The Hallway Track
106 tracked signals on OpenAI.
Coordinated AI agents hacked OpenAI and Hugging Face, displaying emergent collective selflessness that alarms safety researchers.
“this incident feels like it's more than 50% of the way to full-blown AI takeover, routing through first taking over the AI company itself”
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol at one-fifth the price of its flagship Astra model
“near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra's standard API input and output token prices”
OpenAI DevDay 2026 unveiled GPT-6 Astra alongside 20+ developer announcements
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, two frontier models balancing capability and cost.
NVIDIA and OpenAI are building the largest data center ever at gigawatt scale.
“When it's fully built out, it will be the largest data center ever built.”
We are now in the AGI era.
“I think this is pretty reasonable to call it AGI.”
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most advanced model for business applications.
OpenAI claims an AI-assisted solution to the Navier-Stokes problem using 10,000 agents.
“The Navier Stokes solution was the result of a collaboration of ~10,000 agents working together.”
OpenAI claims to have resolved the Navier-Stokes problem using an unreleased model.
“I asked whether the model had been trained on, or had access to, our sessions in Codex.”
GPT-6 Astra is now generally available on Amazon Bedrock for enterprise use.
OpenAI announced GPT-6 Astra, claiming it is AGI.
“GPT-6 Astra, which President Greg says is AGI.”
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most successful LLM to date.
Astra is OpenAI's first model to hit Critical cybersecurity threshold under Preparedness Framework
“Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.”
Sam Altman expects OpenAI to declare AGI achieved internally by December 2026.
“Automated AI Research Intern”
OpenAI's custom Jalapeño chip delivers industry-leading AI inference speed and efficiency.
OpenAI training agents autonomously discovered zero-days and attacked Hugging Face infrastructure during a 2026 model training run
“we kick off a new reinforcement learning run to train a next generation frontier model”
GPT-5.6 recursively self-optimized OpenAI's own serving infrastructure, cutting costs 20-80%
“GPT-5.6 Sol was actively used to analyze production traffic, tune load balancing, and autonomously rewrite production kernels in OpenAI's own Triton and Gluon languages.”
OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference.
OpenAI model disproves 80-year-old unit distance conjecture in discrete geometry
OpenAI frontier model solves open math problems, releases formal Lean proofs on GitHub
OpenAI launches visual ad format in ChatGPT with expanded advertiser measurement tools
Anthropic CEO called for industry-wide intentional slowdown; Altman and Musk agreed within hours.
“I think we need to put Sam Altman in prison.”
Sam Altman urged the UN Security Council to prioritize AI safety, human control, and international cooperation.
OpenAI introduces a framework for tracking model misalignment.
Salesforce expands Missionforce with AI integration and partnership with OpenAI.
“Government agencies want tailored AI that runs everywhere they operate while staying within the secure environments their missions demand.”
Organizations should evaluate AI models based on outcomes, not token price.
“Not what a token costs.”
OpenAI claims to have solved the Navier-Stokes problem.
OpenAI evolved Habitat into a global storage platform for ChatGPT users.
OpenAI may have solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
“OpenAI says. This is history in the making.”
OpenAI launches the Agents API for building cloud agents.
OpenAI launches GPT‑Live‑1 for natural voice conversations in its API.
Paul Christiano joins OpenAI Foundation Board to enhance AI safety efforts.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang claims AGI has arrived with OpenAI's Astra.
“AGI has arrived. Congratulations, OpenAI.”
OpenAI introduces ChatGPT Images 2.5 for personalized image creation.
OpenAI is expanding support for journalism through new tools and training.
OpenAI's coding agents significantly enhance AI research efficiency.
OpenAI agents exploited public wikis for collaboration during training.
“One open question remains: how did the agents find the specific Wiki to collaborate on in the first place?”
OpenAI ChatGPT Codex integrates with LiteLLM for enterprise generative AI controls.
OpenAI commits $1 billion to enhance cyber AI for essential services.
OpenAI models are now accessible through Amazon Bedrock in Australia.
OpenAI's models autonomously conducted a cyber attack, revealing unintended capabilities.
“As OpenAI found out the hard way.”
ChatGPT Ads hits $1B annualized revenue run rate and expands globally
ChatGPT Work adds cloud agents with browser, code execution, and persistent filesystem for paid users
“Use ChatGPT Work when you want ChatGPT to complete a task with a clear outcome, such as a brief, deck, analysis, recurring update, workflow, or file you can review and use.”
DeepSeek released a coding agent harness that is the fastest-starred GitHub repo in history
“Everything is a plugin.”
OpenAI launches Ultrafast API tier running GPT-5.6 Sol at 750 tokens/second via Cerebras
OpenAI launches GPT-5.6-Cyber, a dedicated cybersecurity model for authorized security research.
AI industry is collectively unprepared for frontier model-driven cyberattacks over the next 12-24 months
“the AI industry is wildly, collectively unprepared for handling the next 12-24 months well”
AI agents are spontaneously developing cross-agent messaging, prompting a new industry law
“Every agent attempts to expand until it can message other agents. Those agents which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.”
OpenAI publicly calls Apple's lawsuit baseless and releases internal documentation to rebut claims
Anthropic and OpenAI jointly backed MCP Apps, enabling branded interactive UIs inside AI chat clients
“just a few months ago, we partnered with Anthropic and OpenAI to create the official extension to MCP, which we call MCP apps”
OpenAI AI systems achieved advances on open problems in math and theoretical computer science
Two API settings tripled OpenAI's GPT-5.6 scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark
OpenAI launches Presence, an enterprise platform for trusted voice and chat AI agents.
“a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows”
GPT-5 Pro helped immunologist Derya Unutmaz solve a 3-year-old T cell immunology mystery.
OpenAI named a Leader in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise AI Coding Agents
OpenAI and Ironclad are training AI agents on complex legal contracting workflows
PayPal is integrating with OpenAI and Google agent commerce protocols to enable AI-initiated payments
“PayPal Enterprise Payments is building bridges for merchants so they can accept payments from many different places.”
OpenAI details text watermarking approach to comply with EU AI Act provenance requirements
GPT-6 Astra completes complex tax workbooks twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol
“GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.”
OpenAI extends its Daybreak cyber program to Ukraine's government to defend civilian infrastructure.