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OpenAI hired Jill Hazelbaker, former Uber president, as chief corporate affairs officer on Tuesday. She starts in early December, replacing Hannah Wong who left in January 2026. Hazelbaker fills a role vacant for 10 months amid AI controversies and an upcoming initial public offering.
OpenAI states its GPT-6 Astra model designed a hardware device connecting users to the Codex coding agent in under a week. The internal model scored 0.875 on BenchCAD 2.0, while Astra hit 0.594. Token usage for hardware tasks grew 23x since February as the team builds its own device.
OpenAI announced a new system routing Dots tasks to its smaller GPT-6.1 Terra model to reduce compute intensity. This move follows reports that personal AI agents consume unsustainable power, with Anthropic spending $895.4 billion on infrastructure. OpenAI aims to lower costs for its $100 monthly Pro subscription users while scaling production of its in-house Jalapeno chip by 2027.
Jill Hazelbaker, former Uber president, moves to OpenAI as chief corporate affairs officer. She oversees global communications and corporate positioning for the frontier AI company. Hazelbaker previously led Uber's marketing, policy and safety teams since her 2017 promotion.
OpenAI consumer product lead Adam Fry announced Monday that ChatGPT processes 20 percent of search query volume compared to Google. Fry defined a search as any user input resulting in a web search, excluding simple definitions or how-to explanations.
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