OpenAI upgrades its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell

With OpenAI's latest updates to its Responses API — the application programming interface that allows developers on OpenAI's platform to access multiple agentic tools like web search and file search ...
eWeek

Moltbook Bots Build Lobster Cult

Who needs humans when a purported 1.5 million agents trade lobster memes and start their own religion? Moltbook, vibe-coded by Octane AI founder Matt Schlicht in a weekend (he cla ...
The Register on MSN

Yes, you can build an AI agent - here's how, using LangFlow

AI automation, now as simple as point, click, drag, and drop Hands On For all the buzz surrounding them, AI agents are simply ...
Reuters

OpenAI seeks to increase global AI use in everyday life

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 21 - OpenAI is expanding its efforts to convince global governments to build more data centers and encourage greater usage of artificial intelligence in areas such as education, ...
Newsweek

Elon Musk’s War With OpenAI Ramps Up

Elon Musk’s feud with OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman has escalated, and the world’s richest man is now seeking billions in damages stemming from his early contributions to the AI startup. OpenAI has ...
Ars Technica

News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more.

Not only does it appear that OpenAI has lost its fight to keep news organizations from digging through 20 million ChatGPT logs to find evidence of copyright infringement—but also OpenAI now faces ...
MIT Technology Review

OpenAI has trained its LLM to confess to bad behavior

Large language models often lie and cheat. We can’t stop that—but we can make them own up. OpenAI is testing another new way to expose the complicated processes at work inside large language models.
Wall Street Journal

OpenAI Declares ‘Code Red’ as Google Threatens AI Lead

What really happens after you hit enter on that AI prompt? WSJ’s Joanna Stern heads inside a data center to trace the journey and then grills up some steaks to show just how much energy it takes to ...
Forbes

OpenAI Data Breach Exposes User Data. Here’s What To Do Immediately

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. A few days ago, on November 26th, right before Thanksgiving, OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, ...
Bleeping Computer

OpenAI discloses API customer data breach via Mixpanel vendor hack

OpenAI is notifying some ChatGPT API customers that limited identifying information was exposed following a breach at its third-party analytics provider Mixpanel. Mixpanel offers event analytics that ...
VentureBeat

OpenAI is ending API access to fan-favorite GPT-4o model in February 2026

OpenAI has sent out emails notifying API customers that its chatgpt-4o-latest model will be retired from the developer platform in mid-February 2026,. Access to the model is scheduled to end on ...