OpenAI Files Confidential S-1 with SEC, Eyes IPO This Autumn

OpenAI's IPO Strategy: Confidential Filing and Strategic Timing

OpenAI, the AI developer behind ChatGPT, filed a confidential S-1 with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on June 8, 2026, signaling its intent to pursue an initial public offering (IPO) as early as this autumn, according to Infobae. The move comes amid fierce competition in the AI sector, with rivals like Anthropic and … Read more

Cursor Launches a New AI Agent Experience to Take On Claude Code and Codex

Cursor announced Thursday the launch of Cursor 3, a new product interface that allows users to spin up AI coding agents to complete tasks on their behalf. The product, which was developed under the code name Glass, is Cursor’s response to agentic coding tools like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex, which have taken off … Read more

ExpressVPN launches private AI platform with secure enclaves

ExpressVPN has launched a private AI platform called ExpressAI, designed to give users access to AI tools without their data being used for profiling or model training. ExpressAI is built around confidential computing enclaves, which process decrypted conversations in a cryptographically isolated environment. According to ExpressVPN, this keeps user messages inaccessible to the host system, … Read more

There’s Something Very Dark About a Lot of Those Viral AI Fruit Videos

“I’ve spent a lot of time looking at the comment sections on these videos actually, and it does not seem like bots. I clicked on people’s profiles; these are real profiles, thousands of followers, no signs of inorganic activity,” Maddox says. “People just like it.” But even if the views and engagement are real, that … Read more

At the Oscars, a classic story of art rebuking commerce – The Irish Times

For star-struck podcaster Scott Galloway, the Vanity Fair Oscar party on Sunday conjured “the most aspirational environment I’ve ever been in in my life”. I certainly felt aspirational. I aspired to have fun in the beautiful, curvaceous new wing of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art – before my high heels began to hurt. … Read more

OpenAI’s chief scientist trusts AI with experiments but says it’s not at the level to design complex systems

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki used to write every line of code by hand. Now AI handles experiments that once took him a week, but he’s not ready to let it run the show. Just a year ago, Pachocki didn’t even use autocomplete. He preferred working in the code text editor Vim, typing everything out … Read more