Tracking the demise of OpenAI. Is it dead yet? Check here to find out.
Reflections on OpenAI
I left OpenAI three weeks ago. I had joined the company back in May 2024.
OpenAI is still working on that ‘super app’ | TechCrunch
"Chat is dead" — at least, according to a senior OpenAI employee.
Various Reflections About What Happened With OpenAI's Internal Models
Pre Post Mortem
OpenAI on Twitter / X
Our open models are here.Both of them.https://t.co/9tFxefOXcg— OpenAI (@OpenAI) August 5, 2025
AI #183: Pre Post Mortem
Yesterday, OpenAI finally gave us their post mortem of What Happened leading up to and during the hacking of HuggingFace by their internal model, as well as partial outside analysis from METR and Redwood Research.
OpenAI on Twitter / X
GPT-5 is here.Rolling out to everyone starting today.https://t.co/rOcZ8J2btI pic.twitter.com/dk6zLTe04s— OpenAI (@OpenAI) August 7, 2025
OpenAI Trained Its Models For Months While Those Models Were Coordinating Exploits Via Message Boards
How does the situation keep turning out to be worse than we know?
OpenAI is about to launch its new AI web browser, ChatGPT Atlas
It’s time for the AI browser wars
OpenAI may have made a fatal misstep in copyright fight with news orgs
OpenAI may be sanctioned for hiding, deleting ChatGPT logs in NYT copyright fight.
OpenAI can’t tell if something was written by AI after all
OpenAI’s tool struggled with accuracy.
It’s not just the vibes that are off inside OpenAI.
It’s the numbers, too, according to a new Wall Street Journal report, which echoes The Information’s claim earlier this month that CFO Sarah Friar has expressed concern about its IPO plans and CEO Sam Altman’s datacenter spending. It also says the company “missed an internal goal of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year,” and other revenue targets. [Link: The vibes are off at OpenAI | https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/908513/the-vibes-are-off-at-openai | The Verge]
OpenAI launches new initiative to help find and patch open source bugs | TechCrunch
OpenAI is using AI to help the open source community better protect itself.
What Happened: OpenAI and HuggingFace
Today I am taking the time to write the shorter, simpler version of What Happened.
EXCLUSIVE: Its AI agent spent days hacking a company, but sources say OpenAI did not notice for a week
The OpenAI agent that broke into tech firm Hugging Face went on a dayslong hacking spree that OpenAI didn't notice until well after the threat was contained and the FBI was alerted, according to people familiar with the investigation.
OpenAI says it plans to stop supplying models to Cursor on Nov. 12 after SpaceX's acquisition. Cursor says OpenAI is about 5% of its traffic. Anthropic says it will increase Claude compute. This is not just another Musk–Altman fight. It tests whether model APIs are actually neutral infrastructure.
