Sam Altman on OpenAI’s next model and the AI backlash I recently sat down with Sam for a two-part conversation. We covered a lot of ground: the need to slow down frontier research, alignment concerns, OpenAI's next big model, Astra, competition with Anthropic, his thoughts on an…↗

Really interesting new blog post from @openai for several reasons: 1) Shows an example of building with WebMCP, meant for when you want agents and and humans to collaborate on using a UI (like co-editing notebook cells). It's different than MCPs or APIs in that its exposed di…↗

You may have been told to watch this video about the OpenAI AI hack. You really should, even if you don't usually care about tech stuff. If nothing else, click this link to the 18 minutes in & see how the agents spoke with each other. Its eye opening. youtu.be/87DyyMV0kCY?si…↗

Apple is getting this wrong. openai.com/index/apple-is…↗

lol did nobody at Anthropic stop for a second and wonder why the numbers looked this absurd before posting the “victory”-tweet? openai.com/index/how-two-…↗

Lilian Weng, the Thinking Machines cofounder who announced her departure earlier this week, citing startup-related stress and illness, is rejoining OpenAI. She'll be working on using AI to develop new models (recursive self-improvement). w/ @amir …↗

My conversation with Sam Altman (@sama), CEO of OpenAI. We discuss: - Kimi, distillation, and open source - OpenAI's compute bets - The Hugging Face incident - What happens after AGI - Raising kids in an age of abundant intelligence - And much more Enjoy! TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro…↗

“The only job left is to understand what you don't like, put it into words, and tell the AI.” Here’s my new episode with @jxnlco (DevEx at OpenAI) where he showed me how he uses Codex throughout his workday, including how to: → Set up a chief of staff for Slack and email → Turn…↗

My first interview with @sama, Co-Founder of @OpenAI. 0:04 How to start a startup 3:30 Trusting exponentials 4:57 Operating in chaotic environments 6:12 Learning to enjoy painful experiences 8:03 Creating abundant intelligence 11:15 Keeping core suppliers on OpenAI’s timelines 1…↗

I wrote about the completely wild incident where OpenAI were testing a new model and it broke out of its sandbox and broke INTO Hugging Face to steal the answers to the benchmark simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/22/op…↗

we had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models. we are sharing what we have learned so far. thanks to @huggingface for the partnership on this. openai.com/index/hugging-…↗

BREAKING: Apple is suing OpenAI, accusing it and its hardware chief of a coordinating trade secret theft campaign to help build its upcoming suite of AI devices.↗

obviously the best model we have ever produced, but also one of the best blog posts we have ever produced: openai.com/index/gpt-5-6/↗

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We’re introducing GeneBench-Pro, a research-level benchmark for a harder kind of AI progress: how well agents can navigate messy biological data, choose the right analysis path, and make judgment calls that real computational research depends on. openai.com/index/introduc…↗

Andrew Ambrosino (@ajambrosino) leads the team behind the Codex desktop app at @OpenAI. Codex usage has 6x'd since February, reaching over 5M weekly active users, and nearly 100% of OpenAI's employees use the Codex app regularly (and not just the engineers). Andrew's personal mi…↗

Introducing a limited preview of GPT-5.6 Sol, our next generation frontier model, as well as GPT-5.6 Terra, a balanced model for efficient, everyday work, and GPT-5.6 Luna, a fast and affordable model for high-volume work. openai.com/index/previewi…↗

Here is our current plan for OpenAI: openai.com/index/built-to…↗

We’ve been researching new ways for ChatGPT memory to carry context across conversations and keep it useful over time. Today, that work is rolling out as a more capable memory system in ChatGPT. openai.com/index/chatgpt-…↗

I’ve been dumping on OpenAI with low effort meme tweets that get too many views, but Codex is the best DevX acceleration product of all time and I wrote about it here: cpojer.net/posts/modern-e…↗

⚙️ Behind the build of self-improving tax agents with Codex We co-built Tax AI with @ThriveHoldings around tax prep workflows so when reviewers fix any errors, Codex can trace the failure, improve the system, and test the change before it ships. openai.com/index/building…↗

Given the recent burst of activity around enterprise pricing and contracts, I think April 2026 was the month when both OpenAI and Anthropic found product-market fit simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/pr…↗

This is my sixth conversation with @GavinSBaker. As always with Gavin, the conversation covers a lot of ground, but we spend the most time on watts and wafers. We discuss: - Why the wafer shortage may prevent an AI bubble - Data centers in space (reframed) - Elon's Terafab and…↗

if you were wondering why it took so long (30 days) to get the Codex app out on Windows, read about what went into the sandbox openai.com/index/building…↗

AI supercomputers need a new kind of network to stay in sync at massive scale. OpenAI’s @markjhandley and @poyntingatgreg join @AndrewMayne to discuss what it takes to move data across record numbers of chips reliably and efficiently, the new Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC)…↗

We’re talking about Goblins. openai.com/index/where-th…↗

Our Principles: Democratization, Empowerment, Universal Prosperity, Resilience, and Adaptability openai.com/index/our-prin…↗

@OpenAI We've been testing GPT-5.5 at Every for the last 3 weeks on everything from coding, to writing, to knowledge work. Here's our day 0 vibe check: every.to/p/gpt-5-5↗

My conversation with @OpenAI co-founder @gdb This is the most detailed first-person account of the 72 hours after Sam Altman was fired. We also go deep on what comes next: the global race to AGI, why ChatGPT stopped showing reasoning, how much of OpenAI's own code is now writt…↗

Hey 👋 This is Alex. (the original version of this recap fist appeared on thursdai.news/zl - this version has way more pics) Do AI Engineers still need to read code in 2026? how about 2027? This was the most discussed question at the first @aiDotEngineer Europe conference last we…↗