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OpenAI updated its ChatGPT iOS and iPadOS apps late Friday with a Dot widget and three Shortcuts actions for messaging, dictating, or calling your Dot. The actions tie into the Action button, Spotlight, and existing threads, with the widget offering optional voice and message buttons.

OpenAI lists 27 robotics openings as it develops a humanoid robot, with CEO Sam Altman calling its brain a bigger challenge than its body. He told Fortune he expects a cool demo in 2027 but says robots walking the streets are still a few years away.

OpenAI said internal models downloaded 147,451 rows of non-public data after bypassing a research dashboard's security controls and stealing credentials, Ars Technica reports. Separate June tests showed agents deriving keys to spend from a locked test-network crypto wallet and routing blocked web requests through external services.

OpenAI upgraded GPT-6 Astra Pro in ChatGPT with faster responses, better plugin and tool use, and parallel multi-agent task handling with progress tracking and review. The update is available to Pro users in the Chat tab.

OpenAI announced the Rosalind Academic Plan, giving sponsored access to GPT-Rosalind for eligible labs at U.S. universities to bring AI into biology research, the company said on X.

Apple told OpenAI on October 12 that it had been unable to locate any OpenAI confidential information after investigating an allegation about a former OpenAI engineer now on Apple's iPhone manufacturing design team. In a court filing, Apple said OpenAI raised the allegations without notice and that they are unrelated to its main trade secret case, 9to5Mac reports.

OpenAI announced GPT-Live-1.1 for Voice in ChatGPT, Codex, and dots. • New voices in French, German, Hindi, Mexican Spanish, Korean, Japanese • Better accents and less checking • Rolling out to all users today, API access coming soon

Krea says its new Krea 3 image-editing model is 10× faster and 3× cheaper than OpenAI’s GPT Image and 4× faster than Google’s Nano Banana Pro, finishing edits in under 8 seconds at $0.06 per image.

Apple SVP Greg Joswiak on OpenAI hardware plans: “We don’t feel threatened. The fact that we can do the integration that we can means we can create just a better experience than anybody else.”

OpenAI is contributing $5 million to a new Simons Foundation initiative that funds workshops, conferences, and special programs to help mathematicians work with AI results, and it will give foundation-supported researchers access to its models and computing. The foundation’s overall $15 million effort runs through partnerships with OpenAI and Anthropic.

The FTC sent civil investigative demands to Anthropic and OpenAI on Wednesday seeking documents on safety incidents, safeguards, marketing and privacy policies, Axios reports, citing a person familiar with the matter. The FTC's broader probe of AI labs was first reported Sept. 30.

Sachin Katti, OpenAI's infrastructure and compute lead, is leaving the role after about a year and will stay on as an adviser after his last day on Nov. 15, CNBC reports. Uday Ruddarraju, OpenAI's CTO of compute, will take over the overall compute organization, a spokesperson said.

More than half of AI use among OpenAI's EU enterprise and business customers now involves agents, and the number of small business users has grown 8x across the region, OpenAI says.

Over a hundred highly confidential files on at least one unreleased OpenAI device were sent by a former employee to his personal accounts on his final day, the company alleges in a new filing. Apple says it has found no evidence to support the claims.

Booking Holdings plans to invest up to $100 million, depending on progress and market conditions, in Vayo, its new Seattle-based AI travel startup led by Mike Fridgen. Vayo is building travel-specific agents to plan and manage trips better than general-purpose assistants from OpenAI or Meta.

White Circle researchers say OpenAI's and Google's newest image models, ChatGPT Images 2.5 and Nano Banana 2.1, are significantly more breakable than their previous versions under the same jailbreak method, Ars Technica reports.

OpenAI is in acquisition talks with cybersecurity startup Trail of Bits, The Information's Amir Efrati reports. Efrati added that cybersecurity is set to be a very big business for OpenAI and Anthropic.

OpenAI is scrambling to fix safety issues before shipping its next flagship model, The Information reports. It follows the firing of three safety researchers, who say they were dismissed for prioritizing safety; OpenAI says they mishandled sensitive information.

OpenAI reportedly discovered a hidden recording device inside its office, leading to an employee's arrest and referral to the FBI.

OpenAI will add 200 jobs at its Dublin headquarters and open an applied AI laboratory, lifting its planned Irish workforce to 450 roles. The move targets business adoption and applied research in Europe.

Since version 0.157.0, OpenAI's Codex CLI starts a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default when a session opens, according to a GitHub issue asking OpenAI to make the feature opt-in. Users report turning it off with the daemon_auto_start setting.

Zuckerberg says Meta has caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic in AI and rejects any calls to slow development.