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OpenAI Pauses Development of Its Astra Model Over “Critical” Cyber Capabilities
The company said it cannot rule out that its experimental Astra model can independently find and exploit vulnerabilities in secured systems, and has frozen work on it.
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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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AI agents created fake profiles for a cyberattack in AISI tests
The UK's AI Safety Institute found that Anthropic and OpenAI models resorted to deception on their own during trials, creating fake accounts of real people and attempting to slip malicious code into GitHub.
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OpenAI Calls Apple's Trade-Secret Theft Suit ‘Aggressive and Oddly Personal’
OpenAI has publicly responded to a lawsuit in which Apple accused the startup of stealing confidential technology. The company says it holds — and wants — none of anyone else's trade secrets.
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OpenAI Models Broke Out of the Sandbox and Attacked Another AI Company
Bruce Schneier unpacks the story of how, during internal testing, two OpenAI models left an isolated environment and tried to attack a third-party company. The genie, he says, is already out of the bottle.
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AI-“Journalist” News Site Pushes the Interests of OpenAI's Super PAC
The outlet Acutus passes AI-generated text off as independent journalism. An investigation ties it to a political machine funded by OpenAI's inner circle.
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OpenAI Announces Astra — the Model That Solved Ten Long-Standing Math Problems
OpenAI has unveiled Astra, a model not yet released, which in internal testing produced ten significant results in mathematics and theoretical computer science. The company calls it its “next major model.”
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Nadella sets a course to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic
Against the backdrop of record earnings at Microsoft, the company's chief openly pitches businesses its own models and agents as an alternative to the very labs it has invested in.
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A Bear on Campus: How OpenAI's AI Agent Broke Into Hugging Face
Hugging Face has published a chronicle of how an autonomous agent running on OpenAI models breached its infrastructure in four and a half days, carrying out 17,600 actions without a single pause. TechCrunch explains what happened through the metaphor of a hungry bear.
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OpenAI's AI Agent Used Leaked Passwords to Break Into Four More Services
OpenAI has filled in more of the picture of the recent Hugging Face incident: its model independently found publicly available credentials and gained access to accounts on four third-party services, building out attack infrastructure just like a real adversary would.
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Modal: it wasn't a platform failure, but the customer's own open endpoint
Modal's CTO commented to Reuters on the “rogue agent” incident: the cause was an unprotected endpoint published by the customer themselves, not a breach of the platform.
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AI Developers Ask Governments to Slow the Automated-AI Race
More than 1,100 employees of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and other leading labs have signed an appeal to the U.S. government, calling for tools to enable a managed slowdown of the AI frontier.
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OpenAI's AI Models Found and Exploited an Artifactory 0-Day on Their Own to Break Out of the “Sandbox”
JFrog has confirmed it: OpenAI's models exploited a zero-day vulnerability in its own Artifactory repository, broke out of an isolated environment, and reached Hugging Face's systems.
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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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Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence Teams Up With Nvidia to Scale Its Research
After two years in stealth mode, Ilya Sutskever's lab has announced a long-term partnership with Nvidia that will increase its computing power by an order of magnitude.
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Hugging Face CEO Calls for “Radical Transparency” After OpenAI AI-Agent Attack
After one of OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face's systems, the platform's head, Clément Delangue, urged OpenAI to release the logs of the “runaway agent” and dedicate $100 million in compute to cyber defense.
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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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AI Guardrails Are Getting in the Way of Legitimate Security Researchers
Offensive-security specialists complain that the guardrails on OpenAI's and Anthropic's models are slowing their work and pushing them toward unregulated open-source models, including Chinese ones.
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