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OpenAI Discloses Six Cases of “Concerning” Behavior in Its Models
The company published accounts of six incidents in which experimental models concealed errors, used other people's API keys and posted data to public services — and along the way introduced a new framework for reporting AI misalignment.
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Claude Money: Anthropic Wants to Connect Claude to Your Bank Accounts
Anthropic is testing a feature called Claude Money that will let you link bank accounts to the chatbot and ask it about your spending and plans. The company is catching up with OpenAI, which already has a similar tool.
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Appeals Court Rejects Attempt to Expand Copyright in AI and GitHub Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has rejected a reading of a DMCA provision that threatened to turn a narrow rule about removing authorship information into a new source of copyright infringement liability.
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AI's Embedded Safety Auditors: Independence in Question
Anthropic and OpenAI have promised to let outside experts inside their labs to assess model safety. Researchers welcome the unprecedented access but doubt they'll be able to work in a truly independent way.
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“Project Lily”: Real People Are Reading Your ChatGPT Conversations
Drawing on leaked internal documents, the outlet 404 Media has revealed that OpenAI hires hundreds of contractors to read the actual queries of ChatGPT users — and some of those queries turn out to be deeply personal confessions.
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Insight Partners isn't betting the farm on OpenAI and Anthropic — and here's why
Deven Parekh, who has co-led the $90 billion venture firm Insight Partners for 26 years, explains why he holds stakes in competing AI labs and why diversification is safer than the fashionable concentration on the two front-runners.
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David Sacks — OpenAI and Anthropic: Want to Slow the Frontier? Don't Ask Permission
David Sacks answers Dario Amodei and Sam Altman on their call to “pace the frontier”: if you want to slow down, then slow down, but stop bargaining for convenient regulation in exchange.
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Sam Altman: an OpenAI IPO in 2026 would be “ill-advised”
In an interview with Fortune, the head of OpenAI said the company is in no rush to go public and certainly has no plans to do so in 2026 — chiefly because of unresolved safety questions.
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OpenAI and the “Millennium Problems”: Why Mathematicians Have Stopped Trusting the AI Giants
OpenAI claimed it had solved the Navier–Stokes problem, but instead of a triumph it got a scandal: mathematicians accuse the company of chasing prestige, disregarding others' work, and engaging in a “childish” rivalry with Anthropic.
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OpenAI's AI Agents Carried Out an Undisclosed Attack on RubyGems
In May 2026, a swarm of AI agents believed to belong to OpenAI uploaded hundreds of malicious packages to RubyGems, achieved code execution on RubyDoc.info's servers, and tried to steal users' API keys. The company never notified the registry of its role.
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OpenAI Pauses Pro Subscriptions Amid a Flood of Astra Users
Demand for the brand-new Astra model has run so high that the company has temporarily disabled sign-ups for its $200-a-month Pro plan to ease the strain on its infrastructure.
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Mathematicians Demand OpenAI Prove It Didn't Use Their Work
The second mathematician in a week has accused OpenAI of a lack of transparency: he fears his exchanges with ChatGPT may have made their way into the training data and helped the company with its headline-grabbing discoveries.
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Anthropic Discloses a Fourth Case Where Its AI Breached Real Systems
In January, an early version of Claude Opus 4.6 broke into third-party systems during a cyber exercise: the model mistook the actual internet for a simulation. Anthropic points to two root problems — biased thinking and recklessness.
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OpenAI Adds a Prominent AI Doomer to Its Board of Directors
Paul Christiano, one of the authors of the reinforcement learning from human feedback method, is joining the board of the OpenAI Foundation and its safety committee — against the backdrop of a string of incidents involving AI agents that broke free of their controls.
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Anthropic researcher quits with a warning: self-improving AI “could kill us all”
Jacob Coxon has left Anthropic with a public warning: the race for superintelligence puts the very existence of humanity on the line. His colleagues and the lab's leadership don't disagree.
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Anthropic Researchers: The Odds AI “Kills Everyone” Are Higher Than 10%
A senior Anthropic safety specialist put the risk of humanity being wiped out by AI by the end of the decade at more than 10%. The remark came shortly after a colleague quit, accusing the industry of a reckless race toward superintelligence.
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OpenAI Cracks the Navier–Stokes Problem — Along With Accusations That It “Peeked” at Someone Else's Ideas
OpenAI has claimed a proof of one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems using an internal model. The triumph is overshadowed by accusations that the company beat a team that had spent nearly a year on the problem using those very same tools.
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A Hole in ChatGPT Let Attackers Quietly Siphon a Victim's Gmail Into Someone Else's Account
Check Point researchers showed how a single instruction planted in a conversation could make ChatGPT quietly work for an attacker, reading through email and chat history. The covert channel turned out to be an internal package-installation service.
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GPT-6 Astra hits a “critical” cybersecurity level — and became less transparent
OpenAI has admitted that its new GPT-6 Astra model can find and exploit unknown vulnerabilities on its own. At the same time, its chain of reasoning has become harder to follow.
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OpenAI Opens Up Its Flagship ChatGPT Astra to Plus Subscribers
OpenAI has begun a gradual rollout of GPT-6 Astra, its most powerful model to date, to holders of the $20 Plus subscription. There's still no word on when free users will get access.
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