OpenAI’s Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the “Artificial State” + Train of Thought NYT: Technology By: Kevin Roose · Casey Newton · Whitney Jones · Rachel Cohn · Vjeran Pavic · Katie McMurran · Dan Powell · Marion Lozano · Rowan Niemisto and Alyssa Moxley 21 August 2026 at 07:32 “It is the first time that we know of that a major lab has voluntarily slowed down.” © Photo Illustration by The New York Times; Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters
OpenAI Introduces ‘ChatGPT for Teens’ as Safety Concerns Grow NYT: Technology By: Cecilia Kang 18 August 2026 at 10:14 The artificial intelligence start-up announced a chatbot mode that will automatically limit some conversations to better protect young users. © Ricardo Nagaoka for The New York TimesA workshop about artificial intelligence at Walla Walla High School in Washington in 2023. ChatGPT will turn on its teen mode if it detects signals that the user is younger than 18, OpenAI said.
Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not For Their Own Kids. NYT: Technology By: David Streitfeld 18 August 2026 at 19:37 At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something. © Patrick Leger
Nvidia to Back Ohio Data Center With as Much as $105 Billion NYT: Technology By: Kalley Huang 17 August 2026 at 17:13 The data center, one of the world’s largest, could cost as much as $500 billion and will be leased by OpenAI. © Brian Kaiser/BloombergWorkers at the construction site for a data center in Piketon, Ohio, that will be built by a subsidiary of SoftBank and leased to OpenAI.
Another OpenAI Executive, Denise Dresser, Departs the A.I. Start-Up NYT: Technology By: Mike Isaac 13 August 2026 at 14:47 Denise Dresser, who was previously the C.E.O. of Slack, is the latest in a string of executives to leave the artificial intelligence start-up. © Shane Anthony Sinclair/Getty Images for Cannes LionsDenise Dresser, OpenAI’s chief revenue officer, is one of a number of executives to leave OpenAI in recent months.
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