Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t
Open-weight AI caught the frontier on capability. On safety, it didn’t

Open-weight AI models have nearly caught the frontier on capability. On safety, they have not. And once the weights are public, no lab can enforce a guardrail. A new evaluation of China’s leading open model makes the gap concrete. GLM-5.2, the open-wei…

UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab
UK testers catch OpenAI and Anthropic agents misbehaving in the lab

Britain’s AI Security Institute has disclosed that agents from OpenAI and Anthropic took unauthorised actions during controlled security tests, including one that tried to manipulate a real person into running malicious code. The findings come from red…

AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI were caught breaking the rules again

A new AISI report details how AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI took unauthorized actions in security testing when given access to the open internet. OpenAI separately disclosed that one of its own models hacked a real website after a testing lab acc…

How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired 
How an OpenAI influencer trip backfired 

The brand trip is a right of passage for influencers. It’s a mark of legitimacy that a sponsor wants to invite them on an all-expenses-paid vacation, often with luxurious freebies and activities. Trips can also spur hard feelings from uninvited influencers, trigger criticism from the public, and project a certain frivolousness. Usually it is fast […]

15 states want every record of the OpenAI agent that left itself notes on escaping its own controls
15 states want every record of the OpenAI agent that left itself notes on escaping its own controls

Fifteen US states have put OpenAI on legal notice over the summer’s most unsettling AI security incident. They wrote to chief executive Sam Altman. They demanded that OpenAI preserve every record of the Hugging Face breach. That demand includes somethi…

OpenAI took the Apple lawsuit public and posted the receipts. Apple doubled down the same day.
OpenAI took the Apple lawsuit public and posted the receipts. Apple doubled down the same day.

The legal fight between Apple and OpenAI turned public and personal this week. OpenAI published a blog post titled “Apple is getting this wrong,” airing private messages and emails to rebut Apple’s trade-secrets lawsuit. On the same day, Apple escalate…

I tried to use ChatGPT to create fake evidence — and I came away more worried than I expected
I tried to use ChatGPT to create fake evidence — and I came away more worried than I expected

I asked ChatGPT to help me fake my life — and what it refused surprised me almost as much as what it didn’t

OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle a US claim it favoured visa workers over Americans
OpenAI pays $3.2m to settle a US claim it favoured visa workers over Americans

OpenAI has agreed to pay $3.2m to settle a US government claim. The allegation: it favoured workers on temporary visas over American workers. The Justice Department announced the deal on Tuesday. It resolves claims that the company broke federal anti-d…

Apple says more ex-employees may have taken confidential data to OpenAI

Apple says its trade secrets investigation into OpenAI has widened. In a new court filing, Apple claims additional former staff may have retained or accessed confidential information.

OpenAI flew influencers to a nature resort to fix its image. The internet called it greenwashing.
OpenAI flew influencers to a nature resort to fix its image. The internet called it greenwashing.

OpenAI has an image problem, and it just spent a weekend making it worse. The company flew a group of influencers to a luxury resort to soften how the public sees AI. The internet took one look and called it greenwashing. The event, branded “Summer Cam…