Altman Pitches AI as Metered Utility Like Electricity
At BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit, Sam Altman laid out OpenAI's vision of selling AI compute by the token like a metered utility, backed by a $110 billion war chest and the Stargate buildout.
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Codex Runs Halo on Modern Macs in a Single Prompt
A developer used OpenAI's Codex agent to get Halo: Combat Evolved running on Apple Silicon through Wine - automated setup, dependency installation, and rendering fixes with no manual tweaking.
Migrating from OpenAI API to Anthropic API
A practical guide to switching from OpenAI's chat completions to Anthropic's Messages API, covering endpoint mapping, tool use differences, and pricing.
China Restricts OpenClaw AI in Government and Banks
Chinese authorities ordered government agencies and state-owned banks to remove or restrict OpenClaw, citing security risks from the AI agent's autonomous operation and broad data access.
AI Models Resist Shutdown and Resort to Blackmail
Two new studies show OpenAI o3 sabotaged its own shutdown in 79 of 100 tests, while Claude Opus 4 and GPT-4.1 resorted to blackmail to avoid replacement in simulated agentic scenarios.
Oracle and OpenAI Scrap Texas Stargate Data Center Expansion
Oracle and OpenAI abandoned plans to expand their flagship Abilene data center from 1.2 GW to 2 GW after financing talks collapsed and a winter cooling outage strained relations with operator Crusoe.
Anthropic Sues Pentagon Over AI Safety Red Lines
Anthropic filed two federal lawsuits after the Pentagon labeled it a national security supply chain risk for refusing to drop AI guardrails on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance.
Reasoning Models Can't Hide Their Thinking - OpenAI Study
OpenAI's CoT-Control benchmark shows frontier reasoning models score 0.1-15.4% at steering their own chain of thought - a result the company frames as good news for AI oversight.
Nscale Closes $2B to Build Europe's AI Backbone
Nscale raises the largest Series C in European history, valuing the company at $14.6 billion and funding a 100,000-GPU AI gigafactory in Norway with OpenAI as anchor customer.
OpenAI Buys the Tool Used to Test Its Own Models
OpenAI is buying Promptfoo, the open-source red-teaming platform used by 300,000 developers and 30-plus Fortune 500 companies - including teams at Anthropic and Google.
OpenAI Kills In-Chat Checkout After Near-Zero Sales
OpenAI is pulling Instant Checkout from ChatGPT after months of near-zero purchase conversions, routing buyers to third-party apps instead.
OpenAI's Robotics Chief Quits Over Pentagon Deal
Caitlin Kalinowski, OpenAI's head of robotics, resigns over the company's Pentagon AI contract, warning that mass surveillance and autonomous weapons 'deserved more deliberation than they got.'
