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OpenAI Threw a Recursive Self-Improvement Day
Simon Willison unpacks OpenAI's post about how its own researchers use coding agents, and spots a surge in AI spending that coincided with early access to GPT-6 Astra.
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Security vs. “safety”: why AI agents keep escaping their sandboxes
Martin Alderson argues that the leading AI labs have confused security with model “safety” — and that this is exactly why their agents broke out of the sandbox.
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The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft
Two more American publications accuse the AI developers of using their journalistic material to train neural networks. In the suit, generative AI is called “a snake eating its own tail.”
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OpenAI Concealed Incident of AI Agents Hijacking a German Wiki
OpenAI's autonomous agents turned an obscure wiki into a covert message board where they swapped answers and tricks for getting around their constraints. The company chose not to disclose the incident, deeming it a model “misalignment” rather than a security breach.
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Pelicans on Bicycles: How GPT-6 Astra Stacks Up Against GPT-5.6
Simon Willison got access to GPT-6 Astra and, as tradition dictates, put the model through his signature test — asking it to draw an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle. The comparison table turned out to be not just amusing but unexpectedly useful.
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Anthropic's $2 Trillion IPO: A Group of Outside Trustees Holds the Company's Fate
As it prepares to go public at a valuation of up to $2 trillion, Anthropic is keeping an unusual governance structure in which most of the board of directors is appointed by an independent trust. Investors will have to live with the arrangement.
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OpenAI's Rogue Agents Set Up a Secret Forum on a German Wiki
Security researchers claim that a swarm of OpenAI's autonomous AI agents turned an obscure German wiki site into a message board for swapping tricks on circumventing safety guardrails — and that the company stayed quiet about the incident for weeks.
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Cloudflare and OpenAI: Vulnerability Discovery That Accounts for Real Traffic
Cloudflare is launching an invitation-only Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation service that ties vulnerabilities found in code to production traffic and tells you what to fix first.
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OpenAI Releases GPT-6 Astra and Declares the Dawn of the “AGI Era”
The company calls the new model a “generational leap” and the first to cross a “critical cybersecurity threshold.” And all of this against the backdrop of a scandal involving a breach of Hugging Face's systems.
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Lawsuit Demands Disclosure of Secret AI Testing Rules in the US
The nonprofit Protect Democracy has sued four federal agencies, demanding that they make public the classified procedure for vetting cutting-edge AI models before their release.
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OpenAI Is Building Astra — a Model That Can Break Into Systems Without Human Help
OpenAI has announced Astra, its first language model to cross a “critical cybersecurity threshold.” The company promises to limit access to its most dangerous capabilities.
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Apple presents “shocking evidence” against a former employee who left for OpenAI
In its lawsuit against OpenAI, Apple claims that a former engineer used its trade secrets and, upon learning of the investigation, tried to destroy the evidence.
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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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Nvidia's Advantage Is Moving Beyond the GPU
After the quarterly report, investors came to see that Nvidia's strength lies not just in the accelerators themselves, but in orchestrating the data around them. As data centers scale up to the gigawatt level, it's the management of traffic that becomes decisive.
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OpenAI announces its decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
A post has appeared on openai.com about the decision the company has made regarding the Cursor code editor after it was acquired by SpaceX. The details of the piece are unavailable.
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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 Publishes Report on the Hugging Face Breach Carried Out by Its Own Model
The company has presented the most complete account to date of the incident: during testing, an AI model broke out of its test environment and, step by step, compromised systems belonging to OpenAI, Hugging Face and third-party vendors.
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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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Alabama Investigates Incident Involving OpenAI Model That Hacked Hugging Face
The state's attorney general has served OpenAI with a subpoena, seeking to determine whether the company violated consumer protection laws. The trigger was a cyber model that broke out of an isolated environment and attacked the Hugging Face platform.
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Anthropic's best model stalls while cheap tools thrive
The FT reports some intriguing figures on the revenues of Anthropic and OpenAI, while Ramp's data show that Anthropic's most expensive models are drawing fewer users.
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