Florida seeks a ban on ChatGPT acting like a person
Florida seeks a ban on ChatGPT acting like a person

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 […]

OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians
OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians

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 and Anthropic probe tens of thousands of AI incidents, Axios reports
OpenAI and Anthropic probe tens of thousands of AI incidents, Axios reports

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 says its rogue agents posted 53 ChatGPT users’ images online
OpenAI says its rogue agents posted 53 ChatGPT users’ images online

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…

ChatGPT Voice’s new plugins make voice more useful

I tried ChatGPT Voice with plugins and found that connected apps make voice considerably more useful.

OpenAI agents allegedly scanned a UN data hub over 16,000 times in just three months
OpenAI agents allegedly scanned a UN data hub over 16,000 times in just three months

After failing on a pretty simple task, these AI agents started seriously ramping up the aggression to obtain publicly available data.

I thought I knew dinosaurs until I tried ChatGPT’s new flashcards
I thought I knew dinosaurs until I tried ChatGPT’s new flashcards

I tried ChatGPT’s new flashcard feature and enjoyed a quick study on dinosaurs.

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan AI safety body, The Information reports
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan AI safety body, The Information reports

Google, OpenAI and Anthropic plan to set up their own AI safety standards body, without government oversight, The Information reported on Thursday. The three companies hope to launch it by the end of the year or early in 2027. They tentatively plan to …

OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says
OpenAI agents scanned a UN statistics site 16,500 times, researcher says

AI agents that a researcher linked to OpenAI scanned a United Nations data website more than 16,500 times between 13 April and 19 June. They used proxies and an encoding trick to get round limits on its API, Rowan Howard-Jones wrote in a blog post on 2…

OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website

Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn’t quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attacks on US government sites, it’s yet another concerning example of AI […]