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AI NewsOpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman reportedly takes charge of product strategy

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman reportedly takes charge of product strategy

10:46 PM IST · May 16, 2026

OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman is officially taking the reins of the company’s product strategy,according to Wired. This seems to solidify an already-existing change, with Brockman overseeing OpenAI’s products on an interim basis while the company’s CEO of AGI deployment Fidji Simo is out on medical leave. Wired also reports that in a staff memo, Brockman described plans to combine ChatGPT and its programming product Codex into a single unified experience. “We’re consolidating our product efforts to execute with maximum focus toward the agentic future, to win across both consumer and enterprise,” Brockman reportedly said. This is just the latest OpenAI shakeup since CEO Sam Altmandeclared a “code red”at the end of last year and said the company needs to refocus on the core ChatGPT experience. Since then, OpenAI hashalted “side quests”including video generator Sora and OpenAI for Science, and it’s beenhighlighting its ambitions to build an AI “super app.” TechCrunch has reached out to OpenAI for comment. The company told Wired that Simo, who remains on medical leave, worked with Brockman on these changes.

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Research repository ArXiv will ban authors for a year if they let AI do all the work

ArXiv, a widely used open repository for preprint research, is doing more to crack down on the careless use of large language models in scientific papers. Although papers are posted to the site before they are peer-reviewed, arXiv (pronounced “archive”) has become one of the main ways that research circulates in fields like computer science and math, and the site itself has becomea source of data on trends in scientific research. ArXiv has already taken steps to combat a growing number of low-quality, AI-generated papers, for example by requiring first-time posters toget an endorsement from an established author. And after being hosted by Cornell for more than 20 years, the organization is becoming an independent nonprofit, which should allow it toraise more money to address issues like AI slop. In its latest move, Thomas Dietterich — the chair of arXiv’s computer science section —postedThursdaythat “if a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can’t trust anything in the paper.” That incontrovertible evidence could include things like “hallucinated references” and comments to or from the LLM, Dietterich said. If such evidence is found, a paper’s authors will face “a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted by a reputable peer-reviewed venue.” Note that this isn’t an outright prohibition on using LLMs, but rather an insistence that, as Dietterich put it, authors take “full responsibility” for the content, “irrespective of how the contents are generated.” So if researchers copy-paste “inappropriate language, plagiarized content, biased content, errors, mistakes, incorrect references, or misleading content” directly from an LLM, then they’re still responsible for it. Dietterichtold 404 Mediathat this will be a “one-strike” rule, but moderators must flag the issue and section chairs must confirm the evidence before imposing the penalty. Authors will also be able to appeal the decision. Recent peer-reviewed research has found thatfabricated citations are on the risein biomedical research, likely due to LLMs — though to be fair, scientists aren’t the only ones getting caughtusing citations that were made up by AI.

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The haves and have nots of the AI gold rush

The vibes around the current AI boom aren’t great, even in the tech industry, according toa lengthy social media postfrom Menlo Ventures partner Deedy Das. Das described San Francisco as “pretty frenetic right now,” as “the divide in outcomes is the worst I’ve ever seen.” Using a “back of the envelope AI calculation,” he projected that there are around 10,000 people — founders and employees at companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia — that have “hit retirement wealth of well above $20M,” while everyone else worries “they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.” Plus, “layoffs are in full swing,” and “many software engineers feel that their life’s skill is no longer useful,” leading to confusion about the best career paths and “a deep malaise about work (and its future),” Das said. This prompted some eye-rolling on X, with entrepreneur Deva Hazarikaarguingthat “most of the people in this post” are “incredibly fortunate and can simply make a choice to be happy.” Another usersuggestedit’s “pretty damn novel & also kinda nasty” that in the current cycle, “the same technology is both the lottery ticket & the thing eating your fallback.” The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people – employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders – have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope…

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