Brockman runs OpenAI product, DeepSeek trails 8 months, Malta gifts ChatGPT Plus

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Latest open artifacts (#21): Open model bonanza! Gemma 4, DeepSeek V4, Kimi K2.6, MiMo 2.5, GLM-5.1 & others. On CAISI’s V4 assessment. interconnects.ai

An eventful month with one flagship release after another

OpenAI and Malta partner to bring ChatGPT Plus to all citizens openai.com

OpenAI and Malta partner to expand AI access, offering ChatGPT Plus and training to help citizens build practical AI skills and use AI responsibly.

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman takes charge of product strategy techcrunch.com

OpenAI’s latest shakeup comes as the company reportedly plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex.

Musk v. Altman week 3: Elon Musk and Sam Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side. technologyreview.com

Closing arguments in the Musk v. Altman trial pitted dueling character attacks against each other. Altman faced questions over alleged self-dealing with OpenAI vendors, while his lawyers cast Musk as a power-seeker who wanted unilateral control of OpenAI’s early development. Jurors begin deliberating this week.

The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets arstechnica.com

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is deploying machine-learning surveillance to detect suspicious wagering on prediction-market venues like Kalshi and Polymarket. The move follows growing concern that election and policy contracts are vulnerable to traders acting on nonpublic information.

How Chinese short dramas became AI content machines technologyreview.com

China’s booming short-drama industry is churning out fantasy and romance episodes using generative video tools, slashing production costs on effects-heavy scenes like flame vines and dragon tattoos. Studios now treat AI as core pipeline infrastructure rather than experimental garnish.

(AINews) Cerebras’ $60B IPO: Slowly, then All at Once latent.space

Wafer-scale chipmaker Cerebras went public at a $60 billion valuation, capping a years-long path through export-control delays and a contested Group 42 partnership. The listing marks the first major AI-hardware IPO since Nvidia’s run reshaped investor appetite for accelerator startups.

OpenAI feels “burned” by Apple’s crappy ChatGPT integration, insiders say arstechnica.com

OpenAI insiders describe feeling burned by Apple Intelligence’s shallow ChatGPT hooks, which they blame for weak usage numbers. A judge has now ordered Apple to hand Elon Musk internal messages about the secretive deal as part of xAI’s antitrust suit.

Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work techcrunch.com

The preprint server arXiv will suspend submitters for 12 months if they pass off LLM-generated text as their own work. Moderators have been flooded with low-quality machine drafts, particularly in cs.AI, and the policy targets careless rather than disclosed AI assistance.

The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn technologyreview.com

Women discovering AI-generated nonconsensual porn of themselves face a patchwork of takedown systems that rarely work, with copyright law offering little leverage when the synthetic footage isn’t technically theirs. One subject found videos via a routine facial-recognition check on her own headshot.

(AINews) Codex Rises, Claude Meters Programmatic Usage latent.space

a quiet day lets us report on a long trend of the major coding agents

The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush techcrunch.com

The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry.

Sony tries to explain that its AI Camera Assistant doesn’t suck theverge.com

After Sony drew some unwanted attention for a post demonstrating its AI Camera Assistant on the Xperia 1 XIII, it’s trying to clarify how the feature works. The company says it doesn’t edit photos, but makes suggestions based on lighting, depth, and subject. Point the camera at something, and it will give you four options […]

(AINews) The End of Finetuning latent.space

a quiet day lets us reflect on whither finetuning

(AINews) Everything is Conductor latent.space

an ultra quiet day lets us highlight a smaller trend.

Establishing AI and data sovereignty in the age of autonomous systems technologyreview.com

When generative AI first moved from research labs into real-world business applications, enterprises made a tacit bargain: “Capability now, control later.” Feed your proprietary data into third-party AI models, and you will get powerful results. But your data passes through systems you do not own, under governance you do not set. The protections you rely…

References

The Information — ‘Greg Brockman’s Rough Day’ theinformation.com

Documents supplied by former Chief Scientist Ilya Sutskever alleged a pattern of ‘bullying’ by Brockman, and former CTO Mira Murati reportedly complained that Brockman would bypass her authority by going directly to Altman to overturn operational decisions.

