Greg Brockman

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1. 2d
   Every report recounts Codex's turnaround from cloud setback to ChatGPT desktop base

   Every co-founder and CEO Dan Shipper published “How Codex Happened,” based on months of interviews with six Codex participants including Greg Brockman, Thibault Sottiaux and Alexander Embiricos. Chinese outlets including 机器之心, republished by 36Kr, and 量子位 summarized it. According to those accounts, Codex Cloud was built in about seven weeks and launched on May 16, 2025, but struggled externally because developers had to rebuild their environments in the cloud and the models were not yet capable enough. The team shifted to local work under Sottiaux, rewrote the agent core in Rust, and shipped a terminal CLI, editor sidebars and, on February 2, 2026, a macOS desktop app with no code editor. Every's figures, as cited by the outlets, put Codex above 5 million weekly active users in June; on July 9 the Codex desktop app became the new ChatGPT desktop app; Codex plus ChatGPT for Work are now above 40 million weekly actives. The report also says Sottiaux denied a decision to split out a Codex model line, describing it as an internal research exploration to speed its own work.

   36氪 人工智能 · 🔥 8
2. 6d
   Pro-AI Super PAC network funneled millions into Nevada shell companies

   WIRED, citing federal campaign finance records, reports that the pro-AI super PAC network Leading the Future — backed by Silicon Valley investors — has raised more than $140 million to support AI-friendly candidates in both parties ahead of November's midterms. Two of its super PACs, Think Big and American Mission, have paid tens of millions of dollars to four Nevada-registered LLCs, including roughly $20 million to Lantern Production Consultants, whose listed addresses are a post office box, a mail center and a Staples store. The Campaign Legal Center has filed an FEC complaint alleging the groups used shell companies to conceal the actual recipients of payments; Leading the Future said it complies with all applicable laws and called the complaint a "desperate ploy" by Public First and Anthropic-aligned groups, while Anthropic did not comment and Public First denied involvement.

   WIRED AI · 🔥 0
3. Oct 9
   Sam Altman calls Trump's AI accord 'a good start,' says more is needed

   In two Vanity Fair interviews published on 5 October, Sam Altman called the superintelligence accord signed by President Donald Trump and AI executives "a good start" and "much better than nothing," while saying more will be needed over time. He said the accord "has no real power" and works mainly through social pressure and peer pressure among companies. Altman also said OpenAI recently paused a model training run to make more progress on alignment and monitorability, and that GPT-6.1 Astra was ready but held back because it tipped too far toward accident risk. He wants clear accident reporting, pre-release standards and a liability framework, and believes the US and China could agree on shared safety standards with a way to verify compliance.

   The Next Web · 🔥 0
4. Oct 9
   NYT v. OpenAI docs renew debate on paying for AI's news use

   Newly unsealed filings in The New York Times' copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft show OpenAI researchers pitched president Greg Brockman on ways around the Times' paywall — he replied "nice" — while a Microsoft executive described the company's mass web scraping in 2023 as "unprecedented labor theft." A commentary piece argues that monthly subscriptions or free access cannot match AI agents that take a single paragraph or data point, and that micropayments — backed by verifiable agent identity, scoped authorization, intent confirmation, anti-fraud checks, audit logs and dispute handling — may be the practical fix. It notes Mastercard, Visa, Stripe and Tempo have begun rolling out machine-to-machine payment protocols and standards.

   科技新报 · 🔥 0
5. Oct 8
   The Verge reviews Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's biting Sam Altman biopic

   Artificial, Luca Guadagnino's satirical Sam Altman biopic, premiered at the New York Film Festival with Andrew Garfield as Altman, Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever and Ike Barinholtz as Elon Musk. The Verge senior AI reporter Hayden Field writes that the film tracks real milestones — Sutskever's time with Geoffrey Hinton, the 2017 Dota 2 win, Altman's ouster and return — and leans lightly on invented characters because lawsuits and leaked communications supplied the material, while still being darkly funny. The piece also notes a pre-screening remark thanking Neon for "standing behind this film," implying Amazon MGM Studios dropped it in June, presented alongside a mention of Amazon's $50 billion OpenAI investment as statements made at the event.

   The Verge AI · 🔥 0

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