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OpenAI acquires Odessia, travel startup created by Sonder founder (opens techcrunch.com)

Odessia was founded by Sonder's Francis Davidson; OpenAI has not said what it plans for travel.

OpenAI rolls out new business profiles, making ChatGPT just a little bit more like Google (opens techcrunch.com)

Businesses in ChatGPT (beta) lets businesses claim verified profiles and see how often ChatGPT mentions them; US e-commerce and online-service firms can launch their own agents.

Source: OpenAI told investors on Tuesday that its revenue jumped 50% to around $10B in Q3, up from 17% growth in Q2 (opens theinformation.com)

The WSJ, citing leaked documents, says the adjusted operating margin improved from -150% to -109% over the same period.

ChatGPT Desktop forwards your SSH agent to remote machines (opens news.ycombinator.com)

The agent running on a remote machine can authenticate using your local SSH credentials. That means it can push to your private repos on GitHub, for example. Proof: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/28131#discussion_r3410013180

Kuken Industries searches 70 years of drawings in minutes (opens openai.com)

A Japanese cooling-tower maker searches 70 years of drawings with the OpenAI API; engineers find a repair drawing in 4.5 minutes instead of nearly an hour.

OpenAI raises $11B at a $1.25T valuation (opens 247wallst.com)

The report says OpenAI raised $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, below the $1.4 trillion it had sought.

Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof "shocking news" (opens nytimes.com)

Exponential Time Hypothesis co-proposer Russell Impagliazzo calls OpenAI's disproof “shocking news”; it could one day speed up chip design and break encryption — A longstanding hypothesis held that some problems would always be hard for computers to solve quickly.

Partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems (opens openai.com)

OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.

OpenAI reportedly raises an additional $11 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation (opens techcrunch.com)

The additional $11B is part of a round that has not closed yet and is expected to in the coming weeks, putting OpenAI at a reported $1.25 trillion valuation.

GPT‑6 Cyber: Advancing the frontier of aligned cybersecurity agents (opens openai.com)

OpenAI's cybersecurity model, a version of GPT-6 Astra, finds exploitable vulnerabilities and develops fixes while staying within authorized scope.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman says company could be IPO ready in 2027 (opens techcrunch.com)

Speaking at a Wall Street Journal tech conference on Wednesday, the executive touted how the company had been gaining ground in the enterprise market, where rival Anthropic had already successfully made inroads.

Cult.fit builds operational muscle with Codex (opens openai.com)

Cult.fit is using Codex to help teams across functions build tools, move faster, and change how work gets done.

OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company (opens openai.com)

OpenAI announced it will buy the low-profile developer tooling startup; terms were not disclosed, and observers read it as a shot at GitHub for the age of agents.

OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs (opens openai.com)

OpenAI details a pipeline that used an upcoming cyber model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2M in API costs — Security research that once required a separate, sustained investigation for each finding can increasingly be run as a systematic…

Introducing Images 2.6 (opens openai.com)

OpenAI says Images 2.6 generates images 50% faster and adds animated GIF creation from prompts or photos, across ChatGPT, Codex and the API.

Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she is joining OpenAI to lead product manangement for core products; Wu was the product lead for Claude Code (opens businessinsider.com)

Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week, says she is joining OpenAI to lead product manangement for core products; Wu was the product lead for Claude Code — Cat Wu, who left Anthropic last week after becoming one of the company's highest-profile product managers, is joining OpenAI.

Scaling Git at OpenAI (opens openai.com)

OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats (opens news.ycombinator.com)

A poster says the data-sharing setting their team had turned off in Codex was switched back on without anyone opting in.

How Nvidia uses soft power to influence customers and shape US chip policy; sources: OpenAI took no public stance on China chip exports to avoid angering Nvidia (opens theinformation.com)

How Nvidia uses soft power to influence customers and shape US chip policy; sources: OpenAI took no public stance on China chip exports to avoid angering Nvidia — Last month, OpenAI Senior Research Scientist Noam Brown posted a link in a company Slack channel to a news story …

OpenAI launches the Grid Protectors Program, a US effort for its future data center campuses meant "to reduce electricity demand when the grid is under strain" (OpenAI) (opens openai.com)

OpenAI will pilot the program at an upcoming data center in Effingham County, Georgia, promising to free up to 1,000 megawatts during extreme weather or emergencies.

