Cory Doctorow's theory of "enshittification" explains how tech platforms rot from within. As AI grows more profitable--and powerful--it risks the same fate. Cory Doctorow speaks onstage during Unfinished Live at The Shed in New York City. As one does these days, I ran my itinerary past GPT-5 for sightseeing suggestions and restaurant recommendations. The bot reported that the top choice for dinner near our hotel in Rome was a short walk down Via Margutta.

OpenAI revealed last week the custom AI tools it uses internally. The news sent some software companies into turmoil. Allan Thygesen, the CEO of Docusign, was not particularly concerned when he saw the news last week that OpenAI had created an internal tool called DocuGPT . He might have preferred that OpenAI choose a different name for its contracting tool. But still, he thought, DocuGPT barely scratched the surface of what Docusign can do.

Jony Ive Says He Wants His OpenAI Devices to'Make Us Happy' "I don't think we have an easy relationship with our technology at the moment," the former Apple designer said at OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco on Monday. At OpenAI's developer conference in San Francisco on Monday, CEO Sam Altman and ex-Apple designer Jony Ive spoke in vague terms about the "family of devices" the pair are currently working to develop . "As great as phones and computers are, there's something new to do," Altman said on stage with Ive. The duo confirmed that OpenAI is working on more than one hardware product but finer details, ranging from use cases to to specifications, remain under wraps. Figuring out new computing form factors is hard," said Altman in a media briefing earlier in the day. "I think we have a chance to do something amazing, but it will take a while." Ive said that his team has generated "15 to 20 really compelling product" ideas on the journey to find the right kind of ...

At OpenAI's Developer Day, CEO Sam Altman showed off apps that run entirely inside the chat window--a new effort to turn ChatGPT into a platform. On Monday, OpenAI unveiled a new way to embed third-party apps directly into ChatGPT. At the company's annual developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Sam Altman said the move would "enable a new generation of apps that are adaptive, interactive, and personalized, that you can chat with." Starting today, some developers will be able to use a preview version of a new Apps software development kit (SDK) to build apps within ChatGPT using open standards. The ability to distribute these apps is currently limited to a handful of big partners.

CEO Sam Altman announced an age-prediction system and new parental controls in a blog post on Tuesday. OpenAI announced new teen safety features for ChatGPT on Tuesday as part of an ongoing effort to respond to concerns about how minors engage with chatbots . The company is building an age-prediction system that identifies if a user is under 18 years old and routes them to an " age-appropriate " system that blocks graphic sexual content. If the system detects that the user is considering suicide or self-harm, it will contact the user's parents. In cases of imminent danger, if a user's parents are unreachable, the system may contact the authorities.

The Trump administration is prioritizing the critical role of artificial intelligence in creating and upholding freedom. Just three weeks in, Vice President JD Vance declared at a global AI summit in Paris that AI "will make people more productive, more prosperous, and more free. The United States of America is the leader in AI, and our administration plans to keep it that way." To achieve this, the White House is working toward an AI action plan and calling on leading American AI companies to submit our best ideas. OpenAI is pleased to submit proposals today on a range of important considerations for AI from national security, to infrastructure and energy, to the federal government's own use of AI.

Vice President JD Vance addressed the AI Action Summit in Paris Tuesday during his first foreign trip since taking office. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman commended Vice President JD Vance's artificial intelligence (AI) speech in Paris on Tuesday while laying out his vision for how people can take advantage of the rapidly evolving technology at the same conference. Altman and Vance appeared Tuesday at the AI Action Summit in Paris, where world leaders, top tech executives and policymakers teamed up to hash out tech policy and its intersection with global security, economics and governance. During his remarks, Vance called for AI systems developed in the U.S. to remain free of "ideological bias" and vowed that the U.S. would "never restrict our citizens' right to free speech." Vance also pushed for a "deregulatory flavor" to emerge at the conference while cautioning against the pitfalls of "excessive regulation" that could hamper a transformative industry.

Fox News chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports on what the US and Israel are doing to stay ahead of adversaries in AI on'Special Report.' OpenAI has partnered with a new AI initiative led by a group co-founded with outgoing Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry that has pushed left-wing causes and has several board members aligned with Democrats. OpenAI, led by CEO Sam Altman, is backing an initiative known as AI 2030, which is aimed at shaping "public dialogue about U.S. competition against China on AI," Politico reported in October. The initiative is led by the "non-partisan" think tank American Security Project (ASP), where Kerry was a founding member and served two stints on the board of directors. ASP has promoted the idea that climate change is a national security threat, and argued on its website that pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal was a bad idea that "harms national security."

OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati resigned on Wednesday, saying she wants "the time and space to do my own exploration." Murati had been among the three executives at the very top of the company behind ChatGPT, and she was briefly its leader last year while board members wrestled with the fate of CEO Sam Altman. "There's never an ideal time to step away from a place one cherishes, yet this moment feels right," she wrote in a message to OpenAI staff that she posted on X. Altman replied to Murati's X post writing that "it's hard to overstate how much Mira has meant to OpenAI, our mission, and to us all personally." He added that he feels "personal gratitude towards her for the support and love during all the hard times." A successor wasn't immediately announced.

OpenAI has created a new Safety and Security Committee less than two weeks after the company dissolved the team tasked with protecting humanity from AI's existential threats. This latest iteration of the group responsible for OpenAI's safety guardrails will include two board members and CEO Sam Altman, raising questions about whether the move is little more than self-policing theatre amid a breakneck race for profit and dominance alongside partner Microsoft. The Safety and Security Committee, formed by OpenAI's board, will be led by board members Bret Taylor (Chair), Nicole Seligman, Adam D'Angelo and Sam Altman (CEO). The new team follows co-founder Ilya Sutskever's and Jan Leike's high-profile resignations, which raised more than a few eyebrows. Their former "Superalignment Team" was only created last July.