Tech firms including Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, Palantir and Anduril have expanded into branded clothing, treating it as limited, label-led merch rather than a normal apparel line. Nvidia’s woollen jumper sells for $178 (£132) and its drops typically sell out quickly. This shifts tech branding toward scarcity, identity and reputation management, with some buyers attracted for controversy and critics arguing it aims to improve public conversation.
Anthropic and OpenAI proposed embedding third-party safety evaluators inside frontier AI companies to report incidents, assess alignment, and publish findings. The proposal includes Anthropic committing to give independent evaluators like METR and Redwood Research “unprecedented” access, but it leaves open the evaluators’ actual access and decision rights. Independence could improve, but observers say details like legal mandates, access to training checkpoints, and time limits will determine whether evaluators act as true watchdogs or operate within the companies’ constraints.
OpenAI shared a reporting framework for tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment alongside six reports of unexpected or concerning model behavior.
Sam Altman said he unwinds by scrolling TikTok-style short-form video before bed, but he had previously found it too compelling and deleted the app. He described scrolling for three hours on a Saturday afternoon after first getting into TikTok during OpenAI’s Sora development. Altman now discourages TikTok use for kids and frames short-form video as dangerous, while other executives described using social media in moderation for work and consumer insight.
OpenAI and AARP are running free, hands-on ChatGPT workshops for older adults to build practical AI skills safely. The program will reach 1,000 older adults across 10 U.S. cities. The workshops give participants direct training and safer usage guidance in everyday tasks.
OpenAI is rolling out Sponsored Agents in ChatGPT, letting users start conversations with an advertiser’s AI agent after clicking an ad in the United States. The Sponsored Agents feature is currently being tested with select advertisers in the United States and is slated to start shipping via the Shopify app internationally starting next Wednesday. ChatGPT Ads expands from standard ad clicks into labeled, separate agent chats plus Ads Manager tools for creating, updating, and analyzing campaigns with integrations for HubSpot and Shopify.
OpenAI is introducing AI-powered advertising experiences, including Sponsored Agents, marketer tools, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify. The article does not provide any specific date, benchmark, or pricing detail. These additions let advertisers use AI agents and new tooling to build and run campaigns with existing marketing and commerce platforms.
Hex’s data agents use GPT-6 Astra to turn answers into interactive visualizations. The key detail is GPT-6 Astra. This shifts how employees receive and share reporting from text-only answers to shareable visuals.
OpenAI held early investor talks about a new funding round that could lift its valuation above $1.2 trillion, with investors reportedly approaching the company. The talks come months after OpenAI raised $122 billion in committed capital at an $852 billion post-money valuation in March. OpenAI is using private financing to delay IPO disclosures while keeping cash flowing for high spending, as valuation targets increasingly converge with Anthropic’s near-$1.2 trillion private-market level ahead of its possible October IPO.
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OpenAI held early discussions with investors about a pre-IPO financing round that could come before an IPO expected next year. The potential valuation for the round is more than $1.2 trillion. The financing timeline remains delayed due to concerns about AI safety, but discussions continue.
OpenAI Economic Research examines how workers are using AI for tasks outside traditional roles. It focuses on which new activities become recurring parts of their work. As a result, it broadens what counts as AI-enabled work and reframes AI adoption around everyday task patterns rather than job titles.
AI executives including Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, Demis Hassabis, Satya Nadella, and Elon Musk called for AI regulation to slow progress. Their message follows a recent few-days wave of public statements. This repeats an earlier pattern of AI leaders urging oversight, and changes nothing concrete in policy on its own.
Sider Omni Sidebar launched as an AI agent that sits beside Mac apps and can act on what’s on your screen while you work. It launched today and is built on GPT-6 Astra. It changes how users interact with their Mac apps by letting them request on-screen changes without copying or uploading content.
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