OpenAI News
04 Aug 2026
OpenAI announced new education-oriented plugins for ChatGPT Work and Codex aimed at K–12 teachers, college educators, and students. The plugins are intended to support learning, teaching, research, and building according to the publisher's announcement.
MIT Technology Review
30 Jul 2026
A team of researchers argues in a paper presented at the International Conference on Machine Learning that it is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks due to a fundamental flaw in how they work. The claim, reported by MIT Technology Review, highlights broad safety implications for LLM deployment.
IEEE Spectrum
29 Jul 2026
Siobahn Day Grady founded the Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Research (IAIER) at North Carolina Central University in January 2025, backed by a $1 million Google.org grant and partnerships with IBM and Google. The institute requires an AI course for freshmen, has engaged over 2,800 people, funded interdisciplinary seed projects, and is expanding programs while seeking sustainable funding.
TechCrunch AI
29 Jul 2026
Pangram has raised $9 million to expand its AI detection software, TechCrunch reports. The startup released a new AI text detector called Pangram 4 and an AI image detection model in research preview.
OpenAI News
29 Jul 2026
OpenAI is offering free access to its most advanced ChatGPT models for 100,000 academic researchers to support scientific research and collaboration. The program aims to accelerate discovery, according to OpenAI News.
MIT Technology Review
27 Jul 2026
MIT Technology Review explores how specialised AI agents could eventually need to coordinate rather than just exchange data. The article outlines a future where domain-specific systems—like symptom assessment, scheduling, insurance, and pharmacy agents—must align objectives to work together effectively.
OpenAI News
27 Jul 2026
OpenAI research finds ChatGPT users are taking on tasks across roles, expanding the set of work people perform. The study reports this shift is reshaping job boundaries and how work is organized.
TechCrunch AI
27 Jul 2026
TechCrunch reports that next‑generation physical AI models will require richer data than public videos, including multi‑angle footage, dense annotations, and potentially brain wave readings. The article frames neural signals as a future data modality for improving embodied AI training and evaluation.
TechCrunch AI
24 Jul 2026
Cybersecurity researchers who search for unknown vulnerabilities say OpenAI’s and Anthropic’s guardrails limit their ability to develop and test exploitation tools. TechCrunch AI reported researchers describing how safety constraints interfere with typical offensive research workflows.
OpenAI News
22 Jul 2026
OpenAI says it will work with the U.S. Department of Energy and national laboratories to use frontier AI to accelerate scientific discovery. The announcement frames this as a commitment to advancing American science.
MIT Technology Review
20 Jul 2026
New research reported by MIT Technology Review says large language models not only absorb human biases from training data but can also develop their own biases when used for hiring. The findings raise questions about whether AI resume screening will judge applicants fairly.
IEEE Spectrum
18 Jul 2026
Sarah Downs, now a Ph.D. student at Texas A&M, created a force-based insertion algorithm that lets a robotic arm assemble satellite antennas in zero gravity without relying on cameras. Her work, done with NASA and the U.S. Air Force during her master’s, addresses peg‑in‑hole insertion and compensates for reaction torques in space.