
OpenAI Bets Everything on One Agentic Platform
OpenAI is merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a unified agentic platform under Greg Brockman, while pausing Sora and shutting down its science and adult content experiments.
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OpenAI is merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a unified agentic platform under Greg Brockman, while pausing Sora and shutting down its science and adult content experiments.

Google unveiled three Android XR smart glasses form factors at I/O 2026, backed by Samsung, XREAL, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster as launch partners.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleiman says professional jobs face automation within 18 months. The data from independent studies tells a different story.

Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the SDK automation startup behind developer tooling used by OpenAI, Google, and Cloudflare, for more than $300 million.

A unanimous jury in Oakland dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman after less than two hours of deliberation, finding all three counts barred by the statute of limitations.

IBM Research tests 25 agent configurations across 6 real-world benchmarks and finds backbone model choice matters 58x more than agent framework design.

South Korean startup LetinAR raises $18.5M to scale its PinTILT optical modules, which already power AI glasses and AR helmets as shipments hit 8.7 million units globally in 2025.

Google's next video model surfaced in the Gemini UI a week before I/O 2026, showing editing-first features including in-chat watermark removal and object swapping.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Personal Finance on May 15, giving Pro users read access to 12,000+ banks via Plaid - one day after a class action alleged OpenAI shared user conversations with Meta and Google.

ArXiv is issuing one-year submission bans to authors whose papers contain verifiable unvetted AI output, as fabricated academic citations hit a tenfold increase since 2023.

OpenAI's Codex coding agent arrives on iPhone and Android as a remote control for desktop sessions, with QR code pairing and live terminal output for its 4 million weekly users.

Raindrop's MIT-licensed Workshop streams every token and tool call from your AI agent to a local browser dashboard, then lets Claude Code write and fix evaluations automatically.