OpenAI

The Download: OpenAI is building a fully automated researcher, and a psychedelic trial blind spot

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher  OpenAI has a new grand challenge: building an AI researcher—a fully automated agent-based system capable of tackling large, complex problems by…

OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher

OpenAI is refocusing its research efforts and throwing its resources into a new grand challenge. The San Francisco firm has set its sights on building what it calls an AI researcher, a fully automated agent-based system that will be able to go off and tackle large, complex problems by itself. ​​OpenAI says that this new…

Cursor’s frontier model 👨‍💻, OpenAI buys Astral ⚡, Perplexity Health 🏥

Multiverse Computing pushes its compressed AI models into the mainstream

After compressing models from major AI labs, including OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek, and Mistral AI, Multiverse Computing has launched both an app that showcases the capabilities of its compressed models and an API that makes them more widely available.

GPT-5.4 mini & nano ⚡, Cursor self-summarization 📝, Harmonic’s AI mathematician ♾️

The Download: OpenAI’s US military deal, and Grok’s CSAM lawsuit

This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Where OpenAI’s technology could show up in Iran  OpenAI has controversially agreed to give the Pentagon access to its AI. But where exactly could its tech show up, and which applications…

NVIDIA GTC 🤖, OpenAI’s new infra chief ⚡, Alibaba & OpenAI pivot 🧠

Claude 1M Context 🧠, OpenAI adult mode 🤖, GLM-5-Turbo ⚡

OpenAI acquires Promptfoo 💰, Copilot Cowork launch 🤝, AI search metrics 🔎

GPT-5.4 launch 🚀, Anthropic’s compute advantage ⚡, Cursor Automations 🤖

GPT 5.4 rumors 🤖, Qwen team exodus 👋, AI safety’s deadline ⏱️

GPT-5.3 Instant ⚡, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 💸, Anthropic $20B ARR 📈

OpenAI $110B mega-round 💰, OpenAI-Pentagon red lines 🛑, Google goal-based agents 🎯

ChatGPT Pro Lite 🤖, Anthropic distillation 🧪, Perplexity Messages credits 💬

Claude Code Security 🔐, OpenAI math proofs 📐, end of coding agents 🤖

OpenAI sidesteps Nvidia with unusually fast coding model on plate-sized chips

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files — no coding required

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users — and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself. The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but with Micros