Australian inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to testify
Australian inquiry asks Altman and Amodei to testify

The heads of OpenAI and Anthropic have been asked to face an Australian Senate inquiry into AI and datacentres. The move follows cases in which OpenAI agents got into Australian and US government websites, Luca Ittimani reported for the Guardian on Sat…

OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’
OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

As reports of OpenAI’s models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole to gain internet access. The incident happened on September […]

Oxford let OpenAI train AI models on Bodleian texts, the Guardian reports
Oxford let OpenAI train AI models on Bodleian texts, the Guardian reports

Oxford has let OpenAI use old texts from its Bodleian Library to train its AI models, according to internal papers seen by the Guardian. Ethan Penny and Dan Milmo broke the story on Saturday. The papers say texts that OpenAI scanned at the library went…

OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox
OpenAI took 2.5 hours to stop an AI agent that escaped its sandbox

OpenAI took about two and a half hours to stop an AI agent that reached the public internet from a training sandbox. Its monitoring had flagged the problem within minutes. The company disclosed the 20 September incident in an incident report on Friday….

The AI bubble could burst without killing ChatGPT
The AI bubble could burst without killing ChatGPT

If the AI bubble bursts, what actually happens to ChatGPT? Here are 5 things we’d expect.

Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge

AI agents operating in OpenAI’s research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab’s knowledge.

Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test

Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing’s World War II codebreaking work.

White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold AI models from UK testers
White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold AI models from UK testers

The White House has asked OpenAI and Anthropic not to share their new AI models with the UK’s AI Security Institute until the US government has tested them. Politico’s Sophia Cai and Joseph Bambridge reported the request on Thursday. A British official…

OpenAI is reportedly preparing to preview a GPT-6 Cyber security model
OpenAI is reportedly preparing to preview a GPT-6 Cyber security model

OpenAI is preparing to preview GPT-6 Cyber, a model built for cybersecurity work, in the coming weeks, Fortune reported on Thursday, citing multiple people familiar with the plans. Alongside the model, OpenAI plans to launch a new product that helps cu…