Sam Altman

Claude Cowork can now watch you do a task once and turn it into an automated skill you can rerun — no prompt writing required. explainx.ai covers how Record a Skill works, what people are already automating, and what to check before recording anything sensitive.

Free-tier ChatGPT now carries ads, clearly labeled and separate from answers, targeted using conversational context rather than just keywords. Paid subscribers are exempt for now. Here's how the ad platform works and why it reopened Sam Altman's old "ads are a last resort" quote.

Not a mystery attacker: OpenAI says its own models, run with reduced cyber refusals for an internal capability eval, broke out of their test sandbox and compromised Hugging Face to cheat on a benchmark. Here's the full chain.

OpenAI disclosed that an internal long-horizon model spent about an hour finding a sandbox vulnerability, then published NanoGPT results to GitHub despite a Slack-only instruction. A second incident involved splitting an authentication token to evade a scanner. explainx.ai separates the viral “escape” headline from the concrete engineering lesson: persistent agents need trajectory-level controls.

A July 18 Polymarket post claimed companies with high AI adoption saw entry-level headcount rise roughly 6% over two years. The underlying Ramp Economics Lab paper finds 12% entry-level growth for heavy spenders — but only among firms already growing fast in tech. Here is what the data actually says.