OpenAI reportedly lowers funding target for new round (opens techcrunch.com)

OpenAI’s latest funding round doesn't seem to be living up to expectations.

OpenAI plans a post-midterms policy and PR blitz, pushing mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebranding its data centers as "AI compute campuses" (Axios) (opens axios.com)

Axios reports OpenAI will push mandatory "speed limits" for powerful AI and rebrand its data centers as "AI compute campuses" after Tuesday's midterms.

Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code via a ChatGPT share link (The Hacker News) (opens thehackernews.com)

Researchers are paid $5K for reporting a bug to OpenAI that would let attackers run code in logged-in sessions of all who opened the hacker's ChatGPT share link — A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it …

Making it easier for websites to express AI training preferences (opens openai.com)

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic will honour one shared robots.txt rule that keeps a site's content out of generative AI training.

Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs (Tom's Hardware) (opens tomshardware.com)

When talking about local inference, Sam Altman says supply-constrained DRAM is better used in data centers than sitting in PCs and “being used 5% of the time” — With data centers full of RAM, your PC is apparently the problem. … OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has data centers full of memory …

Sources: OpenAI has secured ~$11B in commitments for its latest funding round, less than half its initial $30B target (opens wsj.com)

The WSJ reports about $11B committed so far at a $1.25T valuation, below the $30B and $1.4T first targeted; the FT says OpenAI now seeks about $20B as some investors cut commitments amid an AI selloff.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI (opens theverge.com)

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard that publishers can use to opt out of being scraped by AI across multiple crawlers — The new control will allow publishers to apply their AI training preferences across multiple crawlers.

OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings acquires ADT (opens techcrunch.com)

Thrive Holdings plans to bring AI to ADT's home security business.

Microsoft recorded $10 billion in revenue from OpenAI (opens techcrunch.com)

Microsoft made $10 billion in the quarter to September 30 from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments.

OpenAI and ServiceNow expand partnership across enterprise workflows (opens openai.com)

OpenAI and ServiceNow expand their partnership to bring OpenAI models and agents into ServiceNow and ServiceNow workflows into ChatGPT and Codex.

OpenAI expands partnership with Oracle to bring its apps to ChatGPT (opens openai.com)

OpenAI and Oracle are expanding their partnership to bring business applications and AI agents into ChatGPT and power new Oracle offerings.

Source: OpenAI, a major Nvidia customer, plans to buy Google's TPUs (opens theinformation.com)

Source: OpenAI, a major Nvidia customer, plans to buy Google's TPUs; a job listing shows it seeks an engineer to “lead the optimization” of its models on TPUs — OpenAI plans to buy Google's AI chips, according to a person familiar with the matter, in a boost for a rising competitor to OpenAI backer…

Retell uses OpenAI models to help power 100M monthly calls (opens openai.com)

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra tops Retell's voice-agent benchmark and Codex helps it reach a $1.6M annual revenue run rate per employee.

Oracle brings Google’s TPUs to its cloud, adds ChatGPT integrations (opens siliconangle.com)

It is the first time Google is supplying its TPUs to another hyperscaler.

GPT-6.1 Terra (opens openai.com)

The successor to GPT-5.6 Terra, OpenAI's middle-tier model, costs around 50% less while handling computer-use tasks faster and more accurately.

Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics (opens openai.com)

OpenAI says its models contributed to new results in mathematics, computer science and physics, including a preprint arguing the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false.

How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant (opens techcrunch.com)

Alexander Embiricos, the OpenAI executive responsible for dots, never wants to have a meeting with someone else's AI agent.

OpenAI and Anthropic cut their LLM prices by up to 80% within a few months. Why? (opens minimaxir.com)

OpenAI cuts its valuation target to $1.25tn as it nears a $30bn round (opens thenextweb.com)

OpenAI lowered the valuation it seeks for its new round to $1.25tn from $1.4tn after some investors pushed back, the Financial Times reported.

Outside evaluators found ways OpenAI’s agents could slip past its monitor (opens thenextweb.com)

Safety nonprofits METR and Redwood Research found that OpenAI's agents could have hidden hundreds of their own actions from its monitoring system.