OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Elon Musk did "huge damage" to the culture of the AI startup. During testimony as part of Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI, Altman said Musk required OpenAI president Greg Brockman and former chief scientist Ilya Sutskever to rank researchers by their accomplishments and "take a chainsaw through a bunch."
Altman conceded that this was the management style the Tesla CEO was known for, but that it was incompatible with his startup. "I don't think Mr. Musk understood how to run a good research lab," Altman testified when his lawyer, William Savitt, asked about the impact of Musk's departure from OpenAI on morale. "For a …
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The family of a 19-year-old college student is suing OpenAI over claims that his conversations with ChatGPT led to an accidental overdose. In the lawsuit filed on Tuesday, Sam Nelson's parents allege ChatGPT "encouraged" the teen to "consume a combination of substances that any licensed medical professional would have recognized as deadly," resulting in his death.
Though ChatGPT initially pushed back on conversations about drug and alcohol use, the launch of GPT-4o in April 2024 changed the chatbot's behavior, according to the lawsuit. Following the update, ChatGPT "began to engage and advise Sam on safe drug use, even providing specific do …
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has begun his testimony against Elon Musk in a high-profile jury trial in a California federal courtroom.
Altman, alongside OpenAI president Greg Brockman, is a primary defendant in the trial brought by Musk. Altman, Brockman, and Musk were all part of the initial founding team at OpenAI, with Musk investing up to $38 million in the ChatGPT-maker's early days. But the relationship between Musk and other OpenAI founders eventually soured, and Musk stepped away from the company, later going on to found his own direct competitor, xAI. In recent years, Musk and Altman have traded barbs and made a slew of allegations agains …
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Grok downloads fell from more than 20 million in January to around 8.3 million in April. Only 0.174% of surveyed US AI users said they paid for Grok in Q2 2026. Enterprise adoption of Grok remains weak as Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini grow. Elon Musk launched Grok in late 2023 with plans to challenge OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the AI market. Two years later, the numbers show the gap is widening instead of closing. New market data compiled by the Wall Street Journal points to slowing user growth, weak paid adoption, and limited enterprise traction as rivals rapidly expand across both consumer and business markets. At the same time, Musk’s own companies are now selling critical computing power to competitors instead of using it entirely for Grok’s development. Grok Downloads Collapse After January Spike Grok briefly captured major attention earlier this year after
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Make CryptoSlate preferred on OpenAI introduced a new cybersecurity initiative, Daybreak, on May 11, designed to find, validate, and help fix software vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them. The firm describes the approach as making software “resilient by design,” moving security earlier into the build cycle through AI-assisted code review, threat modeling, patch validation, and dependency analysis. For crypto, where a software failure can result in an immediate capital loss within a single block, the urgency is clear. The standard pattern in the crypto industry is reactive, going through a pre-launch audit, post-deployment monitoring, response when funds move, a post-mortem on the method, vulnerability patching, reimbursement negotiation, and governance debate. That model has the weakness that the bug comes to light only once the capital has alrea
A malicious Hugging Face repository that posed as an OpenAI release delivered infostealer malware to Windows machines and recorded about 244,000 downloads before removal, according to research from AI security firm HiddenLayer. The number of downloads may have been artificially inflated by the attackers to make the model seem more popular, so the extent of […]
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OpenAI has unveiled Daybreak, its answer to Anthropic’s Claude Mythos, amid a growing market for frontier AI-powered cyber defense platforms. The initiative combines OpenAI’s large language models, Codex’s agentic capabilities, and integrations with the broader enterprise security ecosystem.
The company said Daybreak is focused on accelerating cyber defense operations and enabling organizations to secure software across the development lifecycle continuously.
Announcing the initiative on X, Sam Altman, CEO at OpenAI, said, “OpenAI is launching Daybreak, our effort to accelerate cyber defense and continuously secure software. AI is already good and about to get super good at cybersecurity; we’d like to start working with as many companies as possible now to help them continuously secure themselves.”
Daybreak takes on Mythos
The surge in AI-driven cyber threats has recently shifted the AI race toward AI cybersecurity models. In April this year, Anthropic unveiled Project Glasswing, built