OpenAI Community forum — ‘Superapp architecture’ post community.openai.com

When the unified platform runs an engineering task, the user’s conversational flow is frequently interrupted, causing a ‘cognitive tax’ as they wait for asynchronous executions; ChatGPT should be the non-blocking master process, not a peer tab.

MindStudio — ‘Codex vs Claude Code 2026’ mindstudio.ai

Claude Code (Opus 4.7) tops SWE-bench Verified at 87.6% for multi-file bug fixing, while Codex leads Terminal-Bench 2.0 at 77.3% vs Claude’s 65.4%; Codex reportedly uses 4x fewer tokens than Claude for identical UI-cloning tasks.

SQ Magazine — ‘OpenAI ChatGPT Codex security flaws fixed’ sqmagazine.co.uk

Researchers uncovered a command injection bug in Codex that allowed attackers to steal GitHub authentication tokens via maliciously crafted branch names, alongside a hidden DNS-based outbound channel in the ChatGPT code execution runtime that could silently exfiltrate data.

letsdatascience.com — bylaws change letsdatascience.com

New bylaws require a 2/3 supermajority of non-employee directors to remove CEO Sam Altman, a significant increase from the simple majority required under the previous nonprofit board.

TradingKey analysis — OpenAI IPO / Brockman tradingkey.com

OpenAI faces projected losses of approximately $14 billion against $25 billion in revenue for 2026, while Anthropic’s valuation surged to $900 billion in early 2026, surpassing OpenAI’s private market standing.

NIST CAISI evaluation page nist.gov

DeepSeek V4 Pro’s capabilities lag approximately eight months behind the most advanced U.S. models… more cost-effective in five out of seven benchmarked categories, with savings ranging from 41% to 53%

Medium (Moksh) – CAISI methodology critique medium.com

CAISI utilizes Item Response Theory (IRT) to estimate model capability rather than simple averaging, a statistical choice that some independent developers claim may overstate performance gaps… cost-efficiency analysis has been labeled ‘narrow’ because it filtered out all U.S. models except for GPT-5.4 mini

WaveSpeed technical brief on DeepSeek V4 wavespeed.ai

For a one-million-token context window, the model reportedly uses only 27% of the per-token inference FLOPs and 10% of the KV cache footprint required by standard architectures

ModemGuides – GLM-5.1 training infrastructure modemguides.com

trained on a cluster of approximately 100,000 Huawei Ascend 910B chips using the MindSpore framework… Ascend silicon typically operates at roughly 60% of the performance of NVIDIA’s flagship hardware

Dev.to community review of Gemma 4 dev.to

users report that the 26B MoE variant is significantly less proactive than rivals like Qwen 3.5, often requiring ‘pushy’ prompting… reports of the model refusing to answer basic medical or electrical safety questions

VentureBeat – MiMo V2.5 agentic claims venturebeat.com

implemented a complete SysY Compiler in Rust from scratch, passing 233/233 tests within 4.3 hours and 672 tool calls… 40–60% fewer tokens than competitors like Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT-5.4

Malta CEOs (Dr. Gege Gatt, EBO) maltaceos.mt

The state should ‘buy capability, not dependency’… subsidizing access to proprietary American platforms, Malta may be sidelining the development of a local AI ecosystem.

The Guardian (George Osborne interview) theguardian.com

Countries that do not embrace AI will be left behind — framing OpenAI for Countries as a hedge against falling behind Chinese-led models.

Information Security Buzz (on OpenAI for Greece) informationsecuritybuzz.com

A coalition of 22 civil society organizations, led by Homo Digitalis, issued an open letter protesting the lack of transparency in the deal and the potential exposure of student data to the US CLOUD Act.

Gulf News gulfnews.com

Official clarifications indicate the focus is on ‘nationwide access’ through integrated public platforms rather than individual personal subscriptions for every resident — clarifying that the earlier ‘free ChatGPT Plus for all UAE residents’ framing was overstated.

MaltaToday maltatoday.com.mt

The Malta Chamber argues success should be measured by tangible economic outcomes — job mobility and productivity gains — rather than just the number of certificates issued, and calls for a public implementation dashboard with six-month reviews.

Hacker News thread (item 48163754) news.ycombinator.com

Commenters characterized the initiative as a ‘limited regional beta’ and a tactic to ‘hook’ an entire population into the ecosystem and boost MAU as competition from Anthropic and Google intensifies.