The US Federal Trade Commission is running an industry-wide investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs, the Guardian reported on 30 September. It is the first official US enforcement action over rogue AI agents.
OpenAI will not go public until it can make "confident safety decisions," chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday, as the company faces a new lawsuit over its agents hacking a third party.
The UK AI Security Institute and Meridian Labs published Inspect, an open-source framework with more than 200 pre-built evaluations, on 30 September. It is the latest in a run of open releases that also includes Fermion Research's Phonon-2 speech model and Nvidia's Kumo Tabular.
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI labs over the risks their agents pose to consumers, the first official US enforcement action on rogue AI agents, as reported on 30 September.
OpenAI and Synopsys signed a multi-year deal on 30 September to build GPT-Synopsys, a specialised model for chip design. It was one of at least five open or openly described model releases and partnerships to land in the final days of September.
OpenAI said on Tuesday it will not release its newest model, GPT-6.1 Astra, because it "didn't quite meet the bar" on safety, and it has paused training of its most powerful systems, according to CBS News and Rest of World. The same week, the UK's AI Security Institute published an open-source evaluation framework and researchers found a Chinese model would talk about bioweapons.
Fermion Research released Phonon-2 on 30 September, an open English speech recognition model that fits in a 164 MB download and averages 5.21 percent word error across the Open ASR Leaderboard's seven English sets. It landed in a week when open-weight releases, not frontier launches, did most of the talking.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, 70 percent of enterprises will abandon agentic AI systems built with vendor assistance. Costs are climbing, and customers find they cannot modify the technology without outside help. The forecast, reported by The Register on 30 September, lands on the same day OpenAI, Meta and DoorDash all pushed personal and workplace agents further into the mainstream.
The UK AI Security Institute and Meridian Labs released Inspect, an open-source evaluation framework with more than 200 pre-built benchmarks, on 30 September. It is the same day NVIDIA's Kumo Tabular topped four tabular benchmarks and Phonon-2 shipped a 164 MB speech model.
Two new inference engines claim order-of-magnitude efficiency gains on the same GPU hardware, while OpenAI's new $500 subscription and a September pricing snapshot show the per-token market is still moving in opposite directions.
Modal and Carnegie Mellon's Full Stack Data Lab say their Quail engine pushed a multi-join AI-SQL query past one billion tokens per minute on a single H100, more than 10x their vLLM baseline, in a post published on 30 September.
An open source inference engine that tunes its CPU kernels on your own device launched on 30 September, claiming decode speeds up to 92% faster than llama.cpp on Metal, as new research and pricing data point to a widening split in the cost of running AI.
OpenClaw published OpenClaw Enterprise (OCE) on 30 September, an open source, vendor neutral control plane for persistent agents. The foundation behind it says enterprise IT has mostly responded to agentic platforms by banning them outright.
OpenAI will hold off going public until it can "make confident safety decisions", chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday, hours after the company delayed its newest model and paused training of its most powerful systems.
Gartner predicts that by 2028, 70 percent of enterprises will abandon agentic AI systems built with vendor help. Forward-deployed engineering leaves customers dependent on outside expertise, The Register reported on 30 September.
OpenAI and Synopsys have signed a multi-year strategic partnership to build a specialised AI model for chip design called GPT-Synopsys, The Decoder reported on 30 September.
Two research teams published new inference-engine results on 30 September, claiming AI-SQL queries can run more than ten times faster than a vLLM baseline on the same hardware.
OpenAI told reporters on Tuesday that it will delay its IPO until it can make confident safety decisions. On Monday it scrapped the launch of its newest model over safety concerns, as lawyers filed a novel lawsuit over its tools hacking third parties.