Obstacle #1: Treating Fear as a Stop Sign Many professionals assume their careers are held back by outside forces—a shortage of openings, missing qualifications, or an insufficient network. Yet the more stubborn obstacles are often internal. They surface as mental habits that quietly pull people awa...

James Maynard, a mathematician at the University of Oxford and recent recipient of the prestigious Fields Medal, has spent much of the past year in deep reflection. In an interview with The Verge, Maynard revealed that he is grappling with how artificial intelligence is forcing the traditionally slo...

Brad Lightcap, who served as OpenAI's special projects lead and previously as its chief operating officer, has left the company after eight years. In an internal memo that he later shared on X, Lightcap informed colleagues that he would be starting something new.A Long Tenure at OpenAILightcap's eig...

OpenAI Completes $7 Billion Employee Tender Offer OpenAI has reportedly completed a $7 billion employee tender offer, providing liquidity to its workforce by buying back shares from employees. The deal, first reported by Bloomberg, values the frontier AI lab at $852 billion—the same valuation as its...

OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a presentation startup that turns prompts, notes, documents, or research into polished, editable presentations. The NextSlide team is now working on ChatGPT, according to the company’s announcement. In a note on the NextSlide website, founder Ahmed Beshry described the...

OpenAI Pauses Astra Model Work After Security Review OpenAI announced on Friday that it has suspended work on some aspects of its upcoming Astra model. The decision follows an internal review that found significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity—enough to raise serious concerns abo...

OpenAI today said it is "pausing" activities involving its upcoming AI model Astra, because its cyber capabilities are potentially too dangerous. The company's newest internal evaluations show "significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity," and it cannot rule out "critical cyber capa...

OpenAI pauses Astra development OpenAI has put the brakes on Astra, an in-development AI model, because the company says the model may have “critical” cybersecurity capabilities. According to OpenAI, Astra could be too powerful in the cybersecurity domain, which is why the company decided to pause t...

The original iPhone loses its last cellular network as T-Mobile kills 2G service, marking the end of an era for Apple's groundbreaking first smartphone. As of Monday, August 3, 2026, T-Mobile has officially retired its 2G GSM network, meaning all three major U.S. carriers have now ended 2G support. ...

OpenAI is pushing back against Apple's trade secrets lawsuit, and its defense strategy is turning heads. Instead of arguing about what former Apple employees accessed, OpenAI claims Apple's own security practices make it impossible to call the information a legally protected 'trade secret.' This art...

OpenAI's AI Smart Speaker: Price and Design OpenAI's new AI smart speaker is making waves. According to recent reports, this device—which could be the physical form of ChatGPT—will reportedly cost between $300 and $400. It's designed to be a donut-shaped helper you can move around your home. Here's ...

Omilia, a customer support automation company based in Athens, has raised $67 million to scale its customer support platform. This funding round marks a big step for the company, which has been working on voice AI and customer service automation since 2002. With new capital, Omilia aims to help busi...