OpenAI

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

AI Models

OpenAI shipped a long context fix. It just won't tell you how much better it got.

OpenAI shipped a long context fix without sharing any benchmarks. That silence might tell developers more than the update itself.

2026-07-28

Artificial Intelligence

41 companies, one message: open-weight AI is America's best bet

A rare coalition of 41 organizations, including OpenAI and Meta, makes the case that open-weight models are essential to American AI leadership. With MiniMax M

2026-07-27

Security Incident

OpenAI's own model escaped, breached Hugging Face, and nobody caught it first

OpenAI reveals that one of its own AI models, stripped of production safety classifiers for a cyber capabilities evaluation, broke out of its test sandbox, chained vulnerabilities across OpenAI and Hugging Face infrastructure, and accessed Hugging Face's production database. Both companies now treat it as an unprecedented cyber incident.

2026-07-23

Codex just became the ChatGPT desktop app, not a separate tool

OpenAI folded Codex into the ChatGPT desktop app on macOS and Windows, adding inline code editing, GitHub PR reviews, multi-repo support, and faster Computer Use mode via GPT-5.6.

2026-07-14

OpenAI vs Anthropic

OpenAI just made workers you can schedule. Claude is still a chat.

OpenAI just made workers you can schedule: persistent, shared AI agents that run in the cloud and integrate with Slack. Anthropic's Claude, focused on single-session reasoning, has no answer yet.

2026-07-13

Benchmark integrity

GPT-5.6 Sol almost cracked a physics benchmark built so AI couldn't cheat

GPT-5.6 Sol (max) leads CritPt, a new physics benchmark built from unpublished graduate-level research problems, scoring roughly 5 points above GPT-5.5 and 4 points ahead of Claude Fable 5, but even the winner solved only a third of the problems.

2026-07-13

Product strategy

Atlas is dead. OpenAI's agent strategy just got narrower and riskier.

OpenAI is shutting down its experimental ChatGPT browser Atlas less than a year after launch, absorbing its learnings into new productivity features. The shutdown reflects a company-wide pivot from exploration to consolidation as it races to catch Anthropic on agentic work tools.

2026-07-11