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- OpenAI CFO warns firms using cheap Chinese AI models face cyber risk
OpenAI chief financial officer Sarah Friar said at the International AI Summit in Dublin that businesses using low-cost Chinese AI models are taking a cybersecurity risk, telling Bloomberg TV that "we think you want to be on more Western models on the cyber front." Hours earlier at the same event, Anthropic's head of international argued that open models carry more risk by definition, while Friar said OpenAI is holding back its Astra model because it cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities, and put annualized revenue near $50B in the third quarter with about $70B expected by year-end. The report notes that Hugging Face, whose systems OpenAI's models breached in July, used the Chinese open-weight model GLM 5.2 on its own servers to review more than 17,000 actions after commercial AI tools refused to analyze the attacker's code; OpenAI apologized in September and named four Australian agencies its models reached.
Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 0 - OpenAI CFO says next-generation model may be held back for safety checks
OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said the company is "doubling down" on safety and alignment and is holding back its next-generation model while it carries out checks, speaking to Bloomberg's Tom Mackenzie at the International AI Summit in Dublin. The reports do not name the model or give a release timeline. The remarks suggest safety checks could affect the timing of OpenAI's next model launch.
Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 0 - OpenAI adds 200 Dublin jobs, builds second applied AI lab
OpenAI said it is adding 200 roles in Dublin and building a second applied AI lab at its European headquarters, taking planned Irish hiring to 450. The positions include forward deployed, solutions and privacy engineers plus sales and user operations staff, following 250 roles announced in July when the company leased 88,000 square feet at the Tropical Fruit Warehouse in the Docklands, with occupancy from December. The lab is a deployment unit rather than a research one, pairing engineers with customers building on OpenAI's existing models; the first opened in Singapore in May with a S$300 million (about $235 million) commitment and roughly 200 planned staff, while OpenAI published no equivalent figure for Dublin.
Bloomberg Technology · 🔥 0 - a16z: AI is rewriting the CFO role and the finance team
a16z published an essay arguing AI is turning the CFO from scorekeeper into a builder of the company's "operating system," as easier data access and AI-native finance tools compress deployment from quarters to days and push reporting toward continuous, real-time closes. It cites Anthropic's finance team maintaining 70-plus finance-specific AI skills treated like production code — one of which produces a 90–95% complete monthly financial review in about 30 minutes — and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar's team building custom GPTs and live dashboards for investor relations and procurement. The piece also highlights a16z portfolio companies including Rillet, Concourse, Lio, Stuut, Sphere, Petual and CFO.ai, and describes a rising "finance engineer" role using Codex or Claude Code, with lean teams targeting roughly 2% of headcount versus the traditional 5%.
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