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The OpenAI model involved in the Hugging Face incident has been permanently deactivated and is inaccessible even for internal research.
A voluntary AI safety testing framework with a deadline of August 1st has been circulated to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google for comment.
OpenAI's annualized revenue in July 2024 topped the company's entire revenue from the previous quarter.
OpenAI is building a family of hardware devices to give a physical presence to its chatbots.
Microsoft is developing a "Copilot super app" to unify its AI experiences and compete more directly with OpenAI and Anthropic.
Meta is the only frontier AI lab that has not agreed to the US government's voluntary testing framework.
Dwarkesh Patel suggested that Anthropic's revenue run rate could reach $100 billion to $150 billion this year.
By the beginning of 2026, software engineering organizations had shifted from writing code to managing agents that write code for them.
In early 2026, Anthropic's revenue run rate grew to surpass that of OpenAI.
The nature of work in many functions is changing from a person doing the work to a person managing agents that do the work.
Sam Altman traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with lawmakers and White House officials regarding OpenAI's new model and AI policy.
Sam Altman met with Senate Commerce Chair Ted Cruz and several Democrat senators.