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Rare Outage Hit Four Major AI Models All at Once
On Thursday morning, ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Gemini ran into service disruptions almost simultaneously. A simultaneous outage across all four leading services is exceedingly rare.
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The Pentagon Gets Military Versions of ChatGPT and Grok
The U.S. Department of Defense has added military-adapted versions of ChatGPT and Grok to its secure GenAI.mil portal. Previously only Google Gemini was available there — and Anthropic's Claude is nowhere on the list.
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ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox fall under the EU's strictest rules
The European Commission has classified the three services as “very large online platforms” under the Digital Services Act. They now face heightened requirements and fines of up to 6% of global revenue.
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ChatGPT Work: Two Products Under One Name and a Tangled Set of Capabilities
Simon Willison got to grips with OpenAI's new product, announced on July 9. It turns out that the name ChatGPT Work hides two different tools at once, and its main strength lies in running code with full internet access.
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cats.txt: how a file about office cats debunked the faith in llms.txt
SEO specialist Mark Williams-Cook dreamed up a parody standard for describing editorial cats — and it passed exactly the same “tests” used to sell the earnestly touted llms.txt.
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OpenAI Shut Down a Cambodian Fraud Network That Was Using ChatGPT
The group ran several types of scam at once, using ChatGPT to generate fake identities and forged documents. Bruce Schneier reported on it.
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OpenAI Shuts Down Russian Accounts That Promoted a Fake “Institute”
OpenAI has blocked a group of Russian ChatGPT accounts that used a VPN to generate posts for a covert influence campaign centered on a fictitious think tank.
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Mass ChatGPT Outage: Users Unable to Log In or Sign Up
On the evening of August 19, OpenAI's services suffered a major outage: logging in, signing up and loading chats stopped working worldwide. The company acknowledged the problem and said it was working to fix it.
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ChatGPT Learns to Watch You: The New Computer History Feature Remembers Clicks and Keystrokes
The ChatGPT desktop app for macOS has gained a Computer History feature that turns a user's actions into training data. OpenAI promises it doesn't take screenshots — it only records “events.”
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Google's Gemini App Hits One Billion Users
Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced that the Gemini app has crossed the one-billion-monthly-active-users mark, making it the company's 14th product to reach that audience.
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OpenAI Releases GPT 5.6 Cyber — but Only for a Chosen Few
OpenAI has unveiled its GPT 5.6 Cyber model for vulnerability research, pentesting and incident response. Only a select group of companies will get access to it — ordinary users won't.
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Denmark Brings in Oral Defenses of Written Work to Fight AI Cheating
Danish high-schoolers will be required to defend their take-home written assignments orally — the way authorities hope to counter cheating with the help of artificial intelligence.
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OpenAI Acquires NextSlide, a Startup That Builds Presentations from Prompts
The team behind NextSlide, a startup that turned notes and documents into finished slides, is moving to OpenAI to work on ChatGPT.
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OpenAI Updates ChatGPT: GPT-5.6 and Unlimited Chat for Free Users
Paying subscribers get the more reliable GPT-5.6 Sol model, while free users get unlimited text conversations with GPT-5.6 Luna and an “intelligence” control slider.
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“Ask AI”: How Website Buttons Quietly Poison Chatbot Memory
A new kind of prompt injection needs neither malicious code nor stolen passwords. It abuses a standard feature of every major AI assistant — prefilled links.
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AI proctoring flunked the exam: 58,000 applicants will retake it
Mexico's largest university held its entrance exam fully remotely for the first time — supervised by AI. The number of top scores jumped several-fold, and now tens of thousands of people will have to show up in person.
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ChatGPT Stops Cloning the Style of Famous Writers
OpenAI has taught its chatbot to refuse outright imitation of authors' voices, offering instead to capture a “general feeling.” Behind this seemingly minor legal nuance lies a defense against copyright infringement suits.
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OpenAI Confirms Global ChatGPT Outage
On the morning of July 25, ChatGPT stopped loading conversations worldwide. The outage also hit OpenAI's API and the Codex coding platform.
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OpenAI Micro: the $230 AI Keypad Coders Aren't Rushing to Buy
OpenAI's first piece of hardware is the Micro, a compact macropad add-on for working with ChatGPT and Codex. A TechCrunch reviewer found it fun but never quite figured out who actually needs it.
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AgentForger: How a Single Phishing Link Turned ChatGPT into an Autonomous Spy Inside a Company
Researchers at Zenity Labs have disclosed a critical vulnerability in ChatGPT's Workspace agents: clicking a single link made it possible to covertly create, authorize and launch a hostile AI agent with an employee's privileges. OpenAI closed the hole on June 8, 2026.
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