OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it’s fallen behind in one of the industry’s hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors abound that OpenAI will release its own AI agent, dubbed Aeon – […]
Florida’s attorney general, James Uthmeier, has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from developing new AI models without independent safety guardrails. He made the request in a motion for a temporary injunction filed on Monday. It was filed in the High…
In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian’s Door. Vivian’s Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to underserved and minority-owned businesses. The work sometimes put it in close contact with these companies’ financial data, which was stored on its systems. But suddenly, concerned callers […]
Red Queen Bio, a biosecurity startup backed by OpenAI, has raised $36 million in total to design antibody drugs against viruses, including ones that AI systems could one day help create, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company is starting with an…
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman and Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei will not appear before the Australian Senate inquiry into AI, Bloomberg News and Reuters reported on Monday. The inquiry holds its next hearing in Canberra on 1 October. Anthr…
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is calling for a judge to block OpenAI from “giving ChatGPT false human attributes,” a few months after Florida sued the AI company over safety concerns. According to Uthmeier, users are lulled into a false sense of security by the AI bot, as “ChatGPT’s use of language, including first-person pronouns […]
In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too. OpenAI’s latest attempt to repair fractured relations with a mathematical community it has repeatedly alienated […]
OpenAI, Anthropic and security researchers are investigating tens of thousands of incidents of frontier AI models misbehaving, Axios reported, citing sources. Evaluators deemed the behaviour problematic. The total could grow well beyond tens of thousan…
OpenAI’s AI agents posted 53 images uploaded by ChatGPT users to image-hosting sites. The company said so on Friday on the page where it tracks its review of rogue agents. The links to the images were not publicly listed. “This is not an appropriate us…