Union Alpha is Pareto 26.9 You found us. Union Alpha — the stealth model on OpenRouter, OpenCode, and Cloudflare — is Pareto 26.9 from @TheUnbiasedCo. The internet needed one day to pull off the mask. We shouldn’t underestimate adversaries like @aitrackerbot. We partnered with…↗
Here's what OpenAI's agentic software factory looks like, today. Details: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/openai-softw… (thanks to all the OpenAI folks who explained how it works! And Perf Factory looks especially interesting to me)↗
OpenAI quietly bought a startup developing higher quality cameras for smartphones for ~$300M. Scoop w/ @anissagardizy8 wsj.com/tech/openai-bu…↗
Sam Altman told me yesterday there will be no IPO for OpenAI in 2026, that it would be “ill timed” given all they have to work on with alignment, control and safety fortune.com/2026/09/12/sam…↗
Personal statement on joining the OpenAI board I am excited to be joining the OpenAI nonprofit board, serving on the Safety and Security Committee to support safety oversight. Based on the recent trajectory of capabilities and the continued difficulty of alignment, I now believ…↗
If you use Codex, @thsottiaux needs no introduction. We talked 100% about Codex (fun fact: he started building it!), and 0% about resets. Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 07:21 Working at Google 12:41 What drew Tibo to OpenAI 15:19 The early days of Codex 18:20 Why Codex was built in Rus…↗
i think @OpenAI did it again. they are the (mostly) undefeated king of finding the “next thing” to focus on. it was transformers, and then chat, and then reasoning. and now, it is computer use.↗
OpenAI achieved a goal of an automated research intern. Here’s a transparent view showing how research at OpenAI is rapidly changing. openai.com/index/research…↗
I wrote about the state of AI, why I’m concerned about the next few years, and the choices we need to make to keep the future in humanity’s hands. An Alien Mind: openai.com/index/an-alien…↗
We partnered with @AnthropicAI @OpenAI to host the world's first math hackathon. 40 hours, $2M compute - solve, understand, and present an open problem. Applications are live: mathathonchallenge.com↗
BREAKING: OpenAI just dropped GPT-6 ASTRA!!! 🚀✨ We’ve been testing it extensively at @every across coding, writing, and knowledge work. My take: it’s a big upgrade from 5.6-Sol, with some frustrating habits that keep it from matching Fable at the top end. Here’s your vibe che…↗
New OpenAI repo with a Lean formalization by GPT-6-Astra proves that there are infinitely many pairs of consecutive primes whose distance is at most 186 github.com/openai/PrimeGa…↗







