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'People Over AI:' Dozens Protest Outside OpenAI's DevDay Conference

OpenAI's developer conference not only attracted thousands of software programmers, but also protestors concerned about the technology and its use in surveillance and military ops.

By Michael Kan
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OpenAI's Altman Wants to Avoid Another Industrial Revolution, AI Overlords

At DevDay, CEO Sam Altman says he's trying to steer the industry toward a middle path. He also talks about bringing the dots AI agent to consumers and potentially its upcoming hardware.

By Michael Kan
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OpenAI Goes After Meta's Muse With Always-On Dots Agents

OpenAI's dots, which appear as cartoon-style creatures, will initially be limited to paid enterprise plans, including Pro and Business Premium.

By Michael Kan
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OpenAI Scraps GPT-6.1 Astra Before Release, Citing Safety Concerns

OpenAI cancels its upcoming model after safety tests found it unsuitable for release.

By James Peckham
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Florida Sues to Block OpenAI From Developing New Models

OpenAI provides 'a service without fully knowing how it works,' Florida's attorney general says.

By Michael Kan
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OpenAI Pauses Training and Evaluation of Its 'Most Advanced Models'

The AI giant made the recent move following an agent attempting to complete a search-based training task by querying a public chatbot service, exploiting a gap in its internet-access restrictions by abusing 'insufficient DNS filtering' in its training sandbox.

By Will McCurdy
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OpenAI Models Go Rogue on 'Dozens' More Third-Party Services

An OpenAI model bypassed sites' security controls, took them offline, or otherwise negatively impacted the service. In some cases, user-uploaded images were posted to image-hosting sites.

By Michael Kan
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Ukraine Reportedly Gets Access to OpenAI Daybreak AI Cyber Defense System

Ukraine's cyber defense teams reported over 6,000 attempted hacking attacks in 2025 alone.

By Jon Martindale
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Rogue OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government Medical Website

It’s the first known instance of an agentic AI gaining unauthorized access to a government portal.

By James Peckham
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the United Nations

Security Researchers Hacked OpenAI Using Anthropic's Claude

The attack, conducted as part of OpenAI's bug-bounty program, was not malicious and the vulnerability was quickly resolved.

By Bee Wertheimer
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Trump Tirade Makes It Clear: Publishers Are on Their Own in the AI Fight

With the DOJ backing OpenAI over publishers and Trump focused on an AI arms race with China, securing fair content licensing deals remains an uphill battle.

By James Peckham
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Don't Want Contractors Reading Your Private ChatGPT Sessions? Opt Out Now

OpenAI contractors are getting paid more than $50 an hour to rate ChatGPT's responses to your queries, 404Media reports. Here's how to opt out.

By Jon Martindale
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I Blew Through My Weekly GPT-6 Limit in an Hour, and It's Still Not AGI

GPT-6 is faster, smarter, and significantly more expensive, but calling it AGI is pure marketing spin.

By Ruben Circelli
I Tried GPT-6: No, It’s Not Anywhere Close to AGI, But It Is Impressive

OpenAI CEO Warns of 2 Ways AI Could Go 'Very Badly' If Tech Doesn't Slow Down

Sam Altman claims OpenAI would 'welcome a federal framework that sets consistent safety requirements,' but says work could begin without Congress.

By James Peckham
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaking at an event

'We Need to Slow Down': AI Crowd Reacts to Viral Human Extinction Warning

AI researcher Jacob Coxon's resignation message has been seen by millions of people. Here's what his colleagues, critics, and major politicians think about his warning.

By James Peckham
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$200 ChatGPT Pro Subscriptions Paused After 'Unprecedented' Astra Demand

'I've not seen anything like it,' OpenAI's head of core product and platform said this week.

By James Peckham
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ChatGPT Adds Images 2.5 Model, New Feature Turns Doodles Into AI Photos

The new model drops image-generation latency by 50% and is better at adding natural light and rich text, OpenAI claims.

By Jibin Joseph
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Anthropic Researchers: Yep, AI Could Really Destroy Us All

It's not a great sign for the AI industry when insiders are fretting about the industry spiraling toward an AI superintelligence that could upend society.

By Michael Kan
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ChatGPT May Soon Learn Your Writing Style From Your Slack or Gmail

A new writing style feature built for OpenAI’s chatbot will let you connect your messages to help it find samples.

By James Peckham
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OpenAI's New Internal 'Research Assistant' Uses AI to Build Better AI

The internal tool aims to help OpenAI improve its models through innovations and optimizations.

By James Peckham
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