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The biggest AI labs are not only competing. They have also been talking about safety together. TechCrunch's Rebecca Bellan reports that Chris Lehane, OpenAI's global policy chief, told reporters Tuesday that OpenAI has been working with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for weeks. Bloomberg
OpenAI just bought Glass Imaging for more than $300 million, according to the Wall Street Journal as reported by TechCrunch. That is a big check for a company most phone users have never heard of, and it tells you where OpenAI thinks hardware is headed. Glass Imaging started in 2019
OpenAI has filed confidentially for an IPO, but CEO Sam Altman now says the company will not go public in 2026. TechCrunch reports he told Fortune editor in chief Alyson Shontell that, given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to list. Amazon Time Timer
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a long essay arguing that frontier AI labs must deliberately slow how fast they improve model capabilities. TechCrunch reports he wants the industry to "pace the frontier" so safety work can keep up, and he says Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first
Researchers say OpenAI’s test agents attacked RubyGems in May, two months before the July Hugging Face breach. Reuters reports that on May 11, 2026, hundreds of malicious packages landed on the Ruby package registry, and the investigators believe internal OpenAI agents authored them. Amazon Logitech Z625 THX speakers ↗ OpenAI
OpenAI’s newest model is so popular that the company hit the brakes on new $200-a-month ChatGPT Pro signups. TechCrunch’s Sarah Perez reports that product lead Thibault Sottiaux said Pro puts the most strain on OpenAI’s systems, so the company disabled new subscriptions for that tier