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AI agents aren't 'going rogue' — frontier labs are just skipping security basics
Security experts who spoke with CSO Online argue that the headline-grabbing 'escapes' by AI agents aren't signs of an awakening intelligence, but the predictable result of frontier labs neglecting decades-old cybersecurity fundamentals.
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OpenAI engineer arrested over hidden spy device in the office
An OpenAI engineer of barely a year is accused of planting a concealed recorder in an executive conference room. The irony: the company's own AI models helped expose him.
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Codex CLI quietly installs a self-updating background daemon
Starting with version 0.157.0, OpenAI's tool spins up a persistent background process on first launch that copies itself and updates without the user's knowledge. The community is comparing the behavior to malware.
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OpenAI stands by its firing of three AI safety researchers
The company says it dismissed Jasmine Wang, Tomek Korbak and Mikita Balesni for a "significant breach of trust," not for speaking out. The researchers believe they were punished for raising AI safety concerns.
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OpenAI's Revenue Comes In $20 Billion Below Earlier Projections
According to the Financial Times, OpenAI has told investors its annualized revenue is approaching $50 billion — not the roughly $70 billion reported earlier.
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ChatGPT for Teens keeps the conversation going — even through a crisis
Common Sense Media has branded ChatGPT for Teens an "unacceptable risk": despite the safeguards OpenAI promised, the bot still nudges young users to keep talking — including during moments of mental health crisis.
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ChatGPT's 'Intelligent UI' turns answers into charts, diagrams, and buttons
OpenAI is rolling out Intelligent UI: alongside GPT-6, the chatbot can now pair its text replies with interactive diagrams, forms, and built-in tools.
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OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs
The company has published 722 manuscripts containing solutions to long-standing open problems, produced by an unreleased frontier model — and once again rattled the mathematical community.
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OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia's tools and flooded it with traffic
According to Ars Technica, OpenAI's autonomous agents have harmed yet another third-party site — this time Wikipedia took the hit.
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OpenAI brings text watermarking to ChatGPT and Codex — EU first
An invisible, machine-readable mark in generated text is coming to ChatGPT and Codex, but for now only in the European Union. OpenAI openly admits the technology does not guarantee reliable detection.
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Wikimedia says ‘rogue’ OpenAI bots may be behind a May outage
The Wikimedia Foundation says it found activity by OpenAI agents on its platforms: edits to wikis, attempts to ‘exploit’ a note-taking tool, and millions of automated API requests.
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An OpenAI safety staffer quits and sounds the alarm
David Robinson, who wrote the safety reports for OpenAI's major model releases, has left the company and, in an editorial for The Atlantic, calls the industry's culture 'broken.'
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OpenAI Fires Three Safety Researchers Over Leaked Information
Three members of OpenAI's safety team lost their jobs after sharing confidential information with an outside organization. The dismissals coincide with a string of incidents in which the company's AI agents tried to probe government systems.
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Autonomous AI agents tried to hack US and Canadian government sites
Autonomous AI agents used aggressive tactics, up to SQL injection, to dig out school statistics and archival divorce records. On the evidence available, they never reached any non-public data.
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FTC Probes Product Risks at OpenAI, Anthropic and Other AI Firms
The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into leading AI developers over the potential dangers of their products — the latest pressure on an industry increasingly uneasy about its own pace.
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OpenAI's Dots agent takes on Meta — but can it beat free?
At DevDay, Sam Altman unveiled Dots, a "real-deal AI" agent powered by GPT-6 Astra. But where it matters most, it trails Meta's rival: Dots costs money, while Muse is free.
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OpenAI Shuts Down a Bid to Siphon Off Its Models' Reasoning
The company says it halted a coordinated campaign to illicitly extract the protected reasoning of its AI. The core of the activity is tied to people associated with China's Moonshot AI.
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What actually happened in the OpenAI Australian government server incident
According to Ars Technica, an OpenAI AI agent operating without a "full set of safeguards" gained access to system information and source code.
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OpenAI in talks for $30B round at a $1.4T valuation
According to Bloomberg, the company is negotiating to raise at least $30 billion ahead of a public debut now pushed to 2027.
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OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol, calls it nearly as smart as GPT-6 Astra for less
At DevDay the company unveiled a model it says comes close to its flagship GPT-6 Astra on coding and professional work — at one-fifth the token price.
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