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EFF: Rewriting Copyright Law to Fight Generative AI Would Hurt Everyone
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed an amicus brief in In re OpenAI. It warns that narrowing fair use would harm researchers, journalists and ordinary internet users, while benefiting only powerful media and tech companies.
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Wikimedia Foundation warns a careless AI copyright ruling could hurt the open web
The nonprofit behind Wikipedia has filed an amicus brief in The New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft. It proposes a compromise: training models should count as fair use, but regurgitating articles should not.
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OpenAI updates its Model Spec with five core values for more capable AI
OpenAI has released an updated Model Spec that sets out five core values for its models. They are meant to help more capable AI exercise sound judgment, respect human agency and stay faithful to human intent.
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Parents sue OpenAI, saying GPT-4o helped their daughter secretly quit her seizure medication
The family of a 31-year-old Amazon engineer with epilepsy says ChatGPT drew up schedules for tapering her medication and told her to keep it from her doctors. She died in February.
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OpenAI's compaction feature could be abused to extract a model's hidden reasoning
Security firm Xint showed how the mechanism that shrinks long conversations in OpenAI's API could be turned into a way to pull a model's hidden reasoning out in plain text. OpenAI confirmed the issue and fixed it on October 23.
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OpenAI unveils GPT-6.1 Terra: three times faster, half the price
OpenAI's new model targets computer use, visual reasoning and coding — at half the price of its predecessors and with markedly fewer mistakes.
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Forced to choose, Grok backs Republicans while GPT picks Democrats
A study found that when pressed to name a single candidate, xAI's Grok recommended the Republican 92% of the time and OpenAI's GPT chose the Democrat in 97%. Across nearly 500 races, the two models agreed less than 10% of the time.
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Hacker takes apart a Samsung TV and finds an on-board AI that was listening
An enthusiast reverse-engineering his own Samsung TV discovered a built-in artificial-intelligence component capable of listening in. The OpenAI account tied to it was suspended.
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OpenAI now trains its top models with the internet unplugged after rogue hacks
After AI agents escaped their test environment and attacked outside systems, OpenAI moved the training of its most powerful models offline.
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OpenAI eyes $30B raise at $1.25T valuation, delaying its IPO
Rather than rushing to the public markets, OpenAI is reportedly close to another mega private round: up to $30 billion at a $1.25 trillion pre-money valuation. If it lands, OpenAI becomes the most valuable private company ever.
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OpenAI releases an official CLI for its API
A Go-based command-line tool offers direct access to OpenAI's REST API — from generating responses and images to admin queries. The project ships under the Apache 2.0 license.
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OpenAI Says an AI Agent Disabled Its Safety Monitor — Then Lied About It
OpenAI has disclosed two incidents in which AI agents weakened their own safety monitoring during internal coding tasks — and in one case, the agent lied about what it had done.
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Ex-OpenAI Engineer Held in Custody as Saudi Royal Contacts Surface in Spy-Device Case
A U.S. court approved prosecutors' request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a hidden recorder in an executive conference room. New filings reveal his WhatsApp contacts with a member of the Saudi royal family.
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OpenCode Console Breach May Have Exposed OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API Keys
On the night of October 16 an intruder reached a legacy system at OpenCode and may have exposed the third-party AI provider keys that users had stored in OpenCode Console.
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Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says
Replit CEO Amjad Masad told the TechCrunch Disrupt stage that the company is no longer working with Anthropic. Claude stays available to customers, but ChatGPT becomes the default model.
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OpenAI Models Hacked a Crypto Wallet and Breached New Websites
According to Ars Technica, OpenAI's neural networks independently carried out actions that could have led to criminal charges had a human been at the keyboard.
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OpenAI Model Spent a Stranger's Test ETH to Deploy a Contract
OpenAI has disclosed seven new cases of misaligned model behavior. In one, a research model with no funds derived private keys from public seed phrases and paid with someone else's test coins.
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ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now read your open tabs
OpenAI has shut down its Atlas browser, but its Chrome extension now gains the ability to work with tabs you already have open and control them from the sidebar.
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FTC Launches Investigation into Anthropic and OpenAI
The US Federal Trade Commission is reportedly examining whether security incidents at the largest AI developers have harmed Americans.
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Eight US States Sue OpenAI, Alleging ChatGPT Is Unsafe for Children
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana accuse OpenAI of putting profits over safety and misleading users about the risks of ChatGPT.
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