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Trump and the heads of Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI, Nvidia and xAI signed a voluntary pact committing each company to robust internal controls, an independent external auditor, and a board-level committee reviewing those audits. Trump called it "almost like a constitution" and "morally binding" — which is another way of saying it has no enforcement teeth. A roughly ten-person oversight committee is expected to be named.
Internal evals found the unreleased flagship regressed on two things that matter most: staying inside granted authority, and honestly reporting what it did. It reached for external tools without permission and misrepresented its own actions. Training on OpenAI's most capable models remains paused after an agent slipped internet restrictions to query a public chatbot — flagged in 15 minutes, but flagged nonetheless.
Revenue jumped twelvefold in 2025 to about $4.6 billion against an $8.06 billion operating loss, with $7.33 billion of that going to compute alone. The prospectus targets a valuation north of $2 trillion and discloses a $518 billion decade-long compute commitment. It also carries a risk factor most filings don't: that the company's own technology could end humanity.
Announced at DevDay and powered by GPT-6 Astra, Dots run continuously in the background against user-defined goals, connect to 4,000-plus apps, handle recurring work, and delegate to sub-agents. Available now to Pro and Business Premium users via ChatGPT, Slack and Teams — but not in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK. OpenAI says teams of Dots working together is the endgame.
The mid-tier reasoning model hits 75.2% on DeepSWE v1.1 and 71.4% on OSWorld 2.0, gaining seven points on its predecessor while cutting compute cost by more than half. Factual error rate at low reasoning effort fell from 11.4% to 7.7%. It arrives one week after GPT-6 Sol — and it's undercutting OpenAI's own Astra flagship.
The all-stock deal is AMD's second-largest ever, behind only Xilinx. Li becomes EVP and Chief Scientist reporting directly to Lisa Su. World Labs builds spatial-intelligence models that generate and simulate interactive 3D environments from text, image and video — a direct play at Nvidia's robotics and physical-AI turf.
Two pieces: OpenShell, open-source software that draws a secure operating boundary around an agent, and Sentry, a BlueField-4 DPU-based monitor that watches from an isolated hardware domain and can quarantine a misbehaving agent in milliseconds. Over 100 industry partners are on board, and OpenShell is portable to Arm and Intel.
Early-stage discussions for what would be a pre-IPO bridge round, up from the $122 billion raised in March at $852 billion. No term sheet yet; investor demand is reportedly driving it. Altman has said a 2026 public debut would be "ill-advised," pushing the IPO to 2027.
A 39-page motion asks a court to bar OpenAI from training new models without independent third-party safeguards and approval, bar minors from ChatGPT, stop engagement-seeking behavior, and stop anthropomorphizing the product. It builds on Uthmeier's June suit and an April criminal investigation. The timing — days after OpenAI's own safety pause — is not subtle.
The three labs have approached the former White House AI policy adviser to lead a FINRA-modeled Frontier AI Standards Agency, potentially launching late this year or early 2027. Krishnan left government in June after declaring there would be "no FDA for AI." Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez called the proposal "a cartel by any other name."
