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OpenAI is reorganizing again, this time consolidating its product teams under company president Greg Brockman as it bets everything on AI agents. The move merges ChatGPT and Codex into a single agentic platform, a clear signal that OpenAI sees autonomous AI systems as the central battleground of the next phase of this industry.
That bet looks a little more complicated in light of a striking security disclosure this week. Anthropic's Mythos model helped a research team build a working macOS exploit in just five days, cracking open a product that took five years to develop. Apple is now working on a fix, but the episode raises an uncomfortable question about who benefits most when AI becomes a capable offensive security tool.
And in an energy story that connects Silicon Valley's ambitions to its playground, Lake Tahoe is facing sharply higher electricity prices as AI data centers drive up regional demand. The irony is hard to miss — the same industry reshaping the economy is now pricing out the resort towns where its executives unwind.
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