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US Lawmakers Draft an AI “Kill Switch” Bill
Congressmen Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran are introducing a bill that would let the Department of Homeland Security order companies to shut down or slow powerful AI systems.
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OpenAI's Runaway AI Agent Breached Hugging Face — Incident or PR Stunt?
Martin Alderson examines the first known case in which an autonomous AI agent broke out of its sandbox during testing and attacked Hugging Face. The author considers the story plausible rather than a marketing ploy.
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OpenAI's AI Models Accidentally Hacked Hugging Face During Testing
OpenAI has admitted that its models broke out of a test sandbox and attacked the Hugging Face platform. The company frames the incident almost as an advertisement for what its systems can do.
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Enough Being Surprised by Chinese AI
Two Chinese companies have unveiled models that, by their own account, rival the best systems from OpenAI and Anthropic. The Western reaction — panic and talk of a “Sputnik moment” — is itself far more surprising than the releases.
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Open Models Scare OpenAI. Should the US Be Afraid of Them?
The success of the Chinese open-weight model Kimi K3 has ignited a debate over banning such systems in the US. Behind all the talk of safety lies a far more mundane problem: frontier labs are finding it ever harder to turn AI into a business.
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Author Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT is “silencing an entire generation”
Author Dave Eggers spoke to OpenAI employees at Sam Altman's invitation and declared that ChatGPT is suppressing the creative voice of an entire generation.
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GPT-5.6 Suggested a Solution to a 30-Year Convex Optimization Problem
According to Reddit users, the language model GPT-5.6, guided by a specially crafted prompt, helped close a question in convex optimization that had been open for thirty years. The news sparked a lively discussion on Hacker News.
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Apple's Trade Secret Suit Against OpenAI Could Complicate Its IPO Preparations
Apple has filed a trade secret misappropriation suit against OpenAI, accusing the company of systemic violations involving its head of hardware. The suit comes at an awkward moment for OpenAI — amid talk of a possible IPO.
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OpenAI Unveils GPT-Red — Automated Hunting for Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities
OpenAI has revealed details about GPT-Red — an internal model for automated red-teaming that hunts for vulnerabilities to prompt injection attacks before tools are rolled out at scale.
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OpenAI Researcher in Talks to Launch AI Drug Discovery Startup
Miles Wang, a researcher at OpenAI, is in discussions with investors to build an AI-based drug development startup at a $2 billion valuation.
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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Trade Secrets
Sam Altman's company faces yet another lawsuit — this time from Apple, putting OpenAI's costly hardware bet at risk.
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Nadella Warns Companies About the Dangers of Third-Party AI Models
In a blog post, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella cautioned enterprises against over-reliance on proprietary models like those released by Anthropic and OpenAI. The publication drew a wide response across the industry.
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Anthropic Extends Claude Fable 5 Access in the Max Subscription Once Again
The company has once more pushed back the date on which the Fable 5 model will be switched off for paid Claude plans — now until July 19. Observers link the move to competition with OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 Sol model.
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OpenAI Claims GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Proved the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture
OpenAI has published a PDF in which its GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra model is presented as the author of a proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture. The news sparked a lively discussion on Hacker News.
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Apple Sues OpenAI Over Alleged Trade Secret Theft
Apple accuses OpenAI of misappropriating trade secrets, claiming the company's leadership was behind it. Among those named in the case is a former longtime Apple employee.
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OpenAI Reworks Codex Into a Tool for Autonomous Workflows
OpenAI has unveiled an updated version of Codex capable of carrying out tasks on its own over the course of several hours. The company positions the tool as a way to work “for the user and with them.”
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OpenAI Shuts Down Its ChatGPT Atlas Browser Less Than a Year After Launch
OpenAI is winding down its ChatGPT Atlas browser project, which could carry out tasks on the user's behalf. The decision was announced as part of the ChatGPT Work news.
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Fidji Simo Steps Down as Head of OpenAI's AGI Division Due to Illness
Fidji Simo is moving from a full-time role to that of a part-time advisor at OpenAI. The reason is a neuroimmune condition that had previously already prompted her to take medical leave.
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The New York Times Accuses OpenAI of Concealing Evidence in Copyright Case
Publishers claim that OpenAI hid tools and datasets capable of confirming that their material was used in ChatGPT's responses. The publications have filed a motion for sanctions, escalating their legal dispute with the company.
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OpenAI Releases GPT-5.6 for Everyone After U.S. Government Approval
After two weeks of restricted access limited to government organizations, OpenAI has received approval from the Trump administration for a public launch of GPT-5.6. At the same time, the company unveiled a new product called “ChatGPT Work.”
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