OpenAI
OpenAI news: GPT-4o, o1, o3, Sora, DALL-E, Whisper and company strategy.
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AI liability
OpenAI's review system flagged the shooter. Its leaders allegedly stayed silent
Thirty new lawsuits from the students, teachers, and principal at the Tumbler Ridge shooting accuse OpenAI and Sam Altman of helping the suspect after its review system flagged his ChatGPT conversations. The suits allege the safety team wanted to contact Canadian authorities; leadership stayed quiet instead.
2026-09-14
AI Safety
OpenAI's Astra may hide its 'thinking.' Safety researchers are alarmed
The Information reports Astra uses an opaque, looped architecture that hides its reasoning. A top Redwood Research scientist calls it the worst development for AI safety to date, and OpenAI has not denied a single detail.
2026-09-14
Agentic AI's growing cyber-capability problem
OpenAI paused Astra on fears it can hack hardened systems unaided
OpenAI paused internal work on Astra, its in-development model, after evaluations concluded the company cannot rule out 'critical cyber capabilities' under its Preparedness Framework. The full threshold describes a model that finds zero-day exploits in hardened systems without human intervention.
2026-08-13
AI consolidation
Reve's researchers are headed to OpenAI; its products stay put
OpenAI's investment in the independent lab Reve brings a move of research talent: part of Reve's AI Research team joins OpenAI's multimodal push while Reve's products stay in place. No amount was disclosed.
2026-08-05
Medical AI accountability
OpenAI's health AI claims to outthink doctors. Then its own lead walked it back.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Health launch pits a VP's bold claim against her own team's caution, and a lawsuit alleging dangerous advice.
2026-07-29
Internal research update
OpenAI's AGI roadmap leans hard on voice and vision. The safety part is harder.
OpenAI's updated research roadmap runs from GPT-5 through multimodal generation to alignment work. The ambitions are huge; the safety section still reads like an afterthought.
2026-07-11
Voice AI race
OpenAI's GPT-Live is racing to make voice chats with AI feel real
OpenAI releases GPT-Live, a new voice model for ChatGPT that aims to make spoken interactions with the AI more fluid and human-like. The update is rolling out now, but key details are still under wraps.
2026-07-09
Export Controls
Anthropic Restores Access to Claude Fable 5 After US Export Controls Lifted
Anthropic restored Claude Fable 5 access globally after US export controls were lifted on June 30. The company introduced a new safety classifier to block a reported jailbreak and proposed a consensus framework for rating AI jailbreak severity with partners including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google.
2026-07-01