Read OpenAI’s latest internal memo about beating the competition — including Anthropic

Anthropic has caught up to OpenAI in image understanding

But neither one is all that good.

Anthropic has surged to a trillion-dollar valuation on secondary markets, overtaking OpenAI.

Buyers are in a race to secure a dwindling supply of shares in Anthropic, driving the AI company's valuation on some platforms to $1 trillion.

Amazon seeks cheaper AI alternatives as Anthropic shifts to token-based pricing

Amazon is exploring OpenAI as an alternative to Claude after a renegotiated contract with Anthropic will raise costs through token-based pricing.

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Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI

The OpenAI CEO sought to distinguish his policy stance from rival developer Anthropic.

The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English

OpenAI to release open-source model as AI economics force strategic shift

OpenAI plans to release its first open-weight AI model since 2019 as economic pressures mount from competitors like DeepSeek and Meta, marking a significant strategic reversal for the company behind ChatGPT.

OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

One of the things that most excited me about Anthropic’s new Skills mechanism back in October is how easy it looked for other platforms to implement. A skill is just …

Sam Altman thinks ‘the world should accept some bad things happening’ for the good of AI.

In an interview with Brendan Bordelon of Politico, Altman said this was a fundamental difference between OpenAI and Anthropic. He believes that “for the benefits of this technology” (rather than the benefit of humanity), we should just deal with “bad things happening.” [Link: Sam Altman to Decoded: ‘The world should accept some bad things happening’ for the benefits of AI | https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/04/sam-altman-decoded-interview-ai-01106217 | Politico]

OpenAI Has New Focus (on the IPO)

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that leadership wants OpenAI, the company, to focus. Seems like a plain old business strategy story. Nope! First, in more prosaic terms, the all-hands and …

How will OpenAI compete? — Benedict Evans

OpenAI has some big questions. It doesn’t have unique tech. It has a big user base, but with limited engagement and stickiness and no network effect. The incumbents have matched the tech and are leveraging their product and distribution. And a lot of the value and leverage will come from new experie

OpenAI’s math breakthrough played to AI’s strengths

I tried to explain OpenAI’s solution more clearly than OpenAI did.

Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028

"Every force is screeching towards centralization."

OpenAI strikes Reddit deal to train its AI on your posts

Reddit’s signed AI licensing deals with Google and OpenAI.

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