short of Expectations, Sending A.I. Stocks Lower
Trending Topics 2 weeks ago 48 ● 6 sources
OpenAI told investors its annualized revenue was just under $50 billion at the end of September, which contrasted with earlier reports near $70 billion and pushed AI stocks lower. The $20 billion shortfall was attributed to different accounting approaches: Anthropic counts partner-channel sales in full while OpenAI books only the portion it keeps. Markets adjust expectations and OpenAI later guided investors that it aims to reach at least $70 billion in annualized revenue by the end of 2026, with Nasdaq futures briefly improving.
OpenAI doubles down on decision to fire three AI safety researchers
The Verge 2 weeks ago 29 ● 4 sources
OpenAI dismissed three AI safety researchers after an investigation found they committed a significant breach of trust.
Last Week in AI #346 - 719 math manuscripts, 2 Western open models, 1 more safety resignation
Last Week in AI 2 weeks ago 13 ● 19 sources
OpenAI published hundreds of math proofs and Lean formalizations from an unreleased internal frontier model, and some of the work builds on its prior Navier–Stokes announcement. It reported 719 manuscripts covering 372 topic families in its public repository as of October 6, 2026. The field’s access and scrutiny of frontier-model math results expands, alongside added disclosure pressure around model names, prompts, and compute.
AI stocks crumble on report that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is much lower than believed
SiliconANGLE 2 weeks ago 6 ● 6 sources
AI stocks fell after a Financial Times report said OpenAI’s annualized revenue is about $20 billion lower than previously reported, as OpenAI told investors its figure was near $50 billion instead of $68 billion. The Nasdaq dropped 1.25% on the day. The revenue discrepancy and lower net-vs-gross framing rattled investors and pushed down related tech stocks amid upcoming IPO expectations for OpenAI and Anthropic.
ttok 1.0
Simon Willison’s Weblog 2 weeks ago 44 ● 2 sources
ttok 1.0 was released after the author found the tool was defaulting to the GPT-4 tokenizer instead of the intended GPT-5/GPT-6 tokenizer, and used a tokenizer check to justify changing the default. The release cites a test where all seven GPT models produced 44,794 tokens across 31 fixtures, with GPT-6 showing no input-count change on that corpus. Tokenization defaults are updated so new runs use the GPT-5/GPT-6 family tokenizer rather than GPT-4.
AI is solving math problems faster than humans can understand the solutions
Platformer 2 weeks ago 45 ● 19 sources
OpenAI’s math work is being framed as enabling faster answers while potentially outpacing mathematicians’ ability to understand the solutions. The report says OpenAI canceled a new model on the eve of its developer conference over safety fears. As a result, attention shifts to what kinds of “slowdown” or limits might be needed around AI systems’ outputs and to OpenAI’s updated approach to agent safety questions.