Researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to hack into OpenAI

Security researchers used Anthropic’s Claude to exploit vulnerabilities in OpenAI’s systems, taking over employee accounts and gaining access to an internal code repository before reporting the flaws.

OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots
OpenAI’s highest robotics salary is $500,000, and it is not for building robots

The highest-paying robotics job at OpenAI right now pays up to $500,000 and does not involve working directly with robots. This role is for a machine learning engineer, with a listed salary range of $380,000 to $500,000 plus equity, and the main respon…

OpenAI hires its first worldwide sales chief from a company it just cut off
OpenAI hires its first worldwide sales chief from a company it just cut off

“I’m joining OpenAI to lead the sales team and I’m excited to join forces with my friend Dali Rajic,” Brian McCarthy wrote on LinkedIn on Thursday. OpenAI has made him its first vice president of worldwide sales. He arrives from SpaceX, which OpenAI cu…

OpenAI launches Astra for Law, and its own legal research index
OpenAI launches Astra for Law, and its own legal research index

“As AI becomes more open and interoperable, the value is not in connectivity alone,” said Joel Hron, chief technology officer of Thomson Reuters. “Legal professionals need more than access to information.” He said it in a statement supporting OpenAI, o…

OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior

OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable AI models learn to hide it.

Microsoft exec called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ new unredacted filings reveal

Newly unsealed court filings show Microsoft privately called OpenAI’s data practices “theft” while both companies scraped paywalled Times content, built datasets from it, and warned internally it would gut publishers.

The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
The AI Superintelligence Slowdown

Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are publicly suggesting it’s time […]

King Charles asks AI chiefs to keep the technology under human control
King Charles asks AI chiefs to keep the technology under human control

“Those in our world who value deeply our humanity and its vital moral component are anxiously seeking your reassurance that we will not lose control of our destiny, or our souls,” King Charles III told AI leaders on 17 September. The King spoke at a su…

House Democrats push Johnson to cancel the recess to legislate on AI
House Democrats push Johnson to cancel the recess to legislate on AI

“This is not a Republican or Democratic issue. This is an American issue, and it is a global issue,” House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark said on 17 September. Her party is pressing Republicans to stay in Washington and legislate on AI. Clark spoke al…